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Submitted by
collin hartman
a Cross Country Rider
from lantzville,bc,canada
Date Reviewed: November 10, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | poop shoot | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | they have lasted awhile and still perform pretty good through all the abuse | | Weaknesses: | rear hub is squeking once every couple of revolutions but does not seem to affect performance | | Bike Setup: | cannondale super V with z1 drop offs fox vannila R shock xt sprockets,truvative isis cranks,sun rims double wide,magura disks | | Bottom Line: | well this isn't as good as some of the other hubs but it's lasted quit awhile it doesn't seem to spin as nicely as some of the other hubs thou still good. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Marcus
a Weekend Warrior
from Agoura Hills, Ca
Date Reviewed: October 26, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | came on bike | | Strengths: | Very light, strong, reliable, looks nice | | Weaknesses: | none yet | | Bike Setup: | hardtail, XC and Urban riding | | Bottom Line: | I've been using a Coda front hub for years (two different bikes) and couldn't be happier. The hub is super light (some where around 100 grams when I weighed it years ago while fixing a wheel). I repack it a couple times a year and have never had a problem with it. It doesn't strengthen the front fork up as much as a dedicated suspension hub, but it has worked very well on my xc set up. Very light, looks fine, never had to do anything but add grease... I'd recommend it to my friends. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Howard
a Cross Country Rider
from East Yorkshire, U.K.
Date Reviewed: October 6, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | The black finish matched that of the other components on the bike. | | Weaknesses: | Coda stuff is, in my experince, total junk. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano XT | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale 900 with all the Coda junk exchanged by Shimano LX/XT | | Bottom Line: | My chainset was replaced after the first ride due to dreadful chainsuck as a result of faulty machining of the rings (though not after my new frame was scratched up as a result.
The hubs were just as bad and I had to pay for a new XT hub out of my own pocket to sort the problems out. The real problem was that the outer bearing housings are not machined deeply enough, this, along with the very small axle lip supporting the inner part of the bearing, means that as the QR is done up a large side loading is placed on the bearings.
The first you know is that the rear wheel QR becomes loose as the bearings centre race moves, the a few miles later the whole bearing fails.
Cannondale tried to blame 'faulty bearings'. Hogwash, poor design is the real problem... | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Christian Zimm
a Cross Country Rider
from Denmark
Date Reviewed: September 28, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | It works, and it came with my bike, thats allways najs.
| | Weaknesses: | There is none at this moment, and i have been riding every day since i got the bike. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano, and older Coda | | Bike Setup: | C-dale caad 5 alu frame with Xtr/Xtr/coda crank - lefty elo - standart competion seatpost and seat. Continental Explorer Pro. and offcourse the coda expert hubs | | Bottom Line: | Like no other front suspension bike before, have i try'ed something so good and complet like this - offcourse there at points were I can get some upgrades - like the crank, but hey is works like it shall, and im not the biggest weight weenie, too the dude that says that Giant offers a better bike, i can only say one thing, yes C-dale is expensive - but you get what you pay fore, this frame will stay true has long has blood is still pumping in your wains and be a number one place too hook up new components over time, Giant is one hell off a good bike, but in the long term you wont be as pleased with it as a c-dale.
Regarding the hubs - fore XC you cant go wong! offcourse Dh and freeride calls for a more heavy constructed hub and there is many out there thats better than the Expert, but hey you dont take you Ferriar too the outback for some muddy hillclimbs. So if you want the xc hub and have a expert dont just go outthere and burn off money when you allready have working hub! Spend that extra money off yours on your kind ones!
