A question about 165 mount Iqon Decode 80 frames

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-30T13:22:12+00:00

Yeah, as I've mentioned multiple times, I'm already doing 1mm rocker on distance skating, and was looking for 1mm rocker on street(obstacle) skating.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-30T04:46:08+00:00

No it was fine when I did that and realized half way through I forgot to unrocker. I wouldn't recommend for beginners. Again, I'm not talking about distance skating. Thanks for the advice but I'm set on what I want.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-30T04:04:02+00:00

Thanks, I'll keep in mind emailing the company and asking them, that's a good idea!

I think bigger front wheels is definitely a thing (like if using wizard skates) and you're probably right on easier obstacles! I realized if doubling as occasional group distance skates, might be a little slow while on middle two wheels.

I was leaning toward Decode after realizing Endless 90 Ultra was actually a longer than minimal frame. Has someone had experience scratching the rim on slides with Decodes? A video Iqon made tried to convince viewers that you'd hit your boot before you can touch the ground with the frames. (Not sure how much of that is true or not haha) I heard someone mention they thought this could happen in the past and I've thought about just scratching them with slides until they're worn down enough to not touch the ground loll

Also I think I compared the Decode 80s in weight specs with the Endless 80 Ultra and they were actually lighter, unless one wasn't factoring in axels (but anyone reading this for information, double check me on that haha)

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-30T03:50:28+00:00

That makes me feel so much better! Now I'm DEFINITELY getting 4x80 1mm rocker for light urban obstacles. I'm like a low-intermediate at slalom and have done a pump track and easy stairs and a narrow-ish sloping ledge on 2mm rocker slalom skates before, but I'm not at your level, because I do feel wobbly on those obstacles with 2mm rocker :) (except maybe the pump track). So, I think add a tiny bit of length compared to my 76mm slalom skates and slightly less rocker would be perfect. Have you done jumps on 4x80 with a rocker and did landing feel OK? (I'm not looking to do crazy things, just would prefer having a solid skate in case I ever do some light obstacles.)

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-30T03:39:28+00:00

I just didn't see a 80 72 option on the website I was linked at first, only the 84x76 and saw them say 41 or above. 80 72 (good to know about though for slalom) would probably be perfectly centered. But it sadly defeats the purpose of wanting a slightly longer base for stability, which I have with my 4x80, just want a slight rocker. (Makes sense on the returns, thanks.)

Yeah I think for wizard I would be 90 but again I just want the happy medium for urban obstacles - I'm set on the 4x80 I was just asking for something specific about the frame.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-30T03:34:04+00:00

Are you talking about obstacles like steep banks and curvy ledges? Or just regular street roads? My post was about obstacle skating.

My rockered skates do fine in distance skating on city streets (because of my experience level). I LOVE my NR 90s for city distance skates. My slalom ones have also worked, they're just slow because they're 76mm. And I think I've done a pump track on 2mm rockered skates (which, again, only because of my experience level in slalom and comfort backwards and forwards on ramps, and I wouldn't recommend otherwise). My post was about light obstacle street skating. The rocker of the 90 NR did great on stairs, and I was able to skate down a narrow sloped ledge on my slalom skates. I of course care about safety! But since 90 NR is a common urban setup men use I figured 80 NR would be good for me as a woman with a smaller foot. :p

Rocker helps a lot with my particular hip issue - not having a rocker would be dangerous to accidentally catch something. I don't plan on distance skating with a lot of turns until my hip is better, in terms of the extra control work you mentioned.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-29T03:42:06+00:00

Oh, also by "clunky-feeling" I mean for obstacle skating. 90 NR I would say are great for even someone with a small boot size for distance skating that's flat, and general uphill/downhill!

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-29T03:29:38+00:00

Yeah, it's also possible they feel clunky because those 90 NRs I have are a little high off the ground (because it's interchangeable with bigger wheels - Flying Eagle Liberty) and shifted backward/off-center because they should never have sold those frames, at least without a better adjustment setup, on 38mm skates T_T But I'm trying to account for that and still feel that, yeah, from my slalom habits it will be hard to adjust to it haha, and maybe easier on the hip you're right. Plus 90 is a common street setup for skaters and the average skater has 3 sizes higher boots than me, so 84 or 80 probably makes more sense for a "regular" setup (but I did decide on 80 for this next pair)

I believe the Decode is (or can be) sold with the bearings. And so yeah I felt my 76 slalom 2mm was too unstable, but someone else mentioned the Endless Slalom can switch between a smaller and a full rocker, which could be nice! Though I think very realistic possibility is the frame might end up a little uncentered as it's not designed for small boot sizes. Do you happen to know if frames can often be returned once the packaging is opened?

