Love my Rep x Pepins. I've owned them a year now and use them at least 4x per week. They perform like the day I got them, feel great in the hand and can't ever see needing/wanting to upgrade. I initially thought the cage would bother me and I also purchased the 'low profile' selector pins - but neither the cage nor the standard pins have been an issue for me and I have never even bothered installing the low profile ones. After hundreds of uses - racking and unracking - ive experienced plate stickage twice. Both times were due to me putting them back at a weird angle.. My only real gripe is that the adder weights, if not carefully installed, will ding the crap out of the top of the first weight plate. They are solid and stable in hand. I feel they are extremely well balanced and sized especially when getting into higher weights. Can't say enough good things about them.