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Submitted by
C Gallegos
a Cross Country Rider
from Los Gatos, CA
Date Reviewed: 9/29/2007 9:06:47 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Skeggs |
| Duration Product Used: | 2 Years |
| Price Paid: | $45 |
| Strengths: | Great products. Will last forever. Best seat clamps. |
| Weaknesses: | Lube often. Certain types of trail dust causes QRs to creak. And after time, sounds like your bottom bracket is giving way or you pivot points are shot. Own several pair and have replaced them with XTR, Mavic, etc. and no more creaking. Watch out for mis-stamps on some skewers - once in a while you will find one with no teeth, just a smooth surface that doesn't grip the dropout very well. Salsa will replace for free. |
| Similar Products Tried: | XTR, Mavic, Rolf, Campy, etc. |
| Bike Setup: | Custom Ellsworth, Enduro SL, Fuel 98, 8500 hardtail. |
| Bottom Line: | The QR's work great on the BOB Revolution stroller! Get 2 seatpost QR levers for the rear wheels and a front QR for the front wheel. One sick looking stroller that baby is proud to ride in. |
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Submitted by
Basil Chua
a Cross Country Rider
from Singapore
Date Reviewed: 5/13/2007 6:59:47 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $40 |
| Purchased At: | Chapter Two |
| Strengths: | Great looks. Big thumb lock. |
| Weaknesses: | None. |
| Bike Setup: | GIANT XTC Team on DT Swiss hubs and Mavic XC717 rims |
| Bottom Line: | Cool looking skewer! But a skewer is a skewer. |
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Submitted by
Will
a Racer
from Houghton, MI
Date Reviewed: 4/13/2007 3:46:48 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $8 |
| Purchased At: | Jenson |
| Strengths: | Strength, easyness, extreme cheapness |
| Weaknesses: | None! |
| Bike Setup: | Stiff, i.e. the Vanilla 130 fork is the flexiest part on the whole bike. |
| Bottom Line: | My life is now complete, since I have thomson seatpost and stem, and salsa skewers. |
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Submitted by
Ryan
a Racer
from Dirty Reno!
Date Reviewed: 3/27/2007 3:27:06 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Purchased At: | Great Basin Bicycles |
| Strengths: | Beautiful construction and color! Effortlessly simple and effective design. |
| Weaknesses: | None |
| Similar Products Tried: | Mavic |
| Bike Setup: | Gunnar Ruffian single speed totally gucci! |
| Bottom Line: | Adds bling to a commonly overlooked part! |
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Submitted by
Snorro
a Cross Country Rider
from the Netherlands
Date Reviewed: 9/19/2006 1:04:08 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years |
| Strengths: | Excellent and smooth function, excellent fixation,long life and beautifully designed |
| Weaknesses: | None |
| Similar Products Tried: | Hope, Shimano, Bontrager |
| Bike Setup: | Yeti ASR-SL, RS SID WC 06, XTR shifters and mechs, RaceFace Next LP + Ti BB, King NoThreadset,Thomson stem + seatpost, Ritchey WCS bar,DT Swiss 240 hubs+ DT rev + mavic 717 rims, Hayes Mag+ carbon, salsa flipoff skewers |
| Bottom Line: | These skewers are absolutely the ultimate combination of function, looks and durability, period. Even after years of production a lot of newer products hardly reach the level of these iconic skewers. Just replaced the delrin camfollowers on my oldest set of salsas (8 years)and they are still absolutely as new. Excellent after sales from Salsa |
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Submitted by
Nathan F.
