Gotcha. I have to deal with some myofascial shit & scar tissue adhesions as well so I kinda understand.
I’m also supposed to wear compression shit for unrelated reasons… blood circulation & such. Never have tho because I’m a shitter
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Unfortunately I also have a surgery drain tube sticking out that goes to a vacuum bulb, the compression on the tube exit is not getting less painful, the wound however is less painful than it was, I can not wait to get the tube out !!
I still got 2 or 3 screws in my wrist, permanent ones, but I had 2 loooong pins in my hand holding my metacarpals in line for a good 6 months a while back. When they pulled em out to check em felt extremely weird, putting them back in was the absolute worst. Besides when I woke up from the surgery. I was 16, so they wouldn’t give me any of the good drugs. Luckily, my stepdad(formerly, I beat the living shit out of him and kicked his ass out eventually) was a junkie and gave me a blue when I got to the car. I railed that shit straight off the dash and almost stopped screaming.
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Whoa hold on lol
I would love to talk to these people, rolling resistance as a empirical thing would be amazing to add to my wheel reviews
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Looks like a group of LDP endurance skaters. Unfortunately they don’t really go into that much detail on their testing methodology.
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Do you know what the front and rear deck angles are?
Super cool
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that “functional” kicktail really irks me. how tf you expect me to actually use that? but it does seem like a nice addition to the split angle category.
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Very interesting, thanks for the link
Lmao I am not a big fan of decks that have long tips, they look funny to me
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its a natural weak point as well. i like mounting tails, for anti-wheelbite reasons, but they are naturally a structural weak point, and the longer they are, the more that matters.
They’re reporting a coefficient of rolling resistance of 1% - 1.5%, and 65W at 10mph means that rolling resistance accounts for 4wh/km. Sounds about right I guess? A bicycle tire has less rolling resistance than this though.
I guess I would just be curious to see their test setup.
I don’t think it would be compatible with our stuff, especially with pneummies, when I stand on it, obviously it will have more resistance than just the weight of the board
More space to spread out the load? That doesn’t make sense though, obviously physically a bike tire will roll to a stop sooner than a 70mm urethane wheel
Are your nails painted like a antispark icon? 
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this also references your comments in the untruths thread, but, i dont think its fair to compare the rolling resistance of pneumatics vs urethane, due to the general size difference. im currently running 5 inch pnuemies; the only comparable urethane i know of are the rare tb130’s, and those are much wider. with actual similar dimensions, im not sure how range or rolling resistance would compare.
Imagining what would happen if you just sent each wheel rolling down the road on its own isn’t relevant since those wheels have very different amounts of inertia, and the dominant source of inertia and load when they’re being used is the rider, not the wheel. Rolling resistance coefficient is determined by, in broad strokes, diameter plus stiffness plus rebound. (Lots of asterisks there tho). I’ve always been under the impression that high rebound urethane can have a lower coefficient then a good pneumatic bike tire, but maybe I’m wrong.
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I mean, they must be compared if we run both on our boards
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Hmmm okay see where you’re coming from. It just always seems to me that with pnuemmies at our size and less than ideal pressure
Rolling inertia does make a big difference too, it’s part of why the heavy as balls eovan RF wheels have nearly as bad consumption as pneumatics
oh for sure, but without testing similar dimension wheels, i dont think its fair to make generalizations like “pneumies kill range” or otherwise directly comparing pneumatic wheels to urethane. they are built very differently. there obviously will be the actual use comparison. but i dont think its fair to compare, say, our standard 6 inch+ pneumies to our generally 100mm or less, much wider, urethane wheels, and generalize about urethane vs pneumatic.
regardless, airless are the real range killers.
Sure about that? An object in motion will stay in motion, and all that jazz. When you are traveling at a constant speed, the angular inertia of the wheel has literally zero effect. When you are accelerating and braking, it has an effect that is a couple orders of magnitude smaller than the inertia of your body