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Fred Corbit
a Cross Country Rider
from SeattleDate Reviewed: August 27, 2011
Strengths: They look good and come in many colors, but ...Weaknesses: The rear skewer does not fasten tighten enough to use with horizontal drop outs. Even if the skeewer is clamped very tight, when hamering on a step hill you can put the rear axel askew to the point where the tire rubs up against the frame. (It is a pain to have to stop and straighten the wheel in the middle of a climb.)Bottom Line: There are better skewers on the market and some of the better skewers cost less.
Favorite Trail: All of the trails near Sun Mountain Wa.
Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid:
$50.00
Purchased At: Universal Cycles
Similar Products Used: Shimano, Campagnolo, Easton, Neuvation (all of which were better)
Bike Setup: The bike setup where the Salsa skewer's failed me is a road bike with a Concorde (Columbus SL) frame, White Industry hubs, and new Campagnolo 11 speed components.
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vt29er
a Cross Country Rider
from VermontDate Reviewed: July 7, 2009
Strengths: appearance, well machined, hand friendlyWeaknesses: salsa graphics wear off easily, plastic pieces decrease clamping abilityBottom Line: Bought these because my hopes didn't match new frame and it's a Salsa. Nice but plasic decreases quality and clamping force quite a bit because it deforms when clamped tight, Where salsa uses plastic Hope uses brass. I would not buy again and go for Hopes.
Favorite Trail: own
Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid:
$35.00
Purchased At: on-line
Similar Products Used: hope, ringle, xtr
Bike Setup: Salsa big mama
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aerske
a Cross Country Rider
from englandDate Reviewed: May 14, 2009
Strengths: beautiful finish and colours. so far product has done what its supposed to.Weaknesses: none so far.Bottom Line: Was going to purchase hope seat clamp and skewers but couldnt get hope seat clamp to fit my frame 32mm so opted for the salsa.
Looks great and does the job.
Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid:
$45.00
Purchased At: ebay
Similar Products Used: hope
Bike Setup: Scott Voltage yz,marzocchi dirt jumper 2, Ritchey WCS bars and stem,Avid bb7 brakes.
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alcahueteria
a Weekend Warrior
from Augusta, Ga, USADate Reviewed: December 7, 2008
Strengths: Good looksWeaknesses: Don't seem to be grippy enough.Bottom Line: So I've been using these for around a year. They seemed fine but I've always felt they were a bit hard to close. Not a big deal but more recently other issues have arrisen. I've noticed after longer rides my front skewer would have loosened up to where I question my safety. I haven't noticed this while riding yet though, only when I'd be removing the wheel to drive it home.
The rear skewer just doesn't seem to be able to squeeze tight enough or be gnarly enough to grip the frame because when I lock my rear wheel up it will try to push out of the drops. I have a chain tug on the drive side so it doens't pull forward but with the forces caused by the disc brakes it tries to jump out of the drop outs. I plan on changing to XT skewers to see if they can hold the frame better otherwise I don't know. The problem has only happened when I'm locking down the back wheel though(as in to skid).
Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Bike Setup: rigid 29er singlespeed with horizontal drops and disc brakes.
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Linette Crall
a Weekend Warrior
from Dallas Texas USADate Reviewed: May 27, 2008
Strengths: so far: they work! Do what they are suppost to do: easy for me to take on and off each time bike goes in my car. Great color choices. Easy way to add "bling" to your bike. I have red!Weaknesses: none so farBottom Line: Buy them if you want easy and to add color to your bike!
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$50.00
Purchased At: Adventure Sport Industry
Similar Products Used: none
Bike Setup: small Ventana El Saltamontes; BB7 disk brakes with Mavic Crossmax SL Disc -Maxxis CrossMark tubeless; mostly Sram parts/Fox Racing Shox 32 F100RLC
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Linette Crall
a Weekend Warrior
from Dallas Texas USADate Reviewed: May 27, 2008
Strengths: so far: they work! Do what they are suppost to do: easy for me to take on and off each time bike goes in my car. Great color choices. Easy way to add "bling" to your bike. I have red!Weaknesses: none so farBottom Line: Buy them if you want easy and to add color to your bike!
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$50.00
Purchased At: Adventure Sport Industry
Similar Products Used: none
Bike Setup: small Ventana El Saltamontes; BB7 disk brakes with Mavic Crossmax SL Disc -Maxxis CrossMark tubeless; mostly Sram parts/Fox Racing Shox 32 F100RLC
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Linette Crall
a Weekend Warrior
from Dallas Texas USADate Reviewed: May 27, 2008
Strengths: so far: they work! Do what they are suppost to do: easy for me to take on and off each time bike goes in my car. Great color choices. Easy way to add "bling" to your bike. I have red!Weaknesses: none so farBottom Line: Buy them if you want easy and to add color to your bike!
