Topic: General gossip / Post a picture of your setup!

Remz OS2 with white Jug liners (and not in the picture; GC featherlight 2 black with 4X4 wheels)

Topic: General gossip / Post a picture of your setup!

what are those? :D

Topic: General gossip / Post a picture of your setup!

My new skates:

Topic: General gossip / Beginner

Yeah, USD Thrones or Realms would be a good choice for a beginner, as well as Razors Cults or Rollerblades.
I would never suggest a softboot or something similar, because especially in the beginners phase you hit your boot a lot. A softboot wouldn’t survive very long imo.

Topic: Hardware / Salomon Soul/Backslide Options?

There are low-profile NIGHT souls available wich are exactly shaped as the original Salomon plates.

The USD Duals work fine, when I’m at my girlfriend’s (thats where my salomons are at) I’ll take a picture and you’ll see how well they fit.

Topic: General gossip / Beginner

maybe go with razor SL (superlight)

Razors Aragon 2, but i see many people start with USD and they love it

Topic: Hardware / Salomon Soul/Backslide Options?

The more I look at these Night souls, the more I think I could make better ones myself. There’s a plastics distributor down the road, and if I can’t buy UHMW PE from them I can definitely order some online. It comes in convenient sheets of various thicknesses. Then it looks like all I need to do is mill out a UFS groove with a router and cut out the plates with a jigsaw, using the boot as a template. Best of all, I can make 1 piece souls and get more rigid frame mounting while I’m at it. Could make some UHMW slider blocks to go in my frames too. I might have to go plastic shopping this week.

Topic: General gossip / Beginner

every skates are easy to skate in, if you want light skates go whit deshi or xsjado…
good quality, maybe remz or razers….

hope that would help?…

Topic: General gossip / Beginner

Hey everybody.

I really wanna start doing some aggresive skating, but I just wanna hear something about what skates i should buy and why. I can give you some criterias here.

1. GOOD Quality
2. Light
3. Easy to skate in

Please give a reason why i should buy the skate you think.

Thanks

Topic: Hardware / Salomon Soul/Backslide Options?

I considered the USD plates, but I’m worried about how well they fit and match up with the boot. The souls I’ve seen hang over, like Nights, which isn’t a big deal. But what I can’t tell is how well the backslide plate sits against the boot. Is there a gap there, or does it fit flush? If there’s a gap, doesn’t that make it flimsy. So when my fat, out of shape self comes down with a disaster royale, am I going to bend or break the backslide plate?

Nope, never tried freestyle. I don’t like anti because it kills my wheels so fast and my skates feel less stable somehow without the middle wheels. Plus I’ve gained alot of weight and I’m kinda scared I’ll break a frame without the extra support. I figure most of these problems will exist for freestyle, plus I lose the middle wheels completely so no more stair rides. I think I got my technique back this morning at the park anyway though. I had forgotten that speed is my friend. If you hit the ledge fast enough your middle wheels don’t hang anymore. :)

Topic: Hardware / Salomon Soul/Backslide Options?

You could mount either RB TRS1 or 2 soulframes/plates on them, as well as USD dual plates. Both require boot modification (as in; sanding the boot down to secura a proper fit of the soulsplates). I’ve now got white USD dual plates on my Salomons and I see why a lot of Salomon riders have done it. The modicification is minimal and the dual plates fit on quite good. Besides that, it looks fresh too.

To mount a Razors Classic bs plate you’ll have to sand down both the boot and bs plate (because the groove is not aligned with the frame when you mount them on) a bit too. Personally I think dual plates are a better solution, especially because they’re available in a wide range of colors and sizes and are mostly in stock in every rollerblading shop.

Seeing you ride a flat setup, have you ever tried freestyle? For most people who have been hooked to a flat up since year 0, a freestyle setup is a revelation. I myself prefer anti-rocker in any way, in my view it uses best of both worlds.

If you want to ride an anti-setup; I would suggest you to get some Razors/GC antirockers (48 mm) wich are made of plastic so they slide very well. On top of that they come with their own “bearings” (I put this between " because they’re not really bearings, but share that effect) wich causes them to roll without ever getting stuck.

This a rather old pic of my Salo’s with customized widebody.

Topic: Hardware / Salomon Soul/Backslide Options?

You’re not crashing… I appreciate the input.

