CCM v06 or Mission Soldier Se

[cwu7]

Originally Posted by Wambo02

So I totally went with the new Soldiers and what a great skate. I have some tour skates lying around and I hate them because the boot is sooo soft. These feel great and were worth every penny... I need to change the wheels to a higher grade for asphalt play but other that, these skates are night and day compared to my old tour 800's.

Nice, enjoy them! Would you consider selling the wheels that came on them (given that you havent used them on asphalt)?

[sdcopp]

Originally Posted by cwu7

Nope... definitely a different chassis. Like you said, the materials used in each chassis are probably the same, but the difference is not only in the cutouts. The construction is better on the chassis I bought compared to the soldier chassis. The ones I have are basically the same as the Assassin chassis. The difference between the Assassin and Soldier chassis is that one is extruded, and one is bent to shape. Basically, the extruded chassis should be stronger .

EDIT: Oh and also, when you say this year's Solider SE had a downgrade in the chassis, do you mean from the original Soldier or the Soldier Blacks? Because the Solider Blacks have the same chassis as this years Solider SE, just repainted.

Interesting. They have been using 7000 series aluminum up to this year on the Soldiers, in fact last years DSX also had the better aluminum, and this year it was downgraded to 6000 series on both, presumeably as a cost saving measure.

Of course it makes sense that the Soldier Black and DSX would use the formed instead of extruded since that's also a cheaper process. Good eye on that one then, and you're right the extruded is a stronger method of construction. I'd still take the bend-construction Mission chassis over the Tri-Di frame any day of the week though, and since there's no weld points like on real low end chassis it should be fine for most

[slofire94]

Originally Posted by sdcopp

Interesting. They have been using 7000 series aluminum up to this year on the Soldiers, in fact last years DSX also had the better aluminum, and this year it was downgraded to 6000 series on both, presumeably as a cost saving measure.

Of course it makes sense that the Soldier Black and DSX would use the formed instead of extruded since that's also a cheaper process. Good eye on that one then, and you're right the extruded is a stronger method of construction. I'd still take the bend-construction Mission chassis over the Tri-Di frame any day of the week though, and since there's no weld points like on real low end chassis it should be fine for most

as far as my opinion on chassis, i have used pretty much everything on the market including SPRUNGS, tours, rbk/ccm mission...... the RBK Tri-Di (lite) was the WORST chassis ever....
i kept breaking them in any boot model (RBK kept sending back different models for me to us... lol)
my advice is you should be fine... as long as you stay away from CCM/RBK's Tri-di system,

[sdcopp]

it's a shame for them they didn't stick with the mag alloy from the PF10, it was actually pretty solid.

[Wambo02]

hahaa... I would totally sell them but my dad started skating with them and they have already been used on asphalt. Might as well just use them up until they waste.

Its funny because my dad is like 50 years old and he is a way better skater than I am.. Hahaa