Noob here, looking for advice from Vets

Kyle Falls Hard

Kyle Falls Hard

Member
I skated on and off for like 8 years but I never really enjoyed it all that much (mostly did it because my friends did). I had this one friend who always scooted and preached the glory of scooting but I always ignored him. Then one day he hurt himself at the park so I asked if I could ride his scoot. I fell in love with it almost instantly. He suggested that if I wanted to get into scooting that I should buy a razor ultra pro before I dropped big money on a better scooter, just to make sure I liked it. So I bought the Razor ultra pro. This was about 2 weeks ago.

-HERE'S MY QUESTIONS FOR THE VETERAN SHREDDERS-

1. I am already looking to upgrade my scoot. Judging by the fact that I have the ultra pro, what parts would you suggest I invest in first? Keep in mind that I'm a slightly bigger guy (6'3 about 200lbs).

2. I have landed many tail whips, and I can occasionally land a 360. As I begin to progress. What tricks should I be trying to learn?

thanks in advance
 
StahndyDahndy

StahndyDahndy

Bronze member
maybe start out with some AFTERMARKET one-piece bars (yes i know that ultra pros come with 1 pieces.) im tall too (6'4") and i ride my bars 22 high by 18 wide. the thing about getting aftermarket bars are that you get to chose your height and width. this makes a serious impact on the way you ride. there are tons of wheels to chose from but i recommend hot gluing your stock wheels first and then find some aftermarket wheels. here's a link to learn how to hot glue your wheels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PhvwCv2CZU as for the tricks, try barspins, and 180's to fakie. try riding fakie for a while. eventually you'll get grinds, grabs, and combos. hoped this helped, and glad to have you in the scooter scene.
 
Kyle Falls Hard

Kyle Falls Hard

Member
Thanks a lot man. I have already been looking at some aftermarket bars on here that I would like a lot, but I think I'll ride my ultra pro's stock bars for a small amount of time so I can get a feel for what size I would want to order my aftermarket bars in. I'm glad to be in the scooter scene now:cool:
 
DevonIs1337

DevonIs1337

Member
i'm guessing you bought the normal one? in that case, the bar height should be 26hx18w... go from there.

also, since you're so big, I suggest finding some ultra pro deck reinforcements... they'll help out in the long run.
 
Kyle Falls Hard

Kyle Falls Hard

Member
Yeah I've actually heard that from a few people now...about the ultra pro cracking at the tube. Idk, I really wanted to get started and I didn't have 300+ dollars to spend. I guess I'll just keep my fingers crossed and if anything breaks I'll just replace it with better parts. If my deck breaks I've already got my eye on the phoenix 4.5.
 
Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls

M3MB3R
^ Phoenix decks are really good. But yea just look over your deck everyonce in a while to check for cracks. i checked over my deck last week and found 5 cracks so she mite be going soon:(. Anyways welcome to SR and the scooter scene!:)
 
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BYRDO444

Member
i'm so glad u posted this thread because i'm in the EXACT same situation. straight noob status (notice my post count). i was turned onto scooters by the guys over at tricktrack.org (fixed gear freestyle forum). and pretty much same situation. being tall, 6'4", and heavy (200ish) are the ultra pro bars going to be enough or am i gonna snap em or are they gonna be too short?

let me know, my goal is to build up a decent scooter this summer to mess around on.
 
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BYRDO444

Member
wheels will be my first purchase i think, but ya i'm super excited to try fakie cause i can do it on my bike forever
 
Kyle Falls Hard

Kyle Falls Hard

Member
See I really wanna get the metal core wheels but I want to get them in 110mm and I don't think I can put those on the Ultra Pro's stock forks. And if I get new forks then I wanna go all out and get threadless forks so just getting the metal cores and forks would be more the my ultra pro lol.
 
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matr!

Silver Member
It's heaps easier to make your own bars, then you can have any design you want and it doesn't cost anywhere near as much. Forks should probably be the last thing to change even though they can snap real easy, just do a fork reo. See if you can find any of the old quick release bars and cut off the bottom of the T-tube, shove that down the inside of the forktube and bobs your uncle. If not just find some pipe that fits. The stock ultra pro wheels are the strongest plastic cores around, stronger than some metalcores imo, so if ya hot glue them you should be right for wheels. They don't wear down to quickly so they should last a little while. Probably upgrade from the stock bearings aswell. Nothing to shabby, but like 20-30 dollar ones. Also, the brake is ok, but it will probably bend (well, the axle probably will ) and it's cool to cut down your brake. DO NOT look here for advice on how to do that. lol. If you just upgrade your scoot one bit at a time it should just build up. Also, planning out your scooter when your setting it up one piece every now and again is a waste of time imo, cause it never ends up like you pictured. Well, at least for me. Hope that helps...
 
edy boi

edy boi

Member
ok the guy above me gets an a for effort but hes kinda wrong making bars is not the way to go and razor wheels are not stronger than metalcores and ultra pro bars are almost identcal to aftermaket bars and since your a bigger guy your next deck should b a tsi freeflow its bigger and in my opinion rides waaaaaay better
 
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BYRDO444

Member
i bought a new headset (fsa dh pig), and i plan on hot glueing my wheels, that's the only upgrading im doing now (till i have more money) or till i break something.
 
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matr!

Silver Member
edy boi said:
ok the guy above me gets an a for effort but hes kinda wrong making bars is not the way to go and razor wheels are not stronger than metalcores and ultra pro bars are almost identcal to aftermaket bars and since your a bigger guy your next deck should b a tsi freeflow its bigger and in my opinion rides waaaaaay better
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I didn't say the wheels were better than metalcores in general, I said they are better than some metal cores... i.e. Yaks, flavours, scorpos etc.. Well, yaks aren't that bad in the front... And making bars is the way to go if you don't have a spare $100 laying around and can only choose from T-styles. I guess it's different in america but down under we gotta make our own shit if we wanna shred a decent scoot... We pay $110 for T-style bars that bend more than a fucking racetrack, we only just got protos and eagles a few months ago and, other than a few independant shops, we have to fork out $54 for one eagle and $60 for a proto. Not to mention $10 for postage seeing as they only have 2 stores around Australia. If we want decent forks "how much for the inward zero offset?"
"$290"
 
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