At Interbike, I talked with Ketty and Jason at the Jagwire booth. I was on a search for the thick woven BMX compressionless brake housing that I had received from a Jagwire at Sea Otter a few years ago. I didn't find that specific housing, but I did get the scoop on the new 2008 Jagwire Mountain bike Ripcord colors.
You can check out how your bike looks with different colored Jagwire housing by using the Jagwire Swatch-a-lator. It has a photo of a BMC mountain bike, and when you rollover the different colored housing, it superimposes the housing color over the cable housing on the bike photo.
If you want to trick out your mountain bike with some color accents in 2008, the new housing colors are as following:
- Dirt Rag brown (a translucent red brown)
- Red (kind of a cherry red)
- White
- Merida Green (like a bright lime green)
- Other colors available include Black, Ripcord, Expressway, Titanium, XTR Gray, Hi-Tech Gray, Sterling Silver, Pearl Silver, Blue, Hot Pink, Yellow, Maxxis Orange, Gold Medal.
Head Mechanic, Daniel, really likes Jagwire products. The company has been around for over 20 years, and the products, in his experience, are high-quality and mechanic friendly. Since we are a shop, we buy Jagwire cables and housing in bulk. But Jagwire makes do-it-yourself brake and derailleur cable and housing kits for different bicycles and cycling needs. (Actual contents of the Ripcord kit, other cable and housing kits, and more photos after the jump.)
Photo of the Jagwire Swatch-a-lator lifted from their site, photo of the Ripcord pack taken by Wheelgirl at Interbike in Vegas 2007
From the Jagwire site, the Ripcord kit contains the following:
"Brake kit includes: 2 lined ferrules, 2 nosed ferrules, 2 POP ferrules, 3 cable donuts, 2 cable tips and 650mm of sealing liner. Derailleur kit includes: 3 lined ferrules, 7 nosed ferrules, 6 cable donuts, 1 raincoat boot, 2 cable tips and 2100mm of sealing liner
Complete kit includes the contents of both the derailleur and brake kits
Cables are slick stainless material
Compatible with Shimano / SRAM–mountain"
Other cable and housing kits available from Jagwire, include the following:
- Ripcord Cable kit (compatible with Shimano and SRAM mountain products)
- Hyper Cable kit (compatible with Shimano/SRAM/Campagnolo mountain and road)
- Racer Cable kit (compatible with Shimano/SRAM/Campagnolo road)
- BMX / Heavy Duty Cable kit.
Photos of Ripcord taken by Wheelgirl at Interbike in Vegas 2007
