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Xsjado Mook Frame - 03/07/31
Introducing the Mook chassis by Xsjado; not an exaggeration
of existing frame functions, but a whole new animal.
The Mook is built upon an entirely different ideology
than conventional frames, for a completely different
skating experience. The Mook is a frame that takes its
core as serious as the wheels it houses. Grinding, sliding,
and planting are now priorities, not afterthoughts.
The Mook allows you to grind or slide in any direction,
because the majority of its underside is unrestricted,
multidirectional plastic. For the first time you can
experiment with grinds at different angular degrees,
or leave linear grinding altogether and allow the Mook
to exploit new circular techniques. The Mook's vast
underside also opens a whole new world of stalls, steps,
and fast-plants. It lets you grind larger objects than
other frames, meeting obstacles that even your anti-rocker
wheels and grind-blocks get caught up on.
The Mook also performs incredibly well on regular skating
terrain such as rails and coping. Instead of "locking
on" like more traditional set-ups, the Mook "sets
in", as its groove is shaped to lead the user into
the center.
The inwardly contoured frame walls fall short of the
frame's overall width. This was done to create a more
single pointed contact for Royale, Backslide, and Fastslide-style
tricks, as well as a way to eliminate most of the friction
incurred during Soul and Topside tricks (click
here for photo).
Like the contoured sidewalls, every square millimeter
of the Xsjado frame has a purpose. The beveled perimeter
of the frames lower portion has been tailored to accentuate
Cess-slides. In fact, an unmounted Xsjado frame can
stand balanced by itself in a perfect Cess position.
Another one of the Mook's subtle refinements is its
wheel fairings. The material closest to the wheel protrudes
lower than the rest of the frame enhancing the flow
of the grinding area, but also providing a smooth transition
to the wheels instead of a harsh angle like other frames
(click
here for photo).
What this all means is that the Mook enhances your
current tricks with new refinements, makes previously
unskate-able landscapes skate-able, previously unthinkable
tricks possible, and in turn makes your current mundane
skating environment fresh again.
The Mook revolution does not stop at skating applications.
While making a
frame without two inner wheels (which act as additional
shock absorbing
points) is more challenging, we have tested the Mook
so thoroughly that the
frame is now virtually indestructible (until grinded
down, like all frames).
And it is our aspiration to make it even stronger.
In skating, wheels have chunked, skates have broken,
and frames have
cracked. But because of the radical Xsjado concept,
the Mook will be
ostracized for every one out of one thousand frames
that have problems. So it has been our mission to not
only make this frame on par with the strength of other
frames, but to exceed them.
The Mook's body is reinforced internally with crossing
columns that help it
to withstand impacts that make solid frames split. These
x-type columns have gone through several modifications
based on test-feedback and allow the Mook to utilize
less material on its inside, resulting in an overall
lighter
frame. Less bearings, less axles, less spacers, and
less material give you a
simpler, more direct skating experience (click
here for photo).
We do not believe that a replaceable h-block is necessary
or even useful on
a replaceable frame. Xsjado frames are one injection-molded
piece designed to be light, strong, and fast. To accomplish
the latter we needed a
material that could withstand impacts like a conventional
frame material,
but at the same time, would slide as if it were a slick
h-block. We use a
new special material (which we have dubbed CS1) that
we have not seen on any other frames. One session in
these frames will sell you on the material, the concepts
and skating all over again.
The Mook does not use cumbersome bearing or frame spacers.
Instead, everything that you need has been molded into
the frame (click
here for photo). The only bolts you will need
are the wheel axles and the UFS attachments. Within
seconds (rather than minutes) you can change out frames
and be back on the asphalt again.
The Mook is your new weapon for the concrete world.
It is pure freedom. When you have the quickest, most
versatile, expansive, and strongest frame under your
boot, no other compares. The Mook is the first coup
in the revolution.
Xsjado - You now have the right to evolve.
Photo: Dustin Latimer sideswipes a Backside on the
narrow edge of a bridges underside.
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