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Submitted by
ben, dover
a Weekend Warrior
from your anus iraq Date Reviewed: April 30, 2008 | | Favoriate Trail: | through the back door | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | good grip and strength. | | Weaknesses: | not sealed bearings. and can turn you leg into a pretty nasty sight | | Similar Products Used: | Fly rubens (way better) | | Bike Setup: | fully pimped out huffy with 1" travel | | Bottom Line: | buy if you like cheap but still ok pedals. will do the job for the weekend warrior like me dont buy if you like you beautiful non scared legs
Peace out Homies | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
anthony
a Weekend Warrior
from bellingham, washington, USA Date Reviewed: February 19, 2008 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$15.00 | | Purchased At: | danscomp | | Strengths: | great grip, reasonable price | | Weaknesses: | a bit heavy kills your shins | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | subrosa letum dirt | | Bottom Line: | these are good pedals but i would recommend wereing shin gaurds. the first time i used them i slipped the pedal and the pin put a gash in my shins and i had to get stitches. other than that i dont have any complaints. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Josh Parsons
a Weekend Warrior
from Devonport, Tasmaina, Australia Date Reviewed: July 26, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | TT/Railton Trails, Devonport Skatepark | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Purchased At: | Von Bibra Cycles | | Strengths: | GRIP!! replaceable grub screws are a major plus and also a great look. | | Weaknesses: | none yet... | | Similar Products Used: | GT blocks and SNAFU pedals (A.K.A. Meat Mashers, Deat to Shins!)... | | Bike Setup: | Classic Haro Mirra Series with some trick bits... | | Bottom Line: | So far no complaints love them, perfect grip dfro wet tassie day, awesome features and gotta love that color!!! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Edilver Martinez
a Weekend Warrior
from 1545 Marl Ave Date Reviewed: June 7, 2004 | | Favoriate Trail: | Lake Hodges | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$28.00 | | Purchased At: | Trek | | Strengths: | Great Grip! Extra pins to replace Nice look to the bike
| | Weaknesses: | Pedals will hurt if your shims make contact! | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | UNIVEGA DS600 Full suspension | | Bottom Line: | Great pedals for the money! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
D. McNeill
a Weekend Warrior
from Tasmania, Australia Date Reviewed: July 6, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Purchased At: | Treadlies | | Strengths: | Cheap, good grip and come with replaceable pins. | | Weaknesses: | Keep an eye on the pins because they do come loose. They carve up you're shins very nicely as well. | | Similar Products Used: | More than I care to remember. | | Bike Setup: | '03 Haro Escape 8.2 | | Bottom Line: | They offer good grip even in the wet and because they're so cheap you wont cry when you smash them on a rock, step, park bench, etc. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
"Big" Al
a Weekend Warrior
from Bisbee, AZ Date Reviewed: January 19, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Los Burros, McNary, AZ | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$26.00 | | Purchased At: | Sun N Spokes | | Strengths: | Triple Traps Big enough for my foot. Grippy Tuff Can hold my 275lb a$$ | | Weaknesses: | Don't miss or your shins will hate you. | | Similar Products Used: | Stock plastic pedals, Iron Crosses, Twisted Pro, countless variations of Bear Traps, Triple Traps over 15+ years of BMX/MTB. | | Bike Setup: | GT Aggressor 1.0 Small (13") Rhino Lites. | | Bottom Line: | A lot of bad things have been said about these pedals put personally in over 15 years of riding Odessey products I have no complaints about the pedals. I had my Twisted Pro's for one day and never even mounted them after I inspected and saw they were borderline crap with very little grip potential. It took me about a month to order and recieve Traps but I finally got 'em and I love 'em. I wouldn't ride any other platform. The set previous to my current Traps were the stock plastic platforms that came on my GT, and they caused me some serious pain. After a few weeks of riding with the plastics I was bombing a jeep trail and tried to jump a 10-15 ft rock garden. On takeoff my right pedal split and tossed my foot off. When the dust settled I had slid close to 100 feet, hit a cactus, a tree, and almost off a cliff, and "walked" away with 10% of my skin roadrash and some broken ribs. I'd rather impale my shins on traps than have a failure like that again at a "critical" moment. So far I have yet to slip off or bend my cage, but I know I will someday. When I do break these pedals I'm reordering more Traps.
