They’re back! MR85 bearing blanks for sale in time for FAF

Buy / Sell / Trade
1

IMG_9002
IMG_90024032×3024 2.32 MB

Hey friends, if you don’t know me, I’m a fixed-axle nerd and I run a lowkey handmade yo-yo accessory brand called Bear & Fox Armoury. I like to setup modern responsive yo-yos as fixies, I call them Postmodern Fixedaxles :joy: - MR85 yoyos like the RBC play fantastic as fixies!

Fixed-Axle February is coming up and I’ve made 5 of my handfilled MR85 bearing blanks for people to try.

Each is a high quality bearing (2.5mm width) - with rounded edges and a nice polished finish - carefully filled with steel epoxy to a nice clean recess. (This is a real pain to do… I do it solely out of passion ). This is how I setup my go-to edc RBC. They also work great in the MK1+SW Harbinger. And yes I am aware that taking a precision bearing and filling it with epoxy is madness, but I like it. :smirk:

They are $10 USD each (PayPal F&F preferred), shipped by letter post from Canada (if you order more than 1, then additional blanks are $8). I will also include my favourite string for this setup. Send me a DM if you want one.

If I mail it this week it should arrive in the US in about two weeks. But no promises, especially since CanadaPost just came off a strike and may still have some backlog.

11 Likes
2

Have you run one of these in an Origen? Super tempting. I just bought an A blank to Fixie my Confusion which has a bit higher walls than the Origen. I’m debating greatly if I should snag one of these for the Origen. It’s my only MR85…hmmm…I suspect these are going to go fast.

3

Hey, yes I do have one in my Origen and it works great. The Origen and Harbinger have slightly larger gaps than the RBC, so I use a thicker string to keep them from kicking back.

Obviously all these yo-yos work great stock, making them fixed makes them snappier, quieter, low maintenance and it tames some of the raw POWER. :joy: It does kill the spin time though, obviously.

2 Likes
4

I bought some of these for last year’s FAF. Alex does killer work!

4 Likes
5

Update:
3 sold, 2 pending. Will update. Seems like I might need to make more. :joy:

4 Likes
6

I have a RBC set up with one of Mr. Alex’s Bearings. It is quality! So much so I grabbed another.

These dont come up often. Dont hesitate.

4 Likes
7

All 5 are sold but I have an extra one that I made for myself which I will put up for sale. And I will make more soon!

3 Likes
8

if your out add me to a list :rofl:

1 Like
9

Update: I have made 4 more - 1 is currently pending.

3 Likes
10

bump :bat:

11

3 left - :sauropod:

1 Like
12

Bump :rabbit2:

1 Like
13

Bump! :chipmunk:

14

Y’all, put this on the metal Harbinger and thank me later. It’s practically cheating. I think I’m going to leave mine in permanently going forward, haha.

4 Likes
15

I have 2 left. I’m going away on vacation Monday, so that will be the last day that I can send these out. Get them while you can, I likely won’t make any more for a bit. :leopard:

16

I am taking a Play from Mr. Xanadu’s Playbook and have had one of his blanks in my RBC since July. Not going back to a bearing on this one.

I will have to put my other Xanadu MR85 in the Harbinger when I get home. Not sure why I didn’t think of this.

2 Likes
17

I think you’re gonna love it, it’s crazy good!

1 Like