The last time I was buying a lot of yoyos and working at learning new tricks was during the height of YYJ’s hybrids. So when I started picking up new stuff, the bimetals felt like a logical extension of what YYJ was after. The bimetals just feel like a better version of the YYJ hybrids, its like going home but home somehow got a lot better.
The other big plus is bimetals are much more durable than a YYJ hybrid. An impact that could destroy some of the old hyrbids might make a bimetal vibe a tiny bit, though still less than what those YYJ’s often had straight from the factory.
Oddly enough, I really learned how to throw without dinging a yoyo since I had the sad experience of breaking a nice yoyojam several times. That really hurt when I was a broke college student.
I love bimetals. I love organics and monometal V’s, I love my turbo bumble bees, my spinfaktors, my hitman, my tivayder, hell I love my old 50’s era Philipino Twirler and my 80’s era butterfly.
I also love my jewler’s screwdrivers, my battery powered dewalt driver, my 1/2" impact air driver and the old tools I inherited from my grandfather some of which he got from his grandfather.
I wouldn’t want to only own a set of precision screwdrivers. What am I going to do when I need to free some stubborn lug nuts? I feel the same way about yoyo’s. To me they all serve some purpose.
When I’m in new trick learning mode, I switch to yoyo’s that make learning that trick easier. As I get comfortable, I switch to other yoyo’s to continue learning. Sometimes I just want to do the same old tricks on the same yoyo I’ve had for 20 years.
There’s nothing like having the right tool for the job.
2 metals is too many. I can barely count to 1 and now you’re try in to tell me that this yoyo has 2 different metals on it. TOO COMPLICATED I say. I’ll be going back to my simple yoyo that isn’t even attached to the string… scoffs 2 metals
Don’t have one, probably never will. Primarily because of the cost (i.e. I’m too cheap).
On the subject of rim weighting achieved, I’m guessing it’s on the order of that with a typical YYJ yoyo (plastic shell with Aluminum rims, for you kids here). One of my all time favorites is the YYJ Hitman. Rim weighting is a good thing if done right, but it can be achieved in other far less costly ways than bi-metal, as the YYJ models, or rubber weight rings used by Dif-e-yo, Duncan, and Spintastics, or metal weight rings as used by Spintastics and Buzzon.
That said, I have Dif-e-yo, SPYY, HSPIN, YYF and Anti-Yo (mono-metal) yoyos that I enjoy immensly.
Basically as far as yoyos, it’s become similar to the “should I buy a ford or bmw?” question. Both will get you there. what do you want to spend.
Same here about inner-ring preference. With that, I wonder if people all generally just hate one specific bimetal type or just all bimetals? The former would make sense as the distributions all correlate to something similar with the same ring structure.
Yoing is such a tactile, and personal experience. For some, having a yo-yo that best enables one to perform tricks is what feels best. For others, feeling like they are more connected to the yo-yo, and more in control of how it handles is more pleasing. The latter are fine with sacrificing a bit of performance for that sensation.
I think just taking that one aspect into account; shape, and bearing choices play a roll in what yo-yos a player might gravitate to. Maybe what happens with bimetals is that the weight from the denser metal is concentrated in a small area, and therefore the weight distribution is less um…, distributed than with monometal designs. Even though performance monometals can be quite rim weighted, the weight is distributed over a larger area. I think this difference can tend to make bimetals seem more jarring or sterile to players who are more about that “connectedness”.
Bi metals are great but there are mono metals that out perform them in my opinion and when they charge 150$ for throw that can be outperformed by a 60$ throw I say bimetals suck…now if they were 60$ I would own more and have no problems with them…also at that price point how u can say vibe is ok is beyond me bimetal vibe should not be ok!!!
Lucky me!!