Odyssey / GSport: Get Frugal

Yeah, yeah fire engine red everything, but did you see that little flash of the new Odyssey Quadrant rim in there? There is a little more information out about this rim now. Specifically that it's pinned rather than welded, making it an economical alternative to the other Odyssey / GSport models. But, it's a pinned rim with a difference. The name Quadrant comes from the fact that it uses 4 pins rather than the standard 2 that hold most cheap rims together. This means that you wont get that annoying little step in the braking surface caused by the mis-alignment of the outer most edge of the rim wall. Simple ideas are often the best + everyone loves a bargain = winner.

There's also a new Ratchet hubguard that is forged rather than machined, so it's also going to save you some cash as well. It looks like this:



And apparently Odyssey have a new sprocket. They may or not save you money:

This Week In Colour

Those colourful characters at Odyssey have had a big week.

Checking their Daily Word it can sometimes seem as though they drop a new colour kit daily. But in the last week there's actually only been six new-colour-posts. Well, six in the last eight days to be precise. OK, the Chameleon stuff was a repost. And the brake pads? That's not technically a colour, definitely not a kit, but you get the idea. Fourteen colours in total.

Those Taiwanese powder-coaters must just shake their heads imagining what kind of bikes these American kids ride. And they'd be right.

I was planning on giving a fully Odyssey colour tally, but I only got halfway though the trans PCs before I ran out of juice. So instead, here's this week in colour: