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tahn VonRehmer
a Cross Country Rider
from san jose, CA, USADate Reviewed: September 10, 2006
Strengths: fairly good stopping powerWeaknesses: cast aluminum, has air bubbles, breaks easy, made in taiwan!Bottom Line: wouldn't recommend 2 agressive riders, buy maguras or formulas from italy
Favorite Trail: demo forest
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid:
$180.00
Purchased At: on line
Similar Products Used: hope mono minis
Bike Setup: chris king hubs& headset chameleon frame 5 inch marzocchi fork sram drivetrain race face cranks w/bashgaurd 2.35 inch tires
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American Lesion
a Cross Country Rider
from McKean County, PA, USADate Reviewed: October 11, 2004
Strengths: Relatively squeal-freeWeaknesses: Front brake is visibly flexy. This spooks me and has me convinced it'll someday break right from the fork mounts.Bottom Line: These brakes are ultra-finicky to set-up. The front brake flexes noticably. They are intolerant of too much length in brake housing. The odd-sized rear rotor makes replacement rough (its a 145mm--Hope makes one, but its expensive). The front is a relatively common 160mm. These brakes operated poorly with the Deore levers that came OEM with the bike, but the Tektro levers certainly improved things. These brakes aren't for upgrade. Better cheap Discs are available from RST, Suntour, Tektro, or Promax. If they came stock, they'll make do until you waste them.
Favorite Trail: Oil Creek, Allegheny, and East Sandy Creek Rails-to-Trails Network
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Purchased At: OEM
Similar Products Used: (tested) Avid Ball Bearing, Inter-Loc Dual Piston, AMP
Bike Setup: Lake LX-006 Freerider, with Zoom dual crown fork, Deore components--with the exception of the hubs (they were Joy tech, now they are Formula), Brakes, Levers (were Deore dual control, swapped for Sachs Bandix 9-spd twist shift and Tekto brake levers), Titec Hellbent bars, Zoom threadless stem,Wellgo platform/SPD-style DH pedals, Weinmann Rims (originals were Sun Swift Horse), Kenda Tires, Tahoma seat pillar (original was Zoom), and Azonic Love Seat.
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adam joanisse
a Racer
from Sudbury ontarioDate Reviewed: May 13, 2003
Strengths: well all you gotta do is take off the pads and the one with the spiral side you put white grease behind it just a little and remove that rubber seal its the main problemWeaknesses: there is none if you know how to mod things cause they awsome when it comes to trick ridin but long hard stops is where the price starts to showBottom Line: the brake is alright it is perfect 4 what i do so owell recall
Favorite Trail: chizzim's
Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid:
$80.00
Purchased At: camroncycle
Similar Products Used: avid V's & xt V's
Bike Setup: custom 12" frame rock shox duke 100mm, fsa headset,xt groupo,sun rynolite on deore disc hubs,white industries crank,wellgo pets, cane creek bb,racefacerings,kalloy seat post,easton monkey lite bars,avid 2.0 levers,racefacesystem stem, cables are from gore.
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Noah
a Cross Country Rider
from Hawkestone, Ontario, CanadaDate Reviewed: April 22, 2003
Strengths: none. absolute crap.Weaknesses: everythingBottom Line: Stay away if you value your life. There is nothing like the feeling of no braking power while going down a hill. Or worse than that, locking on and flipping you over onto your face. STAY AWAY FROM THESE IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!
Duration Product Used: 3 months
Purchased At: OEM
Similar Products Used: hayes, formula, rim-based
Bike Setup: came on giant atx870. were replaced with formula brand which were only marginally better by bike shop (recall?)
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Max Rentz
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from Newark, OHDate Reviewed: February 16, 2003
Strengths: Last a long time. Probably 1000 landings...only replaced the pads once, and they were not worn out.Weaknesses: It was tough making the brackets to mount the rotor and the caliper mount.Bottom Line: I use my Diatechs on a 600-pound (gross) ultralight aircraft. They have great holding power, and have never failed me. I can't believe how long the pads last. They squeal just a bit, but you can hardly hear it over the noisy engine and prop.
