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Shimano
2000 105 5500 Series
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Submitted by
Bob
a
from New Brunswick, SJ
Date Reviewed: June 26, 2004 | | Favorite Trail: | Rockwood Park | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$65.00 | | Purchased At: | The Bike Works | | Strengths: | Very tight spring on the super short cage, keeps my chain and derailure on the bike. | | Weaknesses: | Its marketed for the road for the road. | | Similar Products Used: | xt, xtr, lx, etc., u name it, i've torn it off. | | Bike Setup: | Da Bomb Mind Bomb(yes a fat DH rig), jr. t's, dbl. tracks on da bomb head spins, Holtfullers with da bomb chain guide, Hope minis | | Bottom Line: | ***Derailure Only***
The 105 is the best derailure ive ever run. It was designed for road bikes, but performs flawlessly on rough screaming downhills.
From my experience, this derailure works so well due to the extremly short cage, and the very stiff spring. I've only run this on a single chainring + guide, so i dont no if the cage is to short to allow for dbl. rings. As for my setup though (38x34-11), it works flawlessly.
If you are running a single ring on your DH rig, do yourself a favour and go get one.
PS. Nobuddy on a knobby rig, has ever heard of shimano 105's and they'll think your some kind of connected dude with tech. gear. 105s are kool! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Rexy Franzinelli
a Racer
from Australia
Date Reviewed: August 6, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Brigadoon Circuit | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$2500.00 | | Strengths: | super light Cadd 4 frame-8kg,slice carbon forks, Smooth Hubs, and nice seat | | Weaknesses: | Cane Creek Headset-bikeshop never greased it, Wheels-spokes keep on coming out and the rims do not stay true, Coda brakes, Continental gp3000 tyres are not fast and wear too quickly, cheap bar tape- allready stuffed and I need a new groupset | | Similar Products Used: | Shogun Ninja rsx + rx100 | | Bike Setup: | Shimano 105, Cane Creek headset, mavic cxp23 rims, Coda Expert Hubs, Dt swiss champion spokes,continental gp3000 tyres, Coda brakes,coda stem, slice carbon forks and coda competition seat post | | Bottom Line: | Awesome bike for the money | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Marc
a Weekend Warrior
from New Zealand
Date Reviewed: May 20, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | reliable, smooth, doesn't go out of tune | | Weaknesses: | takes a bit of tuning to get the front derailler just right | | Similar Products Used: | ultegra | | Bike Setup: | 105 all round, mavic rims,ali frame and 86kg rider | | Bottom Line: | 10000km in 12 months and it is just as good as new..
top performance at a good price..
brilliant for the training bike..it just keeps going and going and going...
ps. I still have ultegra on my race bike
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Submitted by
Joe
a Cross-Country Rider
from London
Date Reviewed: November 5, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
Top shifting, pretty flex free cranks and the bb is well smooth. | | Weaknesses: |
The brake lever covers rattle annoyingly. | | Similar Products Used: |
Ultegra/dura ace. | | Bike Setup: |
Cannondale R800 | | Bottom Line: | The finish could be better but otherwise a good compromise of quality and cost. The chainset does look dog awful though. | | Overall Rating: |
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