As light as I links but half the price!
Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 5:49 pm
Well very very nearly!
I have been meaning to post this for a while but have only just gotten round to it.
I bought a Niro Glide cableset from bike24 around 8 months now and have been using them since, rain or shine and they are still as good as new. These cables are essentially the same design as you standard cableset however, whereas steel wire is normally used in the casing these use aluminium thus making them much lighter and more flexible.
Niro Glide turbo Plus:
When I installed them i took a load of photos of weights and noted down lengths ect. I have since lost the post it with all this on so after a rummage though my spare parts bin i have found some of the left over lengths of gear and shifter outer cabling.
Here is 83cm of brake cable:
so that makes it:
Niro Glide Turbo Plus Brake: 28.9g/m
I also had 2x54cm lengths of gear cable left (incidentally thats just enough to do a second bike minus the RD and thats with 46cm bars and an xl frame!)
sorry about the sidewaysness
So that equals,
Niro Glide Turbo Plus Shifter: 17.6g/m
I recently got a hold of some i links and i link minis and weighting those in a similar manner (i wont post pics as im sure we all know what they look like) and those came to 25.3g/m and 12g/m respectively. this was for the outer aluminium only so without the plastic inner part.
In a previous post bikey (see viewtopic.php?f=3&t=78656&hilit=i+links&start=30) listed the weights of several different cablesets including the i links and i link minis with the plastic and the weights are below. I have also added the Niro glides.
BRAKE:
Tune "plastic"5mm: 18g/m
Tune "plastic" 6mm : 21.5g/m
Alligator i-Links: 27g/m
Niro Glide Turbo Plus: 28.9g/m
Tune "Aluminum" : 37g/m
Nokon (Aluminium outer+Liner): 38,1g/m
Powercordz: 45g/m
Jagwire: 50g/m
Shimano: 53.0g/m
Gore Ride-on: 54g/m
Gore: 57g/m
Shimano XTR : 58.5g/m
SHIFT:
Gleitec U3 : 12.5g/m (not available anymore)
Alligator Mini i-Links(outer Aluminium+Liner): 15,5g/m
Niro Glide Turbo Plus: 17.6g/m
Tune "plastic": 18/m
Shimano SP81 Yumeya: 23g/m
Gore Ride-on light (without inner Liner!): 23g/m
Alligator i-Links (outer Aluminium+Liner): 27g/m
Jagwire: 32.0g/m
Shimano SIS : 34.0g/m
Nokon Carbon (Carbon outer+Liner): 35,1g/m
Transfil "flying snake": 36g/m
Nokon (Aluminium outer+Liner): 38,1g/m
Powercordz: 39g/m
Gore Ride-on: 54g/m
So there you have it, at a estimate I would put Niro Glides as being 6g heavier for a full road setup than an i link/mini set. and lighter than the standard non mini set.
Also for you budgetweenies these are about half the price!!
But sadly its not all roses. Firstly there is the colour, or lack of it. It isn't as if its even just black, they are more a dark grey colour. its close enough to black no the bother me too much but for all you Blingweenies its a no-no.
Secondly and more importantly this is what happened to my left shifter cable shortly after install:
To be fair to the cable, the routing through my bottom bracket is less than ideal with a fair amount of leaver force normally being required. Secondly it may be I managed to kink the cable somehow during install and as it wasn't being held down by any bar tape at the time it just bent.
Either way luckily, as I said before, there was plenty of spare cable so i just removed the dodgy piece and replaced it, this time wrapping the cable along its full length in electrical tape before wrapping on the bar tape. Since then it has worked flawlessly without a hint of kinking or breakage, shifting is just as good as other cables and breaking works just great. So my guess it was just unlucky.
In conclusion, i am hoping to build up a new bike soon and chances are I will be using these again!
I have been meaning to post this for a while but have only just gotten round to it.
I bought a Niro Glide cableset from bike24 around 8 months now and have been using them since, rain or shine and they are still as good as new. These cables are essentially the same design as you standard cableset however, whereas steel wire is normally used in the casing these use aluminium thus making them much lighter and more flexible.
Niro Glide turbo Plus:
When I installed them i took a load of photos of weights and noted down lengths ect. I have since lost the post it with all this on so after a rummage though my spare parts bin i have found some of the left over lengths of gear and shifter outer cabling.
Here is 83cm of brake cable:
so that makes it:
Niro Glide Turbo Plus Brake: 28.9g/m
I also had 2x54cm lengths of gear cable left (incidentally thats just enough to do a second bike minus the RD and thats with 46cm bars and an xl frame!)
sorry about the sidewaysness
So that equals,
Niro Glide Turbo Plus Shifter: 17.6g/m
I recently got a hold of some i links and i link minis and weighting those in a similar manner (i wont post pics as im sure we all know what they look like) and those came to 25.3g/m and 12g/m respectively. this was for the outer aluminium only so without the plastic inner part.
In a previous post bikey (see viewtopic.php?f=3&t=78656&hilit=i+links&start=30) listed the weights of several different cablesets including the i links and i link minis with the plastic and the weights are below. I have also added the Niro glides.
BRAKE:
Tune "plastic"5mm: 18g/m
Tune "plastic" 6mm : 21.5g/m
Alligator i-Links: 27g/m
Niro Glide Turbo Plus: 28.9g/m
Tune "Aluminum" : 37g/m
Nokon (Aluminium outer+Liner): 38,1g/m
Powercordz: 45g/m
Jagwire: 50g/m
Shimano: 53.0g/m
Gore Ride-on: 54g/m
Gore: 57g/m
Shimano XTR : 58.5g/m
SHIFT:
Gleitec U3 : 12.5g/m (not available anymore)
Alligator Mini i-Links(outer Aluminium+Liner): 15,5g/m
Niro Glide Turbo Plus: 17.6g/m
Tune "plastic": 18/m
Shimano SP81 Yumeya: 23g/m
Gore Ride-on light (without inner Liner!): 23g/m
Alligator i-Links (outer Aluminium+Liner): 27g/m
Jagwire: 32.0g/m
Shimano SIS : 34.0g/m
Nokon Carbon (Carbon outer+Liner): 35,1g/m
Transfil "flying snake": 36g/m
Nokon (Aluminium outer+Liner): 38,1g/m
Powercordz: 39g/m
Gore Ride-on: 54g/m
So there you have it, at a estimate I would put Niro Glides as being 6g heavier for a full road setup than an i link/mini set. and lighter than the standard non mini set.
Also for you budgetweenies these are about half the price!!
But sadly its not all roses. Firstly there is the colour, or lack of it. It isn't as if its even just black, they are more a dark grey colour. its close enough to black no the bother me too much but for all you Blingweenies its a no-no.
Secondly and more importantly this is what happened to my left shifter cable shortly after install:
To be fair to the cable, the routing through my bottom bracket is less than ideal with a fair amount of leaver force normally being required. Secondly it may be I managed to kink the cable somehow during install and as it wasn't being held down by any bar tape at the time it just bent.
Either way luckily, as I said before, there was plenty of spare cable so i just removed the dodgy piece and replaced it, this time wrapping the cable along its full length in electrical tape before wrapping on the bar tape. Since then it has worked flawlessly without a hint of kinking or breakage, shifting is just as good as other cables and breaking works just great. So my guess it was just unlucky.
In conclusion, i am hoping to build up a new bike soon and chances are I will be using these again!