a Weekend Warrior
from San Antonio, TEXAS USA
Date Reviewed: 8/26/2006 10:54:52 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Anywhere that has dirt! |
| Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years |
| Price Paid: | $40 |
| Purchased At: | I forgotten... :) |
| Strengths: | My Rastas are great, been many many years with no problems. Always tightens and always looses. |
| Weaknesses: | None! |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano, shimano, ... |
| Bike Setup: | 1999 Litespeed Tsali-XT Group,Titec 118 Ti Handlebar,Frogs,Judy SID,KING Ti bottle cage,Salsa Brake Brace&Syncros Ti post. WT approx. 23 pounds ;) |
| Bottom Line: | MY Titanium Rastas was purchased when I bought my 1999 Tsali. It has a few scraches from the falls I have done, the color has faded in the years it has been subjected to rain, mud, snow! and the blazing sun. But they have NEVER failed me. The best damn skewers ever made! I would buy them again! |
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Submitted by
Mike Oxsmells
a Cross Country Rider
from Chelmsford
Date Reviewed: 3/22/2005 8:51:17 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Lingwood common |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $50 |
| Purchased At: | JensonUSA |
| Strengths: | Something nice to buy when you've exhausted all other performance enhancing upgrades. |
| Weaknesses: | The red finish isn't exactly the same shade as my Hope Ti hubs ;-( |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano / mavic stocks |
| Bike Setup: | Obscenely tarted up GT Zaskar |
| Bottom Line: | Like buying your wife another pair of Jimmy Choo's. Not really necessary, but if you can afford it you'll show your bike how much you love it. And it will p*ss your other half off immensely if you get these instead of treating her to something new. Which is no bad thing. My Zaskar has never claimed to have a headache when i feel like a ride, nor does it ever say 'have you finished yet?'. |
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Submitted by
tony p
a Weekend Warrior
from grafton, MA
Date Reviewed: 7/23/2004 7:56:49 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | vietnam |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $45 |
| Purchased At: | local shop |
| Strengths: | smooth, strong |
| Weaknesses: | nothing yet |
| Similar Products Tried: | i'm a mechanic at a shop and i've used everything from stock POS QR skewers to XTR |
| Bike Setup: | 01 GT avalanche 2.0 w/ beefy components |
| Bottom Line: | the QR is so smooth and even. it's not an on-off thing like others. the farther you push the lever, the tighter it gets. others have a "happy" medium- if you push them too far they losen up. these are so much nicer |
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Submitted by
rich
a Cross Country Rider
from md
Date Reviewed: 4/9/2004 2:17:26 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | accotink single track |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $39 |
| Purchased At: | jensonusa.com |
| Strengths: | craftmenship, salsa's phone support, strength |
| Weaknesses: | watch what you buy the ti skewers are not for dual supension bikes, over time the ti rod will stretch and eventually break. use the cro-mo rods for dual suspension and all will be phine... |
| Similar Products Tried: | rolf, shimano, suntour. thats right suntour! |
| Bike Setup: | klein adept comp, fox float rear, fox vanilla front, hayes disc, mavic crossmax enduro disc (with the salsa flip off cro-mo skewers), xt cranks, eggbeater twin ti pedels, xt rear, lx front, easton monkey lite carbon bars, garmin gecko gps to find my way back to the car..... |
| Bottom Line: | awesome skewers!!!! watch what you buy!!!! dual suspension=cro-mo rods front and rear front suspension-hard tail=cro-mo rod front, ti rod rear no suspension=ti rods front and rear |
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Submitted by
Al
from NYC
Date Reviewed: 2/14/2004 5:33:47 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | SandyHook |
| Duration Product Used: | 2 Years |
| Price Paid: | $50 |
| Purchased At: | online |
| Strengths: | Best replacement for any stock skewers, especially those P-O-S from ROLF and MAVIC |
| Weaknesses: | the white letters get smudged up quickly...price maybe. |
| Similar Products Tried: | rolf, mavics original skewers |
| Bike Setup: | trek 8500, xtr, propels, C king, thompsons, trailblaster 1.8. and 03 Psylo SL |
