happyriding

@jpv6578: My 160mm Revive with the 2x remote starts fraying the cable after a month, and the cable snaps after about 2 months. When I press the 2x remote, I can hear a click as the nub at the end of the cable reseats itself, which results in a sawing motion that ultimately causes the cable to fail. I have never needed to revive my post; it worked perfectly straight out of the box.

I was picking my way down a tight, steep, rocky bit of trail and my right handle bar clipped a tree, and I went down. After I picked myself up and determined there was no damage to my body, I did a cursory check of my bike, and the rear wheel wouldn't spin. My 160mm ice-tech rotor was severely bent. I removed the wheel, and after several unsuccessful attempts at straightening the rotor, I grabbed the top of my tire and with two fingers I pulled as hard as I could on the top of the rotor, and it didn't bend at all. Then I used three fingers. It wouldn't budge. I wrapped a rag around my fingers, and I cranked as hard as I could on the top edge of the rotor where it was bent, but I didn't succeed in bending it back even a millimeter. I had to remove the rotor from my wheel, so I could ride back to the trailhead. It looked to me like the spider arm was bent inward where the bend in the rotor was. I tried to get a Park rotor straightening tool right next to the spider arm and bend the whole thing outward, but the spider arm didn't budge, and the rotor bent, making a mess of things. I can't believe I ever spent $60 on a rotor! In my experience, those rotors aren't easy to bend by hand.