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Submitted by
corey
a Weekend Warrior
from se us
Date Reviewed: 2/1/2008 9:43:45 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | one with dirt and rock |
| Duration Product Used: | 2 Years |
| Price Paid: | $50 |
| Purchased At: | lbs |
| Strengths: | it works, its smooth, its quiet. |
| Weaknesses: | price is a little high |
| Similar Products Tried: | old no name square taper |
| Bike Setup: | basic hardtail with truvativ stylo cranks |
| Bottom Line: | apparently a lot of people have had bad luck with this bb, I have not. I'm 210lbs and don't ride real aggressive but I don't exactly slow down for rock gardens and rough stuff either. guess i'm one of the lucky ones |
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Submitted by
Reamer
a Cross Country Rider
from Tempe, AZ
Date Reviewed: 12/18/2007 4:54:05 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Aspen Creek |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $30 |
| Purchased At: | LBS |
| Strengths: | It fit my frame |
| Weaknesses: | Bearings do not hold up. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Race Face, SHimano |
| Bike Setup: | Ventana El Conquistador Tandem MTB |
| Bottom Line: | The bearings started feeling like broken glass marbles after a few months of riding. They still function and haven't broken, yet. But very rough. |
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Submitted by
Luke
a Downhiller
from Australia
Date Reviewed: 8/30/2007 10:54:11 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Anything Hardcore & Crazy! |
| Duration Product Used: | 2 Years |
| Strengths: | *Titanium version! Light, smooth & suprisingly strong! |
| Weaknesses: | None, well maybe the price? |
| Similar Products Tried: | raceface |
| Bike Setup: | Well way to much to list, but a highend hardcore DH race rig! |
| Bottom Line: | I have thrown everything at this BB in the 2yrs of racing downhill & extreme freeriding with MASSIVE drops & it hasnt skipped a beat! :) Even though its not a DH BB, it has worked perfectly for 2yrs, So i highly recommend it!!! |
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Submitted by
Random Drivel
a Weekend Warrior
from Marin, CA
Date Reviewed: 5/11/2007 9:01:28 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Hitler |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $50 |
| Purchased At: | Universal |
| Strengths: | Stiff. Strong. Clyde Worthy. Your mom would approve. |
| Weaknesses: | Does not say "Phil Wood" on it. |
| Similar Products Tried: | none. |
| Bike Setup: | inbred 1 x 9 with Middleburn 180mm cranks and a bunch of blingy parts. Whoo Hoo. |
| Bottom Line: | Pleasantly surprised at how easy this BB was to install (but I used to wrench on bikes and Porsches, so go figure). After a few rides the seals loosened up and now I have nothing but pure buttery BB smoothness. Great BB to run with Middleburn cranks, and very clyde-worthy. Looks like FSA finally got ISIS right. About time. Have to say that the more FSA stuff I use the more I am impressed. |
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Submitted by
Justin
a Cross Country Rider
from Cedar City, UT
Date Reviewed: 12/10/2006 3:57:42 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Purchased At: | Down Shift Cycles |
| Strengths: | Super light, and super smooth. Ti. Four bearings. |
| Weaknesses: | none that I've noticed. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano octalink, FSA and Truvative external BBs |
| Bike Setup: | Commencal Meta 5 |
| Bottom Line: | This review is for the Platinum Pro Megaquad Ti. I've had a really good experience with this bottom bracket. It actually gets more smooth the more you ride it. It's also very light. Combined with the FSA Afterburner ISIS crankset, I'm only a few grams over the M960 XTR. I was just riding the other day, noticing the buttery smooth pedalling, so I had to get on here and write a review. |
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Submitted by
Ray Zapata
a Cross Country Rider
from PUERTO RICO
Date Reviewed: 12/7/2006 5:23:49 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $72 |
| Purchased At: | Ciclomundo Dorado |
| Strengths: | Looks |
| Weaknesses: | It simply went apart after a month of use and a 24 hr race..My recomendation do not buy it.I send an email to FSA and never answer my reply. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano octalink |