If you have big feet like I do (size 14 4E+) You'll appreciate the fact that you can get more than half of your foot on the pedal if not more, and not hit your shoe on your crankarm.
For under $30 you can't beat these for value, you get awesome grip, and even my feet fit on these.
Maybe I got lucky and got a "good" set, maybe Odyssey's QC department is not up to par, or there was a bad production run of Traps that caused all the weaknesses that have been reported. Yes you can bend a cage fairly easily but I still have found no other pedal that compares to the grip and the sweet, confident feel of the Traps.
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Submitted by
Carlo
a Cross Country Rider
from Las Pinas, Philippines Date Reviewed: November 5, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | San Mateo, Rizal | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$10.00 | | Purchased At: | Cartimar, Pasay | | Strengths: | Tough Good Grip | | Weaknesses: | Heavy | | Similar Products Used: | Shimano PD-M424 | | Bike Setup: | | | Bottom Line: | Odyssey Twisted Pro's These are probably the greatest platform pedals around. They're just a little heavy though. The replaceable pins grips your shoes well. Remember to wear shin guards because the pins can cause some pretty gnarly gashes on you legs. Great for downhill and freeriding. Not so for cross country rides. Bottom line? ...this is a great product. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jensen Fong
a Weekend Warrior
from Hong Kong Date Reviewed: July 22, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Tai Mo Shan | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$25.00 | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | it's cheap and kinda strong and grips my shoe when new | | Weaknesses: | it doesnt grip as well anymore and it's bent and a small piece of the cage came out | | Similar Products Used: | shimano dx, specialized, tioga, etc | | Bike Setup: | 35-40 pound heavy piece of garbage hardtail | | Bottom Line: | it's ok for its price and it bent after hitting a post at like 5km/h and a piece of the cage came out after this | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
james hulett
a
from tooele , Utah , usa Date Reviewed: June 14, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | street | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$22.00 | | Purchased At: | dans comp | | Strengths: | ??? | | Weaknesses: | crappy construction. throws pins like no other pedal. cage sracks and blows out easily. | | Similar Products Used: | $5.00 wellgo pedals that where stolen from the bike shop dumpster | | Bike Setup: | S&M dirt bike next generation | | Bottom Line: | these pedals suck. you should buy these pedals if you like spending money and then never even taking your bike out of the garage (otherwise you would break them). or if you are a stick figure that only weighs 10 ounces. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Stuart
a Weekend Warrior
from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Date Reviewed: October 14, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | S57 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$22.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS | | Strengths: | Cheap, replacable pins, grip well | | Weaknesses: | Alloy is too soft | | Similar Products Used: | Other cheapo platforms, specialized clipless, | | Bike Setup: | Giant ATX 900 | | Bottom Line: | Twist Pro's.....For the money I paid these were more than adequate. They grip to your shoe very well, and gave me very few problems, the bearings held up great too. The only problems I had were with a pin pulling from its thread, causing small cracking of the cage at the same time...but the rest of the pedal held up fine. That was until it came to pulling it off. It turned out that the pedal had crossthreaded itself in the same incident, and when I finally got it off the thread on the pedal was well and truly mangled, but the thread in the crank was fine (praise be). But the pedals were great when they were on the bike. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Andy
a Cross Country Rider
from Montara CA Date Reviewed: July 24, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | Montars Mtn | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$23.00 | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | Light , tough , gripps well | | Weaknesses: | none so fare | | Similar Products Used: | other aluminum pedals | | Bike Setup: | GT DEORE drive train rock shox front | | Bottom Line: | good pedal for the money | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
scorch
a
