Hi, thanks for looking at this thread, I really need some feedback please from the people that matter-scooter riders!
After spending more money than I could afford buying my son a scooter (yes it was cheap tat!) and then pimpimg bits we ended up with a nice looking but dodgy scooter, his mates all rides JD Bugs extreme model costing £100 but apart from a stronger deck didnt seem much better for the money, or Razors same again, decent deck but bearings and other bits very cheap.
I decided as have an engineering background we would do our own scooter for him, we are just finishing his and wanted to run the specs past people as can see a bit of a fun business for us to run and a way to get people decent scooters at a fair price. If you could just have a look at the basic spec and estimated price below and just give us some feedback as to if you think it sounds good, if you would be interested in buying one etc just to see if other people are in the same situation as us wanting a decent product at a fair price and if its worth us trying to do as a business, thanks folks.
Aircraft alloy deck with reinforced welded gooseneck to make a very strong and lightweight deck, the gooseneck is square construction so similar to razor ultra pro deck but with square rather than round and slightly thicker. Brake is milled out for lightweight but also retains strength and is grooved so no foot slip in wet weather etc.
Abec 9 quality bearings with full ceramic balls the same as with bones ceramic bearings.
Yak Allloy core 100mm wheels.
Yak foam grips.
Jessup grip tape covering full deck.
The bars we are still working on to get strength and weight right so not finalised but will be quality.
The whole package will be hand assembled and we are aiming to sell for £80-£90. The bearings alone sell for around £50 for similar quality ceramics, wheels £20+ etc etc so the parts alone without the deck almost cost the retail price so we think we have a winner but what do you think, we need your opinions good and bad, cheers, Joel. P.S. We are also working on a second deck very similar to the new district deck/phoenix quality and strength and that full scooter would be around £120 but with same running gear as this one so still potential bargain compared to deck prices.
After spending more money than I could afford buying my son a scooter (yes it was cheap tat!) and then pimpimg bits we ended up with a nice looking but dodgy scooter, his mates all rides JD Bugs extreme model costing £100 but apart from a stronger deck didnt seem much better for the money, or Razors same again, decent deck but bearings and other bits very cheap.
I decided as have an engineering background we would do our own scooter for him, we are just finishing his and wanted to run the specs past people as can see a bit of a fun business for us to run and a way to get people decent scooters at a fair price. If you could just have a look at the basic spec and estimated price below and just give us some feedback as to if you think it sounds good, if you would be interested in buying one etc just to see if other people are in the same situation as us wanting a decent product at a fair price and if its worth us trying to do as a business, thanks folks.
Aircraft alloy deck with reinforced welded gooseneck to make a very strong and lightweight deck, the gooseneck is square construction so similar to razor ultra pro deck but with square rather than round and slightly thicker. Brake is milled out for lightweight but also retains strength and is grooved so no foot slip in wet weather etc.
Abec 9 quality bearings with full ceramic balls the same as with bones ceramic bearings.
Yak Allloy core 100mm wheels.
Yak foam grips.
Jessup grip tape covering full deck.
The bars we are still working on to get strength and weight right so not finalised but will be quality.
The whole package will be hand assembled and we are aiming to sell for £80-£90. The bearings alone sell for around £50 for similar quality ceramics, wheels £20+ etc etc so the parts alone without the deck almost cost the retail price so we think we have a winner but what do you think, we need your opinions good and bad, cheers, Joel. P.S. We are also working on a second deck very similar to the new district deck/phoenix quality and strength and that full scooter would be around £120 but with same running gear as this one so still potential bargain compared to deck prices.