| Bottom Line: | I have 2 sets of these, black ti on trek and the red ti on Ells ID. matches the paint scheme on both bikes. Easiest to operate from a bunch of other skewer sets. Only one can be compared is the old school xtr. I found a way to get rid of the dirt on the etched in letter("salsa") - spray some wd40 on a rag and wipe off carefully. this method also worked on the anodized finish on my ID to get rid of dirt on lettering. PS: this winter sucked! below 35 and windy as a mofo...cant wait till spring. |
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Submitted by
Tyoda
from SF Bay area
Date Reviewed: 10/24/2003 1:16:09 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Strengths: | Works great, a perfect replacement for the finicky skewers that come with Mavic Crossmax wheels. Smooth open/close action, lightweight, and look pretty good. |
| Weaknesses: | Adjustment knob is a bit big to turn under larger forks like Fox and the large flip lever can crash into the bottom of the fork as well. Finish is a bit raw. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano, Mavic |
| Bike Setup: | Truth/F100x/Crossmax |
| Bottom Line: | No real complaints, pretty much does what I expected and work way better than the jerky feeling stock Mavic skewers and lighter weight to boot. I've also had no problems with the stock Shimano skewers, they both work well. The Salsa's are bulkier than Shimano, the lever and knob are longer/bigger. This promotes more leverage and easier unmounting, but if you're not careful, the lever can crash into the bottom of your fork and chip off paint. Just the same, for an aftermarket skewer, it's top notch. |
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Submitted by
Anonymous Gerbil
a Weekend Warrior
from Texas
Date Reviewed: 10/13/2003 8:52:48 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 1 Year |
| Price Paid: | $40 |
| Purchased At: | JensonUSA.com |
| Strengths: | Easy open, easy close. Work every time. Lightweight and high quality. |
| Weaknesses: | None so far - except when running with disc brakes it is a bit of a pain getting the alignment right everytime. |
| Bottom Line: | This is actually a review of the Salsa skewers paired with 1UpUSA's "QuickNuts." Since there is no review section for the QuickNuts (are you listening MTBR? QuickNuts is a great tool for disc brake users!), I am going to review both here. The Salsa skewers by themselves are a great set. I have them both in CroMo versions and they do their job as advertised. However, they share a shortcoming with ALL skewers out there when used with disc wheels. You have to play the guessing game everytime you set up you wheels in terms of how tight you want them because the alignment of the rotors is always a bit off. The ingenious QuickNut system takes the guess work out of the whole process. Bottom line, the Salsa skewers are very good, and pairing them with the QuickNuts makes them a great combo. A must for any disc brake user. |
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Submitted by
Mark
a Cross Country Rider
from Ogden
Date Reviewed: 10/12/2003 10:01:19 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Where pavement ends |
| Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years |
| Price Paid: | $50 |
| Purchased At: | can't remember |
| Strengths: | can't remember where I bought them has got to say something for the product! Light weight, colors, and functionality! |
| Weaknesses: | Weakness? Didn't come as original oquipment on my bike. didn't come on my bike from the factory |
| Similar Products Tried: | Simano xtr, and whatever came on my bike-now I just switch out the skewers. |
| Bike Setup: | '01 specialized s-works hardtail with lots of sensible upgrades, in a 17" version it weighs 20.5 lbs-and dropping! |
| Bottom Line: | This is the third bike that I have transfered the skewers to, they are the sh1t!!! They lock very easily and are very light not to mention the cool colors and ergonomics! If it weren't for the cost, I would think that this is the best low dollar upgrade you can make. |
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Submitted by
Doug Gangi
a Cross Country Rider
from Phoenix, AZ
Date Reviewed: 9/8/2003 7:29:24 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years |
| Purchased At: | Came with bike |
| Strengths: | Light weight, look cool, work as advertised |
| Weaknesses: | None |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano stock |
| Bike Setup: | '98 Trek 8000 hardtail |
| Bottom Line: | Unless you are a weight weenie, just about any skewer on the block works as well as the next one, including the cheapo ones that come with your wheelset. However, IF you are a weight weenie AND you like to add some moto to your ride, then buy a set of Salsa skewers. They look so cool. And it also tells the world that you spend more on your bike than you are allowed. |
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Submitted by
Michael
a Cross Country Rider
from CO
Date Reviewed: 8/13/2003 3:40:26 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | bunch |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $30 |
| Purchased At: | mtbr classifieds |
| Strengths: | looks, weight, function |
| Weaknesses: | none so far |
| Similar Products Tried: | shimano cheapo skewers |
| Bike Setup: | sweet sweet sweet |
| Bottom Line: | These are skewers for crying out loud, but since I am on a review rampage, might as well add my two words. These look sweet, you know what the say, the little things make all the difference. They open and close much easier than my old shimano skewers did, which is nice since I don't have a bike rack so my bike rides in the trunk. Another plus is the fact that the set of these is composed of Cr-Mo shaft in the front skewer and Ti shaft in rear. Front for strength since there is big, mean shock there, and rear to satisfy the weight conscious me. Overall, skewers are just skewers and if you have any extra money you're itching to spend, get the Salsa skewers, and if you don't, don't bother. You'll gain very little from these. |
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Submitted by
Bob F
a Cross Country Rider
from Phoenix, AZ USA
Date Reviewed: 5/19/2003 5:28:25 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Too many to mention... |
| Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years |
| Strengths: | My wheels haven't fallen off yet... |
| Weaknesses: | none |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano, WTB... etc., etc.... |
| Bike Setup: | '99 Mojo, XTR and SRAM intermixed, Rock Shox SID..... |
| Bottom Line: | I don't remember exactly when I purchased these skewers, but the fact that they are "purple anodized" might give an indication... I love the way the Salsa products look and hold up. I definately will buy new Salsa skewers when these finally turn to dust and fall off my bike. No complaints, they hold my wheels on just fine. They are, however, just skewers. And to be fair, I've never had a problem with ANY skewers I've ever used. I just like the Salsa ones better. |
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Submitted by
dave
a Weekend Warrior
from australia
Date Reviewed: 9/18/2002 4:33:33 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | singletrack |
| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Price Paid: | $60 |
| Purchased At: | flemington cycles |
| Strengths: | They look really cool, the action is easy om your fingers, they work like they are ment to. |
| Weaknesses: | I banged up the rear one on my first ride and i don't even remember doing it. A little expensive |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano |
| Bike Setup: | raceline comp, hugi240 disc, mavic f519, fox float rlc, lx and other ok stuff. |
| Bottom Line: | These skewers are very cool but i may be too hard on my gear for them i am 220 pounds plus pounds and hammer my gear. Even though I banged them up they still work fine. They are still worth the money for the style points and strenght when bent but be careful if you are a big guy who is hard on his gear. |
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Submitted by
Mark
a Weekend Warrior
from Phoenix, AZ, USA
Date Reviewed: 9/4/2002 5:31:17 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | digemall |
| Duration Product Used: | 2 Years |
| Price Paid: | $40 |
| Purchased At: | AZ |
| Strengths: | Great action...looks...secure... |
| Weaknesses: | front skewer has deformed w/ no real abuse....still works but the piece near the twist handle has deformed...strange... |
| Similar Products Tried: | mavic...shimano... |
| Bike Setup: | the last mojo of 99!!! w/ XT/XTR WTB wheels Thompson Marzocchi z3 Chris King Race Face |
| Bottom Line: | Still a great product that I would buy again...dont know how or why it is failing... I recomment the product even though it is in need of replacemet...I am sure it is a fluke that it is failing... If you appreciate the slight difference in the action of this product...Get it.. |
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Submitted by
Scott Showen
a Cross Country Rider
from Lincoln Nebraska
Date Reviewed: 7/12/2002 5:46:37 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | all |
| Duration Product Used: | 1 Year |
| Price Paid: | $55 |
| Purchased At: | LBS (Cycle Works) |
| Strengths: | Light weight, easy on the fingers when you open them. Almost like a lock nut on the one side to make it turn harder, not fall off as easy. |
| Weaknesses: | None |
| Similar Products Tried: | Kore, still have them for back ups. |
