I knocked myself out at the skatepark back in the day
Fell on my butt and whipped the back of my head on the ground. I was out for 30-45 seconds.
Had a 3rd degree concussion and it felt like the worst hang over of my life for like 3 days straight.
Back before helmets were cool.
Holy shit! Is that piece literally just tack-welded together in one spot? That seems… insufficient, to put it kindly.
I’m glad you were not more badly injured! Helmets for the win.
This is wild. One tack weld?
Think so
I was told I had a seizure and knocked out for a good 10 ish minutes
That is scary as fuck…
You kids go so fast!!!
Glad the helmet did its job and you are still here.
An interesting thing about my fall is I hit the back of my head and my brain got shook enough to damage the pathways to my nose.
So I lost my sense of smell and taste for 6-12 months. Called anosmia…
I am not sure it ever came back fully.
Ruined the taste of Coca Cola for me…
Yep, the technical term for blindness is anopsia
Let’s get this in the right place and out of somebody else’s retail thread shall we.
This doesn’t go very far to explain why the part itself wasn’t a fabricated engineered part to begin with and not a hobbled together failure waiting to happen under feet. It really doesn’t matter how long the weld is if it’s a poor weld and fails. If that’s a single peice, it.. you know, fabricated… would it have failed like that?
Also doesn’t go far enough to explain how confident and toxic he was about the strength of his trucks whenever any kind of criticism was brought up. And then when that criticism is proven right he doesn’t admit to it he just gives you a giant word salad that doesn’t include any responsibility being taken
All of this information must have just come to hand, I didn’t see an update before this shit show
Still waiting for your response as to why that weld was so shit and how many others there are putting riders at the same risk…
going forward what are you doing to eliminate the risk to your customers?
Yeah what’s going on? No recall with free replacements?
Didn’t he already say that’s what has happened with the affected parts?
“Updated parts were made and sent out to people using this setup. For Andys, we replaced and updated his bent and broken parts at no charge and replaced all attatching hardware involved with the bent hanger.”
Not welded by the same person I hope…
Is this part going to be manufactured as a single piece going forward? Wouldn’t that eliminate the dodgy as hell welding?
I’ve seen plenty of bent and snapped cast and CNC trucks so I think it’s a bit rich to incinuate this problem is exclusively stooge. I’ve personally sent a set of Moe’s trucks into a wall at 70+ to come out with just a bent axle and no other hardware damage. I’d be more concerned about designs like this. Shit happens, we break things.
That’s a horror show..
It’s the actual welding that’s the real issue here. That’s failure waiting to happen and hasn’t really been addressed. How many parts are welded like this? May as well have been painted silicone with the actual amount of ‘welded’ steel in that joint… aren’t you confirming the point, the material isn’t cast or CNC.. if it was CNC and of a suitable strength, likely that lad wouldn’t have been in that position.. the fact was that there appears to be a ‘rough enough is good enough’ attitude to critical safety items. That weld is certainly a one pass weld with no thought given to stitching the metals. Fucked if I’d put my feet on that sort of care and attention.
Safety in boards is a huge factor for me, quite simply, if I’d had his accident I’d be dead, the hand that added that blob of steel and called it welded and a job well done would be responsible for it.
I’m not a metalworker so it’s not my place to pass judgement, are you? I thought I was making the point the cast or CNC aluminium parts are just as susceptible if not more to heavy impact.
Many years ago.. yes
You were, and in some instances I absolutely agree.. just not when it comes to this part. It EITHER needed to be welded properly or manufactured to resist the loads properly. Neither of which appears to be the case.
Let’s leave cast out of it shall we? I don’t think there’s any cast on the board unless I’m mistaken.
Don’t bother arguing with him he’s using motivated reasoning. He’s starting with the conclusion that SRB is good and working back from there.
