The "what the hell is Odyssey / Gspprt cooking up" thread.

[Danno]

My Hawk Nest should be here before Christmas, I will post loads of photos because Odyssey seem pretty good at not showing us enough about it. I'd be kicking and screaming about it if I was them considering the BMX market is dominated by the DK Golf bag!

[reebzor]

The G-Coaster is not totally dead though, just in a coma, awaiting resuscitation...


G.

Feel free to send me one for testing

[MilkyWilky]

A hub to fill the void left by the Eastern Venus. 

Danno is right about the bag though, they should do a whole viral campaign of filling it with quantities of things (wheels, baby shrimp, gumballs, loaves of bread, chinchilla) but the success of this bag could cause DK to fold.

[Danno]

Then again, it is only a bag!

[Eggit2]

George,
Are you guys able to publish any of your testing results for the keychain? I'd love to see the tensile strength of both the hollow and solid pin versions compared to a KMC510h

[faldfhkhfidhfid]

Hey George, Will there be a batch of 48 hole Simian rears once they come out? Even if it is a small batch i'll be happy. 36 just isnt the same. Still rocking the monkey in the front to a ribcage, Got the porn hub to a old hulahoop in the rear.

[dude...]

Hey George, Will there be a batch of 48 hole Simian rears once they come out? Even if it is a small batch i'll be happy. 36 just isnt the same. Still rocking the monkey in the front to a ribcage, Got the porn hub to a old hulahoop in the rear.

no there wont. they had to flog off the 48h ratchets as complete wheels for $100 (bargain of the century) because they couldnt shift them at full price

[G]

George,
Are you guys able to publish any of your testing results for the keychain? I'd love to see the tensile strength of both the hollow and solid pin versions compared to a KMC510h

I think the plan is to do some kind of stampy testing, both for straight tensile and impact. The problem is (as always) that the industry standard tests aren't a great reflection of real world riding. eg. nobody ever puts a new chain on, then pedals hard enough to apply over a ton of straight tensile load to the chain. But it is hard to come up with a good repeatable test so maybe we will revert to this.

Hey George, Will there be a batch of 48 hole Simian rears once they come out? Even if it is a small batch i'll be happy. 36 just isnt the same. Still rocking the monkey in the front to a ribcage, Got the porn hub to a old hulahoop in the rear.

Hey George, Will there be a batch of 48 hole Simian rears once they come out? Even if it is a small batch i'll be happy. 36 just isnt the same. Still rocking the monkey in the front to a ribcage, Got the porn hub to a old hulahoop in the rear.

no there wont. they had to flog off the 48h ratchets as complete wheels for $100 (bargain of the century) because they couldnt shift them at full price

^^^^
Partly this, and partly there just isn't room on the flange for 24 holes per side.

The Simian rear is the same flange dimensions as the Antigram and you really need a lot more for a 48.


G.

[Eggit2]

George,
Are you guys able to publish any of your testing results for the keychain? I'd love to see the tensile strength of both the hollow and solid pin versions compared to a KMC510h

I think the plan is to do some kind of stampy testing, both for straight tensile and impact. The problem is (as always) that the industry standard tests aren't a great reflection of real world riding. eg. nobody ever puts a new chain on, then pedals hard enough to apply over a ton of straight tensile load to the chain. But it is hard to come up with a good repeatable test so maybe we will revert to this.



G.

I'm looking at it mostly for trials, so tensile strength would be a pretty good real world test. From what I have seen a lot fo people in trials community are interested by it, but are on the fence. Its hard to get away from what you know works, especially when your teeth are on the line.

[hugh.]

My Hawk Nest should be here before Christmas, I will post loads of photos because Odyssey seem pretty good at not showing us enough about it. I'd be kicking and screaming about it if I was them considering the BMX market is dominated by the DK Golf bag!

Did you ever manage to grab one? I'm wondering if it can be rolled up fairly compact and thrown in a backpack?

[Finn the Human]

I think the plan is to do some kind of stampy testing, both for straight tensile and impact. The problem is (as always) that the industry standard tests aren't a great reflection of real world riding. eg. nobody ever puts a new chain on, then pedals hard enough to apply over a ton of straight tensile load to the chain. But it is hard to come up with a good repeatable test so maybe we will revert to this.

Set it up vertically.
Drop like 80-100 kilo's.
See if a sprocket with a bit of dampening that is accelerating in the opposite direction can catch it.
Hope the sprocket doesn't explode.
Increase the weight to dumb amounts.
Profit?!

[dude...]

My Hawk Nest should be here before Christmas, I will post loads of photos because Odyssey seem pretty good at not showing us enough about it. I'd be kicking and screaming about it if I was them considering the BMX market is dominated by the DK Golf bag!

Did you ever manage to grab one? I'm wondering if it can be rolled up fairly compact and thrown in a backpack?

id be keen for feedback on the hawks nest too. next time i fly with my bike im gonna get one i reckon

[MilkyWilky]

I think the plan is to do some kind of stampy testing, both for straight tensile and impact. The problem is (as always) that the industry standard tests aren't a great reflection of real world riding. eg. nobody ever puts a new chain on, then pedals hard enough to apply over a ton of straight tensile load to the chain. But it is hard to come up with a good repeatable test so maybe we will revert to this.



G.

Why don't you just see how much it takes to pry 2 links apart - after all a chain is only as strong as its weakest link!

[Danno]

Yeah I got a Hawk Nest, I took photos but they didn't really show much which im guessing is why Odyssey have just released a video of it instead of loads of pictures. It's up on the product page of their website.

There's no way it would fold down to fit in a backpack, mines folded in half and is way bigger than my backpack. I havent used it yet but fly out to Malaga at the end of April so will have some feedback then. The quality is great though and I much prefer it to the DK bag. There's more stock of the Hawk Nest coming into the UK at the end of March and we will have one spare if anyone wants to buy one.

[happycatbasket]

still pipe dreaming that one day oddy will be able to justify and throw down enough money to make grindside molds for JC/PCs because we're all so tired of pulling those pins out when they get ground down. Not to mention switching the sides out a handful of times a year.

Also, that "we" should really just be an "I."