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Title: Ozone / AIR-UNI
Post by: 2Fresh on October 31, 2005, 02:13 PM
1988 Ozone Method Air

Ozone Method Air 1988 with original Ozone forks, paint and decals. Built by Timo "2Fresh" in Helsinki, Finland.
The Ozone was my "holy grail" for over 14 years!! I wanted something special for this build so there's a set of actual gold plated Peregrine Q-Bars and a matching seatpost to enhance the yellow elements in the graphics. The frame & fork set was purchased in used but very well preserved condition in 2004 and it came with original decals (and rare) Ozone FS handlebars with ODI Mushrooms and Odyssey Pitbull rear brake. The project was first completed in june 2004 but has since been updated little by little to achieve the kind of looks i had in my mind. Ozone was introduced in 1988 and it had total three models available which all shared the same frame geometry. The only major difference between the three models was in the materials used. Here is the three models explained:

Method One:
Full 100% Chro-Moly construction, "the flagship" pro model. Had U-brake posts under the chainstays. It was available in chrome/black & chrome/white. In some listings they have mentioned chrome/orange and chrome/aqua which only refers to the earlier models by Air-Uni (introduced year before, in 1987) which also had three models under same geometry. Those were called "Air-UNI U2", "Air-UNI Ozone" and "Air-UNI U-Bi". As for the 1988 Ozones the Method One is only known to exist in black/chrome and white/chrome.
Method One had dual (parallel) cable stops at the bottom bracket and dual cable guides in front of them so that you could run dual lower cables directly from the Gyro into the u-brake arms. It also had a cable stop plate on the underside of the downtube, just like O3, and this was meant for the two cable adjusters (unlike the O3 that only uses single cable thru the same type of plate). The idea is that you can run two separate lower cables and have their middle part exposed for less cable friction so that only the top and bottom parts have housing. Simply genius!


Method Air:
The "expert" model. Tri-Moly construction, (or more likely "Quad-Moly" if you will, when adding the dual toptubes to the overall tubes count) which consist of Chro-Moly headtube, downtube and toptubes. Chainstay tubes were Hi-Tensile Steel. Method Air was designed to work with centerpull type rear brakes that mount with single bolt into the frame's seatstays or chainstays (i.e. Dia Compe, Weinmann, Altenburger, Odyssey Pitbull etc etc). Note: "centerpull" is NOT same as "u-brake". Centerpulls are mounted with a bolt on to either chainstays os seatstays while u-brakes require special welded-on u-brake studs for mounting them. There is two cable guides on the underside of the down tube, both located near the bottom bracket. The Method Air came with atleast two different downtube decal designs with fading on the front end of the decal and the other is completely chrome foil without the fade.


Method O3:
High Tensile steel frame, the "entry level" model (supposedly spelled as "Oh Three", not "zero-three"). Designed to work with centerpull type rear brakes just like Method Air. Appears to be the only Ozone that came fully painted (as black) but used the same chrome foil/black fade  decals as Method Air & Method One except ofcourse the tiny stickers on the top tubes saying "Method:O3". Has the same two cable guides on the underside of down tube, near the bottom bracket and a welded-on plate at the middle part of down tube for cable adjuster or, more likely to anchor the lower cable firmly to its place.

According to Alan Brown (the creator of AIR-UNI and Ozone) Ozone frames were produced in hundreds rather than thousands which pretty much explains their rarity these days although they do pop up from time to time. Obviously some broke, some just disappeared or more likely, ended up in the dumpster back in the day. Shame. But i know for fact there is a few Ozones circulating around the collecting community. Hopefully they will be listed one day here in the museum.

Let's begin with the original Ozone magazine ad from 1988:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OzoneMethod-OneBMXPlusoct19886co-1.jpg)

Here's my own "ad" i made for the freestyle bike of the year 2008 competition:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/TImonomaozonemainosmethodv2copycopy.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD2.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD3.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD4.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD5.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD6.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD7.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD8.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD9.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD10.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD11.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD12.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD13.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v196/Timo2Fresh/Ozone/OZONEMethod-AirRAD14.jpg)
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/Timo2F/Ozone/OzoneFSbarscopy.jpg)

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Title: Re: Ozone / AIR-UNI
Post by: nitrohopper on April 12, 2014, 11:29 AM
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