Favorite Trail: Runway 28
Duration Product Used: More than 3 years
Price Paid:
$110.00
Purchased At: El Marko
Similar Products Used: none
Bike Setup: uhhhh.....see below
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Kel C
a Weekend Warrior
from Vancouver, CanadaDate Reviewed: November 21, 2002
Strengths: they don't stop, V-brakes are far betterWeaknesses: V-brakesBottom Line: sorry these brakes don't cut it for an intermediate
rider, fits a city bike for commutes.
They used to squeal like crazy, not anymore with proper adjustment.
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Similar Products Used: x-country/trials
Bike Setup: Xcountry, trials
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scragg
a Weekend Warrior
from waverley, nova scotia, canadaDate Reviewed: October 15, 2002
Strengths: stop very well and a good price.Weaknesses: squieks like there was not end.Bottom Line: they work well but the squiek drives u crazy but if u want a low priced disc brake i would sugest these.
Favorite Trail: "the school"
Duration Product Used: 3 months
Purchased At: sportwheels (the best)
Bike Setup: norco nx 1000 "01 with rock shox judy tt "02 with dmn dv-22 rear suspension
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Shaun
a Downhiller
from USADate Reviewed: October 15, 2002
Strengths: what? Strengths? Nope none.Weaknesses: well, they squeak for about an hour then stop for 6 seconds then squeak. The return springs brake easily. the pads wear easily. And, they just dont stop that great.Bottom Line: the brakes that i got cames with my bike. i dont know if i got a faulty pair or not but a lot of people like them. im not one of them. I would recomment them for a beginner who needs disc brakes but dosent have the beans for hydros.
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Similar Products Used: cantivilear brakes are just as good
Bike Setup: diamondback x-2 marzocchi jr t have shimano deore m-515 la discs now.
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John Brand
a Cross Country Rider
from Manchester UKDate Reviewed: June 26, 2002
Strengths: They stop you dead, on the braking front what more do you want????Weaknesses: That effing squeal i go cycling all day some times as long as 16 hours in the peace and quite of the countryside and its the last thing i want to hear. I clean with meths and sandpaper which if i do it often enough it reduces the problem ie its not a constant but i could really do without it. PS no problems with setup.Bottom Line: They came with the bike wouldn't buy them again unless i could solve the 3 little pig noise. Excluding that i can see no reason to buy any other disc brakes ie if they stopped me any quicker i would part company with the bike. Not done a lot of major downhills but sometimes they feel like there going to give up on really long downhills they never do and i think its a cable problem anyway. Note these were the recalled brakes and i had no problems getting the replacement despite buying at auction.
Favorite Trail: Anywhere and Everywhere
Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Purchased At: New at auction
Similar Products Used: various bikes with v brakes and 1 with formula b4s(not used much yet) but no squeel AT ALL????
Bike Setup: Sarcen, Manitou sus front, hardtail with v brakes
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Fernando Biagioni
a Downhiller
from Piracicaba, SP BRAZILDate Reviewed: April 16, 2002
Strengths: strenghts???sorry??? did I read it right???Weaknesses: all of itBottom Line: Submitted by Fernando Biagioni a Downhiller from Piracicaba/SP, BRAZIL
Date Reviewed: 11/22/00 6:55:56 AM
that was the last time I wrote here... there are more than 1 year and a half and I DIDN´T GET ANY NEW CALIPER FROM THE RECALL MADE BY DIA TECH. If you care about your life, stay away from this. If you care about money, go buy some V-brakes cuz I guarantee you that they work better than DIA TECH SPIRAL STOP. I DIDN´T RECEIVE ANY CALIPER FROM THE RECALL NOR A WORD FROM DIATECH ANYMORE. At least I´ve learned that if I have to buy some thing, I gonna buy from a brand that I can trust.
Favorite Trail: the streets are my playground..
Duration Product Used: 6 months
Similar Products Used: the time I bought it I´ve used pretty much everything out there.
Bike Setup: Specialized FSR XTR with Magura Big Ego and Magura Gustav M. Thanx Stefan @ MAGURA DEUTSCHLAND
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Justin
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from Ft.Lauderdale FloridaDate Reviewed: March 22, 2002
Strengths: HUH !?!Weaknesses: TWO piece caliper,mine came apart,if you want to have a life threatening experience go buy them .WEEECK , a Teckro V has more umph.Bottom Line: The stupid things came standard issue on my bike;i 've used them up; ill never forget them;ill get some Avid mecs after these and if Avids are going to prove as worthless as these i'll get Gustav's.
