Messages

346

The Lounge / What have you made?

« on: February 13, 2013, 02:57:13 PM »

Nice.


G.

347

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

« on: January 23, 2013, 06:03:04 AM »

You really shouldn't let oven cleaner get onto the bearing seats. It works by eating away the aluminium so you will be fucking up the bearing seat tolerances very quick. Decorative anodising (like hubs use) should buff off pretty fast with a polishing wheel and you are not going to fuck the bearing seats.


G.

348

The Bike Shop / 22 inches

« on: January 18, 2013, 05:42:06 PM »

Potato = screen shot from video...

G- I have no doubt that Odyssey could have 22 inch tires, well made and on the USA shores in a timely manner.

The Faction guys are amateurs...

I am honestly sure that we couldn't. It sounds like Faction have a factory that makes high end road tyres with some guys there who are behind the project, that is more important than anything else. I am 100% certain that our reception with our factory would be very different, we have had to push them super hard in the past to do incredibly basic stuff.


G.

349

The Bike Shop / 22 inches

« on: January 18, 2013, 08:42:06 AM »

I sent an e-amil to Faction regarding estimated delivery date. This is what they answered: "I think tyres will be ready before end of February. We were trying to co-ordinate for half the delivery to go the USA warehouse and half to come here (one consignment at the factory and one courier ) but it didn't work out so we've had to arrange for it to be collected by different shippers on different weeks.The factory has to manage our small order between their huge roadbike orders, unfortunately we have to keep to their timetable not ours because the F22 is a 'rebel' project for two of the factory technicians. We're lucky to have their cutting edge tech but it does mean we sometimes have to put up with delays".

I think we“ve to be patient and keep in mind that Faction is a small player in the game. I personally really appreciate that they push the market for a 22" option.

I'd just like to point out that this pretty much validates what I said near the beginning of this thread that I got so much shit for...


G.

350

The Bike Shop / 22 inches

« on: December 31, 2012, 10:15:12 AM »

.... The revenge rim is identical to the quadrant rim.  ....

I very much doubt that. If it is then we have some patent conflicts to sort out.


G.

351

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

« on: November 19, 2012, 06:23:59 AM »

Going to ride the new indoor park in nottingham on Tuesday too

Post a review when you have been please (in a new thread). Planning on hitting that up soon.


G.

352

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

« on: October 25, 2012, 06:02:05 PM »

Did this to my rim sometime in the last time I rode. There goes my rear roll cage. Any idea if this would be a warranty-able? Shot in the dark, I am not asking Gsport to give me a new rim. Just wondering

The warranty is against defects in materials workmanship that kind of thing, we are pretty generous with it, but there doesn't seem like a lot of doubt that an impact that can do that to a Rollcage would mangle pretty much any rim in a similar way (and many would fair much worse)...

Having said that, Logan (warranty at odysseybmx.com) is a super nice guy and he might well be offer you a crash replacement deal that will save you a fair bit of cash and get you rolling again, so worth hitting him up...


G.

353

The Bike Shop / 3D printed titanium parts

« on: September 20, 2012, 08:28:00 AM »

Did you make that yourself G? Certainly looks like theres a bunch of custom parts in there if not.

We've got a bfb one in our office, similar but the table just moves up and down and the heads move about in the 2 other planes like a router, i think it helps with building taller parts, stops them falling over. Amazing machine, considering it cost about 800 quid or something + 2 days of assembly by 'a competent engineer'*, ours has run probably 12hrs a day since we got it in feb.



*took me 2 weeks before it was running, fuckers.

Built it from a kit £400. It's a Longboat Prussa. Supposed to take a couple of days to assemble and calibrate but took me more like a month, the physical assembly was easy enough but the instructions get patchy when it comes to the electronics and software etc. The kit came with bits missing and a couple of serious errors in the hot end which caused it to self destruct after about 2 hours of use... got it all tuned up now and starting to get decent prints.

Never had any parts fall over but I print on a heated glass bed (which is definitely the way to go).

There isnt a lot you can print that is strong enough to use as an actual item. I printed a super thick bashguard ring for my MTB which is holding up OK so far, and a case for some batteries, but mostly I just print mock ups of prototype parts which is enough to get a feel for the shape etc...  It is very useful to be able to print out a pedal body say and put your foot on it and feel the pins etc then make modifications and print off another version within hours..

Cool thing is that I can now print out parts for upgrading the 3D printer, added a fan since this photo (which helps a lot with print quality).


G.

354

The Bike Shop / 3D printed titanium parts

« on: September 19, 2012, 02:04:55 PM »

G, would you be able to do that honeycomb interior with a cast part?

