Its the best decks ever.

Going to go the magic shop nearby and try the Turner decks next week.

I just tried recently a deck of Mandolins (after avoiding them for a long time), and was pleasantly surprised on how they handle out of the box. They are less expensive than Gold Seal bikes, and depending on where you buy, slightly less expensive than Phoenix as well.

Mandolin and gold seal are best for the bottoms up faro shuffles with the deck face down, I realized that the new bicicle that has the FREE APP yellow logo are 90 per cent of the times traditionaly cut (as the gold bikes and the mandolins this is a lil secret I found hope this help you

The gold seal Bikes Faro equally well from bottom and top. There is no noticeable difference.

I ended up getting a Phoenix deck and they faro much better, in fact perfect, than the Bicycle decks I have bought in the last year or so. I faro from the top down and for now on it's a PHOENIX deck for me. I didn't try the Turner deck so not sure how the faro.

Bicycle decks are horrendous for Faro shuffles although strangely the ones in the European style boxes (Gold trimmed) seem to faro no problem