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The Bike Shop / Re: odyssey keychain

« on: May 25, 2014, 04:38:46 PM »

how many chains can you name that come with two master links? let alone 2 halflinks.

it's a more expensive chain due to the new design, and the tooling and probably more costs that G or someone else mentioned. The first halflink chains also didn't have any other features apart from being different and innovative.
They were also real expensive and didn't come with ANY link. The plates weren't even connected, little rollers everywhere.

The odyssey chain seems very well designed and i don't think that we would need more master links than they supply.

If we do, then just like with any other chain, we turn to the bike shop and get ourselves a new master link. Or if we're that paranoid, we might just order them in advance along with the chain.

edit: or ditch masterlinks lol

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

« on: May 23, 2014, 04:54:36 PM »

Just started on a polishing job for my newly acquired Tomahawk stem.



Concluded that i still have to take reeeeal fine (laquer) sanding paper to prepare the alu to be able to get a shiny finish on there.
The above is what i achieved with about 5 minutes on a polishing wheel. Hence the change of strategy.

Real stoked on this little project though. Stem didn't fit the look of my R25's in chrome and the 9.25 chrome bars i'll be running, so i decided to take matters into my own hands. Definitely more work than i anticipated.
Guess normal stems are easier to polish because a lot of them are cnc'ed.

D'oh.

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The Bike Shop / Re: odyssey keychain

« on: May 22, 2014, 07:07:16 PM »

i suppose Ody does this under pressure of the 'i want my axle slammed' kinda people.

Halflinks stretch, halflinks break where they're bent, just depends if it's sooner or later. They kinda lack in every feature that make a chain a good chain. No superior tensile strenght over regular chains, i believe by FAR.
Just wraps around a 8t better.

Most chains these days are up for 9t, which is what 90% of the world runs anyway.
Halflinks look snazzy though- and it looks like the halflink chains now have worthy opponents in that part of the competition.
And tbh i don't even need to ride the keychain to be able say it's probably stronger than most halflink -or normal chains.

The halflink provided with the keychain will probably use the same thickness plate that the keychain does, so it should be expected that these halflinks will out-perform regular halflinks.

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The Bike Shop / Re: odyssey keychain

« on: May 22, 2014, 06:10:28 PM »

They are pricey but hopefully they will be worth it. Maybe a stampy test or something may convince people.

Actually I really want to see a stampy test for this.

What is a stampy test? I could google it but i'm that lazy.

Looks pretty cool. Shucks I just bought a new kmc.

I just bought a bluebird, will be rocking that until these will be available.
Sure thing i would pay the extra €€€ for a chain that saves my jewels knees and teeth.
My last chain was a KHE Collapse. Those will survive WW3. Beefy as fuck.
Now on a KMC not so kool 710 and have a bluebird ready to be built onto what will be my new bike.

If i snap the 510hx bluebird, the keychain should be more up for bashing and grinding which will make it a great investment for the 4pegged grind combo people.
Glad Odyssey never ventured into making halflink chains. Despite Odyssey's awesome reputation i'd never trust a halflink.

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

« on: May 18, 2014, 07:19:32 PM »

way to go, mister!

I think those will probably be 3 great choices.

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

« on: May 17, 2014, 07:45:48 PM »

Broke my amity forks which have been rode less than 10times.....fuck this.getting odyssey f25's or something

Damn that must suck.

Odysseys and you can forget about your forks for years.

Had a pair for i think 3 years without a problem, and sold em for cheap to a friend that still had half a complete bike.
That's a while back though, guess i got rid of them a year ago.

Going for my fourth Odyssey without problems. I have a Director laying around, but don't trust it because there was a tiny little rustline underneath my white paintjob. Might be cause i rawed them so i chalk that one up to me being dumbass and paranoid.