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Submitted by
Chris
a Cross Country Rider
from Connecticut
Date Reviewed: April 28, 2008 | | Favorite Trail: | Black Mt. Canberra Australia | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$50.00 | | Purchased At: | Came with bike | | Strengths: | Smooth shifting, low maintenance, good looks. | | Weaknesses: | Lack of respect from label - it ain't LX, XT, XTR, etc. | | Similar Products Used: | Deore, LX, XT, XTR, SRAM X.7/X.9 | | Bike Setup: | GT i-Drive 5 1.0 (XT/XTR) | | Bottom Line: | Great product for the money. I really can't tell the difference between this and my new XT/XTR setup on my new bike. Shame the current Deore series isn't as good! I wish they still made these... | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ricardo Prado
a Cross Country Rider
from Campinas, SP, Brazil
Date Reviewed: December 6, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | Atacama Desert - Chile | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Unbreakable! It has been shifting the gears of my '98 Cannondale F700 for almost 10 years. Occasional cleanning and ajusting (every 200 km or so). Precise and everlasting. This product line is outstanding: I also own STX RC hubs and I have never seen anything that rolls as much as these. | | Weaknesses: | Hardly anybody is familiar with this derailleur here: no market value (but, hey, who's selling??) | | Similar Products Used: | SRAM X9 on my brand-new-still-shinning Speciallized Stumpjumper 2008... | | Bike Setup: | 1998 Cannondale F700 - Fork Manitou SX LT 100mm, Handle bar Titec, Seat post Thomson Elite, Seat SPZ BG Sport, Shifters Deore XT, Front and Rear Derailleur STX RC, Rims Sun CR18, Hubs STX RC, Back Tyre Maxxis Larsen TT, Front Tyre Maxxis Minotaur. | | Bottom Line: | Great, great deal. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Cameron
a Weekend Warrior
from Kettering, Ohio, USA
Date Reviewed: October 15, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | MoMBA | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Lasts forever. | | Weaknesses: | I have both the STX and the STX-RC. The STX is in better shape right now, but it has the nut style cable pinch, instead of the 5mm allen bolt that's on the RC and is common now. | | Bike Setup: | Kona Fire Mountain ('98), Haro Escape ('98) | | Bottom Line: | This thing last forever. It's not officially 10 years old, and it shifts great. I took it out two days this weekend, with hard climbs, puddles, rocks, and never missed a shift. As long as it's set up properly, I can't find fault with it. It also has a smoked metal color, which looks sweet, even better than the current shifters. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
John
a Weekend Warrior
from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date Reviewed: February 13, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | Stock on my 1996 GT Ricochet - D'Ornellas Bike Shop (1996) | | Strengths: | Durability, weight, colour, clean & crisp shifting. | | Weaknesses: | None. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano Deore XT. | | Bike Setup: | 1996 GT Ricochet | | Bottom Line: | This review is for a *Shimano STX* rear derailleur, it does not say "RC" (racing) on the sticker on the derailleur. It came stock on my 1996 GT Ricochet, it has over 10,000kms on it and has been 100% trouble-free. The silver colour blends in well with the rest of the bike, it has given me years of clean & crisp shifting.
Bottom Line: This rear derailleur is just as good as my Shimano Deore XT on my 2001 Trek Fuel 90 Disk. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
matt
a Weekend Warrior
from mississauga
Date Reviewed: May 24, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Bottom Line: | This came on my LTS in about 1997-98. It shifts about as well as an XT. How do i know? I have an XT deraillieur now, and i compared them, this is what i found..
the colour is different
the spring on the XT is just slightly stronger, or it could be my imagination
the bottom plastic wheel on a XT has a sealed bearing, and the STX isnt. I dont have a weight scale, but im pretty sure they are nearly the same weight.
in other words, people who have had problems with this stx part and tell you that you need to go to LX or XT have
#1 no clue how to properly adjust a deraillieur (lousy shifts)
#2 do not have things tight (falling off twisting etc)
#3 genuinly have really bad luck, because essentially your buying XT parts before they were called XT.
If you have an older bike that needs a decent shifter, buy a STX it`l cost you nothing and it should work well as long as it isnt damaged | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
John
a
from Workington, UK
Date Reviewed: January 6, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Lasted 12 years with only occasional adjustment and cleaning before worn beyond use. It was used in very dirty environments with chain stretched beyond shimano measurement guage limit and still could possibly be repaired by replacing bushes and spring to fight another day. | | Weaknesses: | No weaknesses, bad workmen blame their tools on this site. | | Bottom Line: | Do they make them any more? | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
barry burnham
a Cross Country Rider
from la pine or usa
Date Reviewed: November 12, 2005 | | Favorite Trail: | anywhere | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$300.00 | | Purchased At: | fullerton schwinn | | Strengths: | has always been reliable | | Weaknesses: | minor adjustments about once a year | | Similar Products Used: | '91 xt | | Bike Setup: | '94 gt tequest rigid fork | | Bottom Line: | i have been using this bike with the stx derailer that came with it for 11 years. i have riden it everywhere and almost everyday. it still performs well to this day. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Julie Panthei
a Cross Country Rider
from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
Date Reviewed: July 15, 2005 | | Favorite Trail: | Local | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | Gooch's bike shop | | Strengths: | Sleek design-not too bulky. Has little chainslap when adjusted properly. Had the part for 7 years and still works well after daily riding and standard tuneups. | | Weaknesses: | Hard to tuneup on the fly and needs expert tweaking for crisp shifting. Better for lighter riders on moderate trails. | | Similar Products Used: | Sram,Deore,LX,XT | | Bike Setup: | Mongoose Rockadile, Rock Shox,Deore and LX mix | | Bottom Line: | Came with the bike and has worked well with daily use. Keep it if you're a light rider mostly into moderate technical trails or touring. Forget it if you're a heavier rider into thrashing technical terrain or an advanced xc trail rider- get upgrades (or have a whole other bike for that). | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jessica
a Downhiller
from Labrador City
Date Reviewed: March 16, 2004 | | Favorite Trail: | Smokey Mountain | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | C &S Sports | | Strengths: | Shifts easily when new... | | Weaknesses: | Pain in the butt to adjust, takes a long time to move chain between gears. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano Decore, Alivio | | Bottom Line: | I liked the STX RC when I first bought it but after 3 years of wear and tear it hasn't worked properly since. When I go up steep hills it refuses to change gears. Sometimes I got give the thing a good kick for it well work, probably making it worst but it sure do ease my frustrations!
After I decided to use the decore and its been worken awesome for me since.
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Submitted by
Ryan
a Downhiller
from Bethlehem PA USA
Date Reviewed: September 12, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Local Single Track | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | Internet | | Strengths: | absoutly none what so ever. | | Weaknesses: | Everything imaginable. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano Decore | | Bottom Line: | This STX came with my bike and it is the worst deralier on gods green earth. riding not jumping down about a 40 foot staircase with about 4 feet inbetween each stair my rear wheel locked up about halfway down. luckily i made it to the bottem with me life. when i looked at me rear wheel the derailer was upside down bending my spokes to about a 90 degree angle. When i attempted to move it back to the normal position the two lower (what should be lower) guide wheels and bracket snapped off and when i picked it up off the ground the guides looked like a butterfly. if you want to live to ride another day dont but this piece of crap!!!!!!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Rips
a
from Pickering, Ontario, Canada
Date Reviewed: April 17, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Durham Forest/Dagmar | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Purchased At: | Bay Cycle | | Strengths: | Price. | | Weaknesses: | Broke second ride out. | | Similar Products Used: | XT, LX, Deore | | Bottom Line: | What a POS! It was a bit hard to setup but after that shifting great (for about 1/2 a ride). Then the problems started. For some reason it grabs the chain and temporarily jams the rear wheel. The worst case was going downhill at 40 MPH; talk about scary. Then when I was cranking up a short steep hill the thing jammed my chain totally locking the rear wheel. Couldn't get out and rolled backwards down the hill on my butt (luckily no one was around). Had a look at it and the limit screw stop (where the screw actually pushes against the der.) had snapped right off allowing it to go fully into my rim. Taking it back today. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Joe
a Racer
from San Jose
Date Reviewed: April 6, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Grant Ranch East San Jose | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | Schwinn Moab3 | | Strengths: | Strong and clean shifting.Works with both Shimano and Suntour topmount shifters and thumbshifters in index and friction mode.Low cost replacement for upgrading vintage mountain bikes. | | Weaknesses: | None | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano XT Deore 8 speed derailleur | | Bike Setup: | 1993 Scott Unitrack w/ Unitrack LF fork/XTR
1990 Specialized Rockhopper/XT | | Bottom Line: | The STX R/C 'IS' the former Shimano XT 8 speed derailluer.
Parts are interchangable with the XT.
Placed side by side,there is very little cosmetic difference between the two derailluers.
The only differences between the STX R/C & XT is that the STX derailleur body is polished with the STX sticker.The XT version has the black wrinkle finish with printed XT logo.
Also the 'SIS' is stamped on the STX cage while the 'SIS' is silkscreened on the XT cage.
Performance wise it's the same derailluer.Clean shifting and strong.I updated this derailluer with the Bontranger/Titec titanium hanger bolt and cable bolts and replaced the original Shimano ceramic pulleys with Shift Biscuit alloy pulleys.The result is a lightweight bargain shifter.
The STX is a bargain replacement derailluer for those who want to replace the hard to find XT derailluer on their old-school rigid
mountain bike.
If you want a good derailluer cheap,the STX is a former race proven design.If you want to cough up lots of cash for a beat up original XT derailluer on EBAY so you can be cool with the XT crowd,feel free.Only the ones who know better will laugh at you. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Scott
a Weekend Warrior
from Perth, Australia
Date Reviewed: March 1, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | Shop | | Strengths: | Looks good, shifts well | | Weaknesses: | None | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano (up to LX)
| | Bike Setup: | Trek 6000 ('99 spec). Came on bike. Bottom end 'good' bike. | | Bottom Line: | I've ridden weekly since 1999, and had no probs. I get the bike serviced regularly, and keep it clean and lubed. I've had no probs shifting at any time, and the only time it protests is when i over tourque the system while uphill shifting. I understand that it is not a LX or an XT/XTR, but im not a x-country racer, and i don't push myself too far and fall off and crash. This is my style of riding. SO if your no a hard core mud-nut (like me), this part should last forever. If you want to go hard on trails every day, buy xtr | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
mikeb
a Cross Country Rider
from Sodom in the North
Date Reviewed: February 26, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | does not apply here | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$1.00 | | Purchased At: | with bike | | Strengths: | superior airspeed, armour, firepower and manuerverability | | Weaknesses: | lack of diving speed, armour, inferior airspeed, shoddy construction | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | does not apply here | | Bottom Line: | to the fellow who states that the mitsubishi A6M zero was pretty much the superior fighter aircraft in the second world war, you should do YOUR homework.
here's a few stats on the A6M3 model 22--the top speed was 336MPH at 19685 feet. it carried two 20 mm cannon and two 30 caliber machine guns. the range was not equivalent to many allied aircraft and i am relatively sure that the service ceiling was lower.
in comparison, the P 47 thunderbolt carried EIGHT fifty caliber machine guns and would run 467 MPH. its service ceiling was 43,000 feet and it had more armour and a much longer range than the zero.
the focke wulf FW 190 carried two machine guns and two cannons as well, but could be fitted with two heavier anti tank cannon. its speed topped out at 408 MPH and the sevice ceiling of the 190 was about 34,000 feet.
other fighter aircraft from the second world war which were superior to the zero were the F4U corsair, the P 51 mustang, the grumman F6F hellcat and the supermarine spitfire. although the zero might have had better performance than american fighters such as the curtis P 40 and the grumman F4F wildcat (or the brewster buffalo--remember the early stages of the battle of midway?) in the early stages of the conflict, its advantages were negated by the advent of american and british fighters i've mentioned above.