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Submitted by
Rod
a Cross Country Rider
from Singapore
Date Reviewed: August 7, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Bukit Timah | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | NIL | | Weaknesses: | Failed almost instantly. Crap components | | Bike Setup: | F2000SL | | Bottom Line: | Coda hubs are complete rubbish. The rear hub failed after a few hundred kms of pretty easy going riding. Because of the non standard setup with coda brakes makes changing to a decent set of hubs a pretty expensive option. These hubs are very ordinary. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Billy
a Cross Country Rider
from Colorado
Date Reviewed: July 8, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | All Trails | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Looks Pretty | | Weaknesses: | Everything, Coda parts turn an otherwise decent C-dale
Mountain bike into Crapin-Dale. Parts appear to be fashioned from frozen butter, accented by wooden gears and sprockets. | | Similar Products Used: | Hugi's , Shimamo's | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale F2000 | | Bottom Line: | Hubs developed play and fell apart after a very short time. All Coda parts are very low quality. Do yourself a favour and build a custom bike with parts spec'd out by the rating system on MTB review. You will spend more money but will have a much better bike in the end with parts that will last.
Thankyou MTBR for this great resource!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Alex
a Cross Country Rider
from São Paulo, Brazil
Date Reviewed: June 13, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | any in bad condition | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$57.00 | | Purchased At: | my favorite bike store | | Strengths: | light and stiff, look very good, like high standard hubs | | Weaknesses: | haven´t found any yet | | Similar Products Used: | shimano alivio 99,stx rc 99,deore lx 98. | | Bike Setup: | cannondale super v frame, fsa ultimax bottom bracket, shimano dedore 2000 v-brakes whit kool stop pads, every else shimano deore lx 2000 | | Bottom Line: | almost every body seem to not aprove these hubs.
My coda perfomance hubs, whit dt swiss spokes and weinmann zac 19 rim 32 hole are working a lot better that my old ones.
These hubs are shurely no freeride or dh hubs, they are xc hubs, light and stiff,and not atomic tested hubs!!! These guys blaimyng that they are suxs are tryng to compare something like a chris king´s hub designed specially for freeride or dh, whit xc hubs. can´t do!!!!!!
these are very good xc hubs,they probably whill last a f*** lot with proper mainutence, and some care.
FOR XC USE ONLY!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tug Hill
a Weekend Warrior
from Upstate NY
Date Reviewed: May 20, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | its all good | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | ebay | | Strengths: | rear travel on a hard tail... | | Weaknesses: | unfortunatly, its about an inch of left-right travel | | Similar Products Used: | i rode on no-name OEM Taiwanese hubs for 3 years, never a problem, just slowly died. Ive been on these for not even three months, and the hub started going before even two. | | Bike Setup: | Rockhopper Comp from a year or two ago...had oem hubs that worked fine. Ive bumped pretty much everything up to LX now | | Bottom Line: | suck.
I dont know what these were designed for, but it sure wasnt riding. I had them on specialized fatboys and smooth pavement for a month during my migraton to sunny florida. I didnt hit a drop more than 3 inches that whole time and now they are pooping out. Not even the frailest roadie with the biggest support crew in the world would ride this trash | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Andy Cockburn
a Weekend Warrior
from Farnham
Date Reviewed: May 17, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Evans Woking | | Strengths: | look nice | | Weaknesses: | rubbish | | Similar Products Used: | LX | | Bike Setup: | Jekyll 900sl, now with xt drive chain as CODA stuff was dreadful | | Bottom Line: | Like every CODA part on the bike, is absolutely trash. Rear hub free wheels in both directions, apparantly (according to dealer) because I got mud in it. Thats a first!
"Hand built in the USA" ... give me Taiwanesse robots any day!
