Thanks for all the positive feedback guys
Originally Posted by allez
any thoughts of putting rolling front wheel guards like on the Inside Ride ones? i've been thinking of trying to put some on my rollers, but cant really figure out a way to effectively do it.
Yup, the wheel thing is really simple actually the tricky part there is just finding the right size wheel then i was going to use a hardwood block or a block of UHMW plastic to get it up to the right height in the front. In the back, you can almost just screw a wheel to the roller frame between the two rollers. I might look into that this week and update the thread accordingly, as for front and aft bumpers, really don't need them, MAYBE a front, but it's kind of last on the drawing board. I'd thought a peice of PVC with end caps drilled for a threaded rod of metal going thru it with, nuts and washer's on either end to keep it centered would suffice. I'd thought that mounting them right ontop of the 2x4 end peices would be the easiest way of doing it.
Originally Posted by Wil Davis
....and I apologise if my earlier comments were somewhat dismissive. I can see exactly where the free motion thing is coming from and what the attraction might be - I still think that $700+ for the commercial version is a bit steep...
No problem, i actually thought it was a stupid idea when i saw it too a couple months ago, but a winter on the rollers tends to let your mind wander a bit
As for the price, 795$ is quite a bit, but not if you consider good sets of rollers with mag units retails for upwards of 250$. Once you factor that in, along with all the bells and whistles the inside ride rollers have like the bumpers and side wheels, then factor in the free motion system, AND the nice all Alu construction, 800$ seems like a good price, at least for now. I think inside ride is targeting more teams that have the BLING to throw arround. Perhaps the price will come done in a year or two to a more reasonable 499$ or something.
Originally Posted by iNewton
Sweet roller! Do you think you have enough pictures of the steps you took to build it to put it on
instructables? I sure would apreciate it (and probably do it as well!)
Well i really don't want to steel from inside ride. I'll be happy to take a couple more pictures and help out anyone who'd like to make some for themselve's but i don't really want to post detailed plans on how to make them. Actually i figured out most of the assembly just by studying the step by step assembly photo's inside ride has posted on their site in
"production process" section of their photo gallery. That and my years of experience with lego
