LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable Reviews
Review score: 9.0/10 – Updated September, 2024
Latest Price: £2.49 (RRP: £2.49)
Take a look now to discover what makes LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable worthy of a review score of 9.0 out of 10.
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LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable features
LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable
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Spec 1
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Length: 1200mm Other Brake Cables found with this Spec: 3 |
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Feature 1
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1x 19 strand stainless steel inner brake cable with Ø 6x10mm Shimano®/SRAM® drop bar lever compatible anchor Other Brake Cables found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 2
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3x cable end caps included Other Brake Cables found with this feature: 3 |
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Price
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£2.49 |
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Number of Reviews
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3 |
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Review Score
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3 / 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 LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable.
The first thing is material. Looking at what LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable 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 LifeLine 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 LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable
So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable.
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 LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £2.49 in our latest search.
Based on this price we’ve scored it 9.6 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 £2.49.
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 51 cost more than LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable and 13 were cheaper.
Cost of LifeLine products
At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 311 products from LifeLine, of which 9 were in the Brake Cables category.
For now though we’re looking at LifeLine branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £21.32 making this product below average.
You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest LifeLine product we found was £1.25 and the highest price we could find from them was £559.99.
Of the 311 from LifeLine, 287 were more expensive than LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable and 15 were cheaper.
How much are LifeLine Brake Cables?
We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at LifeLine products that are listed in the Brake Cables category.
The average price of the 9 products that match this search was £4.21, with the cheapest coming in at £1.49 and highest price was £13.49. With the average being £4.21, LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable comes in below average.
5 products that meet this search were more expensive than LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable and 2 were cheaper.
LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable 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 LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable reviews there.
Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 8.1 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 LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable or another similar product, like LifeLine Performance Inner Brake Cable reviews or LifeLine Performance Inner Brake 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 LifeLine, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.
YouTube Video of LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable
Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable reviews.
Summary
Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable. 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 9.0/10 overall.
Further product details
- Product ID 1: 25010918797
- Product ID 2: 566943UK
- Brand: LifeLine
- Model number: PPE-BST17R
- RRP: £2.49
- EAN: 5056097011899
- Description: LifeLine Essential Inner Brake CableThe LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable is constructed using corrosion resistant stainless steel which is not only durable; it will give your brakes renewed performance with a smooth action. Flexible and easy to fit due to the 6x10mm anchor on one end, this cable is compatible with all Shimano/SRAM drop bar levers and caliper, cantilever, v-brake and mechanical disc brakes. Three cable end caps are included so you can prevent the cable fraying after cutting.Features:¬† 1x 19 strand stainless steel inner brake cable with √ò 6x10mm Shimano/SRAM drop bar lever compatible anchor¬† 3x cable end caps includedBuy¬†LifeLine Components¬†from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
- Full Category: Components > Brake Cables
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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 LifeLine Essential Inner Brake Cable included,
LifeLine Essential Brake Cable Set reviews, LifeLine Performance Brake Cable Set reviews, or we really liked the look of LifeLine Brake Cable Outer Casing reviews as another alternative.