Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit Reviews
Review score: 9.4/10 – Updated September, 2024
Latest Price: £10.99 – Save 8% (RRP: £11.99)
Take a look now to discover what makes Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit worthy of a review score of 9.4 out of 10.
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Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit features
Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit
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Spec 1
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Colour: Stainless Steel Other Brake Cables found with this Spec: 7 |
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Spec 2
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Size: 1000mm + 2000mm Inner cable 2100mm Outer Other Brake Cables found with this Spec: 4 |
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Feature 1
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Galvanised or Stainless Steel Cable Other Brake Cables found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 2
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6x Nylon Ferrules Other Brake Cables found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 3
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2x End Covers Other Brake Cables found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 4
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Outer Casing Other Brake Cables found with this feature: 2 |
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Feature 5
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2x Frame Protectors Other Brake Cables found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 6
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Rubber doughnuts to protect the frame when braking Other Brake Cables found with this feature: 1 |
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Price
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£10.99 |
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Number of Reviews
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21 |
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Review Score
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4.4 / 5 Average score in category: 4.2/5 |
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Quality
Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Brake Cables. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit.
The first thing is material. Looking at what Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.
Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Brake Cables. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.
There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Brake Cables. Brands like Clarks are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.
Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Brake Cables category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.
Comparing Prices
Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Brake Cables.
It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.
Price of Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit
So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit.
We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £10.99 in our latest search.
Based on this price we’ve scored it 9.9 out of 10 for price.
Average price of Brake Cables
Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Brake Cables.
We found 69 in the Brake Cables category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £11.63, making it below average at £10.99.
It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Brake Cables. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £61.99, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £0.99.
With 69 products available we worked out that 24 cost more than Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit and 43 were cheaper.
Cost of Clarks products
At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 110 products from Clarks, of which 13 were in the Brake Cables category.
For now though we’re looking at Clarks branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £8.33 making this product above average.
You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Clarks product we found was £0.99 and the highest price we could find from them was £56.49.
Of the 110 from Clarks, 19 were more expensive than Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit and 88 were cheaper.
How much are Clarks Brake Cables?
We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Clarks products that are listed in the Brake Cables category.
The average price of the 13 products that match this search was £5.45, with the cheapest coming in at £0.99 and highest price was £15.99. With the average being £5.45, Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit comes in above average.
1 products that meet this search were more expensive than Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit and 11 were cheaper.
Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit Reviews
Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.
There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.
1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.
2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.
Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit reviews there.
Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 9.7 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Brake Cables category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.2 out of 5.
Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit or another similar product, like Clarks Universal Inner Brake Wire reviews or Clarks MTB Stainless Steel Inner Brake Wire reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Brake Cables.
Brand
As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Brake Cables. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Clarks, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.
YouTube Video of Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit
Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit reviews.
Summary
Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 9.4/10 overall.
Further product details
- Product ID 1: 25010918949
- Product ID 2: 167665UK
- Brand: Clarks
- Model number: 8012-CH/1
- RRP: £11.99
- EAN: 5021646003625
- Description: Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable KitThis cable kit comes from a well-established, worldwide brand that is dedicated to innovation, design and producing quality parts. The road brake cable kit includes everything needed to replace the cables for the complete brake assembly on your bike. Cables have both Pear and Barrel ends to suit MTB & Road brakes. You will need to cut off the end that is not required.Features: Galvanised or Stainless Steel Cable 6x Nylon Ferrules 2x End CoversOuter Casing2x Frame ProtectorsRubber doughnuts to protect the frame when brakingBuy Clarks Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
- Full Category: Components > Brake Cables
- Savings percentage from RRP: 8%
- Size: 1000mm + 2000mm Inner cable 2100mm Outer
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Other options for Brake Cables
As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Brake Cables. 69 in fact.
A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching Clarks Road Brake Stainless Steel Cable Kit included,
Clarks Road Stainless Steel Inner Brake Wire, Stainless Steel reviews, Clarks Pre-Lube Universal Brake Kit reviews, or we really liked the look of Clarks Universal Galvanised Brake Cable reviews as another alternative.