from calgary Date Reviewed: March 24, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | good grip light big platform | | Weaknesses: | bad bearings | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | | | Bottom Line: | this is on the Oddyssey Twisted Pro platforms
this pedal isn't too bad for 30bucks cdn. It's got a large platform for your foot to plant on. Nice grip from the pins, low profile so that you don't hit it on the ground too much. It's perfect for trials too and fr/urban. Nice and light. Clicking on the bearings have occured and just needed lubing. Slippery when wet. It also gets rid of mud easily. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
ryan cliffe
a Weekend Warrior
from liverpool, england Date Reviewed: December 12, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | the one im riding | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | middletons ormskirk | | Strengths: | good grip, big, price (£15) thats about it really | | Weaknesses: | cages are very weak, the teeth are very sharp (tripple traps) | | Similar Products Used: | crappy plassy saracen 1s | | Bike Setup: | 2k saracen fasttrax, 2001 z.4 bombers, full LX, fir downhill rims, race fave turbine cranks and loadsa other boss bits | | Bottom Line: | the tripple trap pedals are v.good for about the first 2 months then the bearings go and the cage starts getting beaten to sh*t
dont get them, waste of time | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
yo
a Weekend Warrior
from MA Date Reviewed: September 20, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$32.00 | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | Good grip until all the damn pins fall out. | | Weaknesses: | Bad bearings and the pins fall out. (twisted pro platforms) | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | | | Bottom Line: | These are the worst pieces of crap I've ever bought. For $30 I got a pedal that within a month, 12 pins fell out of both of them. Don't waste your money! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
SFA
a Cross Country Rider
from NJ Date Reviewed: April 19, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | bike show | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | n/a | | Weaknesses: | crap crap crap | | Similar Products Used: | zuzu ,plastic | | Bike Setup: | specialized comp fs | | Bottom Line: | They suck really badly. 1. They dont grip at all 2. The cage gets bent to Sh*t 3. The screws fall out leaving the crappy cage hanging contributing to #2 4. The bearings are really really crappy. Feels like they are pebbles and sand even when new 5. They weigh a ton. 6. They are hideous 7. THEY SUCK!!!!!! DO NOT BUY THEM! stick with plastic or invest in some better ones. Triple Trap is garbage. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Conehead
a Cross-Country Rider
from moons of Meebsorb Date Reviewed: September 24, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: | Pink Starfish, Shark Cruiser | | Duration Product Used: | less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | Umm, price maybe? | | Weaknesses: | Everything except for price! Yeah, used less than a month b/c that's HOW LONG THEY LASTED! Fu'in things are total POS's! Poor grip, bearings feel like something out of the Flintstones, cages fell off the friggin axles. | | Similar Products Used: | Primo flats | | Bike Setup: | Stock trials and Dual SL | | Bottom Line: | These pedals are not worth the $19.95 I paid for them. Total shite as that bloody brit said below. These things have about as much grip as my teflon cookware and about as much durability as a pile of pig poo sittin' on the road in rush hour traffic. Furthermore, they felt like something that wasn't mean to have moving parts, even the day I took them out of the box!! Yeah they're cheap, but I got some primos for $25.....a whole $5.05 more expensive and they're AWESOME! Great bearing feel, killer grip, and super durable, even after months of bashing the f*ck outta them doing trials and north shore riding. Get Primos if you want an inexpensive but quality pedal. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
mark
a Weekend Warrior
from n/a Date Reviewed: August 28, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: | n/a | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | strong, grip, cheap, kick @#$ colors, strong bearings, seals good | | Weaknesses: | none. | | Similar Products Used: | clingon (suckeeedddd!!!) | | Bike Setup: | old GT put to gether | | Bottom Line: | rad pedals, the best you can get. 5 flamers | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ed
a Weekend Warrior