Favorite Trail: down the stairs
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid:
$2000.00
Similar Products Used: On bicycle only Vees
Bike Setup: Irelevant
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pat
a Weekend Warrior
from seekonk,maDate Reviewed: September 2, 2001
Bottom Line: just came back from killington ski resort,hate to say it but my diatechs are hurtin,a few hours of downhill fun cooked the roters.they sure dont stop like they use to either,I changed the pads, cleaned em up with alcahol, all the usual stuff,but they just dont want to bite anymore.a friend that went with me rented a bike at the mountain.the rentals all have avid mechanical disc brakes.I tried his rental out and was blown away at how much bite the avids have.he rode all day on those avids with no problems.my diatechs were great for all the xc riding i do.......but downhill stuff just killed em....
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Similar Products Used: avids mechanical
Bike Setup: diamondback x2
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Matthew Armstrong
a Weekend Warrior
from Scottsdale, ArizonaDate Reviewed: August 2, 2001
Strengths: Ease of operation -
Stopping power (I weigh 230)
Nice modulationWeaknesses: Sticking problem (taken care of with new calipers)
Needs to be set up with new levers (my was set up with Avid 1.9's) Does not provide enough pull.
Need a conversion or adaptor kit to mount on Manitou forksBottom Line: Like many, I was unfortunate enough to have the recalled calipers and had the sticking problem that was so often occuring. I called Diatech and talked to Eric Schreiber and he quickly took care of my problem - the customer service on this was un-paralleled by anybody in the industry. I have two brand new ones on the way. Other than the sticking problem I had the brakes worked very well for the type of riding I do.
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid:
$100.00
Purchased At: Airpark Bikes
Similar Products Used: V-brake's
Bike Setup: Raleigh M-600, XT, Manitou SXR
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Matthew Armstrong
a Weekend Warrior
from Scottsdale, ArizonaDate Reviewed: August 2, 2001
Strengths: Ease of operation -
Stopping power (I weigh 230)
Nice modulationWeaknesses: Sticking problem (taken care of with new calipers)
Needs to be set up with new levers (my was set up with Avid 1.9's) Does not provide enough pull.
Need a conversion or adaptor kit to mount on Manitou forksBottom Line: Like many, I was unfortunate enough to have the recalled calipers and had the sticking problem that was so often occuring. I called Diatech and talked to Eric Schreiber and he quickly took care of my problem - the customer service on this was un-paralleled by anybody in the industry. I have two brand new ones on the way. Other than the sticking problem I had the brakes worked very well for the type of riding I do.
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid:
$100.00
Purchased At: Airpark Bikes
Similar Products Used: V-brake's
Bike Setup: Raleigh M-600, XT, Manitou SXR
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Dave
a Downhiller
from newyorkDate Reviewed: July 17, 2001
Strengths: price, powerWeaknesses: modulation, lever feelBottom Line: heres the deal.....my friends bike has this setup...........hayes hydros in tha back........dia-tech in the front..............i have used his bike several times......the hayes owns......hands down......but we all new that from the begining........the diatech does not own......but it puts up quite a performance.....they feel right together......not as nice as my full hayes hydros......but they feel similar.....modulation aint bad........stopping power is there in gobs......but it just doesnt feel correct....maybe cuz im used to hayes.........but these puppies are cheap!! buy em they are great from my experience.....their customer support is unreal!! make shure u buy canti levers tho
Duration Product Used: Tested or demo'ed only
Price Paid:
$75.00
Purchased At: secret
Similar Products Used: hayes full hydro....avid mech disc
Bike Setup: 99 trek vrx400 w/ fox 'nilla pullin 5" in back, manitou x-vert t pushin 5" in front...full hayes hydros......the fender......wtb speeddisc rims.......ritchey tires......and lx drivetrain.....all this for under $800.... eat your hearts out when i coulda paid over $2400 retail for this setup hahaha
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