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Submitted by
long_h_lam
a Weekend Warrior
from London, England
Date Reviewed: July 1, 2009 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | Original bike equipm | | Strengths: | Good quality levers, solid one piece design, strong. | | Weaknesses: | Braking power is only adequate, not a huge amount of adjustment, but overall okay for the price. | | Similar Products Used: | Tektro Pro Max | | Bike Setup: | Giant Boulder 2001 | | Bottom Line: | You gets what you pays for! Average performing brakes, but a good price. Does what it says, but can be improved in a few areas (performance, pad adjustment) | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
vance
a Weekend Warrior
from vic
Date Reviewed: February 1, 2006 | | Favorite Trail: | downtown | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | lbs | | Strengths: | cheap, simple, gives solid feel of rim(with proper housing and lever that is) being a trials rider i needed a cheap brake with power to lock up i could trust | | Weaknesses: | none, and not expecting any | | Similar Products Used: | tekpro crap, shimano, hayes mechs | | Bike Setup: | px ghost, kniffen fork,eno freewheel,deore cranks, dx32, the regular trialsin set up. brakes dialed her in nice | | Bottom Line: | buy em, cheap, works, who cares what people say about shimano. if it works it works. with a proper set-up expensive vees loose their appeal. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Brad Pitt
a Downhiller
from Cali, Valle, Colombia
Date Reviewed: May 6, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Toboganes | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$90.00 | | Purchased At: | Bike depot | | Strengths: | Nice looks, strong, good stopping power | | Weaknesses: | pads wear fast, that would be the only one | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano Alivio | | Bike Setup: | Shimano Deore & Deore Lx | | Bottom Line: | Good brakes, I get even good stoping power even using only one finger. The frame used to bend, but with the booster, it works just fine, I was thinking of Disc brakes, but frankly these suits me just fine for now | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
oogy
a Weekend Warrior
from coquitlam BC canada
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | nicoles, gear jammer | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | came with bike | | Strengths: | look nice, strong for about a month. | | Weaknesses: | pads wear out every month and cost a whole lot to replace for v-brakes and the springs that keep them from sticking to your rim wear out really fast. | | Similar Products Used: | any v-brake | | Bike Setup: | 2000 rocky mountain spice w/bash gaurd, Mavic d521 silver rear rim,
FSA the pig DH head set | | Bottom Line: | This product is just plain dumb. it costs $30 a month to replace the brake pads and after using them long enough they stay stuck to your rim. I sugest disk brakes. im getting hayes hydralic. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mark
a Cross Country Rider
from Moncton,New Brunswick
Date Reviewed: January 12, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$45.00 | | Purchased At: | Bungay's bicycle shop | | Strengths: | They look good.Fairly strong. | | Weaknesses: | Crappy linkage. Bearing's come loss quick,Better off buying "XT".Their far better!!!Or try scam or avid for real stopping power. | | Bike Setup: | Rocky Mountain,XT/XTR,517's,race face, syncros | | Bottom Line: | Stay away from the big "S" brakes.Try avid single digit 25 or sram 9.0.Shimano's linkage becomes worn fast and is not that powerful!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
SFA
a Cross Country Rider
from USA
Date Reviewed: May 31, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | bikeshow | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Powerful, look good, | | Weaknesses: | Pads wear moderately fast | | Similar Products Used: | alvio, acera, altus, lx cantilever | | Bike Setup: | Specialized Rockhopper comp fs, manitou sx-d with englunds, lx xt drive | | Bottom Line: | These brakes are powerful and very quiet. All these people that complain about poor modulation have flexy frames and forks. With my fork there is top quality modulation, I need a booster for the rear but they are really nice. Parallel push works very good. Just one thing is that the pads are of a somewhat low quality and get worn. I still think they are real nice. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ben
a Weekend Warrior
from Douglesville,GA
Date Reviewed: June 24, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
soapcreek | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
stops on a dime | | Weaknesses: |
none | | Similar Products Used: |
other lowerforms of shimano | | Bike Setup: |
99 GT Karakoram | | Bottom Line: | they 're the best | | Overall Rating: |
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