Deserves no chilli's at all. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Cosmo Catalano
a Weekend Warrior
from Dartmouth College
Date Reviewed: May 9, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | amything | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$25.00 | | Purchased At: | ebay | | Strengths: | colored black and thus cool, unheavy | | Weaknesses: | breaks quickly, some people might be bothered by the loudness and slow rotation | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano Parallax (still works) | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher X-Cal, Manitou Mars, Ritchey Pro Stem, Answer Hyperlite Bars, Avid SD-7 breaks/levers LX shifters (8speed) Xt derailers, LX crankset, sram 5.0 (GREAT casette for cheap) Zac19 rims and *sigh* coda hubs | | Bottom Line: | Hubs look cool, are relatively light but fall apart. After a month of riding in Nov and a month or two in april-may the rear hub now has side to side travel. major uncool. Its not a big deal, but it diddles with your handling and occasionally flips over and catches, thus hurting your bum. I havent been on anything hard with it (cept a few curbs on the way to class) and have barely been on the trail this season. Its still ridable, but I have a bad feeling its going to poop out on me sometime when I dont want it to. Any hub that falls apart after that little wear is not worthy of purchase. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
H
a Cross Country Rider
from UK
Date Reviewed: April 17, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Hardnott, Dales | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | It lasted 2 years... | | Weaknesses: | and then fell apart | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano | | Bottom Line: | Coda Expert Rear Hub - Junk. I've never had a rear hub fall apart on me in 20 years of riding.
The cassette hub body broke away from the hub - it literally came off in my hand while removing the wheel from the bike.
Its gonna cost me 3 weeks and £20 quid to ship a replacement part over from Holland - crap.
Suffice to say I'm currrently speccing up a replacement wheel with a differrent hub - if I ever buy a c'dale again then the first thing I will request is the coda hubs are replaced. Avoid at all costs!
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Submitted by
Ryan
a Cross Country Rider
from Corvallis OR
Date Reviewed: February 23, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Time Warp | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | None (in their present incarnation) | | Weaknesses: | They're Junk | | Similar Products Used: | Hugi Shimano, King, Syncros(also Junk) | | Bike Setup: | Custom titanium hardtail, Hugi 240/Bontrager valiant wheels. Full XTR drivetrain, Avid SD Mag brakes, Judy Race fork (don't like the SID) Tompson Stem/seatpost. | | Bottom Line: | I am mostly writing this to bring some info that needs to be brought to light.
Coda hubs at one time were made by Dt-Hugi, and amazingly enough were an awful lot like Hugi's 240 hubs. I have no doubt that most of the Hugi made Coda hubs are still out there pleasing their owners.
My Wife bought a Cannondale in 2000 which had the "new" Coda hubs and the wheelset didn't last 2 months. We traded them in and got store credit rather than a new wheelset.
Cannondale has learned the lessons of Shimano and Microsoft well, and thus produce tons of proprietary junk that's incompatable with most of the other stuff on the market.
Add to that the fact that a $1000-$1200 Giant gets you a harsh riding aluminum bike with a XT/XTR parts kit while the same amount of money gets you a Cannondale with a harsh riding aluminum frame and a Deore/XT/Coda(Junk) parts kit and I'm amazed Cannondale is still in business. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
ren
a Cross Country Rider
from usa
Date Reviewed: November 23, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | rolls nicely, durable, good looking, easy to work with | | Weaknesses: | sealed bearings are pain in rear to service | | Similar Products Used: | shimano LX, XT, Deore XT | | Bike Setup: | cdale raven 2000 featherweight XC rig | | Bottom Line: | Well, I'm an XC racer, and I've got a coda700 FRONT hub. So far I've probably put about 700 miles on it and it's fine. Quiet, haddle free operation. It's not the best out on the market, but thus far it's outperformed my pervious LX hub. I'm sick of all these DH people taking a shyt on coda stuff. Of course it isn't designed for the torture you're putting it under. I don't know why you people are expecting some bombproof product from CODA.... that's not what they do. They're lightweight components people, designed for XC and road racing, only. Not DH. I'm so sick of this whole influx of DH and freeriding into the market. Companies are not only gearing towards it, but attention is being drawn from XC racing. Sure, my bike can't take 15 foot drops scott free, but that's not what I built it for. I spec'd it specifically for slingshot acceleration and lethal top speeds. You can't have your cake and eat it too, people. I'd suggest you get some nuke hubs if you're doing the stuff I'm reading on this page. jeez.
