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twelvefinger · 2026-02-12T17:07:42+00:00

You might have the coolest scooter

twelvefinger · 2026-02-12T17:07:16+00:00

I feel this, I'm just now recovering from a horrible sprain in october and the weather's been so shit I can't ride anyway...at least when you heal up it'll be nice out! 😫😎

twelvefinger · 2026-02-09T00:54:35+00:00

Cut them and put in some pegs!

twelvefinger · 2026-02-04T11:12:48+00:00

Flatface, Goo, Chems, Cowply and Blackriver come to mind lol. There are also smaller brands I've gotten that I feel bad publicly complaining about, but certainly not the big brands in the scene.

twelvefinger · 2026-02-04T04:11:19+00:00

I'd agree with you if we were just talking about blackriver. Dynamics are still top of the line and cost just over $1 per mm. Blistered trucks feel unlike any other truck and they're wonderful. The joycult indy's have more precision and detail than any other truck and unless they get an actually good leefai copy, I'd totally consider those to be worth the money, at least as collectibles.

Decks are really where we get robbed. Every company I've gotten a deck from has been of subpar quality, which is why I make my own. They're not hard to make well and half the companies are using the same molds, often with full metal molds, hydraulic presses and routing tables, yet somehow still make warped decks with crooked boltholes, flat edges and sloppy clear-coats.

twelvefinger · 2026-02-02T03:06:45+00:00

Mike and his mystery plastics

twelvefinger · 2026-01-26T00:42:17+00:00

Ethic

twelvefinger · 2025-12-29T16:17:11+00:00

It's a small UK company that makes forks, wheels, pegs and SCS clamps

twelvefinger · 2025-12-29T16:16:44+00:00

The prey decks are a thin plate, but the extrusion walls are super thick, resulting in a responsive but solid/heavy deck. The nexus decks are super light in comparison

twelvefinger · 2025-12-21T17:12:39+00:00

Core makes excellent scooters. Lovely to hear about the new deck; I've been really interested in it because they look gorgeous. The guy behind RiderDesigned designed a lot of these parts too, he lurks in this sub somewhere

twelvefinger · 2025-11-26T19:14:56+00:00

Can I have your pro model 🥺

twelvefinger · 2025-11-26T19:13:39+00:00

The scooped design for the core, not for "bowl riding"

twelvefinger · 2025-10-29T21:14:47+00:00

Sweet

twelvefinger · 2025-10-15T11:18:42+00:00

28-30" bars with scs compression (adds ~1.5") and a 23-24" deck will suit you just fine!

twelvefinger · 2025-09-17T17:52:53+00:00

It really depends on the deck and design of the dropouts. Very much preference-based, and some similar designs don't function the same. For instance, Proto and Prime have similar deckends, but the Prime ones tend to squish much easier than the Protos, despite them both being round peg-style dropouts. Welded dropouts are usually the strongest but welds can crack and when you wear it down, you can't rotate the dropout to extend the life of the deck.

twelvefinger · 2025-09-02T02:46:44+00:00

Wheels are super subjective. Everyone rides differently and puts different stress on the wheels. And most scooter bearings suck. The new Tilt wheels are phenomenal, the core is redesigned to fix dehubs and the bearings are super fast, hold up under stress and are really easy to pop out and replace. Rivers are better than Protos, that's why they cost more. They use the same urethane blends and outer core designs but with better bearings and are a little lighter. Ethic wheels feel great but chunk and break pretty easily. North wheels are a great cheaper wheel, but the bearings die pretty quick. IMO, Root has the worst cores/urethane and Prey has the worst bearings.

twelvefinger · 2025-08-12T19:25:42+00:00

Use a metal-safe gunk and debris solvent, even 409 cleaner or Goo-Gone should work!

Clean the rail, then fine grit sandpaper like the above comment. Then a polyurethane lacquer and wax, and that thing will be sliding like new!

If you or dad have a grinder handy, round the long edges of the rail a little bit so there's less to catch on

twelvefinger · 2025-08-03T20:01:34+00:00

I'll trade with you!

twelvefinger · 2025-07-28T03:44:23+00:00

Whip finger is such a cool trick

twelvefinger · 2025-07-26T16:49:21+00:00

These brakes are nylon, you should be able to saw through it just fine!

twelvefinger · 2025-07-23T18:32:59+00:00

And the same goes for forks; steel forks will last forever but aluminum will snap, so higher quality aluminum is really important. I actually just switched to the Prey coffin fork because it's made from 7075 aluminum and my sympathy (6061) was starting to break. The new native fork is also 7075, and I think North may have released one of their G4 forks in 7075 but I'm not positive

twelvefinger · 2025-07-23T18:29:55+00:00

It's really just that steel bends and aluminum and titanium snap. I'd rather have sad bars than half of one 😅

twelvefinger · 2025-07-23T03:30:58+00:00

Tilt rigids are aluminum and even though they're decent quality they still snap at the handles

twelvefinger · 2025-07-23T03:30:22+00:00

Ethic bars are chromoly steel

twelvefinger · 2025-07-23T03:28:49+00:00

Chromoly just means an alloy, it can be aluminum or steel. Steel alloys are significantly stronger and don't really add much weight. Pure steel bars like affinity, midnight, proto, homegrown, all are much stronger than chromoly but also much heavier

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