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Submitted by
mtnbiker72
a Weekend Warrior
from Republic of Cascadia
Date Reviewed: September 24, 2009 | | Favorite Trail: | Stella | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Stock Wheelset | | Strengths: | Durable, Decent Seals, Fairly Smooth, Reliable | | Weaknesses: | Weight, FH is a bit noisy | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano Deore M475, M525, XT M756, Ritchey Pro Disc | | Bike Setup: | 29er | | Bottom Line: | When I got these stock, I figured they'd last one winter and be toast. They are ball bearing and cone, and the cones were not polished like Shimano so they were a little rough at first. After riding a few months, I took them apart and repacked the bearings with Phil Wood grease. To my surprise, they were quite smooth and went all winter with zero problems. I was going to repack again before this winter but they are now buttery smooth (the races must be polished now from the bearings). Having Shimano hubs for many years, these hubs compare to the Deore level parts (better seals than the M475 but not quite as smooth initially as the M525).
For what they are, they appear to be a quality hub and have not let me down. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
nonverbal
a Cross Country Rider
from Taiwan
Date Reviewed: May 17, 2009 | | Favorite Trail: | Something with huge rocks | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$250.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | I'm from Taiwan so it's easy to get these hubsin the local stores.The trail I ride often combine by several trail,because ride in trail is not favored here(compared to Roadbike).I often ride 20km length trail for weekend recreation(to me,it's better than watch TV).I find Quando hub is improving-you can see this from daily use(although I don't ride offroad everyday).The product I use is trong enough for me(I weigh about 60kg),for riding on sand/dirt/rocks/even for practicing bunny hup,and never have any problem.I also do some race,and in the racing process,I can rely on these hubs...they never disappoint me. | | Weaknesses: | a bit pricey.But caompared to those Shimano stuff,they're quite strong. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano XTR(975)
Chris King Classic hubs(they're superior,but pricey)
Hope Pro2(not easy to get in Taiwan)
DT 240s(soso for such price) | | Bike Setup: | Giant XTC with SRAM X-9 groupo | | Bottom Line: | I think anybody should try these hubs.They're not expensive compared to Shimano XT,but A LOT stronger.Kun Teng Hubs are effecient for daily use,and easy to service.They're not afraid of water and dirt,attributed to the design.
superior! | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tim Mason
a Downhiller
from Feltdrop, UT, USA
Date Reviewed: October 24, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | Arches | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$175.00 | | Purchased At: | Stock with bike | | Strengths: | Tough! I've done 30 foot drop ins with these! Changed wheels and thrashed the shimano xt hubs that came on them. Ended up replacing them with my old Quando's and no problems since. Freewheel easy and super strong! A+ | | Weaknesses: | None so far! | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano Deora xt and Shimano Altus | | Bike Setup: | Lake BLX06 | | Bottom Line: | These hubs rock and are like a rock. Buy em if you can! I've used them and abused them and they come back for more. They roll free and I haven't had to do any maintenance to them what so ever. Im just sorry that I wasted money on the new hub and wheel set. I should have just bought the rims and used my Quando hubs to start with. I hope this is helpful to you. They are a good product at a good price! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
jim litwiller
a Weekend Warrior
from fort wayne, in, usa
Date Reviewed: October 14, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | the street | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$200.00 | | Strengths: | look good. Slammed many a curb with these hubs and they have taken it all.... Yet try not to intentionally abuse product because I NEED MY BIKE for every day transport... | | Weaknesses: | haven't seen any yet, but have not subjected to major abuse, | | Similar Products Used: | accel hp rims | | Bike Setup: | urban curb killer | | Bottom Line: | They work great for me. It seems some people slam a product based upon too little knowledge. Also the wrong set up to begin with can trash a good product.... | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
perryd
a Downhiller
from NZ
Date Reviewed: May 7, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | stock with bike | | Strengths: | no maintenance after two years and still no play - free wheeling is still great | | Weaknesses: | none found so far | | Similar Products Used: | no name worth mentioning | | Bike Setup: | Keewee Stealth 05 | | Bottom Line: | - TX Quando - front and read hubs
I haven't add an issue so far and I haven't had them serviced yet. Maybe lucky, but these have worked out quite well. If they are slow like mentioned then I'm all the fitter for it.
I have found it pretty hard to find maintenance guides on this product to give them there first service.
