Epoch Frames not Dead !
The Epoch project is not dead,
check some photos of Julian Bah riding them
more infos :
October 2004 Infos :
-it’s a metal frame. you put your wheels onto it, then the plastic stuff is like a skin that slips over the frame. this way your axels don’t grind down anymore, and they replace half assed solutions like the grind walls on the 50/50 balance frames (they grind off in like 2 mins anyway…and aren’t replacable…the prototype hasn’t got them yet but the final product will). the idea behind the frame is that you just by the slip on shields, so that the frame itself lasts virtually forever. you don’t need to buy bolts anymore (that get worn down), or the metal frame, or the hblock…or grindwalls (aka salomon)…you just buy replacement slip on shields.
-because of this, they will be able to release many types of ’skins’ to make this the ultimate in customisable frames….different colors, with different types of grind walls, with different types of hblocks….made from different types of materials (i.e. diamond, regular etc.)
-the metal skeleton makes it strong as hell. they’ve had guy’s testing the same frames for over 12 months, and after replacing over 10 skins not a single one has bent or cracked.
-that is a prototype frame, the groove isn’t going to be that big for the final one.
-because the metal on the top shows, and the camera angle, it makes it look higher than it actually is. it’s just as low as any other frame. also the slip on cover / plastic shield comes down a bit further to the ground…for cess sliding (minimizes chances of getting flat spots). this almost makes it look taller than it actually is. but again, it’s not…
-rumors are going around that it is going to be called ‘face’ frames…but that’s not true. the current name is THD frames (tom hyser design?), however that might change closer to release.
-tom hyser, if you dont know, is the guy that invented and owned fiziks
-there is no suspension system inside of it.
-the split might even be bigger for the final frame. expect just a tiny, tiny gap between the 1st and 2nd, and 3rd and 4th wheels. his goal with this is to bring back flat skating with a vengence.
-rumours are that hyper has teamed up with tom to make this frame. so it might come out under the name ‘hyper’ (the wheel company). this will help him get extra funding, production resources, marketing and distribution capabilities… because apparently he lost a lot of money when fiziks went down and he needs a business partner to make this happen.
-they want to release it in 2004 however there’s a chance it might end up being 2005
Epoch Frames,
A new frames co, brought to you by Tom Hyser and Scott Fraser
Check this post for an explanation of the concept
September 22nd, 2005 at 11:12 am
those are weird
September 22nd, 2005 at 12:14 pm
il parait k’elles sont distribuées en france par la tole j’en ai jamais vu dans un seul shop
September 22nd, 2005 at 12:19 pm
sorte,t dans 4 mois environ
September 22nd, 2005 at 3:44 pm
ah ok merci pour l’info ca va interesser un pote à moi
September 22nd, 2005 at 5:45 pm
a bah vivement qu’on puisse les tester
ça a l’air bien fouttu ces p’tain de frame
September 22nd, 2005 at 6:35 pm
même concept que la GC Hi-Lo si je me souvient bien, non?
September 22nd, 2005 at 7:50 pm
i dont like how tall the frames are i know that i have to be picky about that my self becouse of the preshure it takes to get in to a farve on my nees and i know that the m-types were hell on mine the mooks are what i ride now but i realy like there idea they and i kinda wont to ride flat rocker two i would like to see a nice fine tuned version :)
September 22nd, 2005 at 9:53 pm
man, the ones that bah are wearing look like hi-lo’s, the skate he seems to be g4s, which makes it sound like even more sense
September 23rd, 2005 at 3:05 am
Those frames are not Hi-Lo, Julian Bah was riding the old Tom Hyser frame company (called Fiziks) so it make more sens to think is riding for Epoch now…
September 24th, 2005 at 6:43 am
um your an idot cuz thos are epoch and julian bah does skate for epoch
September 25th, 2005 at 8:50 am
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September 25th, 2005 at 9:06 am
mm i knt see the company making a penny.
1 person in teh local sk8park will buy em. hate em . tell every1 neva 2 get em, word wil get around tht they suk, no1 wil want em apart frm like 10 nine yr olds who dnt kno wat there buying, the company will loose lots of money, they wil go bankrupt, tom wil live on the streets. thats wat i think wil happen
September 25th, 2005 at 10:15 pm
man those are the shit…i know tom hyser in person..the only reason its taking so long is because of the production process…and you know how 50-50 has the metal core frame? they’re paying royalties to skatepile because tom hyser owns the patent..so support skatepile, tom hyser, and epoch…and even 50-50……
September 26th, 2005 at 5:16 am
ok… one problem. just like fiziks, once you need spare parts, (grinds walls in this case) unless you have a close skate shop that supplies this product, you will have to order online and pay shipping. so for people overseas who want to get thiis product (me for example) i am hesitant to purchase it in the first place because if something breaks or wears down-inevitable, i wil have to order it and go to alot of trouble of gettting new parts. so yeh, is it worth it?
September 27th, 2005 at 8:16 pm
alot of people roll epoch frames if you look in some or at least one there is one with a skatepile ad of scott raser n it says he rolls epocjh frames n also if you watch freestyle roliling in one of the montages bah does a a.o fish with them
September 30th, 2005 at 9:58 am
that would be well proper if he came out with some unorthodox colored frame ’skins’ like yellow, or green, or light blue, or dare i say it…pink?
October 4th, 2005 at 8:16 am
craig : no idea if it worth it ;) we need the frame to be released first,
haha don’t even know if we’re even close to the release date!
October 9th, 2005 at 7:48 pm
looks cool
November 18th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
first of all Tom Hyser is a creative genius. I know that the frames will put an end to all these other companies that heard from Tom or saw what he was coming out with and tried to screw him, like ground control with the bullet frames and the hi-lo’s or 50/50 only cause they already have the capital to produce the frames. I am just mad at Scott cause of his double cross. You don’t get rid of the inventor of the idea(no matter what)
cause once these frames hit the streets and when they do it’ll be a big boom, but what are you gonna do about next year. Or the next generation of the frame Scott. You’re not the Creativity behind Epoch Frames, Tom is. You just had the money and let that go straight to your head. I’ll buy a pair in respect to Tom and his dream but eventually just like so many other businesses this one will go down, not cause it’s a bad idea but because the people running it got too greedy.
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January 20th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Those frames ae going to be awesome. The Raser twins are putting alot of time and effort into these frames to make sure everyone out there gets the quality they want. These frames will be worth it from what I have seen.