Monday, November 24, 2014
Pro Scooters on a Ride
Sports, like any other
industries is now expanding its wide range in sports fields. Now it has
included scooter riding.
Pro Scooter riding is one of
the newer extreme sports that involves a skilled rider performing tricks such
as tail whips, bar spins and feeble grinds. These scooters are called trick scooters or freestyle
scooters,
labelled to its ability. Due to skate parks not being in every neighborhood in
the world most riders start riding on any smooth surface that can find to get
comfortable riding and maneuvering their scooters. However riding the same flat
surface over and over can get quite redundant and a scooter rider will want to
progress. Pro Scooter riders are exactly like every other extreme sport in this
regard that the main underlying goal is progression landing a trick or
completing a grind that you’ve never done before and later mastering the trick
adding it to your arsenal.
Street riding is probably the most popular form of scooter riding amongst city dwellers. For two reasons: they often times don’t have access to a skate park and some just prefer street scooter riding. To a rider the street presents a unique set of obstacles that usually can’t be found anywhere else in the world. Riding street on your pro scooter you’ll come across gaps, ledges, hubbas, hand rails, speed bumps, traffic dividers and stair sets the list is really endless and limited only by the rider’s imagination. Street riding offers unique opportunities for certain lines and combinations that aren’t wouldn’t be possible at most skate parks.
What are the primary components of a Pro
Scooter? It is composed of a few
different key pieces the Deck, Bars, Fork, Wheels, Brake, Pegs and Headset.
Decks have come a long way since the early kick scooters. Now decks are designed in all sorts of innovative ways to increase durability and performance. ItsFuzion Z300 and Z400 models both offer the Dog Bone deck designed for stability and smooth grinding.
Handle bars are typically made using one of two materials either 4130 Chromoly or 6061 aluminum. Fuzion uses Chromoly bars on both of our pro scooter models. The standard bar height is usually between 18 and 24 inches but can be customized to fit any riders height. Many pro scooter riders these days are designing their own signature bars.
Also different from the early days the scooter fork has evolved from the traditional Razor style fork which wasn’t very durable to the modern thread less forks. The thread less fork uses a compression system to mate the fork to the handle bars. Fuzion Z300 pro scooter uses a HIC compression system (Hidden internal compression system).
Early kick scooter wheels were made of plastic which wore down or broke and were deemed useless relatively fast. The current standard of scooter wheel is a machined aluminum core and a durable outer layer of urethane. Almost all pro scooters right now are utilizing the flex fender styled braking system. In short this system is a thin piece of metal stationed just about the rear wheel. When pressed down with the foot this piece of metal causes friction on the rear wheel causing the rider to slow down or stop.
A pro scooters headset is basically the same as the one found on a bmx bicycle. The headset mates with the fork, in the case with all of the Fuzion pro scooters the headset is mated to the fork via a HIC compression system.
Visit the website and check out the Pro
Skatepark Team, watch the latest clips and edits and learn more about the best
all-around Pro Scooter.
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