Transfil Outer Gear Casing Reviews
Review score: 8.9/10 – Updated November, 2024
Latest Price: £2.99 – Save 25% (RRP: £3.99)
Take a look now to discover what makes Transfil Outer Gear Casing worthy of a review score of 8.9 out of 10.
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Transfil Outer Gear Casing features
Transfil Outer Gear Casing
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Spec 1
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Colour: Black Other Gear Cables found with this Spec: 6387 |
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Spec 2
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Option: Shimano Other Gear Cables found with this Spec: 89 |
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Feature 1
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High-Quality Other Gear Cables found with this feature: 13 |
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Feature 2
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Teflon lined Other Gear Cables found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 3
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Length: 2000mm Other Gear Cables found with this feature: 4 |
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Feature 4
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Compatibility: Road & MTB Other Gear Cables found with this feature: 2 |
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Price
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£2.99 |
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Number of Reviews
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2 |
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Review Score
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5 / 5 Average score in category: 4.3/5 |
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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 Gear Cables. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Transfil Outer Gear Casing.
The first thing is material. Looking at what Transfil Outer Gear Casing 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 Gear 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 Gear Cables. Brands like Transfil 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 Gear 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 Gear 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 Transfil Outer Gear Casing
So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Transfil Outer Gear Casing.
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 Transfil Outer Gear Casing was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £2.99 in our latest search.
Based on this price we’ve scored it 8.2 out of 10 for price.
Average price of Gear Cables
Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Gear Cables.
We found 86 in the Gear Cables category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £19.35, making it below average at £2.99.
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 Gear Cables. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £139.99, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £0.49.
With 86 products available we worked out that 71 cost more than Transfil Outer Gear Casing and 12 were cheaper.
Cost of Transfil products
At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 23 products from Transfil, of which 10 were in the Gear Cables category.
For now though we’re looking at Transfil branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £9.10 making this product below average.
You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Transfil product we found was £0.99 and the highest price we could find from them was £53.99.
Of the 23 from Transfil, 12 were more expensive than Transfil Outer Gear Casing and 9 were cheaper.
How much are Transfil Gear Cables?
We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Transfil products that are listed in the Gear Cables category.
The average price of the 10 products that match this search was £12.14, with the cheapest coming in at £0.99 and highest price was £53.99. With the average being £12.14, Transfil Outer Gear Casing comes in below average.
7 products that meet this search were more expensive than Transfil Outer Gear Casing and 2 were cheaper.
Transfil Outer Gear Casing 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 Transfil Outer Gear Casing reviews there.
Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Transfil Outer Gear Casing, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 8.7 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Gear Cables category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.3 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 Transfil Outer Gear Casing or another similar product, like Transfil Anti-Fray Inner Cable End Caps reviews or SRAM SlickWire Shift Cable Kit 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 Gear 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 Gear Cables. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Transfil, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.
YouTube Video of Transfil Outer Gear Casing
Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Transfil Outer Gear Casing reviews.
Summary
Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Transfil Outer Gear Casing. 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 8.9/10 overall.
Further product details
- Product ID 1: 25010920949
- Product ID 2: 606361UK
- Brand: Transfil
- Model number: KG40
- RRP: £3.99
- Description: Transfil Outer Gear CasingThe Transfil Outer Gear Casing is manufactured from the highest quality materials and is designed to the precise specifications that modern drivetrains demand. This brake casing is guaranteed to provide slick and smooth shifting performance and as the cable is incompressible, its durability outlasts most other brands. Transfil’s technology comes from the research, innovation and production of the control cables they produce for the French car industry. Their bicycle brake and gear cable accessories, end caps and ferrules are among the most reliable and dependable on the market.Features:High-QualityTeflon linedLength: 2000mmCompatibility: Road & MTBBuy Transfil Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
- Full Category: Components > Gear Cables
- Savings percentage from RRP: 25%
- Size: Shimano
- Unisex
- 1
- Adult
Other options for Gear Cables
As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Gear Cables. 86 in fact.
A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching Transfil Outer Gear Casing included,
Vitus Substance Carbon Cable Kit 2019-21 reviews, Vitus Vitesse EVO Disc Cable Kit 2017-20 reviews, or we really liked the look of Vitus Auro Cable Guide Kit to 2020 reviews as another alternative.