I FINALLY GOT MY TORKER DX!!! It has taken so long for my dad to buy it but he finally did and I got it from him last night! I rode for a bit and from the new pinned pedals got 3 pedal bites whilst trying to 270 unispin but accidentaly letting the uni spin too far nd smashing my shing into PINNED pedals. I NEED shin guards. Anyone know a bike shop in Aus that sells them??? Will post pics of my torker later when they finally go on my computer:D
did you get that sent from america to over here?
i got a 12 dollar pair of soccer shin guards from the sports shop.
where abouts are you?
I am in victoria. And yeh i got it off price_thumper from ebay. Only took a week!
thats pretty good, what did it cost?
Yeh it is pretty good nd in US it was $214.99 and like $29 for postage
i’ll let u work that out in aus
that’s an awesome deal
Yeah, you should get full leg protection with those pinned pedals. After I got the cuts shown below I immediately ordered those sixsixone shin and knee guards…I was goin backwards and made a turn and fell to the side and the pedals just scraped all the way down my leg. Just the scars but it was gruesome when they were all scabbed over.
Or just switch to plastic pedals, that’s what I did. As long as it doesn’t rain or snow very often where you are then they work rather nicely, and they don’t have that shin-bleeding feature that some of those pinned pedals have.
i switched to jim c oddyssey pedals from plastic ones.
mainly because my feet slipped off plastic ones when i rode with my school shoes on because they are slick, and my feet slipped off and i’d eat it trying to mount the bloody thing.
i was trying to buy a 50 dollar pair of snafu’s and ordered them in at the LBS, but they said that they didnt come in but instead another pair came in. They said that they were a little bit more expensive but they were blue and had removable pins. i was like ok what’s it cost? they said 100 i nearly died but luckily they gave them to me for 50. and they glow in the dark. happy happy happy.
well thats my story
Well I just broke the DX in after a hard days riding. It is a really good uni to ride on but unfortunately because my gloves have holes in them my hands are full of blisters from riding SIF. In the morning I started out with my newly found trick gliding, then went out to a block of land I own and did some Muni and street in the concrete floored barn. Not really a barn but it looks like one from the outside. Tried to crankflip with many failed attempts so i went back to 180 unispins(most of which I landed) and 1 ft ww with a bit of gliding in between. Lovin the DX!
Great to hear your loving it, I have mine for several months now and I am still loving it.
I am just waiting to brake something on it to upgrade it lol.
Well I don’t think I can ride hardcore enough to break anything on mine for quite some time so I think I’ll be loving it for a fair while. I got a bonus with my torker. It came with a weird stand that works like a charm. It looks sexcellent in my room.
Youll be surprised how quickly you will improve by just getting a strong uni. =p
Mine came with half a stand, just the part that hooks on the frame, and not the base to hold it up.
God I wish my mum would hurry up and email my pictures and vids to me! I have only just started gliding on wednesday here in Australia and can get a fair distance then make it down a bump and keep going. I live on a BIG hill so that will be fun on the way to school.
That would be awesome to get on film, just have a guy zoom in to the top of the hill and you can see a tiny you glidding down, then lower down the hill the camera can zoom out and then you can go flying by. =p
I cant even glide yet, every time I go to work on freestyle or street stuff, I find a trials line and will ride on that.:o
congratz brownboy, you gonna brinng the thing to school on monday so i can have a ride i cant ride my uni coz the fucker ois ajammed up with mud from today its everywear and its still wet and its disgusting and it smels rerry bad and even when i blasted the hose on it the mud is rerry caked on stupid generic 24 i knew i should hav ordered it with anti mud option!!
Sounds awesome Brownboy!
Cant wait to have a ride.
Cheers,
Max
2 weeks maximus erectus
huh?
ed said it once amd it got stuck in my head…
did you go for the ride with simon wells today?
see you in 2 weeks