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.