sir, before you tell me to do my homework, you might want to do some reading yourself. i will stand by my statement that the shimano STX RC rear deraillieur is a cheap piece of crap and should not be the choice of a competent rider who rides regularly and hard. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Travis G
a Weekend Warrior
from Dallas, TX
Date Reviewed: February 12, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Grapevine North Shore | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | With Gary Fisher Bike | | Strengths: | Shifted flawlessly... | | Weaknesses: | ...until it, for lack of a better term, got old. | | Similar Products Used: | None | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher, Marzocchi Bombers, all new gear except drivetrain. | | Bottom Line: | Will only replace it until time to upgrade to new drivetrain, after this season. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Robert Thompson
a
from Leicester uk
Date Reviewed: September 28, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Faroe Islands | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | came wiv da bike | | Strengths: | Its durability, shifts smoothly looks nice and is easy to maintain. | | Weaknesses: | Barrel adjuster thread is a bit flexi. | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | easton aluminium, avid sd 2.0 levers, stx ,lx mix, panracer. | | Bottom Line: | Ive had this on my bike for nearly 4 years of weekly use, all Ive had to change is a new set of jockey wheels.
Its ideal for entry level weekend riders on a budget, its not as light as higher end stuff but why splash out an extra £20 just to save a few grams?
I'm happy wid it and im not upgrading it. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Konacopia
a Weekend Warrior
from L.A.
Date Reviewed: August 31, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Da Bumps | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Cost efficient
Durable
Shifts smoothly | | Weaknesses: | Pulleys wear a bit faster, but can be fixed with some new pulleys. | | Similar Products Used: | Everything else Shimano besides XTR | | Bike Setup: | Kona Stuff | | Bottom Line: | For the 6 years that I've had this thing, it has worked flawlessly with the occasional maintenance intervals. The only major difference with this and other Shimano derailleurs is the weight. This things performs just like the others higher up in the chain. When this thing is set up right, it is surprisingly smooth and has never given me a problem shifting uphill. I figure all the people who have problems shifting uphill are torquing their drivetrain way too hard during shifting which you shouldn't be doing anyway. Most of the people having problems after hitting a rock with the thing... well what do you expect? Any derailleur will break if you hit it hard enough I guarantee you that and besides you're not picking a good line if you're banging things around. This thing works, enough said. And to the fellow and his comment about these things being made out of "zeros"... Well Zeros were pretty much the superior aircraft during WWII. Do your homework next time. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Josef
a Racer
from Milpitas
Date Reviewed: August 27, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Nice polished finish.Looks and shifts like the old Deore/Deore XT.Can swap parts with the old XT.Smooth at friction and index mode.Can be used with 6-7-8 speed cassettes.Quiet shifting and shifts well under heavy load and sprints/climbing. | | Weaknesses: | None after more than three years. | | Similar Products Used: | 1989 Deore XT and Deore derailluers. | | Bike Setup: | Came OEM equipped Schwinn Moab.Was a parts donor until one day I was bored and decided to modify it with spare XT parts and Ti bolts. | | Bottom Line: | Pretty much customized.Adjusted the spring,replaced the philips head adjust screws with allen head bolts,installed a Titanium hanger bolt,pulley bolts and cable clamp from the parts box,replaced Shimano pulley wheels with Carmichael Alloy pulleys.Now lightweight and durable. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
biker
a
from usa
Date Reviewed: May 7, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | you name it... | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | the first year... | | Weaknesses: | after that... | | Bottom Line: | this derrailer worked like a charm for about a year of intermittent riding...then it started to do funky things. it now, after many many miles and some hard rides only shifts to six of the gears and makes funy sounds sometimes. it also refuses to shift up hill, and when it does it sounds like its going to up and die on me. I have my eye on a new xtr...perhaps that will give me a few more years of riding. I would give this derrailer five chilic for the first year but 2 after that...so...3 it is | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Russ
a Weekend Warrior
from Aberdeen, UK
Date Reviewed: April 9, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Peebles official downhill course | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$45.00 | | Purchased At: | Alpine Bikes | | Strengths: | Easy to set-up, reliable, looks more funky than LX. | | Weaknesses: | Doesn't shift as well as more expensive mechs under load (i.e uphill), starting to get eccentric (missed gears etc) in it's old age. | | Similar Products Used: | acera, alivio, lx, xt, xtr | | Bike Setup: | used with 7 speed '97 rapidfire shifters | | Bottom Line: | If you really can't afford the few extra bucks for an LX then buy this. However, don't expect this mech to perform well under heavy conditions. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Charlie Devine
a Cross Country Rider
from Oak Ridge, TN, U.S.A
Date Reviewed: February 28, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Haw Ridge | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | It has all the adjustments needed on a rear derailer.
