CULater Reviews

Reviews of the CU Later has started to appear. Still thinking of getting one but want to hear what others have to say? Take a walk over to YoYoNation or view the review on TheYo.

Most/All retailers have received their stock by now, so head over to your favourite store and get your hands on a couple - your yo-yo case will thank you.

CU Later: A Video

Just stumbled across this video with the CU Later. (Which will be shipping to your favourite retailer withing the next couple of days.)



In addition (why don't anybody ever tell me about these?), I found an older CU video as well as a how-to-install-hubstacks-on-a-CU video. CU tribute:



Installing hubstacks:

CU + CU Later Wholesale Orders

Well, we have announced the CU "Evil Eye" Edition and CU Later in a previous post over here. Well, today we started taking wholesale orders for both models, so expect to see them in stores around mid-April 2008.

They are ready, printed, assembled, just waiting for orders and shipping.

Unreleased stuff

I have a large number of protos cluttering my work area, no wonder my productivity has dropped in the last while. However, earlier today I shared a picture of a generation 1 offstring proto (still a long way to go) in a thread over at YoYoing.com, you can see it here...

So for all posterity, I may as well show the image here as well.



It is on the right track, but when/if it ever goes into production, it will look very different to this, at least when it comes to response, outer rings, ring attachment, etc. etc. One thing I can say however is that a hubstacked OS yo-yo just gives you so much more posibilities. Complete freedom of movement.

CU and more CU

Judging by the activity on the blog we have been sitting around, doing nothing. Well, that is not quite true. As a matter-of-fact, I have at least 3 unknown protos for various models lying around on my desk as I type this, but these things do take time.

So it looks quiet, but is not. Back to the present... We've updated everybody's favourite micro yo-yo for a new run - they have been out of stock for too long now. We call this one the CU sexy-eye addition - lots of makeup but apart from that, all the goodness you've come to expect in this micro model.



Second up for today are the final images for the CU Later. We are in the process of starting to take orders for these, so expect to see them (along with the updated CU) at your favourite store soon.

The CU Later is a slightly undersized scaled-up version of the CU. Take the CU, enlarge all dimensions by 1.3157 (50mm diameter, 39mm width, aluminium), keep the weight at 65g, add a 5x11x5 bearing for a decent 4.2mm gap, add Alchemy Vapor pads for silicone response goodness, bead-blast the body for a smooth grinding surface, anodize it in black, print a cool cat-eye logo, add an Alchemy string and you have the CU Later.





(Unfortunately the CU Later photos turned out a bit brown - we should have better photos up soon enough to show the exact black color. For now, just imagine it darker.)

101 Uses for the CU

I found this avatar picture over at YoYoNation and just had to get a full-sized version from Jason.



I quite enjoy it when people have fun with their yo-yos.

Reviews and more reviews

Over at YoYoNation new reviews for both the Nimbus and Eric's Silk have made their appearance.