| Bike Setup: | Trek 8000, Psylo race, next lp cranks, king hubs and headset, hayes brakes. |
| Bottom Line: | Nice way to touch up your bike, i got the rasta ones for alittle more color. Look on ebay for some, might get a better deal than your LBS. |
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Andreas Klauser
a Cross Country Rider
from Feldafing
Date Reviewed: 6/20/2002 1:50:19 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years |
| Price Paid: | $60 |
| Purchased At: | Hibike |
| Strengths: | Strength, design, mechanism |
| Weaknesses: | none |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano LX, XT, XTR, Tune |
| Bike Setup: | Trek 9900 OCLV |
| Bottom Line: | Simply the best. And look nice, too. |
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Chris Somethingorother
a Weekend Warrior
from Germany
Date Reviewed: 2/22/2002 4:52:19 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Whatever is tight and twisty with roots and rocks |
| Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years |
| Price Paid: | $40 |
| Purchased At: | Irvine Bike Source |
| Strengths: | Everything! Way cool looks, more than perfect function, wether it be dusty, snowy or anything else. And these are still my first set since whenever I bought them. I can't even remember actually. |
| Weaknesses: | None that I can think of, nor the rest of the 12 headed group I regularly ride with. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano, Mavic Crossmax |
| Bike Setup: | Santa Cruz Bullit, full XTR, King hs, Thomson stem, Syntace Vector handlebar (German made; super light indestructable downhill bar; http://www.syntace.com/catalog/index.html) Salsa bits all over, XT disc with 8" rotor (very important!), very sucky Psylo XC fork and with Suspension Skewers = Ti in front and CrMo in back. Let's NOT forget the Flite sattel! Works like a charm! |
| Bottom Line: | A definite must buy if you care about your bike in the least. They just complete any bike, and if you are more the not so show-off type, get 'em in black! Certainly not something to regret! Good for ANY bike! |
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Submitted by
Steven
a Weekend Warrior
from Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date Reviewed: 2/3/2002 9:42:03 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | 6 Foot Track - Blue Mountains |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $55 |
| Purchased At: | Phantom Cycles |
| Strengths: | Aesthetics, weight |
| Weaknesses: | Post production quality checking |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano, X-Lite |
| Bike Setup: | '02 Giant NRS, '02 Psylo XC, everything upgraded (XTR/XT/Titec/Sun Rhyno Lite, etc) |
| Bottom Line: | Bought a pair of Rasta stainless skewers & as far as aesthetics & functionality is concerned, they are the bees knees...however, someone in the Salsa factory forgot to machine out the spring-side (inside) of the rear gold washer (the bit that the Delrin cam sits in) so when you clamp it down the spring has nowhere to hide & gets crushed between the washer & the drop-out. The front's ok, so I suppose one out of two ain't bad. Rectifying the situation with Salsa as we speak... |
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Submitted by
Kevin Koch
a Racer
from MO
Date Reviewed: 2/2/2002 8:05:44 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | The Government Trail, CO |
| Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years |
| Strengths: | I'm goin for the record here as I've used mine for about 10 years and I can't tell any difference in the feel of them since new.(Just lost a little anodizing.)They have a good, solid feel with a lot of clamping power. |
| Weaknesses: | Considering the weight, absolutely none! |
| Bottom Line: | I've been shoping for some new skewers for a new bike I'm building and I think these still rank right at the top of the list. Not that I'm swayed by the fact that I've rode on one pair for the last 10 years. |
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Dan Kasper
a Weekend Warrior
from Annandale,NJ
Date Reviewed: 12/3/2001 6:57:04 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $35 |
| Purchased At: | Cyclesmith |
| Strengths: | Cool looking, matches bike, durable. |
| Weaknesses: | NONE TO BE FOUND |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano |
| Bike Setup: | Giant Warp DS1 with Maxxis MOFO PRO DH's F&R, THE Fenders F&R, Marzochhi Z-1 NEW!!! Fox Vanilla R, Salsa skewers. |
| Bottom Line: | Sweet set of skewers, they match my bike, thet're tough, and I got them for the right price. |
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