Avid FR-5 Brake Lever Reviews

Review score: 9.2/10 – Updated November, 2024

Latest Price: £14.48 – Save 3% (RRP: £15)

Take a look now to discover what makes Avid FR-5 Brake Lever worthy of a review score of 9.2 out of 10.

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• Features
• Quality
• Price
• Reviews
• Brand – Avid
• Videos
• Summary
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View reviews at Chain Reaction Cycles

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Avid FR-5 Brake Lever 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 Brake Levers. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Avid FR-5 Brake Lever.

The first thing is material. Looking at what Avid FR-5 Brake Lever 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 Levers. 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 Levers. Brands like Avid 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 Levers 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 Brake Levers.

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 Avid FR-5 Brake Lever

So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Avid FR-5 Brake Lever.

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 Avid FR-5 Brake Lever was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £14.48 in our latest search.

Based on this price we’ve scored it 9.2 out of 10 for price.

Average price of Brake Levers

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

We found 35 in the Brake Levers category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £40.91, making it below average at £14.48.

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 Levers. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £170.99, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £9.00.

With 35 products available we worked out that 32 cost more than Avid FR-5 Brake Lever and 2 were cheaper.

Cost of Avid products

At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 29 products from Avid, of which 2 were in the Brake Levers category.

For now though we’re looking at Avid branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £33.07 making this product below average.

You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Avid product we found was £5.98 and the highest price we could find from them was £109.99.

Of the 29 from Avid, 23 were more expensive than Avid FR-5 Brake Lever and 5 were cheaper.

How much are Avid Brake Levers?

We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Avid products that are listed in the Brake Levers category.

The average price of the 2 products that match this search was £18.24, with the cheapest coming in at £14.48 and highest price was £21.99. With the average being £18.24, Avid FR-5 Brake Lever comes in below average.

1 products that meet this search were more expensive than Avid FR-5 Brake Lever and 0 were cheaper.

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Avid FR-5 Brake Lever 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 Avid FR-5 Brake Lever reviews there.

Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Avid FR-5 Brake Lever, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 9.9 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Brake Levers category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.5 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 Avid FR-5 Brake Lever or another similar product, like Avid Avid Guide-Trail Disc Brake Pads reviews or Avid Level Disc Brake Pads 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 Levers.

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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 Brake Levers. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Avid, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.

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YouTube Video of Avid FR-5 Brake Lever

Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Avid FR-5 Brake Lever reviews.

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Summary

Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Avid FR-5 Brake Lever. 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 9.2/10 overall.

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Further product details

• Product ID 1: 25010919083
• Product ID 2: 68729UK
• Brand: Avid
• Model number: 00.5215.001.000
• RRP: £15
• EAN: 765250001800
• Description: Avid FR-5 Brake LeverThe squeeze of Avid levers is what dreams are made of (and you know which dreams we’re talking about). Most of Avid levers can be swapped to be run either front or rear, which is convenient if you like to your brakes reversed, and a Godsend if you bust a lever in the middle of the woods.Avid levers are easy to install, simple to set up, and a pleasure to pull.Features: Bend Zone: We know that crashes happen, and that’s why we created Bend Zone. During a powerful hit‚Äîone that would break a normal lever‚ÄîBend Zone allows the lever to flex, saving the lever body from massive carnage. Not only will you be able to ride out of the woods without resorting to Flintstone-style braking, you won’t even have to get a new lever body. Reach Adjust: Brake lever fit and feel is a personal thing. Riders have individual positioning preferences, as well as unique hand sizes and finger lengths. Reach Adjust makes it easy to adjust your lever for maximum one-finger control for everyone. Specifications: Weight: 155 grams (per pair) Lever Material: Aluminum, Reversible, Flat Rate Pull Adjustment: Reach Adjustment, Qwik-Adjust Barrel Adjuster Special Features: Bend Zone Compatibility: Mechanical disc brakes, Linear-pull brakes.Buy¬†Avid Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
• Full Category: Components > Brake Levers
• Savings percentage from RRP: 3%
• Size: Pair
• Unisex
• 0.52
• Adult

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Other options for Brake Levers

As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Brake Levers. 35 in fact.

A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching Avid FR-5 Brake Lever included,
Avid 20 R Brake Pads reviews, Avid SRAM Disc Brake Pads reviews, or we really liked the look of Avid Avid Juicy-BB7 Disc Brake Pads reviews as another alternative.