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wschruba
a Date Reviewed: May 8, 2012
Strengths: Ease of installation, cable routingWeaknesses: play at derailler mountBottom Line: This derailler was a pleasure to set up on the bike, and allowed me to shave off a few inches (and degrees) off my cable housing leading into the derailler, which, in turn, allowed to easier shifts.
The derailler, once mounted to specifications, still had a shocking amount of play. Once, however, the rest of the drive train was in place, it wound up being inconsequential, and indexing/shifting was flawless with some adjustment of cable tension.
My first impressions after riding it on three separate occasions are optimistic.
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StabMasta
a All Mountain RiderDate Reviewed: May 7, 2012
Strengths: Looks cool and somewhat cheapWeaknesses: Lots of play, shifter sticks, no barrel adjusterBottom Line: I bought (2) 2011 medium cage X7's to replace my beat to crap X9 and another for my son's bike. After I installed the new rear derailleurs, I immediately noticed a great deal of play and it was hard to dial them in due to the movement. On the trail, my rear shifter is locking in the lower gears and it's becoming a real pain in the ass. I'm switching to Shimano once my credit card recovers from the damage of my last builds. Until then, I have to suffer with the Srap x7.
Duration Product Used: National
Price Paid:
$50.00
Purchased At: Price point
Similar Products Used: Sram x9, Shimano XT
Bike Setup: Cannondale Uber-V
Pike 454
7.5" X-Fusion 02PVA
Sram components
BWW wheels
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HTR4EVR
a Cross Country Rider
from Gridley, CADate Reviewed: April 2, 2012
Strengths: Still thinking about it....Weaknesses: Too tight, hard to get it in line with the cassette. Obviously is unaligned out of the box.Bottom Line: Totally disappointed. Product won't get in line and Price Point won't take your complaint unless you are a certify technician what makes their shopping safely advertisement totally bogus. Be careful. Read carefully the bad reviews here before you buy sram because they are true. I'm already moving away from SRAM and affording the loss. DO NOT BUY IT. If you want to upgrade your Deore system move up along their line.
Favorite Trail: North Rim & Midddle Trail
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$50.00
Purchased At: Price Point
Similar Products Used: My first and last...
Bike Setup: Motobecane custom made...
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David C
a Weekend Warrior
from Montreal, CanadaDate Reviewed: November 11, 2011
Strengths: Cheap, good look, strong, easy to service, durable, quality finish, not too heavy, good shifting.Weaknesses: None, nada, nevar, zeroBottom Line: I have 2 X-7. A 2009 9 spd long cage in silver body, black cage and a 2011 9 spd med cage in Storm Grey finish, alu cage.
The long cage has performed flawless on both bikes, precise shifting, easy and quick to adjust, nice cable routing after the clamp on this model year, easy to service the full assembly and shift nice even on uphills and multi upshifts at the same time. I use X-4 shifters with it and work great. Now imagine how good it would feel with X0 shifters xD
The med cage has a very nice grey finish and same flawless performance has the other one. I use it on my FR bike and I can't complain at all. Used with SX-4 shifters right now.
The X-7 rd line is just great. very affordable and amazing performance. Rd's are expendables parts, so why invest into a more expensive rd simply to save a few grams ? Get better shifters and you're set. I never had a single problem with them and only needed cable stretch adjust once simply by using the shifter's barrel adjuster.
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid:
$40.00
Purchased At: Ebay
Similar Products Used: Shimano Deore LX, SRAM SX-5
Bike Setup: Trail bike and a FR bike
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idunno
a Cross Country Rider
from Portland, OR, youknowwhatcountryDate Reviewed: August 10, 2011
Strengths: Cheap, reliable, shifts how it's supposed to.Weaknesses: NopeBottom Line: Spend your money on a nice cassette and chain and get the X7 10 speed derailleur/shifter combo. I've been running it for 8 months and it has been flawless. It's starting to shift a tiny bit slower in a couple of gears, but considering it hasn't had a tune-up (ever) I'm very impressed. If you asked me to pay nearly $200 more for X0, you'd better be able to sell stink to pile of... Doodoo. That's enough for a Thomson stem and seatpost.
Favorite Trail: nothing near portland
Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid:
$50.00
Purchased At: fat tire farm(best s
Similar Products Used: X-everything
Bike Setup: all these reviews seem to be about the 9 speed model of this derailleur, I'm running the 1x10 with a 38 tooth chainring with chainguide, X-7 shifter, X0 cassette and KMC 10X-SL chain.
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Pollution Warrior
a Weekend Warrior
from Taiyuan, ChinaDate Reviewed: April 9, 2011
Strengths: Seems to work.Weaknesses: Pot-metal mounting screwBottom Line: Not impressed. We were putting together a brand new bike with all new stuff. The hex head on the RD mount screw stripped out. I'm not even sure if I had it tight enough. Hardware is a bad place to use aluminum (or probably some kind of cheap pot-metal). Now he'll have to replace the hangar if he wants to change the derailleur. I have a Shimano Deore on my 9 speed and it's way better. No issues.
Duration Product Used: Tested or demo'ed only
Similar Products Used: Shimano Tourney, Deore, Alivio, and lower end Shimano
Bike Setup: Merida Duke with 9-speed
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Don
a Cross Country Rider
from EnglandDate Reviewed: January 23, 2011
Bottom Line: I bought a sram X7 rear mech a couple of weeks ago and found that it locks out in first gear. I found that it will shift into 2nd by slamming the back wheel down while pressing the shifter. The rest of the gear range works fine. Has anybody else had this problem?