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$50.00
Purchased At: Adventure Sport Industry
Similar Products Used: none
Bike Setup: small Ventana El Saltamontes; BB7 disk brakes with Mavic Crossmax SL Disc -Maxxis CrossMark tubeless; mostly Sram parts/Fox Racing Shox 32 F100RLC
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C Gallegos
a Cross Country Rider
from Los Gatos, CADate Reviewed: September 29, 2007
Strengths: Great products. Will last forever. Best seat clamps.Weaknesses: Lube often. Certain types of trail dust causes QRs to creak. And after time, sounds like your bottom bracket is giving way or you pivot points are shot. Own several pair and have replaced them with XTR, Mavic, etc. and no more creaking. Watch out for mis-stamps on some skewers - once in a while you will find one with no teeth, just a smooth surface that doesn't grip the dropout very well. Salsa will replace for free.Bottom Line: The QR's work great on the BOB Revolution stroller! Get 2 seatpost QR levers for the rear wheels and a front QR for the front wheel. One sick looking stroller that baby is proud to ride in.
Favorite Trail: Skeggs
Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Price Paid:
$45.00
Similar Products Used: XTR, Mavic, Rolf, Campy, etc.
Bike Setup: Custom Ellsworth, Enduro SL, Fuel 98, 8500 hardtail.
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Basil Chua
a Cross Country Rider
from SingaporeDate Reviewed: May 13, 2007
Strengths: Great looks. Big thumb lock.Weaknesses: None.Bottom Line: Cool looking skewer! But a skewer is a skewer.
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$40.00
Purchased At: Chapter Two
Bike Setup: GIANT XTC Team on DT Swiss hubs and Mavic XC717 rims
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Will
a Racer
from Houghton, MIDate Reviewed: April 13, 2007
Strengths: Strength, easyness, extreme cheapnessWeaknesses: None!Bottom Line: My life is now complete, since I have thomson seatpost and stem, and salsa skewers.
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$8.00
Purchased At: Jenson
Bike Setup: Stiff, i.e. the Vanilla 130 fork is the flexiest part on the whole bike.
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Ryan
a Racer
from Dirty Reno!Date Reviewed: March 27, 2007
Strengths: Beautiful construction and color! Effortlessly simple and effective design.Weaknesses: NoneBottom Line: Adds bling to a commonly overlooked part!
Duration Product Used: 3 months
Purchased At: Great Basin Bicycles
Similar Products Used: Mavic
Bike Setup: Gunnar Ruffian single speed totally gucci!
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Snorro
a Cross Country Rider
from the NetherlandsDate Reviewed: September 19, 2006
Strengths: Excellent and smooth function, excellent fixation,long life and beautifully designedWeaknesses: NoneBottom Line: These skewers are absolutely the ultimate combination of function, looks and durability, period. Even after years of production a lot of newer products hardly reach the level of these iconic skewers. Just replaced the delrin camfollowers on my oldest set of salsas (8 years)and they are still absolutely as new. Excellent after sales from Salsa
Duration Product Used: More than 3 years
Similar Products Used: Hope, Shimano, Bontrager
Bike Setup: Yeti ASR-SL, RS SID WC 06, XTR shifters and mechs, RaceFace Next LP + Ti BB, King NoThreadset,Thomson stem + seatpost, Ritchey WCS bar,DT Swiss 240 hubs+ DT rev + mavic 717 rims, Hayes Mag+ carbon, salsa flipoff skewers
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Nathan F.
a Weekend Warrior
from San Antonio, TEXAS USADate Reviewed: August 26, 2006
Strengths: My Rastas are great, been many many years with no problems. Always tightens and always looses.Weaknesses: None!Bottom Line: MY Titanium Rastas was purchased when I bought my 1999 Tsali. It has a few scraches from the falls I have done, the color has faded in the years it has been subjected to rain, mud, snow! and the blazing sun. But they have NEVER failed me.
The best damn skewers ever made!
I would buy them again!
Favorite Trail: Anywhere that has dirt!
Duration Product Used: More than 3 years
Price Paid:
$40.00
Purchased At: I forgotten... :)
Similar Products Used: Shimano, shimano, ...
Bike Setup: 1999 Litespeed Tsali-XT Group,Titec 118 Ti Handlebar,Frogs,Judy SID,KING Ti bottle cage,Salsa Brake Brace&Syncros Ti post. WT approx. 23 pounds ;)
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Mike Oxsmells
a Cross Country Rider
from ChelmsfordDate Reviewed: March 22, 2005
Strengths: Something nice to buy when you've exhausted all other performance enhancing upgrades.Weaknesses: The red finish isn't exactly the same shade as my Hope Ti hubs ;-(Bottom Line: Like buying your wife another pair of Jimmy Choo's. Not really necessary, but if you can afford it you'll show your bike how much you love it.
And it will p*ss your other half off immensely if you get these instead of treating her to something new. Which is no bad thing.
My Zaskar has never claimed to have a headache when i feel like a ride, nor does it ever say 'have you finished yet?'.
Favorite Trail: Lingwood common
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$50.00
Purchased At: JensonUSA
Similar Products Used: Shimano / mavic stocks
Bike Setup: Obscenely tarted up GT Zaskar
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tony p
a Weekend Warrior
from grafton, MADate Reviewed: July 23, 2004
Strengths: smooth, strongWeaknesses: nothing yetBottom Line: the QR is so smooth and even. it's not an on-off thing like others. the farther you push the lever, the tighter it gets. others have a "happy" medium- if you push them too far they losen up. these are so much nicer
Favorite Trail: vietnam
Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$45.00
Purchased At: local shop
Similar Products Used: i'm a mechanic at a shop and i've used everything from stock POS QR skewers to XTR
Bike Setup: 01 GT avalanche 2.0 w/ beefy components
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