| Bike Setup: | Macalu Titanium hardtail.... |
| Bottom Line: | Do not ever in your life buy it is just a well look piece of crab. To finish my coment FSA do not reply ever and back up their products..again my recomendation DO NOT BUY IT.. |
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Submitted by
Pooh Bear
a Cross Country Rider
from 100 acre wood
Date Reviewed: 11/23/2006 8:11:27 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 1 Year |
| Price Paid: | $40 |
| Purchased At: | www.bike-box.de |
| Strengths: | It's light enough. For me at least. |
| Weaknesses: | don't know yet |
| Similar Products Tried: | Race Face Signature, Truvativ, RPM |
| Bike Setup: | steel rigid singlespeed with 2:1 gear ratio = lots of torque |
| Bottom Line: | The first isis bottom bracket that held up for more than 3 months. The RPM I used also comes from FSA but it went the usual ISIS trash can way after 1 week. The Race Face one worked 6 weeks. Then the spindle was bent. The Truvativ started making noise right after the first flat ride. This FSA Platinum Pro thingie is lighter than the others listed and still spins smoothly. No noise. No mixing up of grease and dirt. I once rode through a river that turned out to be bottom bracket deep. Well it didn't do any harm to this well machined BB. Two bearings on the right side work out quite well. If it dies - SKF will be the next. It's good for XC riders. If you're a clyde and/or ride very aggressively - ISIS is no option for you anyway. |
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Submitted by
Grumpy
a Cross Country Rider
from Sydney, Australia
Date Reviewed: 11/7/2006 3:57:34 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Price Paid: | $60 |
| Strengths: | Light. |
| Weaknesses: | Weak. Like, really weak. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Race Face Signature. |
| Bike Setup: | Santa Cruz Superlight, Race Face ISIS Turbine cranks. |
| Bottom Line: | A lot of people have bearing trouble with ISIS BBs. I would love to have had the bearings wear out on this BB, but the spindle broke. I was jumping off a 4" (yes, inch) rock and when I landed, craaaack, and both feet fell forward. I thought I'd pulled the BB shell off the frame, but nope, I'd schnapped the schpindle. Now, this bike is a XC bike. It gets used for XC trail, endurance races, but no jumps or hucking or DHing, gees it's a Superlight, not a VPFree. So please believe me when I say the bike doesn't get trashed around. Shame about the BB, because the bearings were still buttery smooth. I'm going to try a SKF next. |
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Submitted by
cooper
a Weekend Warrior
from midwest
Date Reviewed: 10/6/2006 10:10:29 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | porcupine rim |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $30 |
| Strengths: | Light and stiff. |
| Weaknesses: | Started creaking after 2 months. Now it sounds like a cracking kindling! |
| Similar Products Tried: | EVERYTHING! Raceface, SHimano (supercrap!), World Class, Synacros, Truvativ... square, isis, and outboard. still prefer a good old square spindle! |
| Bike Setup: | ROAD BIKE! 97' Fuji team w/ last gen Dura Ace, Bont Cyclocross cranks, Rold Vectors. |
| Bottom Line: | Unless you are a light rider, dont buy this product. I am heavy on cranks, but this thing really disspointed me in lifetime. I gotta get something better fast or else I have the feeling my cranks will stop spinning soon. |
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Submitted by
Nick
a Weekend Warrior
from Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Date Reviewed: 10/1/2006 5:29:44 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Price Paid: | $25 |
| Purchased At: | ebay |
| Weaknesses: | Creaked from the start, sheared the spindle in 2 off a 4ft drop |
| Similar Products Tried: | Raceface srx, shimano whatever |
| Bike Setup: | kona bear, fox float 100rlc, xt, hayes |
| Bottom Line: | There is a reason this bb was cheap, spend a bit more and buy something decent |
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Submitted by
Lee
a Cross Country Rider
from Berkeley
Date Reviewed: 9/22/2006 2:11:02 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $60 |
| Purchased At: | LBS |
| Strengths: | colorful |
