building a street luge

[swingline65]

[CRASS]

Swingline, thanks a whole lot for all the info! You've just saved me a ton of $$$ and time!! Any other info i should know of? Good trucks or wheels or anything?

[swingline65]

[raven6241]

Also to add something to the Randal Luge Trucks, the floating axle becomes less floaty, eg. it stops moving and becomes like a standard axle after small bumps APPARENTLY. I have heard this from a few sources now, but have not seen the damage myself.

Just a word of warning. It's still not stopping me paying the $500-odd Australian in cash to purchase 3 of them. But yes, RII's are the **** and then some for beginners. You think they are stable on a longboard, whack them on a low CG luge and see how they fail to ever wobble.

[CRASS]

So where would be the best place to get all of this online?

[raven6241]

www.irssports.com is definately the place that has it all. You might be able to shop around and find a few things here and there for cheaper, but I doubt it'll be by much. Shop at IRS and everything will come at once. Funny story though, not an IRS problem, but something that show the illiteracy of some employees in the US Postal System, a luger I know ordered some wheels and stuff and after 3 months was thinking, "where are they?"

Turns out they went to Austria. The box was labelled "Australia".

Why are their idiots controlling your mail?

[swingline65]

[Daze]

raven, do you use a riser? or anything to soften the ride?

[raven6241]

Yeah man, wedge risers on all trucks. Angled so they are anti-turn. I find it can help the stability. I'd rather be stable and have to work to turn, than be able to turn easy, but get wobbles.

I had to trim them down though to fit into the channel.


Also, I recommend soft risers, not those hard plastic ones. I took off a truck last week for the first time in about a year and the riser was massively deformed from the stress. Still works, but the inner hole thingos were warped beyond belief.

[Daze]

allright...anti turn....so larger side on the inside?

i machined out the channels, so i don't have to mess with the pads at all really...

im 2 thirds done now (i finally started it about 2 weeks ago)...all i need is a sheet of aluminum for the pan....but its damn expensive...

[joseph]

fat end out!!!!!!!!!

i've seen guys go 140+ on r2's mounted flat though so whatever works. me i buttboard and wobble after about 95km/s per hour. it sucks! i am running indys though

[birdkiller]

[sean c]

alright here's my two cents.

sleds are much easier to build then rails. the best construction guide for a sled style board is here http://www.streetluge.net/construction/

andy lally is a lightening fast guy with a lightening fast board at an awesome price. i've seen plenty of people win on that board with no modifications.


irssports.com is the best place to get everything. their website is a little poor and doesn't reflect everything they have in stock. call them and tell them what you want and they'll make it happen.

irssports.com makes a boomed luge for sale on their site. race proven and fast. however their working on a prototype board called the bodyrocket and i'm going to try to attach the picture along with this post. I rode that board all last year on R-IIB's. plenty of people win on R-IIB's and they have the same geometry as the randal luge truck. however the axle on the randal luge truck is a little stronger.

buttboards rock and are one of the most fun things in the world to ride. it scares some people at first, but once u get the hang of it you'll love it. specs for building your own buttboard here http://www.geocities.com/sidestreetluge/buttboard.html

so here's the post of the pic. ::crosses fingers::

sean c

[Tony]

I am in the prosses of building my street luge and it's pretty easy really once you know what your doing...I designed mine on the computer before I even touched my aluminuim and I am glad cause I know what I need to cut and how it will look basically and its easy....I am watching my freinds at school who didnt design there's on the computer and there struggeling and haveing to re cut aluminuim and are wasting alot....and 3x2 square aluminuim is expensive...I bought 20 feet (got alot extra for my next one's) and it was $122 Cdn and I am using 1/4" aluminuim sheet for my body pan...but I got that for free...and when people say that salvage yards dont have dogs at night...yeah there lieing

[digitalcordless]

can anybody make like a step by step tutorial on how to make a street luge? cuz i wanna build one sometimes soon, anyone help?

either post it, e-mail me, or PM me. help would b greatly appriciated!

[tha3rdman_temp]

there are a ton of plans out there, google maybe . . . or start at http://auldovertheroad.com/lugeboard.htm or build a D.Lott board, look around. Personally I build mine from a foam core, PM me if you want more info.

[djackson]

Here is a pic of My 1997 Xtreme Wheelz sled, tons of innovations including a ram air ramp system, and fairings over the cross sectioned welded rails. Awesome and I'm glad I own it. This beast weighs 47lbs, but tons of fun...check out my site for pics...you may get some ideas from it (has an hourglass shape seat)..ask me any questions...If I cant answer it, I will find someone who can.
Don J

www.geocities.com/djackson9504

[bredler]

HEY!!!!! Please note that the wedge system only works for conventional trucks. The Randal style of truckss is so drastically different that the wedge thing doesn't work. Randal actually designed their trucks so that they had the same effect as wedges. So if you really want to make an R-II more stable, flip the hangars. Then if that's not stable enough, slap the R-II hangars on some DH baseplates. Just don't wedge 'em; you'll either fall off the damn thing 'cause you have a turning radius of 6 ft. or you'll wedge it the other way and kill the turning ability. Check out this site:

http://www.chrischaput.com/randal/

it has a pretty good overview of randals so check it out before you go messing with a good truck.

Also, please note that you can buy the different base plates here:

http://store.irssports.com/index.asp...RODGROUP&ID=13

although it seems as though they are chronically out of stock of everything...shut down without shutting down the site maybe? Oh well, search around. Try trading with other boarders. Worst comes to worst you coule buy a set of DHs and use the DH hangars and R-II baseplates on a longboard! I just hate it when there's an excuse for new toys.

[El Beefo]

So then how do describe the amazing success of the Evo with it's built in wedges?

[bredler]

the guys at Landy have a working knowledge of trucks. They designed a board to fit the R-IIs. Note that they say it won't be very successful if you slap DHs on it. This indicates that wedging won't work the same for every truck. So I wasn't saying it can't be done, but the way those guys were talking about it it seemed like they were newbs and didn't (completely) know what they were talking about. With the exception of that guy with like 3000 posts of course.