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The Bike Shop / Re: Odyssey Clutch Teardown?

« on: July 25, 2015, 11:14:17 AM »

is this actually the g-coaster, or do you still have another design on the back burner?

This is not the Gcoaster, you can look at the 2006 patents for it though the design may have since changed since.

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Bike Gallery / Re: Daily Pictures v2

« on: July 17, 2015, 02:00:07 PM »

Been out for a while with hand injuries. Bought this frame early April after cracking my Fly but really just starting to ride it now. Not sure how into the orange I am but I like it!

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The Bike Shop / Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)

« on: April 04, 2015, 07:36:10 PM »

Snapped my Fly Montana clean doing a flat 3. Must have been damaged from something else but just days ago I wiped it down and recall no cracks here. Trying to decide now between a Soundwave and Motoross.

Wow, must have been some weak weld for it to crack directly on it.

Which version? Pretty impressed with my v1 Montana. Mine's held up for almost 4 years to pegs and all until I just recently retired it.
Started to get tiny stress cracks around the seat stays (same area) but I'm sure its still got a little life in it
I've still seen a decent amount of broken ones though

I think it's a v2 (2011 model). Only saw light peg use for a couple months and it never took any huge hits, and the forks I bought at the same time (Fly agua) snapped a year and a half ago - straight along the welds as well. Every Montana I've seen cracked has been in this same area so I wasn't surprised, I rode it just a few weeks more than 3 years.

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The Bike Shop / Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)

« on: April 02, 2015, 09:10:35 PM »

Snapped my Fly Montana clean doing a flat 3. Must have been damaged from something else but just days ago I wiped it down and recall no cracks here. Trying to decide now between a Soundwave and Motoross.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Fit S3 Rawing / Painting advice

« on: January 04, 2015, 05:32:40 PM »

Wire wheel is a good idea if you don't have access to a sandblaster, but you'll scuff the shit out of the frame. This'll be fine if you don't ever plan on polishing the frame or if you use a few extra coats of primer.

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The Lounge / Re: Happy New Years!

« on: January 04, 2015, 05:28:18 PM »

It amazes me that people could have such an issue with something like Instagram. It's exactly what you make it, with mine being mostly suicide girls, dogs and road bikes. Mint.

This is all I was trying to say locomotive. There's a lot of stupid, spammy shit on there, but all you've got to do is hit unfollow. Not that it isn't still a waste of time, but you can waste your time without seeing things you aren't interested in.

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The Lounge / Re: Happy New Years!

« on: January 03, 2015, 11:19:57 PM »

locomotive are you following your actual friends? That may be the problem.

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Non-riding Photo/Video/Multimedia Forum / Re: Computer advice 3.2GHz vs 4GHz

« on: December 28, 2014, 02:08:25 PM »

The difference between i5s and i7s is "hyperthreading".

i5 - 4 physical cores, 4 logical
i7 - 4 physical cores, 8 logical

Both are quad core processors but each of the physical cores in an i7 is sharing 2 "threads" or tasks, so the result is 8 logical cores.

If you're going to be editing 4K video you are certainly going to want the i7, if you're just playing it back you could probably get by with an i5. You will definitely notice differences though so if you can afford to grab the newer one I'd recommend it.

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The Bike Shop / Re: New odyssey stampy video

« on: December 11, 2014, 04:39:35 PM »

Those #1 forks say S/D here, still not sure what they are though... (2nd from right)


#2 kind of look like fly agua (small dia. tapered legs with flat bottom), but the triangular cutout looks too small.

I don't think any are eclat, they don't have the indents on the backs of the legs:



It looks like this test was the same as the original, cycles of 5000N (at 01:08)

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The Bike Shop / Re: New odyssey stampy video

« on: December 09, 2014, 09:44:52 PM »

I'm pretty sure those blue ones are Shadow. I think it's interesting that all the broken forks shown cracked right above the lower race, IIRC the first stampy video had lots of cracked dropouts.

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The Lounge / Re: New Star Wars trailer.

« on: November 29, 2014, 11:19:23 AM »

I want to believe this is a big prank but the production quality looks too high

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The Lounge / Re: Pumped BMX 2

« on: September 26, 2014, 08:16:47 PM »

Played it on a friend's iphone and was impressed. The first game was great, but 2 is far better in terms of mechanics/physics. Can't wait for android!

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The Bike Shop / Re: Quick Questions

« on: April 23, 2014, 08:37:08 PM »

I don't know exactly, but the R versions fit demo momentums with room to spare, and those fuckers are like 2.45" inflated on some rims. I would imagine all the new Ody forks share the same legs...

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The Bike Shop / Re: Quick Questions

« on: January 19, 2014, 05:02:58 PM »

Just don't mix finishes. Like if your spokes are matte black and you paint the rim gloss, or the other way round. It'll look real bad lol

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Riding Photos / Re: Wild Trail setups

« on: October 30, 2013, 09:07:44 PM »

Jesus christ, almost looks too perfect.