Reinforcement Guide

[conordavidson]

Aluminum Box Reinforcements

Pros:
-Strong for your dropouts
-Allows peg tricks

Cons:
-You lose a lot of wallride clearance
-Heavy
-Requires a new rear axle
-Expensive
-Weakens the folding mech

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Aluminum Strip Reinforcements

Pros:
-Medium strength
-Maintains stock wallride clearence
-Light
-Cheap
-Works with stock axles

Cons:
-Not as strong as box
-No peg tricks

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Steel Box Reinforcements

Pros:
-Extremely strong for dropouts
-Allows peg tricks

Cons:
-Extremely heavy
-KILLS your folding mech
-Requires a new rear axle
-Lose wallride clearence
-Expensive

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Steel Strip Reinforcements

Pros:
-As strong as aluminum box
-Maintains stock wallride clearence
-Works with stock axles

Cons:
-Heavy as aluminum box
-Weakens folding mech
-No peg tricks
-Expensive (Cheap for some, depends on where you get them)

 

[JonMeadows]

I use steel strip for my back half.

Btw, nice guide!

 

[Erwin]

steel strips are also alot easier to make and put on and i found the right size steel at home depot for like 7 bucks, and then the welder at my dads work cut them and put rivets in the middle of the deck so theres no bolts.

 

[Mark Abramsky]

dude idk if my reinforcemts were messed up or somethin but they didnt help at all my deck cracked badly and the whole front bent up but the reiforcments stayed stright

 

[Rob.]

Nice guide, but they don't weaken the folding mech, it makes it more prone to breaking because the deck is heavier, and less likely to break.
I think?

 

[dezbert]

Nice.

 

[NickGraham.]

rob it weakens the foldy mech because you have to remove all the reinforcing plates and such torwards the front of your deck to have any type of deck reinforcement.

 

[dezbert]

No you don't^^^

 

[MattThomMakesMeWarmInside]

rob it weakens the foldy mech because you have to remove all the reinforcing plates and such torwards the front of your deck to have any type of deck reinforcement.

no you dont

Nice guide, but they don't weaken the folding mech, it makes it more prone to breaking because the deck is heavier, and less likely to break.
I think?

It rapes it because all the pressure goes straight to the foldy mech because the deck is tank and doesn't give at all. Just like if something is heavily reinforced, the weakest spot in the area taking all the damage will break. If things don't have any flexability, the pressure just goes to the next spot.

I'm pretty sure thats how it works

 

[mattyparso7]

nice guide Conor (Y)

 

[Kay Are]

what about L reinforcements

 

[Sshields32]

no body rides Ls yo.
You smoke Ls.

NAHH MEANNN????

 

[mattyparso7]

lol

 

[Steezeman]

Aluminum strip is super weak, you should probably add that. And flat steel isn't very expensive, I think it's the cheapest of those.

 

[Devin Catron]

i use aluminum strip for most of my deck

 

[mattyparso7]

Aluminum Box Reinforcements

Pros:
-Strong for your dropouts
-Allows peg tricks

Cons:
-You lose a lot of wallride clearance
-Heavy
-Requires a new rear axle
-Expensive
-Weakens the folding mech

u dont need a new rear axle do u???

 

[conordavidson]

Aluminum Box Reinforcements

Pros:
-Strong for your dropouts
-Allows peg tricks

Cons:
-You lose a lot of wallride clearance
-Heavy
-Requires a new rear axle
-Expensive
-Weakens the folding mech

u dont need a new rear axle do u???

Yea you do, unless you cut the box reinforcements at an angle to match the dropouts...which renders them useless.

 

[Ryan Upchurch]

im getting pirate reinforcements cuz i killed my L reinforcements.

 

[Joe Manson]

ima gona sack my alluminium boxes and make flat bar steel ones

 

[georgGartlehner]

i found this are the best reinforcement: