Reinforce Your Scooter! (with pics)

[Derek Scootz]

but you use masking tape?

 

[Eric Magray]

yes, initially. jsut for holding the pieces together while you work and for a template. but in dibbles mod the duck tape actually holds the reinforcement together while its on the scooter to ride.

 

[chrisisme]

ill do a vid if do this mod if its needed

 

[Derek Scootz]

whaaaaa eric's a Mod now? sweeet

 

[lloyd]

props to eric, for becoming a mod nice

 

[Big L]

ill do a vid if do this mod if its needed

yes, i would love you

 

[Matt Dibble]

haha my video is because i had reinforcements that made a fat kids scooter last 17 months and everyone wanted to know how to do it. there are endless ways to reinforce, find your own way if you don't like mine or erics. The duct tape in my version was to keep the pieces together while putting them in the deck (i couldnt find a rod, so i had to make one), and the duct tape made it tight in the deck itself so i didnt need anything holding them in place in the front. Do what you want, but a fat kid riding street+park on a scooter for 17 months showed that mine did what they were supposed to do for me. Let me know how long yours end up lasting (although it may take over a year like mine did) haha.



Again, do what you want, I liked the results from my retarded way of doing it, but you may not.

 

[Eric Magray]

wow, i didnt know they lasted that long. thats sick matt. but yea idk how long mine are gonna last for, its really solid and bolted mad tight. and i never broke my old ones, just took them off cause i was in that whole light scooter fad. i think theyll last a good year of riding though

 

[bobbyh1]

good thread do0d

 

[Big L]

haha, im soo dumb, i just read it over and its soo clear i dont need teh vid any more

 

[PyAMP]

someone should sell reinforced scooteres because im way to lazy to reinforce any of mine

 

[Big L]

well i finally did it, its really good, looks, feels solid

 

[lloyd]

someone should sell reinforced scooteres because im way to lazy to reinforce any of mine

micro does lol. anyone thats not a random wide eyed newbie knows that. they just suck. but someone should def start selling reinforced pros. thats would be the bomb.

 

[skavenger]

^^ Or razor could re-design there decks with thicker dropouts, Or a whole thicker deck.

 

[Eric Magray]

someone should sell reinforced scooteres because im way to lazy to reinforce any of mine

i was thinking people wouldnt want to, so i was gonna buy a bunch of material, make the reinforcements and sell them so all youd need to do is tighten the bolts. but idk if anyone would buy and i dont really have the money to do that at the moment.

 

[ENERGY TURTLE]

I would buy if you made them able to be inside the deck. I would be able to grind dwon the bearing spacers myself.

 

[Eric Magray]

nah, theyd be outside

 

[lloyd]

bump.

they should look like this but all the way (missed out on tubing...) : (?)

 

[jeff26]

with the bearing spacers, if you did it on the inside, couldnt you just drill a really big hole, so the spacers fit?

 

[Steezeman]

You could do that, but believe me, doing the reinforcement on the inside is wayyyyyy harder than on the outside. 1 because you can't put bolts all the way through because that wouldn't do anything and 2 because it's hella annoying working around inside the deck, especially with a Pro with all the junk they have inside.