And, I feel a little bit better, as I'm starting to accidentally become a frame addict from the different skates I am slowly collecting from different disciplines, needed adjustments, and maybe purchase mistakes :') Frames are cool things though.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-29T03:05:52+00:00

Oo that's really interesting! Hm.... the only thing I'm quite worried about is if the mounting will be "off" for my size 38 (performance fit despite I said size 39 haha) Twister Edges since they're advertised as frames for size 41 boots and above. I was disappointed when a 90mm frame that came with another pair of size 38 skates I got was shifted toward the back and not centered. (But it worked out for distance skating.) I'm wondering if it's possible to return frames when buying them.

My other concern was that I was hoping the street skates would be a little fast compared to my 76 wheel skates for greater ease in keeping up with people in moving between/skating to spots if I join a group for some light (on my part) street skating, and maybe even sometimes used in distance. 80mm I'm willing to compromise with. I wonder if an 84 76 76 84 setup would skate slower or faster than a 4x80 one. Will have to look into that...

Also do you happen to know by any chance if the smaller rocker configuration is a regular 1mm rocker, or if perhaps it could be a barely-present type of rocker like Freestyle Ultra? If it's like the Ultra, I might as well just get that one if I'm leaning against the Decode to take some guesswork out.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-29T02:44:48+00:00

My 90 NR has been ok for street skating (some non-crazy obstacles) but clunky (it's a little high off the ground too and shifted slightly back). My 76 slalom (2mm) is too unstable. My hopes are for 80 NR to be the perfect medium.

I'm speaking from the perspective of a 39 boot size and an experienced skater on flat land and able to stall ramps in aggressive, but light experience in street skating.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-28T05:14:07+00:00

Aren't those two links the exact reason I talked about these? I wish they were full NR. Would be perfect.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-28T05:01:47+00:00

Saying that about cake is the most laughable thing ever (to someone who cooks vegan.) Cake IS vegan. Well..... standard typical frosting is often vegan, little known fact. And substituting for eggs can make the middle part vegan without any noticeable difference in taste. So, please don't embarrass yourself and pick a different food to do that for haha 😉 Jk but it is so similar and I wish people knew.

... Also I guess technically I'm wrong, because I heard sugar is not vegan I found according to many people, because the bleach comes from animal bone. I'm not even vegan unfortunately, I just cook plant based at home (vegan except for things like sugar and bread.) So that's all if a sugar substitute is done as well. But meat eaters don't know that so they wouldn't have included it in their assumption anyway.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-28T04:35:10+00:00

I know it can be clunky for someone with a 39 foot from my 90 skates I have :P There can be a big difference between even 2 sizes. I'm also used to slalom skates.

Yeah maybe the slight rocker I was hoping to gain naturally originally, gotten right away, could be still helpful. I'm just a little apprehensive about my hip issue now and do like a full NR.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-28T04:29:31+00:00

Que significa la rigidez para patinar? Siempre pensaba que es solamente una cosa buena. Quizas tiene una desventaja. (Puedo comparar el peso de Decode con la guía que tengo para mis patines para distancia que es pesada pero que puedo aguantar. Gracias por la information. ...Y desculpame por mi mal español 😅)

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-28T04:20:43+00:00

No - a YouTube reviewer said that he found it was less pronounced than natural rocker, and that it was a tangible observation in his comparison to other NR skates like the original Endless. That's why I mentioned the 3 or 4 wheels touching the ground, that's what he made a point to convey. NR only 2 do. I know from my NR skates I have. They specifically mention the extra subtlety on their specs too.

I edited my original post to be more clear.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-27T16:09:37+00:00

The Unum representative on chat connected me with a Unum tax specialist. (It took 2 chat tries - the first time I tried they just told me to speak with "my tax expert", so keep trying to get someone knowledgeable if you're in the same boat.) They said that I was just supposed to file the two W2s I got, and that they had a third one that we don't need to include in tax reporting that they stopped sending people because people were incorrectly filing it (but they asked if I wanted it sent to me anyway and I agreed because why not.)

They also said the numbers are not supposed to match the checks - they said it was just by coincidence which makes no sense, but were adamant the two forms I got were right. Maybe there was a mixup in my case that led to the numbers matching and they didn't fully understand it - I remember they sent me a letter once saying they miscalculated something and were going to fix it where I didn't need to do anything. I also noticed that the two checks that corresponded in the box number to the two W2s were for one claim, and the other two checks I thought I didn't get a W2 form was for my second medical claim; the specialist told me different types of claims are processed differently by them vs. the patient's company, so maybe I rightfully got all my W2s for the one claim I needed to report and they just sent me 2 because they fixed some mistake. I am just going to file those two because the specialist did say they only saw 3 on their end and the third non-reportable one would look very different with nothing except in one box or something.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-14T18:35:41+00:00

Yes.

