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Remember how a few arm-chair engineers called this out? Well who'd a thunk it..
Narcoleptic Insomniac:
You'd think the issues with the eclat cranks would have become apparent during prototype testing by their team riders.
Bunky:
--- Quote from: ediotism on February 01, 2016, 12:41:27 AM ---
secondly, people very seldom rave mad about how good a product like cranks are. it's like I.T. and electricity
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Aint that the damn truth. I work for an event IT company, and when everything is working fine, nobody thanks us, but when the internet goes down somewhere people freak the hell out.
I feel like Odyssey get's the same wrap. Anytime anyone breaks an Odyssey product it's like they go right to the internet to complain about it instead of hitting up warranty. You end up with like 10 people breaking Odyssey cranks that all go online and complain and it makes other people think that they're shit, when there's probably an absolute shit ton of people like myself that have had no problems with Odyssey cranks. I've smashed the shit out of 1 pair of wombolts that I have and they're still kicking way better than my old rickety Primo Hollowbites.
I really wish that George could post Odysseys warranty/return rate on the wombolts/twombolts/thunderbolts line of cranks. I bet that it's pretty damn low.
nwcstn:
--- Quote from: Han Solo on January 30, 2016, 10:00:44 PM ---Bike parts break.
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--- Quote from: Han Solo on February 01, 2016, 06:42:18 AM ---That's why one of the first things I said was "bike parts break"
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Hey guys, bike parts break. That includes the ones you design G.
alaskun:
remember the 'oversized' 7/8 or 22mm profile SS styled wtp cranks from around 2000-2004, which broke so frequently that even magazine reviewers acknowledged it...
my first time being scammed by a bmxer was for a set of those cranks.
the 'design' was fine - 48 spline/beefy tubular arms - but they made them wrong/not strong enough.
wombolts were also 'made wrong' until things got sorted out. Things actually got sorted out, over a relatively short period.
now wtp/eclat cranks went back to a decades-old spline system and not only didn't fix it, but made it worse by splitting the spindle...
odyssey at least kept fixing/upgrading theirs until they had something that works. They weren't just trying to sell a worsened old system, they were developing a new [arguably] improved one...
streetStreet:
i finger my bum, in the shower.
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