Currently use for downhil jumps | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
greg ryan
a Racer
from sydney
Date Reviewed: October 18, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$250.00 | | Purchased At: | taiwan | | Strengths: | sold about 50 of these hubs, theyre very light, the freewheel take up is instantaneous,spin beautifully,finish is very nice,easy to work on,cost effective,well done quando | | Weaknesses: | had one !! where the little steel 'bit' that presses on to end cap split..fixed with araldite.otherwise flawless | | Similar Products Used: | every product under the sun...every brand !! some hubs get water in..some are way too expens. quando for me has met all demands very well | | Bike Setup: | both cross country and road/ crit racing...and training..high end bikes | | Bottom Line: | the bottom line is : people should be a little specific when bagging a product. even some of the big names do low end models yeah ? some other people should learn how to fix stuff.sounds to me like some bike mechs. in other countries dont know sh-- either. u can buy non sealed hubs and spend 60-100 bucks a year getting them serviced..or you can mortgage your house and buy Dt. all the quando hubs ive sold ( ive only sold high end ones) have been perfect except the one i mentioned...great buying !! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
William Coffman
a Cross Country Rider
from Bremerton, Wa., USA
Date Reviewed: September 4, 2005 | | Favorite Trail: | any | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$600.00 | | Purchased At: | The Hostel Shoppe | | Strengths: | Decent quality construction and performance | | Weaknesses: | none so far | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano Deore hubs on a Burley Limbo recumbent | | Bike Setup: | Cycle Genius STX recumbent with SRAM 5.0 and fat Diamondback and Mongoose Kenda BMX tires. | | Bottom Line: | The Quando hubs came stock on my CLWB recumbent made by Cycle Genius. So far, the hubs have performed flawlessly as I daily commute 12 roundtrip miles on my 'bent! Soon, I will switch to 20 inch Aerospoke composite wheels, however! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Archie Brown
a Racer
from Melbourne
Date Reviewed: July 11, 2005 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | Cheap. Makes me say "You get what you pay for" | | Weaknesses: | Very slow spinning. Wont freewheel at all with the skewers done up. Unserviceable, even good bike shop mechanics took a look and gave my bike back to me. | | Similar Products Used: | Deore, XT, WTB | | Bike Setup: | Avanti Competitor, Hayes Mag, XT all round. (Sh!tty Quando hubs, crappy Alex rims) | | Bottom Line: | Embarrassing.
These hubs are slow it takes an extra 25% effort to get up to race speed. Having these hubs laced to your rims is like riding with your brakes on.
I got off my bike after tacoing my rear wheel on a recent trail ride, rode a lap on my friend's Scott Genius, and the difference between the quality hubs he had and the shizen that I was riding almost made me cry.
I took the hubs back to the store I bought them from to get them serviced. They couldnt make them any better and instead of a reasonable amount of freespin I got a strange sense that the 'quality wheelset' I was sold was actually revolving around a set of dud hubs.
In the end I had to loosen the skewers to the extent that halfway through a turn my rear wheel took off down the road in the opposite direction to me.
The only people I would recommend these hubs to are those guys who are faster, fitter and much better riders than me.
Just so I could beat them - and if they used these hubs and I wasnt, it would be easy.
Sorry Quando, Im not usually so negative, but your hubs aren't worth the effort required to throw them into a fire. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
hello bees
a Weekend Warrior
from hitech
Date Reviewed: December 30, 2004 | | Favorite Trail: | kelmscott bmx park!!! | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$4000.00 | | Purchased At: | wicked | | Strengths: | sex | | Weaknesses: | root | | Similar Products Used: | pump | | Bike Setup: | screw | | Bottom Line: | i need a root! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
malcolm
a
from new zealand
Date Reviewed: November 7, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Purchased At: | self imported | | Strengths: | Light weight,Spin very true | | Weaknesses: | none found so far | | Similar Products Used: | Crupi,Chris King, Mongoose only the best for NZ1, NZ1,NZ2, NZ7 all in different class. | | Bike Setup: | Crupi,Mongoose,Scorpio | | Bottom Line: | These are BMX hubs 28H ,very very nice with alloy axle and cap srcews(biffed away replaced with Ti)..
The Quando hubs are the lightest so far for BMX | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Christoph Zimmer
a Cross Country Rider
from Duesseldorf, Germany
Date Reviewed: June 13, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Willingen | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$50.00 | | Purchased At: | a friend | | Strengths: | - cheap
- nice look | | Weaknesses: | - durability | | Similar Products Used: | Magura Hubs (the same as Huegi) | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale Super V with Magura Julie and 24" Rims | | Bottom Line: | A friend of mine sold me this hubs with 24" rims. it was a cheap and fast solution because i needed wheels for my fun-free-riding-project. about 3 months later the freecoaster was broken because i jumped and dropped to much.