About the hubs, they're nice stock hubs, etc. I'd rather stick with chris king or XTR, but they're pretty good bang for the buck and a decent overall hub. Good for intermediate biking, things like a training XC rig or mild freeriding. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Daniel
a Racer
from Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand
Date Reviewed: September 8, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | Mt. Victoria (97 world cup place) | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$95.00 | | Strengths: | People say they are crap and garbage but i think the are so much better than my old hugi/hayes ones, the hydraulic coda disc brakes are excellent and go with it perfectly. | | Weaknesses: | None whatsoever. | | Similar Products Used: | Hayes/Hugi, Mavic Crossmax UST disc | | Bike Setup: | mongoose pro rockadile al, rockshox sid, Easton, CODA!!!, cannondale crankset, XT/XTR, | | Bottom Line: | Buy them, every dollar is worth it | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
REED R
a Racer
from SIGNAL MTN TN USA
Date Reviewed: September 3, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | NONE THAT I KNOW OF | | Weaknesses: | YOU NAME IT | | Bike Setup: | 2001 F2000 NOTHING CODA! | | Bottom Line: | CANNONDALE MAKES A GREAT BIKE! SAVE YOURSELF SOME MONEY, AND TRY TO BUY THE BIKE WITHOUT THE CODA CRAP. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike
a Cross Country Rider
from COcoa
Date Reviewed: August 13, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | dry land | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | stock | | Strengths: | lasted this long | | Weaknesses: | no free spin - the bearings are sticking or something. | | Similar Products Used: | shimano products | | Bike Setup: | Jekyll 900 SL | | Bottom Line: | THe very first day I bought the bike I found that the rear hub had resistance and would not free spin. I have several other issues with the Coda product that Cannondale puts out but to make a long story short I think these hubs suck. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kinny
a Cross Country Rider
from Sydney, Australia
Date Reviewed: July 30, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$70.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | None | | Weaknesses: | - Didn't last long
- Noisy rear freewheel will drive you crazy | | Similar Products Used: | al-cheapo no-name stuff that I had fitted to my old bike. | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale 2000 F700 | | Bottom Line: |
Complete and utter s*** like every other bit marked Coda.
The rear bearings failed after 8000km (mostly on-road), then snapped an axle and broke a freewheel - the end result was pretty horrendous to even look at. So I had to replace it - unfortunately with another Coda Expert . . .
Being the clever company that they no doubt are, Cannondale decides to use 4-bolt disc patterns rather than 6 - & guess what??? CANNONDALE AUSTRALIA DOESN'T STOCK ANYTHING BUT CODA EXPERT HUBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I want anything else (read better), you have a wait a couple of weeks.
The mechanic at the LBS tells me that my front hub is about dead too - & given that I'm about to dump my Magura Claras (another horror bit thanks to the incompetent Australian importer & poor product design) I'm gonna get some higher quality hubs.
I can't put a no flame on here - but I wish I could just torch it. No value if you can't get the thing to work properly, & rating is pretty poor.
Cannondale makes good frames & forks, it's just their house parts that let the entire package down.
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Submitted by
Pete Cresswell
a Weekend Warrior
from Paoli PA USA
Date Reviewed: April 7, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$2000.00 | | Purchased At: | Paoli, PA | | Strengths: | None that come to mind. Other makers' competing models I've since looked at as cheap or cheaper and have better parts and use standardized parts, giving the user a vastly bigger marketplace to choose replacement/upgrade parts from. | | Weaknesses: | After finally getting over my righteous indignation about C-Dale's 2" steering tube (finding stems is like a bad dream come true...) I just found out that my CODA hubs, although fitted with Magura disks, only have 4 holes, as opposed to the industry standard 6.
It seems that Cannondale gets the disks made specially for their bolt pattern. | | Similar Products Used: | None - this was my first FS bike....and definately my last Cannondale bike of any kind. | | Bike Setup: | Jekyll F-7 | | Bottom Line: | Just thinking about somebody making 4-hole hubs when the rest of the world makes six-hole hubs makes me crazy.
2-inch steering tubes when the world uses 1 1/8".
What? Are these people on drugs? | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
alFred
a
from same
Date Reviewed: March 2, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Bottom Line: | shoot they dont even let to post refs, bad!
