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build your own pro scooter for the skate park

Typically kids get complete scooters to pick up the art of scooter riding. Once they master bunny hops, 180’s, tailwhips and heel whips it might be time to upgrade.

In the industry today there is a vast array of available complete scooters that can stand up to elite level riding. Just check out our selection of scooters here.

Just because a complete can handle advanced riding advanced riders usually don’t want a complete scooter. They want the best components from the various brands to make up a unique scooter built for their individual style.

 

Custom Scooters for Sale

If you have a local pro scooter store you should pay them a visit to see what parts they have in stock. Some pro scooter shops will build different custom stunt scooters and then offer them for sale.

The Vault Pro Scooters does a good job in this regard. We’ve seen then create videos on their YouTube account of themed scooter builds that they will then sell via their online scooter shop or in-store.

At Pro Scooters Mart we aren’t currently building our own custom stunt pro scooters but we do sell all of the scooter parts you need to build your own pro scooter. In this post, we are going to go part by part and suggest what components will work great together.

What parts you select for your scooter should be based on what kind of riding you like to do and also your style preferences. Enough with the introductions let’s get into the scooter parts!

 

What you need when building a scooter

Let’s start from the top and work our way down.

Grips

fuzion-hex-grips

The first thing you need to select for your scooter is a pair of grips. When picking your grips you ultimately want something that is going to be comfortable so you can ride for extended periods.

Secondly when picking out your grips make sure you get a set that doesn’t get slippery when your palms start sweating. We suggest the Fuzion Hex grips, they actually come in first place in our Best grips for 2022 review. For more details check out the full write-up here.

 

Handlebars

Affinity-XL-classic-t-bars

Affinity Classic T-Bars are a staple in street riding.

Scooter bars for street riding

Bars are a critical part of your scooter set up. The proper height and width of your bars will affect your performance and riding capability.
Depending on your style of riding your bars will vary. Street riders will lean towards bars that are wider and taller. They need less leverage for the types of tricks that they do. Less spinning flipping tricks and more grinds slides, stalls and gaps.

 

Bars for park riding

For park oriented riding the lighter your bars the better. Most riders liked Aluminum bars which is the reason why the Envy reaper was so successful. Today the rare bars like titanium are what’s in vogue.

The titanium bar offers strength and is an even lighter option than aluminum. However, the price tag that comes with Aluminum bars is no joke they cost up to three times an aluminum bar.

 

Chromoly Scooter bars  

Most beginners scooters will automatically come with Chromoly steel bars. There is actually nothing wrong with these bars at all. Even higher-end bars like Affinity are constructed of Chromoly.

The only issue with beginners scooter bars is that they are often too short and narrow. We have seen a few complete with decent bar heights though.

 

Scooter Clamps

build your own scooter clamps

 

Your clamp is an important part of your scooter and it can differ quite a bit depending on which compression system you run. Most clamps that run on IHC are understated and lightweight. Thankfully gone are the days of Stacked quadruple clamps.

Another nice thing is most clamps come with a sleeve insert which can be removed to be compatible with oversized bar styles. The real clamp variation comes with SCS compression.

This SCS style clamp is taller because it holds a piece of your bars and a piece of your fork. These clamps come in a variety of shapes, designs and weights.

Our choice for SCS clamps is Tilt they make great products that just work well. You won’t ever have to worry about your bars flying out of your clamp with the Tilt clamp.

 

Scooter Headsets

Headsets are pretty standard but you should still opt for a reputable brand like Tilt.