-Plastic Balisongs Are Getting CRAZY - Zippy Cycloid REVIEW.

Zippy, I hardly know I'd like to do a flippy Well, hey kids, welcome to bally shorts the only show where we put the bally's into our shorts Oh, if you guys remember last time on the bally shorts We talked about the Tay flipper and that was pretty cool because it's made of plastic and you know What else is made of plastic the cycloid the cycloid is a very exciting new ballast song from Zippy Zippy ballast song on Instagram. They also made this you might have seen this before This is the zipper. Now. The zipper is discontinued at the moment, but Zippy is currently working on a v2 So we will get that and review it when the time comes. It's crazy. It looks so good but for now These are the cycloid so the idea of plastic ballast songs has existed for a while now because of squid industries They came out with the squiddy back in the day and that has inspired a myriad of creators now that 3d printing has become Accessible and so you have stuff like the Tay flipper and the zipper and finally the cycloid which is what we're checking out today You know what? I want to cycle Into is talking about our merch Oh hat bag Shirt. Yeah cup. It's brand improved. I wouldn't say that So first we're gonna get into the unboxing experience now If you remember our squiddy review link right there The squiddy comes in a box and then it's got a cute little bag that goes around the squiddy and squid industries standard unboxing experience Well, the cycloid is similar to that But it skips the box part entirely and instead has this really nice honestly zippy ballast song branded bag inside of there you will find your cycloid nice and pretty nestled away and This little tool is just a little hex wrench and it is what is used to adjust the pivots on the cycloid and Unlike the bad one that comes with the cheap Amazon stuff. This was actually really good We give it a standard five out of ten, which is normal moving right along Alright so next up is tuning and honestly It's a category that I was really impressed with this thing with zippy has done a lot of research to figure out exactly how The tuning process here should work. You see zippy got started making ballast songs specifically because of how much they hated Threadlocker, they didn't want to have to use anything like threadlocker blue or red or Teflon tape or any of that crap Instead they wanted to design something where you didn't need it and I'd say they succeeded You see this ballast song is built with nuts that are press fit in that have nylock technology This is a special technology that is built into the nut itself that essentially reduces vibration and allows the thread to stay Locked into the nut the upshot of this is that you almost never have to adjust your ballast song once you've got it tuned And the tuning part is actually very easy as well You can use the little tool to adjust the pivots as needed But also the pivots are knurled on the sides meaning it's actually relatively easy to grab them with your fingers and adjust them Even when you don't have the tool and this is especially Important for when you're out and about flipping and if it starts to loosen you can just tighten it with your fingers or your fingernails It's honestly a shockingly good experience. Oh, and did I mention that it runs on bearings? That's right There's actually bearings inside of here that allow the knife to swing very freely Even though it's a very lightweight and so without that if it was on something like washers like the Tayflipper It honestly would probably be a really slow and difficult to tune experience but those bearings help a lot even though it is plastic and you're never really gonna be able to tune the tap out of it because of the Flexibility of the plastic. It's still really really good for a tuning experience And so because of that we give it a 7 out of 10, which is shocking for a plastic ballast on Whatever you feel comfortable with giving me now. I know a lot of you have wondered well It's made out of plastic so it can't be that durable, right? Oh contraire mon tri You weren't even ready for that you got halfway through that and you're like what the **** am I up to You see zipper has actually demonstrated the durability of these things a fair bit This is PETG plastic, which is slightly ahead of the PLA plus that's used in the Tayflipper It's a little bit more flexible, which means it's a little bit stronger altogether There's actually video on Zippy's like Instagram of him taking the blade and just hitting it into Concrete over and over and it just kind of dents it a little bit. It never snaps It never breaks. Honestly, the durability of this thing is easily on par with the Tayflipper, which we have shown is very good It's a little bit ahead though of the squiddy which as we've talked about before can shatter It's not super often and it's something that happened in the older squiddy models more than it happens in newer ones Whereas with this the flexibility of this material means that it will not shatter whereas with the squiddy I get a little bit hesitant when I start to flex the blade too