Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps Review

Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps Reviews

Review score: 8.6/10 – Updated September, 2024

Latest Price: £1.48 – Save -49% (RRP: £0.99)

Take a look now to discover what makes Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps worthy of a review score of 8.6 out of 10.

Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps Review


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Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps features

Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps specs

Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps
Spec 1

Colour: Black

Other Brake Cables found with this Spec: 6387

Spec 2

Option: Pair – Sealed 4mm

Other Brake Cables found with this Spec: 1

Feature 1

Suitable for SP40/41 outer casing with 4mm outer diameter

Other Brake Cables found with this feature: 1

Price

£1.48

Number of Reviews

11

Review Score

4.3 / 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 Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps.

The first thing is material. Looking at what Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps 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 Shimano 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 Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps

So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps.

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 Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £1.48 in our latest search.

Based on this price we’ve scored it 8.7 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 £1.48.

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 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 64 cost more than Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps and 4 were cheaper.

Cost of Shimano products

At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 854 products from Shimano, of which 14 were in the Brake Cables category.

For now though we’re looking at Shimano branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £94.29 making this product below average.

You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Shimano product we found was £1.00 and the highest price we could find from them was £1999.99.

Of the 854 from Shimano, 852 were more expensive than Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps and 1 were cheaper.

How much are Shimano Brake Cables?

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

The average price of the 14 products that match this search was £12.77, with the cheapest coming in at £1.48 and highest price was £29.95. With the average being £12.77, Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps comes in below average.

13 products that meet this search were more expensive than Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps and 0 were cheaper.


Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps 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 Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps reviews there.

Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 8.4 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 Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps or another similar product, like Shimano Deore T610 Trekking V-Brake Levers reviews or Shimano Deore T611 V-Brake Levers 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 Shimano, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.


YouTube Video of Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps

Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps reviews.


Summary

Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps. 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 8.6/10 overall.


Further product details

  • Product ID 1: 25878041337
  • Product ID 2: 22794UK
  • Brand: Shimano
  • Model number: 6Z2 9801
  • RRP: £0.99
  • EAN: 4524667127383
  • Description: Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps Sealed outer casing end caps for use with gear outer casing.Features:Suitable for SP40/41 outer casing with 4mm outer diameter A 2 year warranty is offered with all Shimano products from Chain Reaction Cycles (3 years on Dura-Ace and XTR products).Buy Shimano Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Full Category: Components > Brake Cables
  • Savings percentage from RRP: -49%
  • Size: Pair – Sealed 4mm
  • Unisex
  • -0.49
  • Adult

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 Shimano SP41 Plastic Outer Gear Casing Caps included,
Shimano Alivio T4000 Trekking V-Brake Levers reviews, Shimano Tiagra R400 Brake Levers reviews, or we really liked the look of Shimano Tiagra 4700 Flat Bar Brake Levers reviews as another alternative.

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