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Aoki says last question, titanium spokes and more importantly frames
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Yeah, so I've rode double butted spokes. I've rode titanium spokes. I've never rode a titanium frame
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My thought on spokes, if you have the money, they're totally worth it
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That rotational weight is crazy and they actually last a long time
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When I say rotational weight, what I mean is that when, well, that doesn't spin very good
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when this wheel spinning, okay, it is like, and you turn the, turn the bars. It's like
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it pulls you in that direction because it's spinning. Like if you sit in a chair and spin a wheel, it's going to spin you around. And so rotational weight has a big effect on when you're
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doing bar spins, right? With this wheel spinning, the bar spin doesn't come around as smoothly
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The 360 doesn't come around as smoothly. And so when you upgrade parts on the wheel, you know
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tires, tubes, spokes, hubs, it will not hubs, but anyway, it makes that it, it shaves off
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that rotational weight. So you don't have as much resistance when you're doing those things
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So I think that's totally worth it. They're pretty expensive, but they last
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Like if they were very expensive and then blew up all the time like Tubalitos I say God no don do it But they actually last for a good amount a good amount of time So love titanium spokes
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They're solid. Titanium frame. Ah, that's, that's a totally different story. Cause those things are
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like a couple thousand dollars. And if you, here's what I'll say. Here's what I'll say
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if you've been riding for a long time and you're like, you're pretty good. Like you've got double
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whips, you've got three 60 double whips, you've got seven twenties, you've got like that level of
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riding achieved. Getting a titanium frame will really help you take it to another level and like
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get towards that pro level. If you're learning bar spins, you're learning tail whips, you're
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learning one eighties and stuff like that, that weight savings on the frame isn't going to be a
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game changer for you. And it's not going to make you like rapidly progress. Um, it'll feel nice
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and it'll be cool. You'll, you can like flex on your friends and say, yo, my frame was $2,500
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but that's really all it'll do for you until you get to a certain level and need to like
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just elevate that. So for me, I'd buy it if I had the money, but they're crazy. They're crazy expensive
