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Submitted by
Al Gould
a Racer
from Ct.
Date Reviewed: 11/1/2007 11:13:55 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $40 |
| Purchased At: | mail order |
| Strengths: | "0" |
| Weaknesses: | ferruals create flex factor and lost of direct power |
| Bike Setup: | Litespeed "ULTIMATE" |
| Bottom Line: | Don't waste the money!!!!!!!!!!! Installed excatly to directions... You can not beat the best....Campy or Dur-Ace..Stay with them and save yourself some good money, you'll only end up going out and replacing them with Campy or Dur-Ace... Their idea is good but the amount of spacers (ferruals-joints) only adds flex to the overall lenght of cable defeting the direct power applied that you want to respond from your BRAKE. |
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Submitted by
Robert
a Weekend Warrior
from Federal Way, WA, USA
Date Reviewed: 9/11/2007 2:51:23 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Ranger Creek |
| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Purchased At: | Online |
| Strengths: | Trick Looking |
| Weaknesses: | Flawed concept. Super finicky to install. Not durable. Vague brake feel. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Standard cables |
| Bike Setup: | Ellsworth Joker set up for all mountain sram XO drivetrain. |
| Bottom Line: | I run Mechanical disc brakes and was thought these looked cool and might give better performance. Took a couple of hours to do the brakes and the Cables. Took a couple weeks for my wife to forgive me all the swear words she heard coming from the garage. I heard these were hard to set up, but considering myself a good bike mechanic I didnt let it deter me...I should have listened. After finally setting them up, I was rewarded with bad performance, and my rear brake line fell apart after only a few months...and this is my backup bike! The cables kink and split just by looking at them...stay away! |
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Submitted by
SOGOAK
a Cross Country Rider
from Chicaaga
Date Reviewed: 8/8/2007 8:00:31 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 1 Year |
| Price Paid: | $39 |
| Purchased At: | PMart or Jenson |
| Strengths: | cool idea |
| Weaknesses: | Segments give like crazy and have tones of give in the system. Water got in the outer housing and made it cloudy. "Liner" is brittle and comes out. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Teflon Cables |
| Bike Setup: | 96 Klein Pulse Comp, Manitou Skareb Super, Thompson post/stem, Easton Moneylite riser, king headset, Sram X.9 twisters/shifters, x.0 Cassette and chain, Avid Arch Rival/Speed Dial 7 brakes, WTB Rocket Stealth Team TI Saddle, Ritchey ROCK/OCR Rims 32 Hole Laced to LX hubs. |
| Bottom Line: | DON'T BUY THESE! Guys in our forum where down on them saying they are just hype. They are worse, they are a pain to put on and use. When I was in PMart, Another guy was at the service desk getting new cables for the same reason. I got a brand new set of shop grade cables for $16. I'll just stick with these and swap them every year. |
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Submitted by
Ron
a Weekend Warrior
from Denver, CO, USA
Date Reviewed: 3/28/2007 10:49:55 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Porcupine Rim |
| Duration Product Used: | 1 Year |
| Price Paid: | $50 |
| Purchased At: | LBS |
| Strengths: | Different? |
| Weaknesses: | Poor construction, poor materials, poor performance. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Nokon Cables |
| Bike Setup: | Cove Stiffee FR, king hubs, 203mm avid mechanicals, xt/xtr |
| Bottom Line: | My first experience with the bead-type cables was with Nokon, but their lack of a housing other than the Aluminum beads made me try the Aztek beaded housing. BIG MISTAKE. While the Nokon cable housings are machined aluminum that fit together perfectly and absolutely DO NOT move when pressure is applied, the Aztek beads are cast aluminum and don't fit well at all. When you squeeze the lever, the aztek cables move all over, meaning your finger effort is wasted on the housing instead of the brake. The aztek cables really strike me as something that someone from marketing put out to jump on the "beaded cable" bandwagon. Their absolute lack of quality has made me feel that I should never EVER buy anything from whatever company owns Aztek ever again. If you really want absolute stopping power in your mechanical disc brakes, NOKON cables really really work well. |
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Submitted by
badger09
a Cross Country Rider
from Boise, ID, USA
Date Reviewed: 3/13/2007 7:24:26 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | That one. |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $35 |
| Purchased At: | REI |
| Strengths: | Packaging looks nice. |
| Weaknesses: | Just awful. Incredibly fiddly to install. It took me 2 hours to get these on, and after a few short rides I stripped them off again. The brakes feel spongy, the casing is soft and tears/cracks. I have no faith in them holding up. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano. |
| Bottom Line: | With an infinite amount of time and an infinite number of sets of these cables you might be able to install them to the manufacturers fine tolerances and reap all the benefits of slightly different looking cables. Don't bother, life's too short. |
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Submitted by
Ray
a Weekend Warrior
from Puyallup,WA
Date Reviewed: 1/15/2007 9:19:10 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Skookum Flats |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $30 |
| Purchased At: | Online |
| Weaknesses: | Housing desinigrates quickly. It's clear thin plastic tubing. Cracks easy from the sunlight. |
| Bottom Line: | These didn't last long. Put them on in the summer and they never made it to the winter. The concept behing the housings seemed good, but they appeared degrade from the sunlight. It took about three months of riding and then I noticed the tops of the housings cracking and falling apart. Wish I had better things to say. |
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Submitted by
EzE
a Downhiller
from SF, CA
Date Reviewed: 10/24/2006 1:26:14 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | MT. Davidson |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $10 |
| Purchased At: | Freewheel Cycles (Valencia) |
| Strengths: | NONE!!! |
| Weaknesses: | This cable s**ks, it's crap period, the cable line frayed after one cut and it detangles ALMOST ALL THE WAY, On top of that the wire grouping is not a tight fit like the XTR or Gore Tex cables, AND the teflon is lame the coating is one coat so the cable becomes dry, I swear DELTA makes cables for Huffys'. |
| Similar Products Tried: | XTR Shimano Cables, and Ride-On Gore Tex cables. |
| Bike Setup: | 1996 RockHopper Comp OLd school cables are on XTR V-Brakes and I also have other bikes. |
| Bottom Line: | Don't buy these go for XTR Shimano Cables you can get those cheaper then these rip off cables. I was in a rush to get them that's why I had to get a set, BIG MISTAKE SAVE YOUR $ get better ones. I recommend XTR cables very nice, even though some of the XTR parts break, I won't comment to many to name. |
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