Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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pae@blackcat.stortek.com (Phil Earnhardt) writes:
>The Rollerblade Lightning is an incredibly robust skate. Other than a meltdown
>caused by a busted bearing (reported by a Salt Lake skater here years ago), I
>have never heard of a failure.
and kimon@orac.holonet.net (Kimon Papahadjopulos) writes:
> As a tough skate, or as one that you don't mind too much if it gets trashed?
> The older ones with the metal frames have this nasty tendency to bend. I
> wouldn't want to see what would happen to the "Road Weapon" frames after
> several flights of stairs...
I have a pair of the old style 'blades with metal wheel frames, and I've never had a problem with bending... I am an avid trick skier, so I love to thrash on my 'blades as well. I ride stairs, jump levels in the parking garage, and even ride the raised perimeter around a fountain here at UNM, and I've never had a single problem with rail bending or bearing damage (still got original bearings) even though I do my best to break something!! I'd stack my blades up against anything else on the market today (eve
n though I've seen a pair of Roces that look pretty tough).