| Weaknesses: | expensive and short lived |
| Similar Products Tried: | Truvativ Gigapipe Team DH |
| Bike Setup: | Specialized Hardrock setup as commuter |
| Bottom Line: | It started creaking from day 1, and now has developed a tick that can be felt during both downstrokes while pedaling. The same feeling as old school 3 piece bottom brackets when they need adjustment, except you can't adjust this piece of garbage. And yes I'm sure it's the bottom bracket, not the cranks, chainrings, stem, seatpost, saddle, frame, etc. All this for a $60 bottom bracket with well under 1000 commuter miles on nice smooth roads. |
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Submitted by
Dyo
a Cross Country Rider
from Szeged, Hungary
Date Reviewed: 8/2/2006 12:55:33 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 1 Year |
| Purchased At: | LBS |
| Strengths: | It's light, however the it's heavier than it is said on the official home page or printed in their brochures even printed on its box |
| Weaknesses: | Bearing are extremly _weak_. I had 3 races in mud and there is nothing greas like stuff in the left bearing but mud. Brownish mud is coming out from the bearing. |
| Similar Products Tried: | BB-un 25, un 73 |
| Bike Setup: | Home made Kona Kula Deluxe 2004 |
| Bottom Line: | I wouldn't recommend it to be bought! If you're thinking of buying it, DO NOT do that! buy something cheaper, because it doesn't worth a piece of sh*t. But I give 2 flamin' Chilli as I used it for one year - but three muddy race :( |
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Submitted by
Mr Anderson
a Weekend Warrior
from Albufeira
Date Reviewed: 7/28/2006 3:30:36 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | XC, agressive XC |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $110 |
| Purchased At: | local BS |
| Strengths: | looks |
| Weaknesses: | everything else |
| Similar Products Tried: | shimano, truvativ BB |
| Bike Setup: | rocky mountain element 2003, w\ race face carbon lp |
| Bottom Line: | "2x double-row deep-groove full-complement sealed cartridge bearing", sealed, yeah wright,that's what they say in theire website, but it's the worst shi* i've ever bought, it lasted for "almost" 4 months and then the bearings got tasted.I wouldn't recomended to anybody, i wonder if they had last longer, some people say that they manage to brake them in half !!! Nobody should bought it . The Isis system ie crap whatever brand makes it. Shimano may be 10 grams more but it lasts. Now i have to buy a complete set of cranks. |
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Submitted by
Roman
from Tallinn, Estonia
Date Reviewed: 7/16/2006 6:22:27 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $50 |
| Purchased At: | Veloplus |
| Strengths: | Quite light |
| Weaknesses: | Weak ! |
| Similar Products Tried: | Truvativ Gigapipe |
| Bottom Line: | Broke/bend on a second day after buying. I did dirt jump about 1-1.5 meters and after landing axle bent... so did the left bearing cartridge broke. Well it says on bb "not for downhill or jumping". Dont buy this bb if you plan to do hard stuff, for light XC it might suit well. |
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Submitted by
Ben
a Downhiller
from NZ
Date Reviewed: 2/20/2006 12:20:02 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only |
| Strengths: | None |
| Weaknesses: | The whole thing is weak. Cranks always used to come loose. |
| Bike Setup: | Hardtail |
| Bottom Line: | Spindle snapped after a day of downhiling, no hucks, what a piece of crap. I only had about 6hours riding on it and it broke, I was lucky i did not get hurt when the spindle snapped clean in half. I was not going full speed ahead when i had to go and fetch my crank arm either. Get something else!!! |
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Submitted by
casey white
a Downhiller
from seattle,wa
Date Reviewed: 2/13/2006 8:11:53 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $70 |
| Purchased At: | downhill zone |
| Strengths: | none that i could find |
| Weaknesses: | the first one bent in half after one ride,the guys @the down hill zone warrantied it for me the second i got maybe three weekends out of before it snapped in the dead center off of a four and a half foot drop, after seeing the inside of one no wonder they break so easy the machine work is horrible the spindel is hollow and the wall thickness varies through out the balls in the bearings are tiny |
| Similar Products Tried: | truvativ stuff, shimano |
| Bike Setup: | 04 brodie devo, shiver 729 mavic |
| Bottom Line: | if you weigh 165 or less you might be able to ride on of these for more than a day or two but for us bigger guys not the ticket i don't even know if i would put one on an xc bike |
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Submitted by
George
a Weekend Warrior
from Oakham
Date Reviewed: 2/8/2006 10:11:58 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Price Paid: | $60 |
| Strengths: | Looks good, niclely made |
| Weaknesses: | Bearings are tiny and badly sealed - doesn't last |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimnano various |
| Bike Setup: | Giant VT frame, Talas fork, Mavic wheels, XT/XTR gears, FSA Crank & BB, Race Face stem & bars |
| Bottom Line: | Doesn't last long enough. |
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Submitted by
scott
a Cross Country Rider
from winmalee australia
Date Reviewed: 12/29/2005 2:50:34 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Price Paid: | $90 |
| Strengths: | no strengths at all |
| Weaknesses: | creek,creek,creek |
| Bottom Line: | this bottom bracket broke in half on a light fire trail leaving me to ride one legged for 20km to get home. NOT HAPPY. ive done mainly commuting and some light cross county, i weight 165 pounds i doubt i overstressed the bottom bracket and i know i didn`t abbuse it but still it broke. |
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Submitted by
Jeff Kelly
from Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Date Reviewed: 12/10/2005 9:05:16 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Strengths: | none |
| Weaknesses: | Bearings blew up on the bike after about 10 rides. I emailed FSA asking about warranty (they are supposed to warranty for 1 year) and they offered to sell me replacement bearings for half the cost of a new BB... No thanks. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Syncros, Shimano, White Industry, Race Face |
| Bike Setup: | '05 Turner 6-pack. |
| Bottom Line: | This is total garbage. Save yourself a few bucks and run far and fast from this horrible bottom bracket. I had only taken the bike out on a few XC rides, no drops or hard riding, and the bearings were so far gone the cranks would hardly turn in the frame. Too bad I can't give it a -ve number of flaming turds because that's just what this POS is. |
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Submitted by
Tim
from Newmarket,Ont,Can
Date Reviewed: 11/11/2005 10:00:51 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Purchased At: | bike shop |
| Strengths: | NONE!!!! |
| Weaknesses: | this BB is the biggest peice of crap you can get. I went off a little drop and the spindle just snapped right in half dead center. |
| Bottom Line: | well i would never by this BB again. |
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Submitted by
Karl
a Cross Country Rider
from Montreal
Date Reviewed: 8/6/2005 6:55:03 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Purchased At: | Online Web Purchase |
| Strengths: | NONE |
| Weaknesses: | Well it only lasted about 10 minutes so ! |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano Truvativ, Race Face |
| Bike Setup: | Trek 7000 |
| Bottom Line: | 10 minutes after installation on my son' bike, the inner main spindle snapped in half after my son went over a small drop, luckily he was not hurt.It took three days to get a hold of someone in Customer service at FSA, I was finally told that this type of failure was considered abuse and would not be covered under warranty ! What, so using a XC BB on an XC bike is fine unless it breaks then you should have used our DH BB it's stronger. So now they want me to waste another $10 to send it back and will only warranty it if there was a defect which they never seen before on a spindle! Looks like I am wasting my time with FSA. Today there seems to be two kinds of manufacturers in the biking industry, those that stand behind their products and support their customers by making it easy to deal with issues etc. And those who feel ther are never at fault and the end user is the problem not my product. FSA is clearly in the latter group and will not see any more business from me. One star is already too much in this case |
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Submitted by
Victor
a Cross Country Rider
from Redmond, WA
Date Reviewed: 6/17/2005 8:48:35 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Many |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $60 |
| Purchased At: | Local Bike Shop |
| Strengths: | None. |
| Weaknesses: | Seals are easily compromised. |
| Similar Products Tried: | None. |
| Bike Setup: | Specialized FSR Rockhopper. |
| Bottom Line: | I'm on my third bottom bracket in nine months. The positive thing is that FSA has a great warranty and they have a no hassle replacement policy. But I'm tried of taking on my bike in every three months to have the BB replaced. You should consider another product. I ride mostly XC trails and the cranks do hit rocks, tree roots, etc. The seals are easily weakened and performance quickly deteriorates. |
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chris
a Cross Country Rider
from okc,oklahoma.usa
Date Reviewed: 5/11/2005 9:59:26 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | the one I'm riding |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $40 |
| Purchased At: | bicycle store too |
| Strengths: | smooth very smooth,weight, |
| Weaknesses: | what?not for dh ro fr |
| Similar Products Tried: | race face srx,shimano |
| Bike Setup: | 04 nrs,fox 80 rlt,mavic crossland wheelset,spd petals,fsa team carbon pro crank,cloud nine rear shock,avid bb7 brakes,avid sd 7 levers,carbon slk seatpost,bar stem and seat.xt derailurs frontand rear |
| Bottom Line: | I would recommend this bottem bracket to any crosscountry racer or weekender looking for top shelf compontes without the price tag.This thing is tough i'm 200+ lbs. And take 2 and 3 foot drops on a regular baises.And have yet to have any problems with it.I'll agree with the other post u don't even know it's there.Best bang for your buck. 5flamers for value,5flamers for overall rateing. |
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Submitted by
llhank
a Weekend Warrior
from Winchester, MA
Date Reviewed: 4/26/2005 9:24:04 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Massachusetts coastline & cities |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $40 |
| Purchased At: | Airbomb |
| Strengths: | Functions well -- smooth, quiet, solid, nicely finished. |
| Weaknesses: | There is a 'system' problem between the bb and crankset so both have to be blamed. Of itself, the bb does everything it's supposed to do well. No problem installing it in the frame. In riding you don't know it's there and that says a lot. However, installation of companion FSA ISIS crank leaves much to be desired. The crankarms are installed (basically, force-fit into place) with steel screws. Then, once the crankarms have been pulled into place contacting the bb outer ring, you remove the steel screws and substitute aluminim replacements (a weight-saving measure) torqued within a specific range. According to FSA, when tightening the original steel screws, you may have to use MORE torque than what the final aluminum screws require. I found this so, that the force fit was so tight that it took nearly all my strength to run the crankarm down. In the end, the steel screw stripped before the drive side crankarm reached 'home'. It got to within about .020" so I had to leave it there. Subsequently, FSA sent me replacement steel screws but I'm hesitant to play with this any more. At this point I'm not wanting to risk stripping the bb threads themselves. But the crankarm location seems to be close enough as I've had no problems since. Still, I'm not too thrilled knowing it isn't a perfect installation. |
| Bike Setup: | Dean Torreys Ti frame, Alpha Q CX fork, SRAM/Avid components, Velomax Orion II wheelset, FSA crank/bb |
| Bottom Line: | I would use something different the next time I build a bike. Maybe it's the ISIS or maybe the FSA implementation of it. |
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Submitted by
eayste
a Cross Country Rider
from the northern plains
Date Reviewed: 4/11/2005 8:45:14 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | anywhere |
| Duration Product Used: | 1 Year |
| Purchased At: | LBS |
| Strengths: | smooth strong durable |
| Weaknesses: | None yet. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Race Face Truvativ Shimano |