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
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Cdale4754
a Cross Country Rider
from Oakridge,Oregon.USADate Reviewed: September 9, 2010
Strengths: If SRAM fixes the defect it would be a great product.Weaknesses: Will only shift through six or seven of the nine cogs because the derailleur doesn't move freely. Rivets or bushings are too tight.Bottom Line: I purchased two X.7 rear derailleurs last week, both are bad.
I called SRAM and they said they knew about the problem but didn't say what they were doing about it.(evidently nothing because I got two 8/29/10 and the You Tube clip is a few months old.) SRAM Customer service was of no help getting my problem resolved so it's back to Price Point and hope that I don't get two more bad X.7's. Evidently, hundreds, maybe thousands of bad X.7 & X.9 derailleurs have been sold or are waiting to be sold. You Tube has a clip showing a sticky X.9.
Favorite Trail: Ridgeline
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$50.00
Purchased At: Price Point
Similar Products Used: Shimano, LX and XT.
Bike Setup: Cannondale F900 with Headshock.
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scblur
a Cross Country Rider
from PittsburghDate Reviewed: August 22, 2010
Strengths: nice pulleysWeaknesses: not smooth, unpredictableBottom Line: I found this derailleur to be unusable. Once you have bought into their shifter derailleur combo, you will be stuck, take the loss and go back to the better brand. I have no interest in either brand, but 32 years of experience with Shimano has shown me they know something sram does not. I have never had such problems with Shimano, not one in 32 years. Perhaps other componentry is ok, but their rear X.7 deraileur is crap.
Favorite Trail: Hartwood
Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid:
$50.00
Similar Products Used: Shimano XT
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Joel
a Weekend WarriorDate Reviewed: July 25, 2010
Strengths: Shifts very well even uphills. stiff design.Weaknesses: none so far.Bottom Line: great mechanism. good for XC, trail and AM riders. will not let you down. 5 flamin' chillies for this!
Favorite Trail: all of them
Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid:
$47.00
Purchased At: Valueshop
Similar Products Used: sram x4
Bike Setup: cannondale f8 custom.
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DHmonkey123
a Downhiller
from San Anselmo, California, USADate Reviewed: July 24, 2010
Strengths: Smooth shifting, weight, everythingWeaknesses: ghost shifts occasionallyBottom Line: Great shifting for DH FR abuse at XC AM weight. Great derailleur.
Favorite Trail: Tamarancho
Duration Product Used: 6 months
Purchased At: came on bike
Similar Products Used: X9, Saint, X0, Deore
Bike Setup: sadly, a cannondale F400
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Bradfreeride
a Downhiller
from ColoradoDate Reviewed: July 13, 2010
Strengths: Strong
Look pretty niceWeaknesses: I haven't found anyBottom Line: I got this derailleur as the stock one from the factory and it lasted about 2 years for me. I want babying it at all. I was doing like 10 foot drops to flat concrete I was pinch flatting my rear tire at 60psi. I was abusing the whole bike and the derailleur. It did finally wear out because the springs just wore out and it couldn't be adjusted very well anymore. I tried the x5 but after running it through my spokes and pretty clean cutting 8 of them today while bunny hopping a small median I went to the bike store and ordered up a new x7. I loved the x7 from the factory and hope the new one does the exact same thing.
Favorite Trail: Anything urban
Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Price Paid:
$69.00
Purchased At: Bike source and stoc
Similar Products Used: x5
Bike Setup: 06 Bighit with 04 Manitou Dorado fork and mavic ex 823 and 729 rims
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McGillMX111
a Downhiller
from BristolDate Reviewed: June 18, 2010
Strengths: Smooth if correctly aligned, other than that none.Weaknesses: SNAPPPP!!! bought my Norco Six, took it out for a ride, did a 10 foot double, landed, snnnnnap. That was my 2nd jump only been there 10 mins, took it to the shop, had it replaced (another $60 down the drain) this time it lasted a whole hour!!!!!Bottom Line: It's weak, hangs down too much... Don't buy it.
Favorite Trail: Ashton hill woods
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$60.00
Purchased At: Blackboy hill cycles
Similar Products Used: Just this as it's new bike
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BIGHaroHucker
a Downhiller
from Salt Lake City, UTDate Reviewed: April 27, 2010
Strengths: Shifts every time. Inexpensive. Easily available.Weaknesses: Some say its heavy...but I dont care about ounces on my DH/FR bike.Bottom Line: This is inexpensive and shifts every time for me. I really enjoy that if I hit a tree (like I did) and rip the dereiller off (like I did), its only $40 to get a new one and is easily available at many bike shops. I am a big fan of this product and recommend it to anyone that wants something that works every time, and doesn't cost a lot of money.
Favorite Trail: Bobsled
Duration Product Used: More than 3 years
Price Paid:
$40.00
Purchased At: Willamette Mountain
Similar Products Used: Shimano XT (on old bike)
Bike Setup: Haro X7, 888RC Fork, Fox DHX5.0 Shock, SDG I-Beam seat
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Submitted by
lew242
a Weekend Warrior
from UK and ChinaDate Reviewed: February 1, 2010
Strengths: Fast and preciseWeaknesses: Not as Durable as Shimano. Dislike lazy cleaning.Bottom Line: The best you can get if you want middle range price. Fast shift even when needing technical shifting. Buy these and keep away from middle range Shimano which are too slow and have too much chain slap. If you buy Shimano don't buy cheaper than XT.
These aren't as strong as middle range Shimano and can be broken fairly easily, but it's worth it for the performance.
I think why some people complain about these derailleurs is that the cable on their bike have stretched or they have a dirty drivetrain. I'm on my second X7 and they have always been fine for me. They do dislike being to dirty, and they also much prefer running with the best SRAM chain you can afford, rather than Shimano chains.
Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Similar Products Used: Shimano Deore(slow)
Bike Setup: XC
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