DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle Reviews

Review score: 9.1/10 – Updated November, 2024

Latest Price: £34.99 – Save 3% (RRP: £35.9)

Take a look now to discover what makes DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle worthy of a review score of 9.1 out of 10.

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DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle features

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 Quick Releases. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle.

The first thing is material. Looking at what DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle 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 Quick Releases. 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 Quick Releases. Brands like DT Swiss 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 Quick Releases 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.

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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 Quick Releases.

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 DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle

So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle.

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 DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £34.99 in our latest search.

Based on this price we’ve scored it 8.2 out of 10 for price.

Average price of Quick Releases

Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Quick Releases.

We found 30 in the Quick Releases category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £25.52, making it above average at £34.99.

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 Quick Releases. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £49.50, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £4.99.

With 30 products available we worked out that 7 cost more than DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle and 22 were cheaper.

Cost of DT Swiss products

At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 133 products from DT Swiss, of which 6 were in the Quick Releases category.

For now though we’re looking at DT Swiss branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £292.02 making this product below average.

You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest DT Swiss product we found was £6.99 and the highest price we could find from them was £1199.99.

Of the 133 from DT Swiss, 115 were more expensive than DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle and 16 were cheaper.

How much are DT Swiss Quick Releases?

We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at DT Swiss products that are listed in the Quick Releases category.

The average price of the 6 products that match this search was £30.72, with the cheapest coming in at £19.99 and highest price was £42.99. With the average being £30.72, DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle comes in above average.

1 products that meet this search were more expensive than DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle and 4 were cheaper.

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DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle 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 DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle reviews there.

Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle, 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 Quick Releases 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 DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle or another similar product, like Spank Fratelli Tubeless Conversion Tape reviews or Joe’s No Flats Tubeless Rim Tape 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 Quick Releases.

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Brand

As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Quick Releases. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with DT Swiss, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.

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YouTube Video of DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle

Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle reviews.

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Summary

Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru Axle. 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 9.1/10 overall.

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Further product details

• Product ID 1: 25010858003
• Product ID 2: 314048UK
• Brand: DT Swiss
• Model number: HWQASM00S2955S
• RRP: £35.9
• EAN: 7630013901761
• Description: DT Swiss RWS X-12 Alloy Thru AxleThe DT Swiss RWS X-12 bolt thru axle is a replacement 142 x 12mm thru axle that can be used on any bike that has a thread pitch of 1.0p. The RWS X-12 allows tool free wheel swaps on frames using the X-12 standard and operates more quickly than any other wheel mounting standard.Modern road- and mountain bikes allow for an ever-increasing level of riding: Faster and more aggressive. The¬†RWS¬†system keeps up with this development, holding the wheels securely no matter the situation.Features: Axle Material:¬†7075 Aluminium¬† Lever Material:¬†Alloy¬† Standard:¬†142 x 12mm Thread Pitch:¬†M12 x 1.0P Clamp-less lever design, just rotate the lever to tighten axle¬† Weight:¬†65gBuy DT Swiss Wheels & Tyres¬†from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
• Full Category: Wheels & Tyres > Quick Releases
• Savings percentage from RRP: 3%
• Size: M12 x 142mm
• Unisex
• 0.91
• Adult

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