/addition to previous post/
here is URL to rear hub blue print
http://www.cannondale.com/tech/kitlist/CO.1.8.Coda%20Expert%20disc%20rear%20hub.pdf | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
alFred
a Cross Country Rider
from around
Date Reviewed: March 2, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | rocks | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Light, strong, cheap | | Weaknesses: | Freehub is poorely designed and have ~500-900mi lifespan | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano, Hugi | | Bike Setup: | Jekyll stock | | Bottom Line: | Major problem with Expert hubs is freehub. After ~900mi I could take cass and rock it from side to side with at least ~2-3mm play. Replacing Hub is impossible (you need T-60 star bit). I have tried and shredded 3/8 drive, cold weld.
God news it's easy to rebuild. If you go to dealer they would tell you that it's due to contamination. This is BS. I just rebuild mine and yet I had all this play I did not find any mud inside to explain it.
Freehub bearings have the same cone/cup design as ol' goode Shim hubs. Catch is that bearing load is adjusted via stack height using shims. Factory shim is .3mm and as bearings wear there's way to reduce stack. Removing it makes bearings too tight. I had to cut new spacer from alum coke can, it's approx 1/2 of original.
This is how you rebuild/readjust it:
Expert rear blueprint
1. take wheel off and clean it
2. remove end seal cups on both sides
3. hammer out axle and axel both bearings (axle can be removed from non-drive side only)
4. remove freehub bearing cup (left hand threads, so go in direction you drive!) to remove cup you can use needle nose pliers, 2 screwdrivers, etc)
5. take spacers off (there should be 1 thick and another thin .3mm)
6. replace .3mm spacer with thinner (I have cut one from coke can)
7. screw cup back and check bearing preload (it shouldn't wobble and should be smooth to turn)
6 and 7 may take more then one try, but it's the only way you can adjust preload.
8. put it together.
if you choose to clean and re-grease freehub, you can do it after step 5. the rest is very similar to Hugi Onyx, you might wanna download and look @ Hugi manual www.dtswiss.com.
I did it but it was not necessary. Watch out there're 25 bearings in upper and lower bearing and they will fly out when you take freehub body off good luck
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Submitted by
Benjamin Gehret
a Cross Country Rider
from Las Flores, Ca, USA
Date Reviewed: February 21, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | Porcupine Rim, Moab | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Two Wheels One Planet | | Strengths: | Look Strong. | | Weaknesses: | I have the Y2K Coda Expert Disc Hubs. After a few months, the freewheel bodystarted making a really obnoxious grinding noise. The LBS tried to blame me of course, for contamination, but I wasn't having it. They tried to replace the Freewheel body, but it was too tight to remove. They shipped a new one out from Cannondale, and I had to pay $75.00 for the replacement. Cannondale products are a joke. | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale f900sx. Mavic 321DH rims(first ones tacoed) Lefty, Hayes Disc Brakes(Coda Brakes Failed.) | | Bottom Line: | Steer clear of all things Cannondale. They have poor customer service, and they are all hype. Garbage, garbage, garbage. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kevin Scott
a Cross Country Rider
from Santa Rosa, CA USA
Date Reviewed: February 5, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | Oat Hill Mine | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | The Hub | | Strengths: | Every CODA component has performed marginally. | | Weaknesses: | CODA rims: Useless ovoids within a month of purchase. CODA cranks: Stripped out and replaced after three months despite dealer set-up, torque wrench and plenty of loc-tite. Three months after purchase.
