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Title: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Jason on June 10, 2009, 10:15:52 PM
As a few of you are aware I collect bits and bobs and make my own bits if I can't get them

Well here is my latest  :Claugh: (No crying now Guys  :Cbiggrin:)

The walking foot bit is machined from solid and U section HE30 alloy (very similar to original but with a few mods to bearing sizes and placement) and has a limited movement to make my damaged foot more comfy

Before anyone asks this is a one off and I won't be making any more as Mr Bock would not find that amusing I have done this set for myself as a customising project and in hours spent making them I would have been cheaper buying a set of Velositys  :Claugh:

Enough of the chat heres the pics (sorry about quality all done on Phone)


Jason  :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: chocl8 on June 10, 2009, 11:11:53 PM
Dam that is sexy! Amazing Jason, i'd love a go on these one day ;)
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Jason on June 10, 2009, 11:34:53 PM
Thanks mate from you that is a true compliment as I know you know what sexy is  :Claugh:

I think I might be able to get them on the TOP Gear Cool Wall if I try  :Cbiggrin:

Jason  :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: webmaster on June 10, 2009, 11:55:42 PM
They look awesome Jason! Nice 1!
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Jason on June 11, 2009, 12:09:33 AM
Thanks Naz

It rained at lunch time today so I couldn't try them (Like a kid at Christmas you should have seen my face watching the rain on the window at work  :Cbiggrin:)

Hope it's dry tomorrow

Jason  :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Kazbahn on June 11, 2009, 10:08:54 PM
do want some of those *drool* shame you aren't going into making more, i'd buy :P :Cnotworthy:
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: chocl8 on June 11, 2009, 10:32:22 PM
Jason, just out of interest, under the blue covers, are they metal cuff brackets or normal PJ ones?
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: sprog on June 11, 2009, 10:39:13 PM
<3
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Jason on June 11, 2009, 10:45:37 PM
They are metal ones but same as the Skip ones but home made (well half are the others are Skip  :Cbiggrin:)

Thanks Sprog

Jason  :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: chocl8 on June 11, 2009, 10:47:30 PM
Haha, i thought so! Are they easy to make at all, as in, can i just buy some bits and throw it together, or is it a more serious mod? =]
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Mini Ellis on June 11, 2009, 10:49:59 PM
yeah their sexy, jelous much!!!
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: sprog on June 11, 2009, 11:14:54 PM
Haha, i thought so! Are they easy to make at all, as in, can i just buy some bits and throw it together, or is it a more serious mod? =]
I repeat this question!
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: chocl8 on June 11, 2009, 11:41:34 PM
Haha, i thought so! Are they easy to make at all, as in, can i just buy some bits and throw it together, or is it a more serious mod? =]
I repeat this question!

Shotgun selling them :P Could do a swift one over skatehut :D
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: sprog on June 12, 2009, 12:00:39 AM
Haha, i thought so! Are they easy to make at all, as in, can i just buy some bits and throw it together, or is it a more serious mod? =]
I repeat this question!
Shotgun selling them :P Could do a swift one over skatehut :D
I didn't even contemplate selling, I just want some for me! ;D
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: chocl8 on June 12, 2009, 12:11:28 AM
Haha think how many people are running around with cuffs and no metal brackets, could make a fortune!
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Greggles on June 12, 2009, 11:38:51 AM
do the skip brakets hold the cuffs well coz i have some i just do know if they would hold
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Jason on June 12, 2009, 08:30:52 PM
OK Guys form an orderly queue and  no pushing at the back  :Claugh:

I have only been on them twice so far and they havn't moved yet they seem to be a very good way of fixing them

They are a total pain to make as I have to machine them from a rectangular box section and they take ages (if you know anyone that does sheet steel pressing it is easier) also there is the whole Patent bit to concider after all Mr Bock has to put bread on the table

I don't know if they sell spares but I havn't seen anythink the same as the brackets anywhere else so I spose they are made for Skips and not an off the shelf bit ( they look like exhaust clamps but a bit different)

Greg why not post a pic of one if yours are off so people can see them someone might know of a supply

Jason  :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: ricky35 on June 12, 2009, 09:04:25 PM

Greg why not post a pic of one if yours are off so people can see them, someone might know of a supply


