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Merrie_England
PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:13 pm  Reply with quote



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Could someone post a pic of a wheel with this problem? I want to know what to watch out for Smile

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ME Smile

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:49 pm  Reply with quote
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you'll hear them when they come. they just look like..bubbles lol
they're the white parts in this wheel


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:24 pm  Reply with quote
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nice one drummer...i think urs is just as bad as mine...lol. i never wanna get rid of mine just to look at what can happen...=)
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lol. i just busted a pair of mine last week and they look like shawnypoos. they like asploded. xD


air bubbles are little shiny air pockets. you can here them go *click* *click* *click* when you ride. (:

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i broke a pair at NTL practice and They took em from me Sad and so i took aj's freespins.

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seth1230™ wrote:
i broke a pair at NTL practice and They took em from me Sad and so i took aj's freespins.

lol. remember when i busted that pair in four hours?

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heelingforlyfe wrote:
seth1230™ wrote:
i broke a pair at NTL practice and They took em from me Sad and so i took aj's freespins.

lol. remember when i busted that pair in four hours?


I broke a pair in half an hour 2 weeks ago, which is weird because mine usually last AGES.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:28 am  Reply with quote



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drummer wrote:
you'll hear them when they come. they just look like..bubbles lol
they're the white parts in this wheel
Weird, that pic doesn;t come up for me? Sad Maybe it's because I'm at work - will check again when I get home.

edit: yep, works from home, ignore this post Very Happy

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heelingforlyfe wrote:
seth1230™ wrote:
i broke a pair at NTL practice and They took em from me Sad and so i took aj's freespins.

lol. remember when i busted that pair in four hours?

at the practice in september i broke a pair in 10 min

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Got a vid of air bubbles here.
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srry for the necro post put one time i got a really good pair it lasted 7 months

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:36 am  Reply with quote
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/pacefalm.

i just bubbled another new pair that i got from corp. took like maybe a few days of extremely light riding. ><

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While expirimenting with the Mega wheel, I think I found out why Air Bubbles happen

It typically happens on vert and its when you land back on, it collapses the wheel down. Also, when you skeet around on the pipe, it could drag opening for an air pocket

When your straight line ride, I have yet to break that pair but I can go through one in about an hour when doing vert

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:04 pm  Reply with quote



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It may be more likely to happen on vert, since that is when more force is applied to the wheel, but I got a friend who recently got air bubbles just from usual flatland/tech/street or "straight line" use as you call it. . . . . as someone who's been making their own wheels i'm pretty sure that it's just the fact that there are two separate parts to the wheel (the black inner core and the clear outer plastic), which necessitates them being glued together - and as we all know, no glue is perfect, so eventually the glue breaks under the pressure and you get what looks like air bubbles - it's basically the same whiteness you see in sellotape or any other adhesive when it's pulled apart. . . it's just the glue failing, so it can happen any way.

Of course. lighter skaters (like Nexuiz or me) will not get air bubbles as often, and heavier skaters will get it more often - that's just the way it is, which is why I think one-piece heely wheels (like megavertz) are a great idea - they have NO glue since there is only one piece, so it's impossible for them to get air bubbles.

That being said, i bet if you give them enough stick, even a pair of megavertz will eventually be unusable maybe? Anyone care to share a pic/vid of some megavertz that have taken some SERIOUS stick? Smile

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Megaverts are MADE to take punishment and abuse. Mine have eaten some truly hellacious wear- and I've gone through multiple sets of bearings with them- but other than some surface scuffing and discoloration, they're just the same as they ever were.

And I've got to be one of the heaviest people in existence who wears them, and my local skatepark is not-always-smooth lineoleum/concrete.

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