Nanospeed 850
Model NS-850
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Nanospeed 850: the stiff Taiwan-made Nanospeed that took the 800’s place, with Super HMG
The 800’s successor on the export list
The Nanospeed 850 was a stiff, 3U Nanospeed made in Taiwan for markets outside Japan. It appeared on Yonex’s international (export) Nanospeed list at the turn of March and April 2010, in the same update that removed the Nanospeed 800, and Yonex listed its frame with Super HMG. Yonex named no player for it and printed no price, and no Yonex Japan listing of it is known.
Super HMG in a nanotube frame
Yonex gives no launch date. The 850 is absent from the list as it stood on 25 March 2010 and present, tagged “New!!”, on 1 April 2010, so 2010 is the year it was first documented. Yonex listed a frame of high-modulus graphite, carbon nanotube and Super HMG, a shaft of high-modulus graphite and carbon nanotube, Stiff flex and one weight class, 3U (85.0–89.9 g), with grips G3–G5, made in Taiwan. The technology line named Isometric, the Delta Power Frame and the built-in T-joint. Yonex’s 2011 catalog line for it reads “Super HMG gives flexibility & sharp repulsion”. Yonex gave no balance for it.
No player on record
Yonex’s list pages and its 2011 catalog name no player for the Nanospeed 850, and no Yonex tournament report or staff page connecting a player to it is known. Yonex printed no level wording for it; on the 2010 list it and the Excel Alloy-framed Nanospeed 80 were the two Taiwan-made Nanospeeds rated Stiff; the 80 has its own page.
Black/Gold, then Gold
The 2010 list printed one color, Black/Gold; Yonex’s 2011 digital catalog lists the 850 in Gold with the same flex, materials and weight class. Against the Nanospeed 800 it replaced, the listed specification adds Super HMG to the frame, while flex, weight class, the Delta Power Frame and the Taiwan origin stay the same; Yonex does not say the 850 is the 800 renamed. The Nanospeed 500 beside it was Medium with plain graphite and nanotube in the frame. The Japan-made 8000 is a different, extra-stiff frame; each has its own page.
About fifteen months on sale
The 850 was an export model, listed on Yonex’s international site. 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 500, 100 and 80. With no production end stated, 2011 is the last year it is documented on sale new. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Mostly a question of identity
No counterfeit of the Nanospeed 850 is documented. The practical risk is a mix-up of numbers: the Nanospeed 800 it replaced, the Japan-made Nanospeed 8000, and the Nanoray and Nanoflare 800s of later series. Shop descriptions that call it head-light are retail copy, since Yonex gave no balance for this model.
The stiff end of a short-lived tier
The 850 continued the line of stiff Taiwan-made Nanospeeds that the 800 began in 2008. When Yonex’s export list gave way to the 2011 catalog, the Taiwan-made Nanospeed tier was down to the 850, 500 and 100, with the Excel Alloy-framed Nanospeed 80 (Taiwan-made on the 2011 list, China-made in the catalog), alongside the Taiwan-made, Extra Stiff Nanospeed 990 that the catalog also lists; each has its own page. For a collector it is a documented export model with two listed colors and no player connection.
Yonex listed the Nanospeed 850 as Stiff, 3U (85.0–89.9 g) with grips G3, G4 or G5, made in Taiwan. The frame is high-modulus graphite with carbon nanotube and Super HMG; the shaft high-modulus graphite with carbon nanotube. Listed technologies: Isometric, Delta Power Frame, built-in T-joint. Listed colors: Black/Gold (2010 list) and Gold (2011 catalog). Yonex gave no balance or string-tension range. A Japan-made, extra-stiff 8000 or an 800 marking is a different Nanospeed.
Read the number twice: 800, 850 and 8000 are three different Nanospeeds, and the 800 name returned on a Nanoray and a Nanoflare. Check 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 850, so treat a tour connection in a listing as unproven.