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Precision 8 Speed Cassette
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Submitted by
Will T Smith
a Cross Country Rider
from Valparaiso, IN
Date Reviewed: March 15, 2008 | | Favorite Trail: | Outback Trail @ Imagination Glen | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$12.00 | | Purchased At: | Performance Bike | | Strengths: | It's $5 cheaper than a SRAM cassette that would not have broken. | | Weaknesses: | Misery loves company. The 12 tooth cog shattered on a road at Fort Custer. Whats worse is that the back cassette spacing on this cassette is such that I could not throw a 12T on from a worn cassette.
So, In the end I lost $12. Lucky for Performance it broke at the END of the ride. I won't be buying any more Forte branded drivetrain components. | | Similar Products Used: | SRAM and Shimano cassettes | | Bike Setup: | Karate Monkey XT/X9 level setup. | | Bottom Line: | Don't waste your money on this junk. It still only gets one chili for value because there is no value in cheap garbage.
| Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
dwight moody
a Weekend Warrior
from Seattle
Date Reviewed: January 26, 2008 | | Favorite Trail: | tolt | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$15.00 | | Purchased At: | performance.com | | Strengths: | Cheap, final straw in lovely decision to ditch gears. | | Weaknesses: | Oh, everything | | Similar Products Used: | Sram | | Bike Setup: | Hardtail, now single-speed. | | Bottom Line: | Sometimes, you really get what you pay for. The second or third time I rode this POS, the 12 tooth cog snapped and fell out. When I got back home after that abbreviated ride, I switched in a worn ring from an old cassette and just tried not to end up in that gear. This was tolerable for a couple months, when a tooth snapped off on of the larger cogs.
So I decided to become a single speeder. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Lee
a
from SF Bay
Date Reviewed: July 16, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | cheap | | Weaknesses: | bad shifting, fragile | | Similar Products Used: | sram, sunrace | | Bike Setup: | One commuter, one hardtail trail bike | | Bottom Line: | I have 2 of these cassettes, one 12-32, one 11-28. The 12-32 is ok, but the shifting is very slow compared to a SRAM or even a Sunrace cassette. The 11-28 cassette is horrible. First, the removable two outer cogs' freehub interface was shoddy, making it hard to put on (had to lightly tap with a rubber mallet to get them on). Then less than a month in, the 12T cog had a tooth break off. I can't say whether the bad interface is the original cause, but it's BS to have such a lightly torqued, rarely used steel cog fail that fast on a commuter bike.
Actually, if you compare Sunrace and Forte cogs, they look nearly identical; I'd bet they're from the same factory. The differences are Forte cassettes cost more, don't include the nickel plating, and have worse tolerances on the machining. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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