What I’m mostly worried about on the antis is slipping out as I roll over the top edge of a very steep banked ramp. The local skatepark must have been designed by people that hated rollerbladers, so it’s full of rounded-edge ledges and ramps so steep you’ll bottom out your frames across the top if you’re not careful. I’ve never been an antirocker fan, but I feel like my flat setup is holding my grinding back. But I’m used to being able to roll over stairs and not hang up on ramps, so I need some antis that will roll with control for those things while still letting me get my grinds more on top of the ledges for a longer ride.

Is there a better option out there than Night souls? I can file them down to fix the sharp edges at the expense of a little soul space, but can’t do much about the slow on metal part.

Topic: Hardware / Salomon Soul/Backslide Options?

Yeah sorry to crash your topic again, but I’ve had NIGHT plates on my Salomon. And I sometimes ride them om my Razors now and then.
You’re right about the jagged edge; it’s kinda sharp. Another disadvantage is that they’re kinda slow on rails. If you skate a lot of curbs though they’re great, slide fast, durable, a bit wider then the stock plates…

I like my anti’s hard in any case, so I reckon that at one point in hardness, you will hardly notice the difference between UHMW and Urethane.

Topic: Hardware / Salomon Soul/Backslide Options?

Oh, also, while I’m asking. How do you all feel about these UHMW antirocker wheels that are floating around now? Do they slide that much better than urethane antirockers? Do they slide so much better that they’re useless for rolling, like down stairs or sharp ramps at the park?

Topic: Hardware / Salomon Soul/Backslide Options?

So I’ve got a pair of Salomon skates I’m not ready to let go of yet. I’m wondering what my options are for extending their life a little. Anybody have any experience with Night soul kits, especially for Salos? They hang way over the boot, so I’m wondering if they’re stiff enough to not bend out on the ends, and do they get in the way in turns (like Widebodies) or grabs (they look sharp).

Also, is the old school Razors backslide plate still the best option for improving the royale area? I’d like to widen it out some there, but not to the Widebody extreme. Is there something I can use without cutting up my boot or grinding away half of the plate?

Topic: Hardware / Question: Non-Bulky Skates

Ya know, the more I think about the cost of a new pair of skates, the more I think I should just hang on to my Salos for a while longer. So I’m going to flood the forum with a little bit different thread…

Topic: Site feedback / Post length

n00b! :-) he he

Topic: Site feedback / Post length

Yeah, I was about to add some more shops to that post when I discovered it, although I copied some correct html code…something went wrong somewhere.

Topic: Site feedback / Post length

took you only few months ;)

Topic: Site feedback / Post length

Solved, lol! I’ve finally took some time to debug and there was an error in my html-typing ;-)

My bad!

Topic: General gossip / Promise edit: tricks from Flare & friends

for sure! is there any good street spots in Heerlen?

I can’t find the Heerlen spots topic at the moment, but this is very near it:
Kerkrade
Landgraaf

..and this is where I am from, it’s 25 km from Heerlen and reachable through public transportation;
Maastricht

Damn. You’re lucky you got such a big crew to roll with. You guys roll smooth too.

Hm, no, actually our crew is only 4 man strong, in the vid you see people from all over the country as well from Germany.

Topic: General gossip / Promise edit: tricks from Flare & friends

Damn. You’re lucky you got such a big crew to roll with. You guys roll smooth too.

Topic: General gossip / Promise edit: tricks from Flare & friends

for sure! is there any good street spots in Heerlen?

Topic: Hardware / Question: Non-Bulky Skates

Genesys are bulkier then Cults, thats for sure. They haven’t really changed since the first Genesys model came out, except for the soulplate and some minor changes on the cuff.

Cults and Salo’s are quite comparable, the Cult are a bit tighter, but I really liked the bs plate over the weird groove salomons had. De flexibility is overall the same, Cults are a tad stiff when they’re new, but the Razors cuff is soooo good. Soulspace is also almost the same (if you don’t compare them with widebody’s) and both slide very well. Both are also in eachothers weight range, so I reckon that if you come from Salomons, Cults are quite a logical choice.

Keep in mind that the Salomon liner is unbeatable in comfort. You might want to change the liners of the Cults with your Salomon liners, or some Jugs or Sifika’s. Remember to buy at least one and a half size up in that case.

Topic: General gossip / Promise edit: tricks from Flare & friends

Drop me a line then! I live quite near that park. Heerlen has got easy train acces from Germany.