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Shimano Deore Disc Brake Lever

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Shimano Deore Disc Brake Lever
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Average Rating: 4 out of 5
No. of Reviews: 10
RRP: £19.99
Year: 2004 - 2006

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REVIEWS

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Mike Hall

Posted: 05/02/01

Strengths:
Good value levers with stiff and comfortable two-finger ball-ended blades, chunky barrel adjuster, good construction and finish for the price.

Weaknesses:
Perhaps to stiff for some as they tend to give the Deore brakes a wooden feel, especially with hard compound pads.

Overall:
Well made, ergonomically correct levers at a good price. Solid construction gives a definite bite point to the brake but the lack of further flex can be hard on the digits on long descents and they lack the modulation of other shimano units.

Performance		60%
Reliability		80%
Value		100%

Overall Rating

80%

Ste Brayford

Posted: 29/04/01

'like avids but cheaper!'

Strengths:
Price, feel, quality looks

Weaknesses:
springs don't look like they'll last, stock pads are wank.!

Overall:
Fantastic brake set, feel really solid like top end avids (IE not spongy like Shimano LX, XT etc..) levers feel really great and fall to the fingers brilliantly.

Only gripe is stock pads last only a couple of rides (muddy)but not a problem can be replaced with something like Fibrax cart pads (superb!)

A real bargin! why pay more for V's?

Performance		80%
Reliability		100%
Value		100%

Overall Rating

93%

Chris Georg

Posted: 17/06/01

'slick'

Strengths:
slickness, nice feel and generally feel slick

Weaknesses:
smooth as a babies bottom leavers, would prefer a rougher area for the fingers to sit on.

Overall:
what more do you want from a brake, if you dont need supa doopa expensive brakes these are a god send as they are cheep and supa doopa.

Performance		80%
Reliability		80%
Value		100%

Overall Rating

87%

Billy sutherland

Posted: 12/07/01

'cool looker'

Strengths:
a positive feel when you pull in the lever comfy and is quite light

Weaknesses:
there is no power ajuster thats about it.

Overall:
these are great value for people on a tight budget I perfer these to the lx
because of the harder feel and you dont get that sponge feel like you do with the lx.go on buy them!

Performance		80%
Reliability		80%
Value		100%

Overall Rating

87%

ADRIAN HUDSON

Posted: 11/01/02

'EXCELLENT'

Strengths:
feel price havent had any probs. YET

Weaknesses:
bit heavy compared to XTR but still gud compared to avids

Overall:
im glad i bought em 4 15 quid

Performance		80%
Reliability		80%
Value		100%

Overall Rating

87%

Richard Drew

Posted: 17/09/03

'GOOD VALUE BUT...'

Strengths:
Nicely cast, reasonably shaped and finished with a good positive action. Well priced.

Weaknesses:
Develop a lot of play in the main pivot very quickly.

Overall:
Good value brake levers with a good positive feel. You don't really need any better than this. Having said that for about the same price Avid SD3's give basic adjustability and have better pivots.

Performance		80%
Reliability		60%
Value		80%

Overall Rating

73%

Hugo Dyas Catton

Posted: 26/12/03

'GOOD CHEAP LEVERS'

Strengths:
cheap, look good, positive spring, good feel, big lump on the end to stop your fingers falling off

Weaknesses:
bit heavy

Overall:
get some if you havnt got much cash

Performance		80%
Reliability		60%
Value		100%

Overall Rating

80%

Daniel Brookes

Posted: 13/06/04

'FEEL NICE TO PULL ON, GOOD STOPPING POWER'

Strengths:
nice handle, quite light and the spring tention is not too high

Weaknesses:
not really any, could be a little less flexie but there is nothing much to worry about

Overall:
very good, buy some, they do the job and feel nice on your fingers and look the place, soon to get deore cantalis to check them out with the levers

Performance		80%
Reliability		80%
Value		80%

Overall Rating

80%

Daniel Eckersley

Posted: 20/08/04

' '

Strengths:
These levers look great feel great and perform great wat more can you want.

Weaknesses:
none

Overall:
Buy some there well worth the pence.

Performance		100%
Reliability		100%
Value		100%

Overall Rating

100%

Ali James

Posted: 25/10/05

'NICE PRICE, PROPER PRODUCT'

Strengths:
Feel solid and durable, have already survived a crash with only a small scratch.
Nice and cheap.
Miles better than cheap STEF-27 combo brake and gear system.
Look pretty sleek in black.
Basic and non gimmicky, best way to go at this kind of price.

Weaknesses:
None really.

Overall:
These seem like rather decent levers and an excellent purchase to get away from horrible cheap oem brake and gear combo I had before. Nice and and cheap, basic and non gimmicky while equally reasuring.