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Submitted by
Amir Hermelin
a Weekend Warrior
from Sunnyvale, CA
Date Reviewed: 3/14/2008 12:22:11 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | UCSC |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Purchased At: | complete bike |
| Strengths: | Lightweight |
| Weaknesses: | Easily breakable |
| Bike Setup: | Specialized S-Works Enduro 2007 |
| Bottom Line: | Product sucks! My 4th ride middle ring broke right off - and I'm no pedal pusher, I'm really gentle on my legs and my climbing power. Reading the reviews I'm not the only one that had this problem - don't buy! |
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Submitted by
nelson
a Cross Country Rider
from Oceanside, CA, USA
Date Reviewed: 6/23/2007 6:15:53 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Price Paid: | $135 |
| Purchased At: | Bicycle Warehouse |
| Strengths: | Lightweight. Smooth transitions. |
| Weaknesses: | Soft material. Bent so easy on medium to power climbs. Pricey |
| Similar Products Tried: | sram p-990 |
| Bike Setup: | 06 Trance 1 with xtr and XO. Fox32 rlc fork and rp23 rear. |
| Bottom Line: | The first xtr 960 came with the bike when I bought brand new in Nov '06. The first set were worn out after less than 900 miles on it. Tried to stay with the same xtr 960 cassette for the second time around. 200 miles later with the same trails that I take and couple of 12 hour races, the T34, T32, and T28 were bent during a medium climb with my friends and teammates. I switched to Sram p990. |
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Submitted by
Mike S
a Cross Country Rider
from Minneapolis, MN, USA
Date Reviewed: 11/28/2006 10:17:59 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Lebanon |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $110 |
| Purchased At: | ebay |
| Strengths: | Very light weight. |
| Weaknesses: | Middle ring on cassette sheared off after about 12 rides. Im not a pedal masher either. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Middle of the line Shimano - didnt have a problem with at all. |
| Bike Setup: | Trek 8500, FSA pro team carbon cranks, chris king headset, control tech skewers, Selle seat 130g, ext.. |
| Bottom Line: | I will not buy this product again. It is very light which I loved buy i will sacrifice the the weight for something more durable. there is no reason why the middle chain ring should have sheered off. I really have never seen this happen before and can never explain it. The price is outragous for who long it lasted. And the shifting was not as good as the $50 heavy shimano cassette i had on before!! |
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Submitted by
Jim Turner
a Racer
from McKinney, TX, USA
Date Reviewed: 9/27/2006 7:04:07 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Flume, Mt. Snow, Vail/Beaver Cr |
| Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years |
| Price Paid: | $110 |
| Purchased At: | RBM |
| Strengths: | Light for a mass produced cassette. |
| Weaknesses: | Bends easily with massive climbing leg torque. |
| Similar Products Tried: | XT |
| Bike Setup: | Klein Adroit Pro = 20.5 lbs. |
| Bottom Line: | This is a decent cassette. I had one that came with my bike and replaced it after it bent. I bent the second one with very little abuse, mostly hammering it on uphill climbs. After the second bent, I made the move to XT and have had great luck with it. 5 yrs total with about 5k miles of hard off road a yr. on the XT and little wear. Never had to replace, rebuild or reshape the XT. Buy this if you are a weight weenie with a bike crew that can reshape the ti after each ride. Buy this if you are not a power climber. Do not buy this if you need something that lasts the test of time. |
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Submitted by
cadulus
a Cross Country Rider
from san jose, ca, usa
Date Reviewed: 2/17/2006 9:20:20 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | woods road |
| Duration Product Used: | 1 Year |
| Price Paid: | $150 |
| Purchased At: | performance |
| Strengths: | its light and worked for awile |
| Weaknesses: | bent the whole cassette, but it was a really steep trail. held up fine before that |
| Similar Products Tried: | xt |
| Bike Setup: | s-works hardtail, full xtr |
| Bottom Line: | this thing worked awesome with my rapid rise xtr. i punished the hell out of it for a year of sporadic x-country races and one hundred miler. was sad to see my big 3 ti rings doing a wave but it did great til then. Im buying an 11-34 tomorrow |
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