Rumor: New X-Metal

[i am rich]

Country of origin?

I do not recall having it on the frame stating where it was made. I remember it having a sku.

 

[djhyper66]

The feel is totally different compared to x metals. It reminded me of the carbon blades. That is just me.

When you take off the sock off the madman or badman. It looks like a thin flat piece of aluminum like a fork. The sock on the madman and badman are the same size.

I do not recall having it on the frame stating where it was made. I remember it having a sku.

 

[O Cummins]

I think its all preference.... i dont care for some of the metal frames, and I totally agree about the plastic ones

 

[SpecialKsmith]

My understanding is that the new madman and the badman will be made using xmetal for parts of the frame. So they aren't completely xmetal but they incorporate xmetal into the design

 

[djhyper66]

My understanding is that the new madman and the badman will be made using xmetal for parts of the frame. So they aren't completely xmetal but they incorporate xmetal into the design

Nope.. there made of aluminum and omatter nose part.

 

[kronin323]

My understanding is that the new madman and the badman will be made using xmetal for parts of the frame. So they aren't completely xmetal but they incorporate xmetal into the design

djhyper is correct. Aluminum and o-matter.

They no longer have the facilities to manufacture / cast the primarily Titanium, five-metal alloy they called x-metal. Any reference to x-metal with these frames is just marketing. And, one might argue, false advertising...

 

[mtb-nj]

Mtb champ wearing madman!

 

[CarGuy]

Here's my thing: they don't flow like x metals. The closest x metal variation is the Mars and these don't flow at all like the Mars. Or the Pennys, or the Juliet's or the XX's. Or the XS for that matter but not as much there. The R1 did not have much flow either but it was the beta. And don't ask about the Half X - I'd rather entertain the Hatchet, but I digress.
They don't flow. The lines are chopped up at the intersections of aluminum and plastic and as a result they look cobbled together from the bins of different pairs. The original x metals are much more like jewelry. These are what fell off the casting trees after they cut the original x metal pieces off. Like cigarettes to a nice cigar.
Am I supposed to like them because of "shock value"?
Make it flow like it is made from mercury, not chopped up.

 

[kronin323]

Here's my thing: they don't flow like x metals. The closest x metal variation is the Mars and these don't flow at all like the Mars. Or the Pennys, or the Juliet's or the XX's. Or the XS for that matter but not as much there. The R1 did not have much flow either but it was the beta. And don't ask about the Half X - I'd rather entertain the Hatchet, but I digress.
They don't flow. The lines are chopped up at the intersections of aluminum and plastic and as a result they look cobbled together from the bins of different pairs. The original x metals are much more like jewelry. These are what fell off the casting trees after they cut the original x metal pieces off. Like cigarettes to a nice cigar.
Am I supposed to like them because of "shock value"?
Make it flow like it is made from mercury, not chopped up.

I agree - I don't think they follow the same "slogging" design methodology that JJ mentions, though it's not as if he described it here well enough to say for certain.

But, for their own merits, they do have a certain radical element that can grow on you. It's like '80s Metallica vs. '90s Metallica: '80s Metallica's music was much more awesome, but '90s Metallica was actually pretty good, as long as you pretend they're a different group with the same name...

But I still don't want them calling these new releases x-metals. Some variation or evolution of the name, fine. But not x-metals...

 

[pjd1234]

I agree - I don't think they follow the same "slogging" design methodology that JJ mentions, though it's not as if he described it here well enough to say for certain.

But, for their own merits, they do have a certain radical element that can grow on you. It's like '80s Metallica vs. '90s Metallica: '80s Metallica's music was much more awesome, but '90s Metallica was actually pretty good, as long as you pretend they're a different group with the same name...

But I still don't want them calling these new releases x-metals. Some variation or evolution of the name, fine. But not x-metals...

Metallica? I dont like them at all 80s or 90s lol. I do agree though they are not x metals and was never intented to i think but give em a chance atleast oakley is trying to produce something diffrent lets admint the only downfall in design is the materials used to produce them if this were all metals i guess there would be no bashing am i right?.