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Submitted by
Mark
a Cross Country Rider
from Bracebridge
Date Reviewed: February 22, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Gravity Gultch @ Porcupine Ridge | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Cycle Path | | Strengths: | Strong for intended use. | | Weaknesses: | A bit flexy, not light | | Similar Products Used: | Coda, other shimano | | Bike Setup: | Jekyll 1000 with lots of upgrades | | Bottom Line: | My Coda crankset sucked. My LBS replaced my crankset for free with this crank. Not what my first pick would have been, although, I have been pleasantly suprised. They have been ridden hard for 1 year, and have stood up very well. I'll definately keep them until the rings wear out, and then replace them with some Stylo SL's - mostly because shimano rings are so overpriced!
If you ride cross country and are looking for a good, reasonably priced crankset, you won't go wrong with the LX's. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
johnno
a Cross Country Rider
from Melbourne, Aus
Date Reviewed: April 24, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | shifts well. Still works with a few teeth missing from big ring. | | Weaknesses: | Tapers rounded, teeth broken, new cranks required | | Similar Products Used: | Alivio, race face | | Bike Setup: | XC bike w/ LX XT parts RS Judys etc etc | | Bottom Line: | They have been o.k up until yesterday when I went for a ride and the crank fell off the BB after going off a medium size drop. On closer inspection they are rounded where they join the BB. Not sure what I'll buy next. Thinking XT but I'd be pissed off if the same thing happened to them and I don't really have the cash for Race Face's. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
seb
a Weekend Warrior
from england
Date Reviewed: April 2, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | NONE! | | Weaknesses: | EVERYTHING! | | Similar Products Used: | POWER PRO'S - EQUALLY CRAP! | | Bottom Line: | SQUARE TAPER ALUMINIUM CRNKS SUCK SOOOOOO MUCH ASS! THESE HAVE ROUNDED OUT ALREADY! THEY'L ROUND OUT IF YOU WEELY DROP A CURB! DONT THINK ABOUT JUMPING WITH THEM! AHH FOR SOME AZONIC 454'S! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jeffrey
a Cross Country Rider
from Dallas
Date Reviewed: January 26, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$15.00 | | Purchased At: | neighbors house | | Strengths: | cool looks, shifts OK | | Weaknesses: | Flexy, rings wear out fast as hell, and they squeak, and the 9-speed sticher fell off | | Similar Products Used: | alivo, raceface, and older Lx, Fire X | | Bike Setup: | shcwinn moab 3 Z.2 bam full Xt | | Bottom Line: | This crank dosent perform up to its name and looks in the long run. I replaced the middle ring with anothe shimano and after abot 3 months it was locking up even after a new sachs PC-69 chain. Then the same weak they started squeaking like a mo-fo and I replaced my bottom bracket and lubed them up and it helped for about a week. then the same thing. I got them cheep and they were OK for a while but my new crank kicks ITs ass. A truvativ FireX | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
fuzzybunnies
a Cross Country Rider
from albany ny
Date Reviewed: January 6, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | which ever I'm on | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$50.00 | | Weaknesses: | Flexy with poor chain ring selection | | Similar Products Used: | stx-rc | | Bike Setup: | Raleigh m400 with xt and 9.0 | | Bottom Line: | Bought the LX as a replacement for my stx-rc crank when the middle chainring bent. I've had this set for 3 months and have managed to bend the crank arm and spider instead of the chain rings. Started with the rings moveing back and forth so it rubbed the derailleur, got bad enough to actually suck in and toast the derailleur. Switched the chainrings to the old stx crank and they're still straight but any rings put on the LX crank looked warped as hell. Fortunately it occured in time to upgrade to profile's new carbon crank, so something good came out of it. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Fred
a Cross Country Rider
from New Zealand
Date Reviewed: January 6, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Bottom Line: | The cranks are fine as far as cranks go, but be warned, you will have to buy shimano parts when the rings wear out. I think that is the only reason they changed to making 4-arm cranks, and new chain rings are VERY expensive. That seems to be where they make their money....