much and so because of all of those factors We give the durability of this guy a five out of ten Which is pretty damn good for plastic because before that we were hesitant to give anything made of plastic above a four The flipping performance of this thing is a bit of a stumbling point for me It is very surprising when you start flipping it. You're like, oh wow. I didn't expect something 3d printed could feel that good It's not great. And the reason for this is specifically The weight isn't great. It's a bit of a light weight that's not too great the weight really could it's light and Well that impacts the performance a fair bit. Oh Wow, that's that's substantially different Well, it does do shockingly well in most tricks like fanning and even aerials the problem is because it's so light It'll slip out of your hands or will kind of stumble in the middle of a trick This is helped though because there are weights both in the blade and then at the end of each one of these handles which Can be adjusted though. It only makes it lighter So I'm not sure why you would do that either way because of the weights being at the end of the handles It does help to carry the momentum a little bit But me and Brandon did decide that it flips slightly less as good as a squiddy It doesn't feel as substantial in the hand as this does or even as the zipper did or as the Tay flipper did It's just light and it you feel that a lot It has stuff like the bite handle marker, which is great and very obvious and boy, do you know whenever it's hitting your finger? Yeah, the bite handle markers great does have a good grip the grip on the grip is great It has the jimping and all that and so for learning stuff I could see myself being able to do that but having that transfer to other balisong with how light this is Yeah, it's not bad by any means it's actually a very good experience it's just Light yeah a little bit average. I think that's gonna make it a what? I'll show you five. I don't know about that one All right, I hear you you're like hey will I really want to buy one but how available are they well Let's talk about the availability Zippy has done a really good job of trying to keep all of them in stock as often as possible and is Constantly printing new parts to make sure that he has them available if you order one therefore We've given the availability a solid eight out of ten as the promise shown from Zippy is pretty high Once again, this is a similar situation to Tay where they are new to the balisong community as a maker But they seem pretty reliable and if it changes in the future We'll make sure to update the balisong list Of course our availability score is based off of how easy it is to get them in North America where we live because our worldview is very small and we don't know anything. We don't know anything We're Americans. So if you do live in another country, you can order these but the shipping will obviously be more expensive But it is good to know that they are available internationally This is the hardest score for us to come up with it's honestly really difficult every time we do this because value is It's a hard thing to judge if you consider it at the end of the day same thing We said with the Tay Flipper, it's being made by one person. It's a you know, there's a lot of work going into these They've got weights that are put into each one of the handles the design takes a lot of effort He put a lot of time into this ball bearing tuning system Like the zipper has this like super cool sandwich design same sort of thing is going on with the cycloid and so even though it is $69 nice for a plastic balisong. This thing is Shockingly good value and that's just because of the nature of it being made by one single person Therefore we give the value score of the cycloid to be a 7 out of 10 You'd be blown away to learn how much actual time it takes to make that kind of stuff and we think it's really neat Yeah, especially having flipped as many balisongs that we have and for 70 bucks. I'd buy it. It's cool. It's neat There's a bunch of colors too. I'd buy that for a dollar. I'd buy you for a dollar Oh, is that too much? Is that a proper exchange rate? That's just right. What are you worth? And welcome to the final score of the video this knife has scored a 37 out of 60 possible points, which is honestly pretty good It's only one point lower than the squiddy itself And that's only because the squiddy has an availability score of 10 because it's literally always available And so the cycloid actually scores a little higher than the squiddy in a few key categories therefore I think it's very important to recognize how nice this thing is and How excited we are for what zippy does in the future the zipper v2 is gonna be really stinking cool Like I'm so excited for it. The zipper by itself is already a very like impressive balisong And the cycloid is no different. Once you kind of get past these like weird, you know ball bearings You got it. You got a touch in there. I think once he works that out. It's gonna be really cool Yeah, you hate touching balls. 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