Hello friends,
Has anyone ever switched out their weekender bearing to make it unresponsive?
I’m a 1A player and a huge fan of :
-Panorama, similar in shape to the Weekender.
-Quail, unresponsive “A” bearing
-FH1 in unresponsive form, also “A” bearing
The Weekenders very light weight of 51.8 grams make me think it might not work very well as an unresponsive throw.
Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts?
No idea never tried. I could pull it out later snd swap it to see. Might need a longer axle but I got stuff that might work. I’ll tinker. Might not be till tomorrow at this rate. Depends on my kids.
Appreciate that dude! Look forward to hearing your thoughts.
I was thinking about trying this the other day. I wonder if @DocPop has ever set one up for unresponsive?
I took my center track a bearing from my heist and tossed it in the weekender. The high walls, small gap and large grippy pads make this thing suck as an unresponsive. But good news weekenders not really an unresponsive throw it’s a modern responsive and best in that category.
In summation meh. I would use the weekender as intended. Maybe if you used some shims you could get the gap wide enough or a wider a bearing
When I saw this I started looking for a 5x10x5 bearing. Found one with a flange but nothing else. Shims though could help but I imagined the design of this one would be problematic for unresponsive. But I’m no expert and I don’t have a Weekender so I couldn’t really say for sure.
Just a personal thing but I feel like widening the gap would be pointless. The shape in general with those walls is already going to demand precision, and the low weight is already gimping the spin times.
Just completely clean the bearing and use a thin string and then do string tricks. It doesn’t need to be fully unresponsive to do advanced string tricks, it just demands much better technique. I’ve watched people shred advanced 1A tricks on responsive yoyos from Alleycats to Renegades to getting some crazy stuff done on fixed axles.
Playing a yoyo like the Weekender for advanced 1A tricks is gonna be fine with a clean, dry bearing. It’s just going to take skill.
