Yes i see your point. 75 sets does’t amount to much in terms of investment for a medium sized company. So why aren’t more people placing orders like Evolve did? This is a very good question!
I believe this type of product still remains a niche product. The DIY community doesn’t mind dropping 100$ + on a set of wheels. But how do you educate the general public to buy your wheel instead of the 25$ clones on ebay?
Id recommend the green for whatever group buy option we choose. Thats Chris’s original foumla with all the RD. All the other colors are slight tweaks and from what Ive seen and heard chunk easier. Ive seen and heard of many more chunked, pink, red and black wheels than I have Green.
I think one of us will have to do that. For evolve it makes sense to buy in large sets not so much for us or any other regular skateboarding company. I think our best bet is to include resellers like @longhairedboy and @psychotiller maybe they can get 5-10 sets each and the rest of us putting in our orders to do a massive groupbuy to reach 75 sets. Evolve is just milking those 107’s for 160 right now.
That’s really not a fair statement where abec is concerned! Chris has been making Flywheels long before most of you knew what a longboard was…
I sense the frustration. But take a second and breathe. He was riding electric boards before all of you as well.
He was also here on the forum to promote the use of quality components rather than chinese knockoff shit. He was quickly muted even though everything he said was going to happen DID. But who is this community of cheap asses really in support of?
What’s happening now is a prime example of what happens when you don’t support local companies.
Sorry for the rant, but this is the 5th shitty comment I’ve seen concerning Abec11 today and it’s too close to home.
I think we should wait until ABEC11 ships all their current orders, like for example, to sk8kings and to esk8 manufacturers, and THEN, AFTER THAT, we should definitely group buy. But only after they ship something, damnit so we know they haven’t turned into a scam operation.
I know i’m not allowed by the forum to do group buys (haven’t reached that level of evolution), nevertheless i’m willing to help in anyway possible to make this happen.
I think this poll is great, the group buy… great idea, but @Ronny_CTS are you a level three member? somebody else might need to manage the group buy as per forum rules. Not to alienate Ronny but to keep it all tip top, mickey mouse…
i’ll grab a set… don’t even need em, but i’ll support the big “C”
I’d be in for 107’s, classic formula 75a, green on black hubs!
However, hopefully i can make up for it with my will to help. If i can give a hand with with other aspects such as tracking orders with user names and quantities, filling out forms, you can count on me.