But the shifting, wear, etc, is all fine. I can't see any reason why stonger cranks would be wanted. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jordan Kahlenberg
a Racer
from Shippensburg, Pa, USA
Date Reviewed: December 2, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Rattlesnake Ridge | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$60.00 | | Purchased At: | Guy's Bikes | | Strengths: | Decent Value, Godd Shifting, Hold up well | | Weaknesses: | For not that much more you can get XT, which is lighter, shifts better, and a little more durable | | Similar Products Used: | XT, XTR, Coda T2 | | Bottom Line: | A good replacement crank for a budget racer, or a good everyday crank for the weekend warrior not wanting to spend googles of dollars on a crankset that will hold-up to abuse. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
alex
a
from pennington NJ
Date Reviewed: November 24, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | End-o @ Mt. snow | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | LBs, they came on my bike | | Strengths: | durable, durable, and extremely durable, shimano shifting. | | Weaknesses: | heavy, and the logo rubbed off on my shoe | | Similar Products Used: | this is my only crankset, will be prchasing a truvativstylo team soon | | Bike Setup: | '99 Klein Attitude comp | | Bottom Line: | man these crank's will take any s.hit u throw at them. i've smashed the chainrings on rocks and logs cruisin' down mt. snow @ 30mph. no teeth broke or anything. Pretty good shifting, but it isn't so good when you don't lube your chain. if not properly maintained these cranks can suck the nut, and your chain like no other. but when lubed up they work fine. they are a little and flex a little under very strong loads, but for the weekend warrior they are they'll do fine and spare your wallet too. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ben (ICEMAN) Estdale
a Weekend Warrior
from Dover, Kent, England
Date Reviewed: September 28, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Penshurst | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$45.00 | | Purchased At: | Activ Folkestone | | Strengths: | Looks, Strength, Price, reliability. | | Weaknesses: | None at this price | | Similar Products Used: | Stx-rc | | Bike Setup: | STS1000ds XTR/XT stuff and the rest | | Bottom Line: | Shimano have done it again, Price-Performance and reliability in a good looking package, a flexfree crankset with no minus points that are worth talking about. Respect to the monopoly!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Theo
a Downhiller
from Melbourne, Australia
Date Reviewed: September 13, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Mt Beauty | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$120.00 | | Purchased At: | Le Tour Cycles | | Strengths: | Theyre cheap, and they used to look cool (before the colour came off from my shoe) | | Weaknesses: | 4 bolt spider isn't as easy to mount a chainguide.. Just get a RooX Roller Coaster and your laughin!! Can bent quiet easily if you treat them wrong. | | Similar Products Used: | XTR, Race Face, Truvativ, XT, Deore, LX Hollowtech | | Bike Setup: | Specialized with DH setup | | Bottom Line: | These cranks are good ONLY is you use them for XC. I have had my cranks specially modified so only the big ring is use (like a proper DH crank), so I can't say anything about the middle ring. When I had it, it was fine so I dunno if I got lucky or somethin. Anyway if you wanna get a pair of cranks for DH, then don't get these ones, they're made for XC. Overall a good product by Shimano.. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jeremy B
a Downhiller
from Woodside, CA USA
Date Reviewed: July 31, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | If its dirt...it works for me | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Well I have had my bike for about a week, and there still working. They look cool. | | Weaknesses: | Material and workman ship. I snapped off two teeth on the middle chain ring. | | Similar Products Used: | Most | | Bike Setup: | 1999 Schwinn 4 Banger | | Bottom Line: | Well I dont know how but I managed to snap off two teeth on the middle chain ring. I found this out after I got homw from riding at Northstar at Lake Tahoe. This pisses me off because it's only a week old. Now I know it's more then conciendince that about 5 of us on here have snapped 2 teeth off the middle chain ring. We all snapped off 2 teeth and all of us on the middle chain ring. I think it's time to e-mail Shimono. They get 3 Flain' Dead Huffy riders becasue even though 2 teeth snapped off they still work fine. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Somxay Inthachak
a Racer
from Philadelphia, PA, US
Date Reviewed: July 7, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Looks, Shimano, price, light | | Weaknesses: | A little heavier than XT, crank bolts | | Similar Products Used: | Specailized cranks | | Bike Setup: | GT Avalanche, XT/LX | | Bottom Line: | A great crankset, a good price and it's all you need to become a intermediate or XC racer. It get's the job done!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Andrew Mui
a Weekend Warrior
from San Bruno
Date Reviewed: May 24, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Redwoods Regional park | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Looks good. VERY cheap. Will work for most people. | | Weaknesses: | I didn't really notice anything until I realized that I had sheared off TWO TEETH on the middle chain ring!!!!! | | Similar Products Used: | XTR cranks | | Bike Setup: | 99 GT Avalanche.