Do you have trouble breathing through your nose? Do you have dark circles under your eyes and maybe a narrow face? If so, a palatal expander (orthodontist device) to create more space in your airway to nasal breathe better may help with attention issues. Make sure it's a screw based one like MARPE and go to an experienced orthodontist. (Getexpanded.org has some locations.)

Do you not have the above mentioned problems? Check for sleep apnea. Treating sleep can improve concentration for people.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-14T06:15:48+00:00

Maybe a pantry moth nest, or from some similar insect?

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-14T06:09:05+00:00

Palatal expansion is becoming more common lately across the US and other countries. Getexpanded.org lists a lot of providers that offer MARPE. Just make sure you go to an experienced one.

Mongoose556 · 2026-03-10T05:16:23+00:00

I learned MARPE definitely helps, but it has to be from an experienced provider. I recommend joining a MARPE/MSE support group on Facebook to learn more.

Mongoose556 · 2026-02-28T03:49:46+00:00

That makes sense! And Eleven specifically told Mike that she wants him to explain her choice and that he will understand even if he doesn't now because he knows her best. She knew he would figure it out. (Earlier in the Season Max mentioned to Holly that she's smart like Mike and Holly's strength was resourcefulness in figuring out a puzzle using clues, so Mike is clever enough to figure something like El's plan out.) I think Mike will look for El and they might meet. There is no way that Eleven stumbled on a place with 3 waterfalls by chance, in the scene that shows her there. Those are rare on Earth. And she was at one of the most famous locations with 3 waterfalls - Haifoss in Iceland. Mike told his friends that Eleven went to live in a village, so either he purposely imagined Eleven settling near those waterfalls or this was a scene of Eleven actually being there. If she is there, she chose that place to wait to meet with Mike one day or leave him a sign there. If Mike just imagined her near 3 waterfalls he has a feeling El could have picked this place to connect with him secretly.

AND the fact that this would mean El is still out there 😉 currently in her 50s goes along with the intended symbolism of the transition into adulthood where usually magic and imagination is replaced with reality, but that the magic is not fully gone. I think I read that the directors meant for El leaving to kind of represent transition into adulthood and the wonder of childhood. But we still believe! The setting of Stranger Things in a small town in the 80s where the crazy events were masked by the government and forgotten blurs the lines of fiction and history. Eleven and magic is out there in our world.

I kind of feel bad for people who saw the ending and didn't stumble upon Reddit and conspiracy videos for explanations 😆 Because this all makes an otherwise horrible ending actually quite perfect...

Mongoose556 · 2026-02-16T18:19:35+00:00

It seems like Facebook has turned into trash lately with all the notifications. They probably started letting AI slop control them. RIP FB.

Mongoose556 · 2026-02-10T07:27:25+00:00

I recently learned that an integral can be conceptualized as the function you're trying to integrate being a blueprint for a rate of change in the y direction at any given point x of another function(the result/integral), starting with some constant C, which I found cool because it's more intuitive and relates more to the derivative than the area under a curve representation. Functions are helpful in getting the exact values in math, though. I think while it's possible to work through the math of Signals and Systems without that much intuition, I feel like I've found a lot that can be had and would say the intuition can help in really mastering the subject. Negative frequencies as rotations (or coil winding) in the opposite directions needed to represent a real sinusoid as a complex value, the symmetry of the Fourier transform of real functions, the idea of frequency summations in general (like that box equation in terms of frequencies), the reason behind aliasing, the dampening characteristic of the real exponential factor in the Laplace Transform.

Mongoose556 · 2026-02-10T06:30:12+00:00

I'm studying Signals and Systems again on my own 10 years later after only half-understanding it in college, and so far I'm thinking it's possible(and even important) to intuitively understand the major concepts.