I personaly recommend that you take a tiny allen wrench, remove the cage, and put the chain tension spring in the firm position. Yes, it is removeable. Yes there are two settings. | | Weaknesses: | It came stock with the Light Action spring.
Get a Powerspring to replace the original return spring.
Don't follow the directions on the package for instalation. Doing so will slightly bend your spring, thus reducing it's efectiveness. Instead, make a hook out of coat-hanger wire and use this to pull on the end of the spring to facilitate installation. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano Excage | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher aluminum hard tail frame, Marzochi Z4 Flylight Air, 1995 Shimano 8speed integrated controls | | Bottom Line: | This is the one part of my bike that I haven't replaced.
The bike came with gripeshift. Due to the lack of a return spring in the shifter the "system," briliantly engineered by Gary Fisher, did not reach the three smallest gears. The shop put a aftermarket Powerspring in the rear derailer. Shortly after that I got Shimano XT controls and haven't missed a shift since. The year that I got the bike,1995, Shimano was hypeing it's new "light action shifting." I recomend everyone change the spring in his rear drerailer for a Powerspring.
I like a firm shifter lever across the whole range of gears. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
chris
a Cross Country Rider
from ottawa
Date Reviewed: February 8, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | camp fortune | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | Cyclepath | | Strengths: | WHEN it works it works well, quick shifting, inexpensive to replace | | Weaknesses: | BENDS EASILY and then it will never work the same way again, very noisy, will not shift uphill | | Similar Products Used: | alivio, stx, xt | | Bike Setup: | 99 GT Backwoods, SID, LX/XTR...etc. | | Bottom Line: | This came stock on my bike, and for a stock part it worked surprisingly well. If you're not a real hardcore rider, the STX-RC will probably last forever. however, if you do any real trails it will only last a season at most before you start having problems. It took one nice crash for me and i never got it to work well since, just because it bends so easily. Good value, but you'll be looking to upgrade soon. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
john
a Downhiller
from portland oregon
Date Reviewed: January 14, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | north face of powell butte | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | it would change gears once n awhile | | Weaknesses: | wouldnt change gears when u really needed it too | | Similar Products Used: | xt | | Bike Setup: | marin b 17, marzocchi jr t, sun rhyno lite rims, kujo tires, truvative hussefelt cranks n bb | | Bottom Line: | this garbage came with my bike. it was a total piece of crap, it was ok for awhile but quickly went to pot after i put a few trails on it. it would not shift going uphill at all.. just click endlessly and would always screw up my timing or my line uphill. the XT will easily shift anytime. by the way, my front derailer was a stx also and did the same thing till i switched to a single ring in front. the final ride for this derailer came when one of the pulleys broke in half (they are plastic and do not have any bearings) i switched out the wheels with some nice pullies, and later to my great surprise as i landed a small jump, the cage bolts came loose causing the cage to seperate and shear off about 10 of my spokes. well it was prob my fault, but it seemed like it was fate that this piece of crap would, as a final act of defiance, destroy not only itself but a bunch of spokes and one rim. if u have stx garbage on your bike and you do any riding that makes you break a sweat... get rid of it now. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
mike b
a Cross Country Rider
from Sodom in the North
Date Reviewed: December 22, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | boggs | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$1.00 | | Purchased At: | came with my Original Kona | | Strengths: | it works--up until a certain point, which is at a strange and mysterious place | | Weaknesses: | durability
pretentiousness
general chintziness | | Similar Products Used: | the entire spectrum of shimano's supposed off road componet groups from alivio on up | | Bike Setup: | came with a steel, rigid 1994 kona that i put a marzocchi xc400 on and sold a long time ago. | | Bottom Line: | when shimano makes it bad, they make it BAD.