If you're looking for spare metal brackets I know Skatehut might have some, I ordered some on Tuesday for £12 after they found some for me, they just take a long time to anwser the phone  :Claugh:
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Jason on June 12, 2009, 09:15:31 PM
I can honestly say that all of my cuffs are on plastic PJ brackets except this set and I have never found them to move

The only reason I went with these was that I weighed the Skip style ones and they were about 20 grams lighter and I was trying to make them as light as I could

I was more looking for somethink like an exhaust or TV pole bracket that looks the same and might do as a substitute if Mr Bock won't sell them seperately

Jason  :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: ricky35 on June 12, 2009, 11:03:27 PM
I must admit I was planning on getting the pro jump plastic brackets but i thought i'd wait to see if i could find some metal ones somewhere without buying a whole new stilts or calff cuff set. Plus some how the metal ones were cheaper than the plastic ones by £1  :Claugh:
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: chocl8 on June 13, 2009, 12:36:16 AM
I can honestly say that all of my cuffs are on plastic PJ brackets except this set and I have never found them to move

Sadly i have =[.

I must admit I was planning on getting the pro jump plastic brackets but i thought i'd wait to see if i could find some metal ones somewhere without buying a whole new stilts or calff cuff set. Plus some how the metal ones were cheaper than the plastic ones by £1  :Claugh:

Awsome! Let me know when you get them, maybe i can point people in the right direction then.
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Kiola on June 13, 2009, 07:40:01 PM
well.. i like them :)
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Jason on June 13, 2009, 09:14:56 PM
I managed to get 30 mins on them this morning and I managed to jump onto a jumbo bale of hay (I have been trying to get the guts for 2 years)

I don't know if it's because I have a set of old soft springs on them but it was so easy I did it 5 more times (and pulled my back  :Claugh:)

So I like them too  :Cbiggrin:

Jason  :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Kiola on June 13, 2009, 09:40:25 PM
i like them but now i wouldnt want it done to mine because i dont like the bindngs any more.. i find it a lot more comfy to just bolt a good pair of trainers on like they where intended.. still dorsnt stop me wanted to try them out though hehe
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Jason on June 13, 2009, 10:04:11 PM
I must admit I find some bindings a bit uncomfortable and my favorites are the old PJ ones (just seem to fit me)

But I have made these ones very soft and they don't seem to pinch anywhere

And I don't like carrying a spare set of shoes in case a spring breaks  :Claugh:

Your welcome to try them next time we meet K I think you'll like the cuffs  :Cbiggrin:

Jason  :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Kiola on June 13, 2009, 10:05:53 PM
i do desperately need a set of Cuffs.. the kneebar is giving my jipp now after all these years i think they are damaging my legs :O
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Donkey Kong on June 14, 2009, 12:08:15 AM
awsome blue-bocks, they look awsome and by the sounds of them are awsome too!  :Cbiggrin: :Cbiggrin: :Cbiggrin: :Cbiggrin: :Cbiggrin:
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Jack on June 14, 2009, 08:41:01 PM
they look SHWEEEEEEET  :D
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: Greggles on June 14, 2009, 09:17:25 PM
the reson i havent put my skip brakets on is cos they r sooooooo fidaly to put on might do it tho and c how they turn out

ooooo just found a easyer way of doing it insted of using the u shaped bolts they give you iv used the straight 1s from the normal brackets has worked better then the other 1s i think
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: HummelPummel on October 05, 2009, 10:17:49 AM
Hello,
I want to do the same ,but i onlyn want to ad the moving Footplate (roughly 300€).
Could I only ad the Moving Footplate?
Should I have change this one http://www.powerskip.de/Steuerhebel.html (http://www.powerskip.de/Steuerhebel.html),too?
Or could eveything stay without the Footplate ,so that i only have to change them?

An other question :
Could I put the Bearings of Powerskip into Pro-Jumps?
Title: Re: PJ-Skip Hybrids
Post by: dark-castles2 on October 05, 2009, 03:28:43 PM
went on these at a gym session.... they are amazing, well designed, well if you dont almost break your ankle taking them of :p
And never used a foot plate before... its amazing!  now only if i could afford PowerSkips  :Cmask:

DC