Nanospeed 80
Model NS-80
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Nanospeed 80: the Excel Alloy Nanospeed Yonex listed as Taiwan-made, then as Chinese
An alloy frame in a nanotube line
The Nanospeed 80 (item code NS80) is the one Nanospeed whose frame Yonex listed as Excel Alloy rather than graphite. It joined Yonex’s international (export) Nanospeed list in spring 2010, in Red and rated Stiff, and stayed until mid-2011. Two Yonex documents disagree on where it was made: the list says Taiwan, the 2011 digital catalog says China. Yonex named no player for it and printed no price.
Excel Alloy, a nanotube shaft, one weight class
Yonex gives no launch date. The 80 is absent from the list as it stood on 25 March 2010 and present, tagged “New!!”, on 1 April 2010, in the same update that added the Nanospeed 850 and the junior 100Jr, so 2010 is the year it was first documented. Yonex listed an Excel Alloy frame, a shaft of graphite and carbon nanotube, Stiff flex and one weight class, 3U (85.0–89.9 g), with grips G3–G5; the technology line named Isometric and the built-in T-joint. The 2011 catalog’s line for it reads “Excel Alloy achieves strength and repulsion”, and its technology page sets Excel Alloy against Yonex’s standard aluminum racquets, claiming more strength and “higher elasticity for a better drive smash and clear.” Yonex gave no balance for the 80, and its 2011 balance map leaves it out.
No player on record
Yonex’s list pages and its 2011 catalog name no player for the Nanospeed 80, and no Yonex tournament report or staff page connecting a player to it is known. Yonex printed no level wording for it either.
One color, and how it differs from its siblings
Yonex listed one design, Red, on the list from 2010 and again in the 2011 catalog. It shared the shaft materials, the 3U class, the grip sizes and the plain Isometric and T-joint line of the Nanospeed 100 beside it, but swapped the 100’s graphite frame for Excel Alloy and its Flexible rating for Stiff. On the 2010 list the 80 and the 850 were the two Taiwan-made Nanospeeds rated Stiff; the 850 has a frame of high-modulus graphite, carbon nanotube and Super HMG. The Japan-made Nanospeed 8000 is a different, extra-stiff frame, and the Nanospeed 100Jr on the same list is a 5U junior racquet. The 100, 850 and 8000 each have their own page.
About fourteen months on the export list
The 80 was an export model, listed on Yonex’s international site; no Yonex Japan or Yonex USA listing of it is known. It was last on the international list in June 2011, when the list gave way to a link to Yonex’s 2011 digital catalog, and that catalog still shows it, with the 850, 500 and 100. With no production end stated, 2011 is the last year it is documented on sale new. The list printed “Made in Taiwan” for it on every version from April 2010 to June 2011; the catalog, online from April 2011, prints “Made in China” under it and China as its country of manufacture, against Taiwan for the 850, 500 and 100. Yonex never reconciled the two. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Mostly a question of identity
No counterfeit of the Nanospeed 80 is documented. The practical risk is a mix-up of numbers: the Nanospeed 800 and 850, the Japan-made 8000, and in 2011 a Red Nanospeed 100 in the same catalog. A 5U frame with a small grip is the junior 100Jr, not this model.
The alloy end of a short-lived tier
The 80 arrived in spring 2010, late in the run of the Taiwan-era export Nanospeeds that Yonex ran beside its Japan-made fullerene models, and it was the only one with an alloy frame. For a collector it rounds out that tier: a documented export model with one listed color, no player connection and a country of manufacture that Yonex’s own documents leave unresolved.
Yonex listed the Nanospeed 80 as Stiff, 3U (85.0–89.9 g) with grips G3, G4 or G5, with an Excel Alloy frame and a graphite and carbon-nanotube shaft. Listed technologies: Isometric and the built-in T-joint. Listed color: Red, on the 2010–11 list and in the 2011 catalog. Yonex’s list gives Taiwan as the country of manufacture and its 2011 catalog gives China, so either origin matches a Yonex document. Yonex gave no balance for it. A Flexible, graphite-framed Red frame is the Nanospeed 100; a 5U frame with a G7 grip is the junior 100Jr.
Read the number twice: 80, 800, 850 and 8000 are four different Nanospeeds, and the 100 also came in Red in 2011. Check the weight mark (3U) and the grip size to rule out the junior 100Jr. Inspect the head, the T-joint and the grommets for cracks and wear, as with any frame of this age. Yonex documents no player or edition of the 80, so treat a tour connection or special-edition claim in a listing as unproven.