so it's really no hub for freeriding or dirtjumping... | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Niila Hopia
a
from Järvenpää Finland
Date Reviewed: April 12, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Urban | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Tuusport | | Strengths: | Nice looks... And thats it... | | Weaknesses: | Brokes off every month and bearings need replacing all the time... | | Similar Products Used: | King, Hope... | | Bike Setup: | Bruiser | | Bottom Line: | Thes are really a piece of sheet... They dont even spin well... | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Blaine
a Downhiller
from San jose
Date Reviewed: March 25, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$200.00 | | Purchased At: | adrenalinebikes.com | | Strengths: | cheap | | Weaknesses: | cheap and doesn't last for more than two jumps or 2 miles, which ever comes first | | Similar Products Used: | atom labs, hayes hubs | | Bike Setup: | fun stuff | | Bottom Line: | don't even think about getting these unless you want to be pissed off that you wasted your money!! I coulda bought a noce set of wheels now that I need to buy a second pair.
PS> adrenalinebikes.com doesn't know how to build wheels | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
GrantPT
a
from UK
Date Reviewed: February 21, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Came With bike | | Strengths: | If used only for xc they worked ok. Nothing great. If they come with the bike just use them until they break. Mines broken so I have a Hope now. | | Weaknesses: | Developed side to side play pretty quick. Broke my freehub very quickly (was doing pedal kicks but hey). Simply not designed for heavy use. | | Similar Products Used: | Most shimano at some time or other also Hope ti-glide and Hope Mono | | Bike Setup: | Marin Quake custom trials, magura's etc, Hope Mono's on Sunn Mammouth, Rock Star rigid fork blah blah | | Bottom Line: | Simply not strong enough. Will break. If they come OEM just use them until they do.
Over all just a budget level hub that has no place on a serious bike. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Travis
a
from Australia
Date Reviewed: December 20, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Cheap | | Similar Products Used: | XTR, XT, LX WTB-Not good | | Bike Setup: | Kona Explosif-Steel XT/XTR mix SID-100 | | Bottom Line: | A lot of the other hubs people are raving about are made by Quando. They are actually a huge Taiwanese Hub manufacturer- Making many hubs including many of the Boutique hubs. So the should no how to make a good hub. I've had a set on my and my girlfriends bike and they both put in a couple 1,000kms, no problem, spin well. Shouldn't be compared to Chris King etc. but this company should know how to produce good hubs. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Grateful Me
a Cross Country Rider
from East
Date Reviewed: June 25, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | came with bike | | Strengths: | ??? strength?? what are you talking about? | | Weaknesses: | dirt cheap so product managers tempted to put 'em on bikes | | Similar Products Used: | LX, XT, Ultegra, Mavic, Hugi, CODA | | Bike Setup: | CroMo 5120 KHS double century special | | Bottom Line: | POS no I mean it POS my Huffy had better hubs, swear
Hubs got fried on second ride, somewhere ~140mi mark, then I had to pedal hard going down 6% grade
they look like they're sealed but the seals are missing, lowest grade bearings (they differ in size so much impossible to adjust), upon inspection cones had chips.
Bottom line: if you got them for free you paid too much
replace 'em ASAP if you can't replace bearings and re-adjust while you waiting on your new hubs to come. POS
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Submitted by
Gaoo
a Cross Country Rider
from Quebec
Date Reviewed: August 16, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Bromont | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | look soso, sealed (hum hum!!!) | | Weaknesses: | hehehe seals are poor, freewheel is crap, always loose (can't adjust'em correctly)-and they're new!!-, quick release are dangerous...... | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano Deore (gooooooooooooood)!!!!!!!!!!
Shimano Acera-X
Bontrager Comp I/II (eXcellent) | | Bike Setup: | Trek 6500 ZX '99, XT rear, STX-RC crankset, LX/Avid brake combo | | Bottom Line: | Don't buy them, if they come with your bike, change it. Rear is soso, but front whahahahahahahhaha S H * T. And quicks are so crappy, you close them but they have a tendancy to open! After a BIG 1 month of mud ridding, the freewheel is silent (not normal) and can't adjust for a good rolling
Enough said. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Stephen Maeder
a Racer
from Los Angeles, CA
Date Reviewed: July 12, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
6 months | | Strengths: |
1. Cool allen screws to hold hub in drop-out that won't scratch your fork/frame
2. Super-light
3. Spins freely | | Weaknesses: |
CANNOT GET RID OF SIDE-TO-SIDE PLAY! Extremely annoying, so I just moved over to an Ultegra hub and skewer. Nice! | | Similar Products Used: |
Shimano Ultegra Road Front Hub | | Bike Setup: |
2000 Monty X-Lite Mod Trials | | Bottom Line: | Piece of junk. Very light and cheap. You may luck out and get one that works well, or it may develop play right at the start. | | Overall Rating: |
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