Whilst looking for some new sealed cables to weather proof my gear cables
and pimp up my bike a couple of years back I stumbled upon Jagwire. They make a
range of gear housings and cables for road and Mountain bikes, the set here
being for the latter obviously. The Ripcords come with everything you need to
fit a sealed cable kit to your bike keeping the shifting smooth, light and crap
free, the cable ferrels are good quality with the Jagwire logo printed on. I do
find that the ferrels are a little creaky in my frame, but this is resolved
with a small dab of grease when the noise starts. This will probably vary from
frame to frame too. I opted for the blue outer housing, the housing is available
in a multitude of colours to suit any ride, also in the box are 2 rubber cable
covers to slide over the outer housing to help prevent frame rub, these seem to
have done a good job so far and haven't managed to go missing despite my best
efforts. Once the outers are installed it's a case of sliding the black teflon
coated inners through the outers and also through the black sleeving which
slides over the cable ferrel ends between all the areas where exposed cable
would be, therefore weather proofing your ride. The Teflon coated cables do a
fantastic job of keeping the shifting very responsive and light with a noticeable
difference to when I was running standard cables in the system. The whole deal
is finished off with some rather pimpin' gold cable ends which is a nice touch.
All in all then for a very reasonable £18.99 you get yourself a high quality,
weatherproof cable set, which will improve the feel and performance of your
shifting for half the price of the competition.
Win bloomin' Win.
