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Shimano Deore V-Brake (2003)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Sun Sep 14 2003 Reviewed By: Peace McCormack (anon) Rider Level: Pro/Elite
Used Product For 6 Months Strengths cheap, good value, pretty powerfull Weaknesses quality, flex/power compared to dx or avids Similar Products Used xt, dx and others Review This is a really good upgrade to your bike from canties, or shotty tektro vees. Have decent power and a nice feel, not hard to setup and well a great bang for ya buck! get these till you have the money to get ultimates or not so expensive yet great vee single digit! this is really the only bit of shimano i reccomend from shimano other than the xtr brake booster. also dont get parralel push vees, like lx/xt/xtr and arch rivals for the rear brake, they develop play in the pivots and get really bad and noisy!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Thu Apr 08 2004 Reviewed By: agrade (anon) Rider Level: Intermediate
Used Product For 2 Years or more Strengths very cheap, no brainer to get them working perfect, they never die Weaknesses little flexy, not quite as much power as the ultimates etc Similar Products Used i have used more kinds of brakes than you can imagine Review for the money paid these brakes are rippers, probably the only shimano product i actually like. with decent pads they are a good choice of v-brake if you have little money to spend, or want something that works and is not going to fail for the front. at the moment i am using these on the rear. i was planning on buying some ultimates later on and putting these on the front to replace my promax (ha) v-brakes, but at the moment i can't be bothered - these are good enough. i will end up doing it though, if you have lots of money to spend then getting something better for the back isn't a bad idea. one thing that i don't like is the pads that they come with - after about a month the cartridge snapped in half and flew out of the casing during a pedalup. was sore. the pads didn't stop overly well anyway.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Fri Jul 16 2004 Reviewed By: jimmy michael (anon) Rider Level: Intermediate
Used Product For 1 Month Strengths sharp responsive, non flexy good wire clamp Weaknesses standard pads, diffuctuld to set right spring tension Similar Products Used monty alp v-s Review brilliant brakes these are the best brakes ive ever used on my monty 219 alp exellent for y`a money standard pads a not very good reccommend you put on red aztec pads they perform brill in wet and i can pedal kick now with 1 finger on the lever.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Sun Sep 14 2003 Reviewed By: david (anon) Rider Level: Intermediate
Used Product For 6 Months Strengths cheap works well not too heavy Weaknesses pads aint that good Similar Products Used avid arch rival magura Review i got this as a front brake for my new for my new bike and due to technical problems ended up using it as a rear insted of my arch rival once i changed the pads it was almost as good as my arch rival and outstripped my maguras easily amazing for the price
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Tue Aug 21 2007 Reviewed By: stef - romania (anon) Rider Level: Intermediate
Used Product For 6 Months Strengths quite powerful, easy to adjust, cheap, very reliable Weaknesses pads suck, only powerful on certain rims(i'm talking about width) Similar Products Used other shimano vees Review best v brakes i ever had. extremely simple to adjust, they don't flex, very good shimano product. if you have the perfect width at the rim its extremely powerful. this varies at each frame. at my tucana it works very well on 30 mm wide rims because the arms/pads move parallel. since i got my tryall rim it lost a bit of power(47mm wide:P).the stock pads suck a lot get some plazmatics and you're good to go. if they are set up right they outperform maggies but like i said you need crappy rims:(. avids are better than these but a lot more expensive so these are very good. new pads + toothpaste/tar and you'll have some superb brakes.one problem if u buy wide rims youll hit the brake arm with your foot even if you remove a few spacers from the pads(it happened to me)
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Sat Dec 01 2007 Reviewed By: Eric Lloyd (anon) Rider Level: Intermediate
Used Product For 1 Year Strengths stops on a dime Weaknesses none Similar Products Used shimano Lx V-brakes (para) pivits Review i bought these brakes last december.Biked all last winter. and the still stop on a dime. I just got Shimano Lx v-brakes, and i read some of the reviews on them, about the pivits going in them and the noise that later creeps up. So i have decided to put my deore v-brakes back on i do alot of jumping and dirt jumping so i dont think that Lx is the way to go for me , i am going to stick to deore. does anyone else use deore v-brakes for dirt jumping?
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Wed Oct 08 2008 Reviewed By: pbrawoyumz (anon) Rider Level: Intermediate
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Thu Oct 09 2008 Reviewed By: hyjdsainqfi (anon) Rider Level: Beginner
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