__________________
"Don't be so afraid of death that you forget to live"
[HamsterChucker360] 11:55 pm: i slid them to 78mm
[HamsterChucker360] 11:55 pm: from 76mm
For serious, if you hadn't posted I might not have heard of HALAR. Diggin' on the palm shape option, though. What does the material slide like? And how does it wear away? The reason I avoid Corian is because it dusts.
I want to go through all the commercial pucks currently. Thus far I've burned through the Loadeds pucks (grey & green), some 'o Gravity's Delrin pucks, and now I'm on the Darkspeeds and haven't put too much wear on them at all despite some heavy sliding. Favorites thus far. I was gonna give the Black Velvets a go next, but I'm feelin' that palm shape and I wanna know what a partially fluorinated semi-crystalline polymer slides like, heh. The thinner profile of the puck also intrigues me.
If the Darkspeeds ever die, you'll definitely see an order from Chicago.
Cool... Yeah all the top pucks made from PE and UHMWPE are really nice to slide... aside from the retarded notion that PE is different if cut by different companies... we tested the HALAR as a racing puck to reduce profile and make for easier rail grabs. What we found was it is much denser than Poly and slides super fast... the only problem is it is super expensive... $1200.00 per 4x8 sheet... and if not for the scrap pile from the equipment shop it would never become a slide puck
Better to slide on than sit in a landfill for a billion years
And Karrot... if you were actually sliding on your nuts you would quickly learn to love HALAR
i make my own slide pucks, Freshies Fr3 slide pucks...
last me about 6 months of intense sliding.
__________________
Today is a gift. Thats why they call it the present. Skate Hard
Proudly Sponsored By:
Freshies Media, Adiv Clothing, and Stoked Skateboards.
BClongboards.com
BEAST Coast, 631
.vimeo.com/user143917
[worldridr768] 12:27 am: derv i dont know how or why you have my screen name
[worldridr768] 12:27 am: but iming me "go skate" doesnt solve anything
[Derv] 12:52 am: nick
[Derv] 12:52 am: go back to hell
I wouldn't be douching Halar, guys. No matter WHO uses it (aka a company that you all seem to dislike) it's still a really amazing material.
Thats a pretty bold, outdated sentiment only you seem to have. Especially considering all the things tactis is doing for goldendale, cali skate shops, outlaw events etc.
Karrot> It slides close to delrin (which is butter smooooooth) and it keeps a low noise level, last a very long time. It has a thin profile but I tested it on loaded and two of my custom gloves, none of them got torn while using it, not a bit. What matters THE MOST is puck placement.
__________________
Quote:
#[green] 3:12 am: if i could have sex with any woman on the planet of my choosing, i would suck a dick
how long a puck lasts is an unfair question since that depends on a few things..
-riding style
-riding frequency
-pavement type
-temperature
at munnsville i put on some new blackvelvet pucks, and AT munnsville i slid them past their bevel...there have been sessions where i have worn new corian pucks past 50%...
but then again, ive had pucks last a few months
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by circle
Derv: Proving that expensive gear does not make you a good skater.
The loaded pucks are very strange. For me, at first there was no wear or tare for about ten sessions, then one session wore them down almost all the way. Now they have lasted me about twenty sessions at this low puck point, but the material has been shot for a very long time. all the padding on the wrist is gone. Basically, any session now my wrist is going to be slit from the pavement.
how long a puck lasts is an unfair question since that depends on a few things..
-riding style
-riding frequency
-pavement type
-temperature
at munnsville i put on some new blackvelvet pucks, and AT munnsville i slid them past their bevel...there have been sessions where i have worn new corian pucks past 50%...
but then again, ive had pucks last a few months
... completely true about riding style and frquency. and i learned the pavement type one this weekend. corian gets absolutely destroyed by rough pavement... i dont know how temperature would affect wear though.
... completely true about riding style and frquency. and i learned the pavement type one this weekend. corian gets absolutely destroyed by rough pavement... i dont know how temperature would affect wear though.
On a colder day the gloves wont wear as much as if it was a baking hot day, not by alot. but enough that could still keep some life in your gloves. When you gloves slide the friction heats them up, im sure you know that. So if its a hot day and the roads are hot your gloves will heat up even more so they wont be as strong and will not last quite as long. I wont swear by it, but thats what I think...
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by inluvwithsara
I ocasionaly would get mocked for riding a longboard in a park, a brave kid would approch me to mock me to my face...I would simply remove my left glove and point at my wedding band and state "After I get done skating here, I am going home to have sex with my wife, what are your cool little kids doing?"
"No such thing as pain, it's just a distraction from getting on with it"
well the cutting board if working FANTASTICALLY, it barrely has scuffs on it. so when xmas rolls around ill be buying some more pucks. think ill go with black velvet and ill try burned ice pucks too
UHMW (Black Velvets, Darkspeeds, LY pucks) all last pretty long. I have abused and attempted to murder my Black Velvets many many times and I am only worn thru a bit past the bevel (and this has been for around 8 months or so that I have been sliding them).
__________________
-Matthew Kaminski
Quote:
Originally Posted by animal chin
He is Mike Dallas dude...you don't here the peasants going "yo, hey Jesus, how do you walk on water?" Homeboy just does it.
Re: how long do most pucks last?
Re: how long do most pucks last?
wanna set?
Re: how long do most pucks last?
(he's had them all of 2008 it's awsome.)
Linear Mode