CODA Expert y2k disc hub: Freewheel seized tight on first day of bike trip to baja. Four months after purchse. | | Similar Products Used: | XTR, King hubs | | Bike Setup: | Jekyll w/ultra fatty, XT/XTR, Chris King, Easton, Mavic | | Bottom Line: | Though the frame and fork haven't let me down, the CODA stuff has. When you fork out between two and three grand for a bike you have a right to expect quality, not fluff components aquired from the lowest bidder. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
dana
a Downhiller
from lodi
Date Reviewed: January 15, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$50.00 | | Purchased At: | bike store | | Strengths: | verry strong, I have done 7ft drop offs with it | | Weaknesses: | i don't see any | | Bottom Line: | Good hub, I like them. not the best but the are very good for the price. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
bob
a Downhiller
from ns, canada
Date Reviewed: November 3, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | lbs | | Strengths: | they are black-c-dale got that right!sounded great out of the box-nice and noisy! lasted for a good couple days
| | Weaknesses: | sealed bearings are really cheap-didnt last long. i had to replace the freehub body 3 times before i changed over to a coda 901 hub(hugi in disguise!). the hugi is still going strong after 5 months... everything! | | Similar Products Used: | hugi, shimano xt, formula | | Bike Setup: | c-dale jekyll w/lx/xt, lefty, coda hydraulics(yuck!), tioga factory dh 2.3's(yes!) | | Bottom Line: | cannondale needs to work on the products that they distributeso that everyone can have an enjoyable experience on a bicycle. i'm saving the old wheel(coda expert)so that i can sell the bike next year with it(i'll keep the hugi)
. horrible noises come out of the freehub body after wet rides, or any ride come to think of it. not recommended. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
greg
a Weekend Warrior
from australia
Date Reviewed: November 2, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Mandurang | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | I didn't know there was any? Did I miss something here? | | Weaknesses: | I am not sure where to start here, but my coda hubs were used by school students as an example of cheessy engineering and cheesy materials technology. The hubs now act as dishonourable paper weights. | | Similar Products Used: | 2x Frisbees' taped to a wooden stick | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale F1000 | | Bottom Line: | Cheap hubs, poor durability, poor performance. An excellent example of how NOT to engineer anything from Ferrous or Non-Ferrous Metals. These hubs have been a valuable learning tool and experience - Thanks Cannondale!
Value Rating should include negatives for this hub!
Overall Rating - Ditto.
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Submitted by
Don
a Cross Country Rider
from San Diego
Date Reviewed: October 3, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano LX, XT, White Industries Tracker | | Bike Setup: | CDale SuperV with Lefty DLR | | Bottom Line: | This review is for the Y2K Coda "Expert" disk brake hubs.
I have only had one problem with these hubs, I snapped the rear axle. My original hub was an early Y2K model, when the replacement axle was installed I did notice that the disk side bearing seal was different than the original.
I have experienced none of the bearing problems others have reported, infact this is about the only component on my bike I have nothing to complain about. (I have broken just about everything else on my bike, including going through 3 forks).
btw - Paul from Horsham, I noticed you reviewed these hubs poorly, and the DTSwiss/Hugi hubs highly. I believe the Y2K Coda's _are_ private labeled Hugi 240s.
I give these hubs 3 stars because they do their job. Would have given them 4 but for that darn 4-bolt disk pattern. (I gave my old White Industries 4, the Shimano hubs 2). | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Frank Rooney
a Cross Country Rider
from Victoria
Date Reviewed: October 2, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Spring hill | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$2000.00 | | Purchased At: | Cecil Walker cycles | | Strengths: | Lightness and powder coat finish | | Weaknesses: | Life span of a male praying mantus, I mean shorter than a high school relationship | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano deore, XT and Steal Crappy Kmart jobs | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale raven 800 | | Bottom Line: | If they could give a fine for every C.dale sales person that has written a phony review on these crap hubs the company would be broke. These suck harder than my first girl friend, I guess this is why the space shuttle crashed due to a crap part on a beautiful machine. Comeon C.dale do you really think we belive your "they were the best hubs I ever tested" Get real! buy shimano! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Brian
a Cross Country Rider
from S.F. Bay Area
Date Reviewed: August 30, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Purisma Creek | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | lightweight | | Weaknesses: | The so called sealed cartridge bearings. | | Similar Products Used: | Nuke Proof, Shimano | | Bike Setup: | F2000sx, mostly stock except for monkey Lite carbon, and Bebop pedals | | Bottom Line: | I am very disappointed in these hubs. After riding in dry conditions for 5 months the bearings are shot. I never direct water toward the bearings when I wash the bike. I really don't understand how they could go bad.
For the amount of money I paid for this bike I would have expected these hubs to last a minimum of 2 years with normal use and maintanace.
I am very sad, because the summer is almost over and I am unable to ride. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Paul C
a Cross Country Rider
from Horsham
Date Reviewed: August 3, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Around Gorkha | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | I do not think these hubs are very good | | Weaknesses: | Very poor seals. C**ppy bearings. Heavy...... I could go on.They p*ss me off. | | Similar Products Used: | I go through a lot of hubs, the best I have used are Hugi and Hope. | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale F900, many of the poorer parts upgraded. | | Bottom Line: | I do a lot of riding throughout the year in the UK, i.e. a lot of rain and mud. You expect components to last a season at least ( depending of course on price ) but these hubs are the worst. The bearings went after about two months of SUMMER riding - they are basically unsealed, using a push fit cap. The freewheel also went.
Given that disc wheelsets do not suffer from rim wear, it makes no sense at all for Cannondale to spec such poor hubs - you write off the whole wheelset.
Do yourself a favour and stay clear of these hubs in the aftermarket - THEY ARE POOR VALUE!!!!
Two flamers - I'm too kind.
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Submitted by
Rob
a Racer
from Australia
Date Reviewed: July 25, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | anything trials | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Stiff, smooth, quality, and cool looking hubs | | Weaknesses: | - | | Similar Products Used: | Sachs Quartz | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale f-500 trials setup | | Bottom Line: | These hubs seem strong and good quality and they look cool.
I would recommend them for anyone looking for disk specific hubs (which is a good idea because we'll probably all use disks soon). | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
spiker hufflett
a Cross Country Rider
from new zealand
Date Reviewed: July 15, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | mt victoria (wellington) & all nz national parks | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | ROAD CODA COMPETITION - supplied std on R2000
weight
colour | | Weaknesses: | reliability
strange noises from the whole wheel set ! -forced to rebuild
the wheels (both) to remove ..something to do with spokes/rim?
the skewer has to be really really tight to avoid other strange noises... | | Similar Products Used: | coda mtb expert - std on F2000 + 1998 other road hubs | | Bike Setup: | R2000 road bike | | Bottom Line: | a major minus when buying a cannondale.
I'am cannondale fan - we have 3 in the family ! but these
dame wheels have really let the side down.
The (rims are mavic) - combined with the coda hubs and been a continous nightmere since purchase.
If you buying an R2000 try and change the wheel set before
you start.
The hub has a bearing failure of some sort -after about 6 months - 2000 kms. I rode my old 105 hubs for years without even looking at them. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike
a Cross Country Rider
from Portland, OR
Date Reviewed: July 4, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Look Good | | Weaknesses: | Not water and dirt resistent. Bearings need to be replaced often. | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano | | Bike Setup: | Y2K Cannondale F1000SL
| | Bottom Line: | I have the Coda Expert Hubs. These Hubs suck! The first time I rode in wet and muddy conditions, the hubs seized up and the wheels could barely rotate. I have been using these for one year and I have had to have the sealed (what a joke) bearings replaced numerous times on both the front and rear. Do not use these hubs in wet or muddy conditions and never hose your bike off. Otherwise,dirt and water will enter the bearing cavity & these hubs will seize up on you. I can't believe a quality bike company like Cannondale specs these on mountain bikes. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bryon Young
a Cross Country Rider
from Eugene Or
Date Reviewed: July 4, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | ? | | Weaknesses: | Hubs are shot after 3 mounths of riding, cracked my frame as well (covered under warantee) | | Bike Setup: | F900 2000 mostly stock ( soon to change!) | | Bottom Line: | Cannondale should not equip bikes costing more than
$1500 with such an inferior product. I,m going to ask my bike shop if they will replace my rear hub with something
proven (and compatible with the 4 hole disc bolt pattern)
and hope cannondale picks up the tab.
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