No. But you also cant do it with the selective laser melting machine in the top video either, unless you leave a side open to drain all the excess powder out (or leave it in there with kind of negates the point).

In the video of the dropouts he specifically claims that they couldnt have made those dropouts any other way and yet that is rubbish. You could investment cast them for a relatively low tool cost.
Sunday dropouts have been hollow for what 6 years, and are forged for ultimate strength without needing this kind of process though there is obviously a lot more conventional work that goes into them than this.

3D printing is undoubtedly very cool and may well be a huge industry in the future, but people hyping up the (what I think will eventually be seen as) primitive stuff we have at the moment is not very helpful.

When we can lay down individual carbon atoms in perfect alignment to make pretty much anything with genuinely amazing and almost perfectly efficient strength and weight then that will be incredible. An entire bike could weigh probably just a few pounds (like 3 or 4) yet be stronger than what we have now.


G.

355

The Bike Shop / 3D printed titanium parts

« on: September 19, 2012, 09:40:42 AM »

There is quite a lot of hype in there.

The parts they made could all be made by investment casting and would result in very similar properties, the advantage of this method is there is no tooling cost...

The idea that the properties of the material are superior to forging is laughable... you may be able to design to create an overall stronger part but that is not the same thing...

3D printing is pretty cool though, mine is running right now... and I wish it did titanium instead of just plastic..




G.

356

The Bike Shop / odyssey quik slic cable

« on: August 11, 2012, 03:09:42 PM »

“
This is pretty interesting! I've always used my springs to get my pads to grab the rim at the exact same time, I guess that is not possible with this setup? Also, is there a way to adjust the tension? Sorry if this has been answered or shown in pics somewhere else (I didn't look into it, sorry)!

The idea is to simplify set-up as much as possible, so there is zero adjustment. Bikes these days are pretty well made, so the days of wonky bosses and bent back ends should be behind us, and as long as the bosses are correctly positioned everything should be fit and forget.

We have had these for a while and we haven't yet seen a frame or wheel that is too far out of line for the brake to work right. On my bike they went on perfect and stay perfectly centred and do contact the rim both sides at once. Because of the geometry of where the spring is, it does tend to centre well and move evenly.
People who are obsessive about their brakes and need the pads to contact at EXACTLY the same time every time (like flatlanders, if there are any out there still running brakes anyway) will want to stick with the individual spring brakes and we will still be making those. But for people who just want a fuss free brake that works, these are ideal, they are also a good bet if you regularly put brakes on for a few rides then take them off, since there are no springs in the pivots they take seconds to install and remove.

Especially if paired with the QuikSlic... (to return to the subject..)


G.

357

The Bike Shop / odyssey quik slic cable

« on: August 10, 2012, 06:15:57 PM »

Swing by the office if you are ever down south.  I totally forgot you are from the Austin area.   If you still have my cell phone number just shoot me a text first.  We have extra knarps and even extra Quik Slics laying around the office.  I can try to help you get rid of the double barrel adjuster situation you are working with.

Be good to get that unit back to check what the problem was and make sure it doesn't happen again...


G.

358

The Bike Shop / odyssey quik slic cable

« on: August 10, 2012, 03:20:12 PM »

^^^ Really sorry you had such a nightmare. My guess is that the hole was drilled too high up, which means that instead of tightening against the bottom of the clamp body, the cable was just being pushed down the hole... If you can swing by OTX with it and show it to Chris or Taj or someone that would be awesome and they can hook you up with a replacement or something for your trouble.... or just leave it at Empire..


G.

359

The Bike Shop / odyssey quik slic cable

« on: August 08, 2012, 06:22:29 AM »

I've seen that springfield brake in pictures but am confused about how it works.  does anyone have a link they could share?  any info?

Fairly big pictures here:-
http://themerged.com/2012/06/19/sunday-2013-bikes-odyssey-parts-sneak-peek/

There are no springs in the pivots, you just bolt them on with one bolt per arm with no spring balancing, then the spring is here:-


Kind of like the brake I modified for myself many many years ago but neater...



Rode this for years with zero problems...


G.

360

The Bike Shop / odyssey quik slic cable

« on: August 07, 2012, 02:48:31 PM »

Tried one today after my Animal cable shit the bed but I really don't like e knarp idea. Went with a reg cable instead.

The clamp is only there for frames with weird stop positions, for 95% of bikes you just need to buy the right length and stick it on, it takes 5 seconds..

Length calculator here:-
http://www.odysseybmx.com/dailyword/2012/02/available-now-quik-slic-linear-kables/


G.