Aztec Teflon Cables

Review Date
April 23, 2007

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Reviewed by: Sprocketeer (Unregistered User) ,  Cross Country Rider , from Astoria, Queens, NYC

Price Paid:  $20.00 at Online at Performancebike.com

Summary:
First of all, yes, it is worth it to pay more for prestretch, teflon lined cables and/or housings. Your bike will shift and brake better than you could have imagined, and you're unlikely to have to get your bike adjusted or adjust it yourself due to cable stretch--which is considered normal. If you pay a shop person to adjust your derailers and brakes, then get prestretch, teflon cables simply because they're essentially maintainence free and perform extremely well.

But don't buy these.

If Performance had the Shimano XTR cables, I would have bought those--been using them for years--but they only had a few choices and so I thought I'd give these a try.

I never had a chance to find out if they were really good or bad because they simply don't work with my Shimano LX brake levers.

If something doesn't work with Shimano--the standard--then it simply doesn't work and is all but guaranteed to not work on whatever componentry you have other than Shimano.

Of course, Performance will refund me for the cables, but I doubt they'll reimburse me for $10+ in shipping to me and back to them. Since the Shimano cables cost me $25, that means just ordering these ill conceived pieces of crap raised my cable costs to $35.

Performance should simply dump these cables from their offerings. Why offer something that's unlikely to be compatible with 90% of the componentry out there.

Similar Products Used:
Shimano XTR brake and derailer cables--which are still the best.

Review Date
February 25, 2007

Overall Rating
 2 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Reviewed by: Michael Egan(Unregistered User) ,  Cross Country Rider , from Granite Bay, Kalifornia

Price Paid:  $22.00 at ebay

Summary:
This review is for the standard Delta Aztec Teflon brake cables as pictured above. Some folks are reviewing the Powerlines which are a different product and which have their own review category.

As for these cables, the teflon cables are nice. I liked the way the ferrules went together. But my main issue is that they do not provide enough housing. I have disc brakes on both wheels and after doing the rear brake, I did not have enough housing for the front. I ended up having to use regular housing. Bottom line: for the money all I got were some nice Teflon cables.

Similar Products Used:
Shimano

Review Date
January 29, 2007

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Reviewed by: Robert (Unregistered User) ,  Cross Country Rider , from Oakland

Price Paid:  $25.00 at Online

Summary:
These powerlines are pure junk! I thought they might be something good, they certainly look cool.But that's what i get for going on looks...lol.
Set up was easy enough, (no,i didn't have any problem with those little interlocking things falling about or cracking the liner.)
They worked OK at first BUT after about 2 months or so they started getting ALOT of drag. I refused to replace them on the reason of what i payed for them. So after about 6/7 months i had had enough so off they came. heh , i tried working the cable off the bike & they were literally screwed upon working back & forth off the bike!
I mean with no exagerration they were nearly impossible.
Do not buy these! Total junk!
Another thing, if you need a new liner for some reason they are like $8!
These truly deserve ten real terds in the belly of the creator of these things,no joke.

Similar Products Used:
Jagwire ripcords & other Jagwire cable products,shimano,generic.

Review Date
August 31, 2006

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Reviewed by: John Kretschmann(Unregistered User) ,  Racer , from Folsom, CA

Price Paid:  $25.00 at eBay

Summary:
The Delta Aztec Powerline brake cables suck! It took me over an hour to set-up just one set of cables. Cutting the housing is a pain in the *#@$. It has to be cut exactly to length and you have to be careful not to loose the hollow pins that actually make-up the housing. Once I finally had it installed the brake feel was horrible. Very mushy. I double and triple checked to make sure I had everything set-up correctly. The cable set ended-up in the trash and I replaced it with Jagwire which is about 1000 times better ... easier to install and works waayy better.

Similar Products Used:
Jagwire, OEM Shimano.

Review Date
July 10, 2006

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Reviewed by: Mark Johnston(Unregistered User) ,  Weekend Warrior , from Gran Canaria

Price Paid:  $30.00 at Price Point

Summary:
As I said above, they flex to much crease to easy. There is a lot of ghost shifting etc. I lived with it for 6 months then decided to cut my loses( I thought that I had just set them up wrong!!)But now I could kick my self its as sweet as a nut.

Similar Products Used:
Shimano,Jagwire