from Raleigh, NC Date Reviewed: July 16, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: | 1st Class | | Duration Product Used: | less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | grippy cheap strong size | | Weaknesses: | size | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | Univega DS900 | | Bottom Line: | Picked up some Triple Traps for my MTB from Dan's Competition for $13.99. What a deal. These pedals have excellent grip. Better than the Primo Super Meat Tenderizers I tried(just like DMRs). They spin smoothly and come in cool colors too. The only problem is due to the extra length and thickness of these pedals, you loose some ground clearance. That will take a little getting used to. But, when I did hit a few roots and rocks pretty hard the pedals were virtually unscathed. So far, these are the best pedals I've ever owned. Worth a full 5 flamers. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Feckrag
a Downhiller
from Moon Date Reviewed: June 14, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | um?? | | Weaknesses: | Shite | | Similar Products Used: | Planet X Clingon 2, buy some! | | Bike Setup: | bike with two wheels | | Bottom Line: | These are SH ITE ! Me and a mate had some Triple traps each, I upgraded to Clingon 2, he upgraded to spuds. He made then work better by getting a hacksaw onto the outer cage and sawing off every third tooth. I have two mates with Sharkbites, one of them slipped off while riding UP A ROAD. The other dented my other mates triple trap by getting a small amount of air and then landing a bit dodgily on them. These are crap, over priced(still cost little) zero grip, no credibility and are of poor manufacture. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Steve
a Weekend Warrior
from NH Date Reviewed: May 16, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: | mine | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | grippy cheap get what you pay for | | Weaknesses: | could be longer sucky seals | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | | | Bottom Line: | Were really grippy, tear up shins when you slip off trying to do trials. Nailed a rock with pedal, got big deny, now deformed. I still like. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
john m
a Weekend Warrior
from scotland Date Reviewed: April 26, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | Grippy, look good, cheap | | Weaknesses: | Weak cage, bit slippy in the wet if shoes are anything but flat-soled. | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | FSR | | Bottom Line: | used to love em, hit a tree stump and now theyr'e f***ed. I'm away to buy me DMR V12s! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
SU MAN CHU
a Weekend Warrior
from NYC Date Reviewed: March 31, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | Inexpensive. Very large and provides good grip | | Weaknesses: | outer cage can bend or dent very easily and will bust up your legs | | Similar Products Used: | Other cheap platform pedals | | Bike Setup: | Speciaized Hardrock, JETT XC fork | | Bottom Line: | If you don't like clipless pedals or straps and/or have big feet these are the way to go. Very inexpensive ($20.00) and they keep your feet on the pedals in alomost all conditions. However, if your foot does slip off these things will bust up your shins pretty bad. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Geoff Warnock
a weekend warrior
from Birmingham, England. Date Reviewed: February 4, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | | | Weaknesses: | | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | | | Bottom Line: |
Review of Triple Trap. Overall I very much like these pedals, the large size and immense strength suit my jumping,trials, downhill riding. The grip on the pedals is not as good as DMR at first, but removal and sharpening of the outer cage makes them much better. This, coupled with the large size makes missing or slipping a non occurrence. Yes, the cages can be bent fairly easily, but not enough to look bad or break. Plus they are easily straightened. The pedals are very heavy, but utterly bombproof with it. As stated in other reviews in this section, the bearings originally are very badly greased, aka it washed out in the big puddle, leaving the pedal barely spinning at all. Servicing is easy, the hardest bit being removing hte plastic cap in the outside end ( careful use of stanley knife required ). Once regreased with a quality grease the pedals have stood up to serious abuse and thorough soakings with perfect performance. 4 out of 5, only let down by poor grease and blunt spikes to start with. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Andy K.
a weekend warrior
from Brooklyn Date Reviewed: January 6, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | | | Weaknesses: | | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | | | Bottom Line: |
For street/city riding, Triple Traps are quite sweet. Since clips and straps don't make sense when you constantly have to stop for traffic, I was in need of some pedals with good bite. The traps were the answer - excellent grip with any shoe I wore. They work especially well with boots, a must for those cold, sloppy NYC winters . . . | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jon Lofthouse
a cross-country rider
from Hong Kong Date Reviewed: December 29, 1998 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | | | Weaknesses: | | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | | | Bottom Line: |
Dammit Odyssey, whats up with your cages?? I have a pair of Black Widows, brand new and i took them to Tai Mo Shan..(yeah yeah along with my bike), a fairly aggressive techincal singletrack here in HK. i have done this trail 4 times now (due to accessibility.. it's hard to get to..) the last time i used the pedals that came stock on my Giant. They held up real good, no dents, no mangled cages.. and that was after 2 hard crashes. On the last time i went, usign the odyesseys, i didn't crash once.. but coming off the trail, the left pedal's cage was mangled BAD.. it's dented, bent and twisted. I paid 250 HK for these, i expected alot more. My freinds shark bite's cage ripped off and was bent. No more odyssey pedals for me. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jack Harris
a cross-country rider
from Shropshire, England. Date Reviewed: December 26, 1998 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | | | Weaknesses: | | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | | | Bottom Line: |
I recently bought a pair of sharkbites for 13 quid to go off-road riding. I was however, bitterly dissapointed. I went with my friends to Natmawr Quarry, which many UK riders will know of to be one of the best downhill locations in the world. Half way down the downhill course the cage hit a root and a massive dent appeared in the cage. Didn't affect performance though. But when I was racing DS later on the same pedal hit a rock and the entire cage wa ripped off, leaving me with a useless bit of slippery metal to trty and grip to. Needless to say I lost and was unhappy because it was partly the pedals fault. Things like that shouldn't happen on off road equipment. Also I noticed the bearings were shite and need ed grease straight away, the treads that the cage screws go into aren't correctly positioned and to top it off the replacement cages on the market are as much as a new pair of pedals! I really don't think you should get these pedals if doing any kind of cycling over 10mph, they're that bad. Opt for DMR or Wellgo V12 instead. I did, and now I'm a lot happier. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ryan Lee
a weekend warrior
from Richmond B.C. Date Reviewed: September 7, 1998 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | | | Weaknesses: | | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | | | Bottom Line: |
I had a pair of Shark Bites and i liked the performance. However they aren't very tough. I twisted the cage and when I tried to bend it back the entire cage snapped. On top of that, when I was fixing the cage I noticed that I had cracked the metal that holds up the cage, when I touched it, the thing broke. I have to say that I am impressed with the performance but am dissapointed by the durability, however, these pedals aren't that expensive so I excpect to have to replace these things once in awhile. Anyways I upgraded (maybe) to triple traps, I hope that these last longer as they are more expensive. 5 stars for the performance of the shark bites and minus 2 for the durability. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dan
a cross-country rider
from Utah Date Reviewed: August 27, 1998 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | | | Weaknesses: | | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | | | Bottom Line: |
I have a set of the Black Widows that I have been using and abusing for three years now. The bearings in these things are great - very smooooth. In all the time I have owned them I think I have only taken them apart to clean them once (an easy process) after many stream crossings and mud baths got them kinda gunky and one lost its smooth action. The cages do need regular replacement, though, and finding the cages usually requires a search. But on the bright side, the cages are lightweight and you can bend them back into shape easily with a pair of pliers (till they fall apart). But you gotta watch out for those cages on your shins! I haven't done it lately, but I used to regularly get the bloody shin action going. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Sherman
a weekend warrior
from British Columbia, Canada Date Reviewed: August 23, 1998 | | Favoriate Trail: | | | Duration Product Used: | | | Price Paid: |
$ | | Purchased At: | | | Strengths: | | | Weaknesses: | | | Similar Products Used: | | | Bike Setup: | | | Bottom Line: |
I have the Turbo trap pedals and I agree with a lot of the reviews here. They are not very good. I use em for trials and I have banged up the cages. I always have to straighten them out after every ride. I also took them on a muddy ride and I think I really did a number on the bearings. Since they are not sealed a lot of grit got in there. I kinda fixed it by shooting some grease in there. I tried to take them apart and I noticed it had the cone and nut setup so I did not take them apart because I would probably have needed a special tool to put it back together. The grip is good though. I have not slipped off of them too much. I was thinking of going with the more expensive triple traps but now I am glad I did not. In Odysseys defence the pedals were probably not made for riding in the mud and trials but more for BMX racing. | |
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