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Guest

i would say either cheating death is still the caddy...along side the DOA...

personally, both are hard...haven't pulled off either one yet...but ya, cheating death is amazingly hard and few people have managed to pull it off that i know of

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 533 Location: London, UK

In fats, I actually find cheating death easier than a normal footy .. but thats just me Razz

Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: UK

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 533 Location: London, UK

Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: UK

Hmm, not sure, might be to do with wheel positioning tho - if the wheels contact point is closer to the back of your foot it will require more input from your ankle muscles to keep it level I guess. Cool that you can do cheating death, how long you been heeling?

But I do notice differences in braking traction from the various sole-patterns and floor-types, especially when going backwards. For instance, if going backwards in a shop in my relatively smooth well-worn torches, and the front of my foot goes down, it will powerslide for ages without stopping me, but in my rumbles the front of the sole is far more grippy and i stop very quickly, and on the street with the rumbles it's incredibly quick - I have to watch I don't fall back - the bottom of a rumble boot just seems to "grab" the tarmac like it wants to rip it up.

I'm also starting to notice differences between tricking in medium mega's and large fats, or even differences between two different pairs of mega-wheeled heelys!

For instance, I can put the exact same ABEC-7 mega wheel in my rumbles, and it seems to lose speed a lot faster than when it's in my torches. God knows why: anyone? Smile

Guest

umm...i don't have rumbles, so i wouldn't know. but if u take the same wheels and put them in two different shoes, they shouldn't make a difference whether or not you go faster or slower. i put wheels from my torches to my evo's and there isn't a change.

personally, i would just say get new bearings in general...i like smoother/faster bearings. when i go, i like to go. for you, abec7's would probably be best to keep learning on. as far as fats, i hate em. lol. end of story there. i love mega's. would even take bd's over fats! lol.

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 533 Location: London, UK

Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 348

soooooooooooooooooooooooooo what's cheating death?

Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 291 Location: Washington, USA

Merrie,

My Rumble wheels have the same bearings that yours do, the 608zz bearing. I know they can be changed out for better bearing, but I haven't done that, because they seem to work well enough for what I do with them!

I've also noticed that regular megas loose speed faster in Rumbles. I had them in my Rumbles at the grocery store the other day, and even with a good strong running start, I couldn't go more than half an aisle before they were moving waaaaaayyy to slow. I think the rumble bracket is a hair smaller than the regular mega one, and the wheels touch ever so slightly. I say this, because when I pulled them out, they had line on them that corresponded iwht the ribs in the bracket. ( now is when everyone in the know tells me that's wrong, they are the same size...!!).

wondercheese

Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: UK

If you're comparing rumbles to torches, the bearings are different... rumbles are ABEC5, torches are ABEC7. Also, the groovy wheels probably cause a bit more drag.

-Steve

Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: UK