@Alphamail While we’re on the subject of risers and wedges, how about making an extra wide 15° wedge that would allow the use of MBS and Trampa channel trucks on mountain boards that only have 20° angled tip and tail? I have a couple older mountain board decks that I would like to use with channel trucks, but the 20° mounting angles were based on using skate type trucks, and with channel trucks, it steers like a semi truck and the turning radius is ridiculous.
Also, I don’t know if it’s feasible, but it would be cool if you could also make some affordable 35° wedges for using channel trucks on regular skate decks, e.g., the Jet Spud on MTB trucks & wheels.
On the whole riser thing… I’d love to see a soft, high-rebound urethane spacer that actually compresses a significant amount when you hit a bump. For many, it’s not that extra bit of vibration-dampening is not that big of a deal, but it’s significant for super stiff Carbon Fiber decks like the one I’m using for my own products.
While the thought of that is nice, the issues @Alphamail pointed out earlier are real. Personally having tried softer risers to get some more dampening on my all cf build resulted in a ton of movement of the deck/baseplate along the bolts while turning, could hear it scraping up and down on the bolt threads.
Insoles/deck padding have been the best solution I’ve found.
Looks cool dude, but I think I can see ways we can optimize it for motor wire flow/guidance. I’ll sketch something up 2d tomorrow. If you imagine the motors do not sit at 90 degrees to the two lateral channels. But are mounted behind the riser pad to each side, so ideally to minimize pressure on the motor wires they need to be directed diagonally behind the riser pad not to the side.
You could take some meat out of the current drawing and add some in other areas to give support and reduce the flex angle of the motor wires.
In the skate world, patents basically give you the right to spend $500,000.00 to protect your idea that you made a couple of thousand on over several years.
Not really. communities as ours are stronger than any patent/copyright or whatever… and can kick any ass everywhere in the planet if someone has some stupid ideas in his mind without contacting the guy that created it to share credits. This is stronger than any patent, believe me.
@Alphamail another idea that I think is worth kicking around, but will require more development is a slide glove puck that contained a internal mount for a eSk8 remote.
It could be proprietary or even be a mod of a existing popular controller…
This is more of a selfish kinda request… but can I bug you to cast me some 92.5a APS barrel and cone bushings in Pantone 3242 C? Gotta get that color game on.
I want my bushings to match those rise and shine diamond risers I’m rocking. The stock ones from Avenue (in this pic) are way too soft to be any useful to me.
WoW, that is selfish!!! Custom color runs are very expensive since it is difficult to get the color right the first time. The urethane natural color is a bit of an off white depending on the duro and formulation so you need to compensate for that influence plus you need to pour 19 pairs at a time on our smallest Barrel mold and 24 pairs on the Cone mold. We are talking hundreds of dollars to do something like that. Happy to do it but it will be charged as time and materials.
OK, here is where @scepterr and I are at currently with what we are calling the Tunnel Riser. We are open to alternate names and we would like to gauge interest on the numbers we should make as well as colors. The material will be the same 60d translucent urethane that we use for our PSD FootStops that has a well documented and proven track record in durability! The riser takes about the same amount of material as the FootStops which retail for $20.00 each but we will likely offer them here for less at least initially. Please let us know your thoughts!
Custom color runs are very expensive since it is difficult to get the color right the first time. The urethane natural color is a bit of an off white depending on the duro and formulation so you need to compensate for that influence plus you need to pour 19 pairs at a time on our smallest Barrel mold and 24 pairs on the Cone mold. We are talking hundreds of dollars to do something like that. Happy to do it but it will be charged as time and materials.
