Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
So. I've put these cables on my cyclocross bike when I built it up. I bought them on because it's a Seven, and you don't cheap out on the details when you build a Seven. Sure they are smooth and make my brakes and gears feel flawless. But other than a few rides in the rain, followed by a few quasi-muddy days at 6-Mile, I've never truly felt they were any different than a standard XTR or Dura-Ace set-up. That is, until after this weekend at the USGP where they held up during the most brutal muddy conditions you could ever face!!
My gears worked 100% throughout the entire race. Not matter how much mud clogged into the rear of my bike, it shifted flawlessly. Same thing with my brakes. The cables didn't feel any different than when I was riding around in the parking lot before the race.
So they worked perfect even in these conditions. But that's not what really got me. After hosing off my bike and getting all the mud out of the nooks and crannies, normally I'd pull the cables to clean them and re-lube them, sometimes replace them. Not this time. No sir. Set it and forget it. They look like and feel like new. Smooth like butter. Some of you guys raced Sunday, what do your cables feel like right now? So go get them. Make sure the only excuse you have out there is yourself and not your equipment, don't be the egg-master
-Jim.
My gears worked 100% throughout the entire race. Not matter how much mud clogged into the rear of my bike, it shifted flawlessly. Same thing with my brakes. The cables didn't feel any different than when I was riding around in the parking lot before the race.
So they worked perfect even in these conditions. But that's not what really got me. After hosing off my bike and getting all the mud out of the nooks and crannies, normally I'd pull the cables to clean them and re-lube them, sometimes replace them. Not this time. No sir. Set it and forget it. They look like and feel like new. Smooth like butter. Some of you guys raced Sunday, what do your cables feel like right now? So go get them. Make sure the only excuse you have out there is yourself and not your equipment, don't be the egg-master
-Jim.