Fastening pads to skates

[antny16]

I am having the damndest time on attatching my louisville TPS's to my skates, I have a pair of bauer goalie skates, and I just bought a leather bridge for the toe. But when I tie the bridge to the the underside of the skate it slips down and rubs against the wheel, making the wheel immobile....I hope that made sense. Any suggestions?

[stlunatic]

i used to have this problem also,wat you can do is try lacing them looser so they will not be up agaisnt the wheel or you can thread the string through the front 2 holes on thebridge but out the sides of theof it so wen screwed into the pad the strings will stick out of the sides of the bridge and not get in the way of the wheel. did that make ant sence?

[antny16]

Yeah, that made sense Ill have to try that, not sure though because it is the actual bridge that I think is rubbing. Are you from ST. Louis? I saw noticed your nickname...., I am from south city, play mainly at all american.

[MrMikeEMike]

Did you try tying a few knots, or one knot about an inch down from the bridge? I had the same issue with my skates, then when I tied the knots, it allowed the bridge to fit away from the skate. What also helps a bit, and I don't know if this will effect your style at all, but fastening the boot strap a little tighter on my pads has helped pull the pad up away from the wheel as well.

FYI - This may not work with Skate laces. The knots may get big and jam into the wheel. I have glove lace in my toes so the knows are smaller.

Mike

[stlunatic]

antny, chek ur private messages

[stollie_the_goalie]

I had trouble with this, and I just took the laces out altogether. Now I just have the boot strap, but I don't have any more problems with the toe laces rubbing against my wheels.

[ChrisMangano]

What's up man? Glad to see you made it over here from the Renegade forum.

Anyways, I can't help you with your problem, unfortunately, as I haven't played roller in quite some time. I hope you get it fixed though.

[Colin]

For years I just used the boot strap and left the toe unbuckled...with no ill effects that I could tell.

Then I got a pair of pads with toe bridges.

[TannerMan]

Ditto to the comment from Stoolie, it is necessary for some pads and not for others depending partly on the internal knee fittings. I recently moved to a set of pads that have some internal knee fastening (a velcro strap) and that combined with the boot strap seems to be enough, the pad rotates in b/f and back when in standup, they are just cheap plain pads. Back when I had my Heaton pro 60Z's they had no such inner knee sittings so I needed laces unless I wanted my pads to be protecting me from shots from the corner instead of infront (no restorative rotation there at all). Try not using the lace otherwise experiment, I had to come up with some quite inventive and complex setup's to avoid this rubbing, however, I did have players skates making the whole thing 10x more difficult with only one gap in the chassy. Still, hope atleast some of that is vaguely useful.

James JT#01

[antny16]

Im just having to go with no toe bridge, and run the laces through the screw holes thats the only thing that is going to work for me. Chris, thanks for the welcome, hope to post a little more when I find a friggen team to play ice for.

[g0alie35]

antny,

i'm having the same exact problem as you. i've been searching and posting for a while and have still yet to come up with the perfect solution. i have a set of heaton 10's with bauer supreme inline skates (5 wheels). knot or no knot, even tried toe buckles, everything seems to rub against that front wheel. seems as if it's so close to the skate there is no clearance even for the smallest knot. i ended up removing the middle wheel because the strap that goes under the skate was rubbing on the middle wheel. my 1st time out there with this combo i was falling all over stuttering until i realized both the front wheel and middle wheel were rubbing. well i got the middle one fixed at least.

but i need the toe strings tied (with a 1" slack knot). i tried removing them all together, but i wear my pads pretty loose and once i go down the pads don't want to rotate back.. so that didn't work. need the toe strings! as of now what i do is tie the strings to the 1st lace down by the toe on the skate. it's alot better than no strings, but it still doesn't rotate the pads back too well since it's so loose.

i wish i played more ice, wouldn't have this problem.

if you come across anything, PLEASE pm me with the solution. later!

[MightyK]

goalie35,

I think someone else already suggested it, but are you using the knee lock? I too wear my pads loose and using the knee lock solved the problem for me (I wear the knee lock sort of loose too). I don't use any toe ties, just one boot strap.
Also, something else to think about is maybe that there is something interfering with the pad when it attempts to rotate back to normal -- is the boot channel catching the skate or something?

Just some ideas,
K

[g0alie35]

what exactly is the knee lock? is that the velcro spandex strap around the knee?

sorry for sounding like a noob but this is my 1st set of real pads (heaton 10's) i always had cheesy pads before this. so i'm trying to adjust to all the new padding, straps, etc.. love them so far!

[MightyK]

Yep, the knee lock is the elastic/velcro thing that goes around the back of your knee. Reading your original post again, you might try keeping your boot strap pretty tight. This should keep the strap from hitting your middle wheel, as well as helping the pad rotate back. To over simplifiy, when you're recovering you need to have some force working to pull your pads back onto your legs. For me, the knee lock (not too tight) and boot strap (tight) provide that force, but everyone's set-up is a little different. Hope this is helpful

K

[g0alie35]

thanks man! i'm going to give it a try at my game this weekend. those toe strings drive me nuts on my bauer 1000 inline skates, hopefully that will help out.