Fresh Goods Friday 726: The Chain Damping Edition

No, it’s not called dampening. You can dampen something. You can damp something. But dampening is not a thing. Well, apart from a gerund or present pa …

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Fresh Goods Friday 726: The Chain Damping Edition

I do like that Murmur.

<Chemical Engineer nerd warning>

Wolfram = tungsten …?  Funny Abus would say”Our special wolfram carbide material” and leave the one word in the original German (tungsten in German is Wolfram like the old-skool use of the name) to make it sound exotic!!  Wolfram – Grrr!!!!

The big issue I see with the Abus lock is its size. It can only be looped around small diameter poles. Therefore it will be easier to cut the bike stand etc than the lock.

@honourablegeorge thanks, though it doesn’t look like that anymore, now much more purple!

A mate has bent his Rimpact chain damper already.

Not sure if it was a pre production one or the finished product.

 

Method of the bending might be relevant –

bent with just his powerful legs, or by running into a rock at full blast?

JRA obvs. ;o)

It’s also his job to brake test stuff.

Does that chain damper have a way of ‘locking out’ when you pedal? Because otherwise it will feel weird when you go for a ‘stomp’ of legs and find it is like pedalling an elastic band, no?

Is the chain damper a (very) expensive solution to a problem most normal folk don’t have?

Is the chain damper a (very) expensive solution to a problem most normal folk don’t have?

It obviously fixes the problems caused by (very) expensive fast engagement hubs on some suspension systems.

Not sure if it was a pre production one

It will be when he contacts them for a comment (winky face emoji)

Keen to try one though, almost bought an Ochain but something else came up.

re Grangers Wash & Repel: spooky as I bought some on Monday from our proper “all things outdoors” shop (Great Western Camping in Dorchester). They recommended it for doing all my jackets. It hasn’t rained since, typical, so I haven’t been able to test the results yet. Very easy to use though.

Re the magazine: I do like the smell of it since you started using the new printers. Not the same but its like opening a pack of coffee, luv the smell of singletrack in the morning when the postman has been. My wife is somewhat less enthusiastic though, apparently I shouldn’t be reading it at bedtime as it makes the bedroom smelly she says.

Rimpact Chain Damper pics show a lot of grease in a perfectly clean multiple cavity machined block positioned on a bike where it gets very wet and dirty. Look forward to review.

Chain Damper?  *checks date* hmm nowhere near April Fools… its real! hahahahaha!

I’ve been using those offset bushings for years. They’re great to deal with and customer service has always been great. I still have a few in the toolbox spare even though I only have a hardtail at present.

Met a guy using one of them chain dampers yesterday at the Golfie, he said he was feeling the extra effort on the climbs, I’d never heard of one until I did a bit of a google. I used to get noticable kick back on my old Orange 5 on drops, so maybe it’s for people who like to do bigger drops and jumps.