Obsydian Invictus welds a bulletproof bike for the big boys

Or you could just buy a trek with a 30 pound higher weight limit… Better shop support, and a lifetime warranty as well. This Is a redundant product.

From personal experiences, and talking with friends, Trek’s warranty and reputation is the worst in the entire industry. If Obsydian handles warranty better its a feather in their cap.

I think it goes without saying that you could always just buy a Trek. As for insulting your readers, I personally loved that bit about your typical roadie. I like where this company’s head is at. Good luck to them.

@King County – That’s crazy. Trek bends over backwards to warranty everything, even when they probably shouldn’t. They once accepted a photograph of the owner with his bike in the early-1980s as a substitute for the original bill of sale. This to replace a bike that was 30 years old and had probably a hundred thousand miles on its thin walled steel tubes. They gave the guy the option of a new 520 would would fit his old parts, or a discount on a complete 4-series Madone.

The only time I’ve ever seen Trek reject a warranty is when it’s obviously crashed or the customer acknowledges that they bought the bike used.

BB30 + Clyde = recipe for creaking cranksets. A huge mistake IMHO, I speak as a Clyde who’s had to get his BB30 bottom bracket serviced twice last year.

So how is this a better offering than, say, a 6066-T6 aluminium bike from HOY bike, or any other alloy bike from the major manufacturers out there?

JBikes: Right, user error. Who fitted the BB on my bike exactly? It wasn’t a user, it was the manufacturer, followed by a expert wrench at a Cannondale dealer, one of the best bike mechanics I’ve ever met in fact. Who fitted the BB30 on my friend’s Cannondale that mysteriously started popping after a year exactly? Cannondale, not the user. Where’s the user error here?

How about all the people on internet forums complaining of BB30 creaking constantly, and the many long and varied threads about how to fix the damn creaking that these BBs have compared to others?

Sorry but BB30 is great in theory, but in practice, especially for anyone who generates a significant amount of torque, is fair from perfect.

Mclulz,

not sure what you are saying, but in any ecosystem, there are fan boys, as well as dudes who live to rag on a particular brand for no particular reason. Part of the balance of nature.

They’ve found a great marketing niche. While Trek and others may have bikes which can support a heavier rider, and lifetime warranties on frames, they would be loathe to market them to heavier riders at risk of turning off a majority of their customers. If you weigh 160 lbs, are you going go buy a Trek marketed to clydes? Weight weenieism is rampant — do you think marketing a sturdy bike to the husky crowd is a smart move, generally speaking?

And even if big company bikes aren’t as over-engineered as this bike claims to be, chance of frame failure is way low, any given customer will never ride enough or hard enough to break a frame, and giving away a few warranty frames to those who do is cheaper than upping the specs. Bean-counters and engineers make sure of that.

If there’s anything I’d call BS on, it’s the double-pass welding. Most breaks occur just outside the weld, in the heat affected zone. Totally unnecessary, but again, a good marketing gimmick for their niche. I wish Obsydian success.

anonymous,
🙂 well your right, cup and cone bbs do not use “sealed cartridge bearings” as cyclists use the term. My comment applies to BB in which the bearings are supplied as unit with inner and outer race, and cage as one. I should have said “threaded shell” as opposed to “threaded cup”.

In that regards a external threaded shell (i.e. “conventional threaded) locates the actual bearing almost identically to a press fit BB. cup and cone is another topic altogether.

@MikeC – “If there’s anything I’d call BS on, it’s the double-pass welding. Most breaks occur just outside the weld, in the heat affected zone. Totally unnecessary, but again, a good marketing gimmick for their niche. I wish Obsydian success.”

Your totally right this is BS marketing. I use to TIG weld at a place we called this flame dressing the weld. It smooths the ripples of the TIG bead. This is the same thing Cannondale did on their aluminium frames to get the smooth looking welds. This is not a feature, but is a defect. It lowers the overall strength of the weld area, because it adds heat and makes the heat zone larger. This means you have a larger area for cracks to begin from. This is simply done to either cover bad welds or to make the frame more visually appealing, but most definitely not a performance or strength feature,

Sounds like a marketing stunt. Bar a few lightweight exceptions, most aluminum frames do not have a weight limit set by the manufacturer. 7005-T6 and shot peening are quite standard in the industry.

I don’t see what makes this bike more “clydesdale specific” than other bikes.

High Rider Weight – Riders that are over 110 kg…. hahahahahahahahahah oh my god I nearly p……..ed myself laughing. You guys need to wake up and smell the lard!!! I am 196kg and I ride an off the shelf Specialized Allez with upgraded wheels and it’s perfect….110kg hahahahahahah