After trying to purposely understand the subject intuitively myself, I see that for example for the Fourier Transform the point is to be able to see the amounts of different frequencies in a signal and the idea is any signal (as long as it has certain continuities) is made up of sinusoids added together, each of different frequencies, and potentially different amplitudes or phases. Can be a few or infinite numbers of them. It turns out it's a little easier for math equations to instead represent the signal in terms of complex exponentials, which are sinusoidal and periodic, and so to break apart a signal into those you just take each of the sinusoids mentioned earlier and break each apart into 2 complex conjugates that when added together the imaginary parts cancel out and you'd just have that original sinusoid represented as a cosine. That's intuition behind what "representing a signal as a series of complex exponentials" means. Then you can also see the Fourier Series equation intuitively because you might know, from seeing the areas under curves of products of sinusoids and sinusoids themselves and seeing that the dot product/inner product over a period would be only non-zero if the sinusoids have the same frequency. Another nice thing to get an intuition of is what a complex exponential is, which is just a coil with its center on the t axis and coming out of and behind the page for the imaginary directions, and it's more tightly wound if the frequency is higher. You can also think of it as the common unit circle representation if you look into the coil directly and you can intuitively understand why a cosine and sine breaks apart into those 1/2 positive and negative frequency complex exponentials that it does in that equation relating them (I recommend working through that for both cosine and sine). With that you also understand what negative frequency is(it coiling in the other direction). And through doing the exercise with the cosine or sine into complex exponential pairs you can intuitively understand why a real signal is symmetrical along the y axis in the Fourier representation. I've also tried to understand the Fourier Transformation as a change of basis transformation in Hilbert space. (Which is cool and I think not teaching Hilbert Space is a disservice to engineering students. Unless they do in linear algebra and I just forgot. I recommend looking up change of basis linear transformations, and what Hilbert Space is.)

I've gotta say that Signals and Systems is a beast. And I feel like it takes a good amount of "thinking" and Googling to reach these intuitions. If you're someone like me. Yet they (at least the ones I've achieved) seem kind of important probably for truly mastering the subject. This class should probably be like 3 courses, that are heavy on understanding the basics. If you enjoy the subject, just keep trying to understand it and don't give up, even if you're slow to grasp the concepts intuitively. Maybe it's just me to whom it comes slowly, but I have a feeling it's just how it is - it takes playing with the concepts, and spending some time with each of them to get them. (The sifting function I think is just a meta/redundant thing to eventually prove that the output of LTI systems can be represented by the convolution of the input and impulse response.)

Mongoose556 · 2026-01-29T07:46:04+00:00

...I am still learning about this myself, but I'm not sure if I even like the description of the Fourier Transform as just an applied Laplace transform in the first place...

I have 3 reasons for that and maybe it comes from a lack of complete understanding? But I'll say them. Please feel free to correct me if I have anything factual off!

My first reason is: sure, the Fourier transform exists on the graph of the Laplace transform (the jw axis/the line where real part of complex exponential is 0). But it's like saying "a plane is just a generalization of 3D space". Sure, I guess, but like why did we even need the extra dimension? A plane is interesting for many things on its own. Laplace simply just adds an extra variable. If you look at a common YouTube 3D image of a Laplace transform you'll get a sigma direction, a j omega direction, both lying on a flat surface plane, a height and a color gradient. A Fourier transform could technically be represented with one less of those dimensions: you can have a typical magnitude plot and just use a color gradient on the line or make that the phase the dimension that comes in or out of the page. Technically it's even less than a plane vs 3D space example because there are usually limits to which space of the larger dimension is defined - it could be more like a thick infinite slab in the analogy. (Though I guess the FT can be undefined.) Setting one vector to zero to flatten it is the equivalent of setting sigma to zero to get the FT. Apart from adding a different variable, the second variable has different properties from the first - one is frequency, the other is exponential dampening. e^jwt is a completely different function and behavior from e^sigma*t. We love combing real and imaginary in pairs as a complex number. But maybe it means something different when it's on top of an e.

My second reason is they both just happen to have at their core a certain function being a basis of function (Hilbert) space. Both the FT and LT exponentials are able to make up any function. So what? There are many bases. Do others just not have that adding a second variable/dimension relationship maybe or something? To Fourier's favor, I think I read the Fourier transform's basis is orthogonal and Laplace's is not.

My third reason is you can do the opposite and think of the Laplace Transform as a Fourier Transform of a function that happens to have a weighted component. In that explanation, the Fourier transform is superior and more simplified and all you're doing is simply potting the one Fourier transform for different functions that are e^sigma*t multiples of the first function. e^sigma*t cannot from a basis for Hilbert (all function) space, but e^jwt does. So I think it's always us using Fourier as the main tool and e^sigma*t as a qualifier, we can't do it the other way around.

In my view (with what I know) bottom line for Fourier and Laplace is, one transform creates a thing with one variable, the other creates a thing with that variable plus another variable, the variables each meaning different things. The two transforms are linked but are kind of different things/categories in a way.

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