Fire XC Pro's
Marzocchi Z.2 Alloy
Sella Italia Flite gel
Profile bar ends
XTR crank and BB | | Bottom Line: | I never really had any compliants about these cranks. For the money, they are an excellent value. I think that these cranks are great (even though I sheared off two teeth). You have to understand that they are not gonna perform as well as XTR's or Race Face's but they aren't designed to so you can't compare them. Bottom line, these cranks have no equal cuz for $60, you CAN'T buy a crank as good as these!!!!! I now have an XTR and of course they perform better. They were designed to. I'd give them 6 chili's for value if I could. For the average Joe, these are THE PERFECT CRANKS!!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
quaker oats
a Cross Country Rider
from winnipeg,canada
Date Reviewed: May 9, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | assiniboine | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | inexpensive,looks good,fairly light. | | Weaknesses: | crank flex under high pressure,top ring riveted in place. | | Similar Products Used: | stock bunk ass alivio crap. | | Bike Setup: | `94giant iguana.xtBB,xtcassette,lxdrivetrain,brakegroup,ritchyheadset/wheels.gtstem,gtbars,gtbashguard,tefloncables,and some other good stuff. | | Bottom Line: | I needed a new crank in a bad way. This was the middle of the road crank. Its ok so far. The only thing that truly sucks about it is that its a little smaller than the stock crank so i lose the equivelent to my granny gear. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Lee Dials
a Weekend Warrior
from St. George, UT , USA
Date Reviewed: April 28, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Honers Hills | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | They look pretty fat, they were stiffer than my white industries cranks | | Weaknesses: | These things creak like crazy, | | Similar Products Used: | White Industries | | Bike Setup: | full XT drive train | | Bottom Line: | My white industries cranks had been replaced like four times, so finally I went with these LX cranks they were like heaven for the first couple months, but then they started to give under the pressure I put them through and they started creaking and bending a little, I kept riding them, and finally it got so bad the left one just fell off. So I was pretty pissed. I need something that's durable and can handle jumps and trials. If you're not a hard core rider, but still want a decent pair of cranks I would get these. If you're planning on jumping around and doing technical rides and trials type stuff, forget it they will drive you crazy. Invest in something stiffer | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Daniel
a Cross Country Rider
from California
Date Reviewed: April 24, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Any trails that is a long ride | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | nice design, like the crome design for the arms | | Weaknesses: | none yet, still working great | | Similar Products Used: | XT,STX RC | | Bike Setup: | '99 K2 3000, 9.0SL rear derailleur and shifter, Mars-CL fork, and Arch Superme brakes and levers. | | Bottom Line: | Good for the $$$$$. The only problem with this crankset is the 4 arm, its weaker than the 5 arm, but it look nice and it is worth the $. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mark
a Cross Country Rider
from Fort Mill,SC
Date Reviewed: April 3, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | price | | Weaknesses: | Teeth fall off | | Similar Products Used: | STX-rc | | Bottom Line: | The price is great but the teeth fall off the middle ring,
the first tooth is at one of the rivets. I think this will
happen to more people as the 1999 cranks start to circulate to other peoples bike.
I guees I'm off to XT,Raceface or XTR.
Not worth the money if the teeth fall off after 2 months. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Damien
a Cross Country Rider
from Chicago IL
Date Reviewed: January 16, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | BullFrog Lake, Palos IL | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Chainrings shift pretty well. Havent broken the arms yet. Replacement chinrings are not expensive. | | Weaknesses: | I snaped two teeth off of the chainrings so far. The Cainrings also show a lot of wear. The arms flex like crazy. | | Similar Products Used: | shimano XTR | | Bike Setup: | Homegrown | | Bottom Line: | These are good begginer level racing cranks. For anything above that I wouldnt recomend them. The arms have allot of flex in them. This will, over long rides, deplete the amount of torque the chinrings recieve. If you would go on a 20 mi or more ride I would suggest going to something in the shimano holotech or raceface LP. Since I lost a couple of teeth I dont think shimano uses the best aluminum and forging proceses in the production of these cranks. But than again they retail for about 200. If you want to go for stiffness and strenghth than dont buy these cranks. Go with XT, XTR or Raceface. If you sometimes race, and are somewhat of an enthusiest that give em a try. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
D Hauke
a Cross-Country Rider
from Cleveland, Ohio
Date Reviewed: January 5, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Strengths: |
Weight | | Weaknesses: |
4-arm design | | Similar Products Used: |
STX RC
XT | | Bike Setup: |
LX/XT Cannondale w/ Lefty fork | | Bottom Line: | Good crank for the $. The only problem that i have is that the design is weak and the 5 arm was stronger...but its almost identical in wieght and looks as the XT. So if you want an XT but ain't got the money...go LX | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tad
a Cross-Country Rider
from Curler Ridge
Date Reviewed: August 8, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
3 months | | Bike Setup: |
'98 Caloi LX, 8 speed XT, XTR | | Bottom Line: | At first I had a problem with the chain (IG) hitting one of the pins on the outer ring when the chain was on the middle ring, I switched to a XTR Mega9 chain and it solved the priblem and it shifts quieter and even more dependably than ever. Very stiff and it is not worth double the money for an nearly identical looking XT crank that weighs almost exactly the same. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Victor
a Downhiller
from Malaysia
Date Reviewed: August 4, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
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3 months | | Strengths: |
Nice design , light
cool looking , quiet | | Weaknesses: |
Can't describe | | Similar Products Used: |
Shimano Alivio
Shimano STX/RC | | Bike Setup: |
Giant ATX 970
RockShox SID XL
LX Group Set | | Bottom Line: | This crank's have it's good and bad part's
Anyway I would just give it 3 red chillies
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