if there are any of you around who still have these things on your bikes, you must not be riding so much. my stx derailleur got very, very sick within a thousand miles of commuting and thrice-weekly rides in golden gate park and the marin headlands. they must have made these things out of recycled zeros. (do you chimps know what a zero is? it is a world war two era japanese fighter aircraft)
shimano does'nt make stx or stx rc anymore, so this is a good thing. how they got away with masquerading this crap as a viable entry level component group is beyond the realm of my muddy dreams. the sad part of it all is that this junk came standard on a lot of relatively expensive bikes, especially earlier model suspension bikes.
get rid of your stx stuff, replace it with at least lx and go riding.
good lord.
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Submitted by
mike k
a Cross Country Rider
from vancouver
Date Reviewed: December 21, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | anywhere | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | came with my bike | | Strengths: | fast drailling. ez install not scared to break it. | | Weaknesses: | weak as hell. wrecks the hanger, f-u-c-k-ed my spokes. with the crappy condition, expensive for what it does | | Similar Products Used: | xt, lx, xtr, alvio | | Bike Setup: | charger with manitou spyder shock | | Bottom Line: | it sux, i broke it in the 1 st week i got it. then i fixed it,then i broke it again good today!(snapped out) i was jus doin jumps in a dirt track. and i wiped out, on ice/dirt and landed on that crap! the hanger was fine, but it jus got f-u-c-k-ed. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Darren
a Cross Country Rider
from Pembroke Pines, Florida
Date Reviewed: November 5, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Markham Park | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | came on bike | | Strengths: | easy to adjust, works well when muddy, nice polished finish... | | Weaknesses: | noisy, hard to find... | | Similar Products Used: | SRAM 7.0, 9.0, Shimano LX, XT
| | Bike Setup: | Jamis Exile hardtail, Manitou SXR front shock, STX-RC 8 Speed Shifters, Avid SD7 brakes / levers, STX-RC front/rear derails... XT crankset, bottom bracket, STX-RC cassette, Time alum pedals, Titec Seatpoast, Selle Italia Max Flite Gel Ti saddle, STX-RC front/rear hubs on Sun CR18 rims, Panaracer Fire XC Pro tires. | | Bottom Line: | The shifters and Derailleurs came on my bike. I had an STX-RC crankset as well, but hit a large rock and bent the spider. Had to upgrade to an 8 speed crankset. The shifters and derailleurs work flawlessly, although a bit noisy. Easy to adjust, and they stay adjusted. They work well even if muddy. These derailleurs work fine for 8 speed. In fact, they work so well, I can not justify spending the extra money to upgrade to 9 speed. The downfall to this, is that no one is making 8 speed any longer, therefore one must upgrade of these break. I will ride them till they are toast. I have no clue what the value of these STX-RC parts are, because they came on my bike. I do know that they work tremendously well... except for the STX-RC crankset. I weigh 230 pounds, and I did notice some flex in the cranks at the bottom bracket area, but I am also riding a Reynolds Steel frame... flex is to be expected. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Armon
a
from Georgia
Date Reviewed: October 23, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | anything in PIsgah | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | Backcountry outdoors | | Strengths: | Built to last. hardcore. strong. durable. | | Weaknesses: | none | | Similar Products Used: | LX,STX | | Bike Setup: | schwin moab/old school steel frame/rigid fork
| | Bottom Line: | I bought the schwin used as my first non-department store bike. It was about 6 years old then and I beat it down for about a year. later I let friends borrow it to try out mountain biking. After another year or so the STX rear derailer was toast and i replaced it with a STX RC a few weeks ago. I love STX and STX RC components. They're hardcore durable parts that are made to last. Buy it if you 1)can find one 2)like investing in parts that last a life time. Don't buy it if you like to impress people with stupid complicated gadgetry that will last about 3 months of riding. Also don't buy it if your bike sits at home and is never used. This is a quality part that deserves to be no where but on the trails. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
pritch
a Weekend Warrior
from Bristol, UK
Date Reviewed: September 8, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Leigh Woods | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | strong, uncomplicated. | | Weaknesses: | a little heavy (s |
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