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A BUGGY ROLLIN set is made of
The color of the basic suit is not detremined yet . It should be black . we wil check colors later.
As long as we do not know excatly who will be the production we can not show the final product.
This is only to have an idea of how it is by now.
DiFFERENT SUiTS : An Idea of PROGRESS
- Firts suit - Second suit = FULL CARBON - The preserial - Metal - Character - Grey - Gold - 2008 Speed record suit - YESMAN. - IRON - BAD -
During the years, the suits got evolution. Common goal is increasing comfort.
They are all design to allow extreme performance during several hours.
Second very important point is that they are all designed to be able to be setted
to different kind of body. So tall or shorter thin or round body are able to fit in.
Some special suits were post customised to get optimum fit to a special user,
like the woman suits of the YESMAN movie.
Lets start by the beggining.
THE FIRST SUIT (june 1994)
before building, anything there were a big study about sensation of balance of the body and locomotion. Then, some skethes.
One said that it looks like comic but it will never works.... REALLY?
Builded in less than one month, this suit has been created to show that it is POSSIBLE to roll in all position.
the materials are what i could find fast and cheap.
first day out first picture ever
The helmet is exactly as it was design on the paper for the study. Every thing else was emergency built. It has special assymetrical skates that i designed in 1992, modifyed with a pair of wheel on front of the toes. The legs are clipped on the skates. They have conic wheels specially turned like on skates. They were warm moulded directly on my legs: HOT! Front has 3 spinning wheels. It was stuck to the back like a hard corset that did not allow to move. The back had only 3 spinning wheels, wich was not stable enough.
As prototype it had been modifyed and mend more than a hundred of times.
After 3 years at studio Blondeau, Paris
The arms were made of PVC tube. Hands wheels were present of my Daddy recycled from baby dolly. Elbow wheels were frame of rollerskates. There is an articulation on the elbow, and a handle inside. They are opened on the inside to be able to grab anything with fingers. It had metal ball outside to roll on the walls. It was viollet-pink because i did not wanted to scare the people in the street. It had a graphic design concept based on the the origin of the suit. "A" with a spiral as background, as latin constructed font, was on the back of the head. The construction was for the brain which have to compute the trajectoryes and position in space, and deal with all informations: sensations and orders. "B" I have been using this suit during 4 years.
At this time i did not wanted that people see my face because i thought who am i is not the point, the suit is important not me. So i used to wear a hood sun glasses and black gloves. But it was so warm. It was crasy sacrifice. For taking picture in studio, i dropped so much water from arms and legs that we had to change the background (you can see spots around the skates at studio Blondeau). On the top of that i was using a PVC undersuit. I loved the pvc effect because it is shiny lika a car and it follows the shapes of the body. So it is like a living machine. It is a facination the future androids. I also made this PVC suit because i wanted to break downhill speed record.
I dropped the conic wheel off because there were many better inline skate wheels comming on the market. So i mounted a set of hockey wheels from ROLL X. And then, i never had to change the used wheels during this period: one set for 14 years ! The suit took part of lausanne downhill 1997, that was quite scary unstable at this time !
Now it goes in design museum around the world (You can book it info "at" buggy-rollin.com) as a real piece of museum. It is 'treasure one'.
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THE SECOND SUIT : full CARBON (1998)
CARBON is the first real prototype which fit all the needs of BUGGY ROLLIN wishes.
Born in 1998. It took one year to be build. It was the record setter. Speed 88kmh in 1998, high jump 5m70 1999, first bob track 1998 in La Plagne. The identity of the full suit is almost set. Arms are perfect, legs are comfortable, chest have been reshaped that it can support the violence of a jump kick. The back have reached its good stability that allow to spin in the half pipe and run downstair.
The yellow points were flashes for night show. I like the tiger effect from the back.
There have been several conscept attempt on the harness. The choosen one is easy to wear, and comfortable in use. Massive shoulder protection have been designed, with full setting. With the time it appeared that some setting are useless and only confusing, so they will desappear in future.
The skate have been simplified. They are exactly how they were dreamed in 1992 as ultimate downhill speed record cracker rollerskate. It is the only suit that have been branded with the logo "BUGBOY" of BUGGY ROLLIN on each element. Carbon black, silver, and purple, perfect a chromatic set. The first time that i could have the best wheels ever: Kryptonics Chad Edrick 85A 80mm, monted on swiss abec5 lovespeed bearings... But full carbon is fragile, so at each repair i add kevlar.
Lausanne Half pipe 1999
After a few crach on the side, ihad to conceive hip protection. so now the body is fully protected. I have been surprise to get hard high speed crash, stand up, and realise that i had ZERO damage. This does not allow to take any crasy risk: hit a rock, the rock wins, not you. Even fully protected.
With this suit it was also built the first woman set. Because i wanted woman to be welcome in this sport, and i wanted that they could have their strong feminin identity, in reaction of the no sexy fashion of agressive skate in the 90s.
Lovelly Virginie as first SURBOW ready conquer new space she was also the muse of the first steps.
The woman chest are compatible with men back. The inside bra have been designed by a underwear designer. The straps are keeping the knees up.
Carbon is still rolling and giving good service for begginers. But is also a true piece of museum. It is 'treasure two.'
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THE PRESERIAL SUITS (2000)
With designing and producing moulds, it have been possible to start to reproduce suits.
We start to try to uniform the pieces inside the suit by making models. But still every thing is hand made. Every single piece of plastic is taylored to a specific suit.
The major concept is to achieve to get on the market. one first step is that other people can also use the suit. It happened a few times. The legs got faster and faster to strap in. The arms got intelligent shock managment. the back shell got well balanced between strengh and weight. Hip Protection got really improove to folow the motions and survive hard exercices. The foams got stable in time under physical and chemical attacks, witout being too heavy.
Most of the suits of the preserial have been designed for a specific aim.
show suit with light inside and light wheel from korea which are terribly slow
downhill One with a inline frame on the chest. 100 kmh
The Downhill suit have ben upgraded with Kryptonics classic 80mm longskate wheels allowed for the first time to get un the curves without braking. The chest Wheels were mounted on a 5 x 100mm wheel frame.
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METAL
"Metal" was created in france and germany. It was designed for media. Every piece have received a very expensive treatment under special athmosphere to make it shiny as a miror. This is the suit used for MEGAPASS in south korea and all the promotion about it. It need a very carefull care; i had to wear white gloves to handle it. It really made wonderfull picture. When riding it is possible ot watch the colors of the environment passing through the suit. It perfectly expresses the identy of cyborg-knight. Metal is 'treasure three'.
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CHARACTER
There are also some character suit like this blue santa christmas, Seoul 2005. It is a costume designed to be worn on the armor. The kids loved to cuddle the furr.
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GOLD
The shells of GOLDEN were originaly conceive for breaking records, support abnormal G forces, and resist beyound normal shocks. They have been specially reinforced by numerous carbon layers. It is an heavy armor. Then Korean manager has decided to use these shells for asian marketing. It means that this suit will be used for life show. that s not a good choice because this suit was not conceived for that. It was source of conflict. This suit (metal, downhill1 and show) have been lost for 4 years. It have been recovered in fev 2011. Now it is in peace. It may return to its original aim in summer 2011 if it goes back to europe.
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GREY
The downhill suit with 8x110 mm wheel frames from GYRO "Mercury"
The witness of the born of this suit said that it will never be able to corner, just go straight. Wrong ! This suit is extremely precise at high speed, it take corner like a rally car.
It allows to slide on the chest and dive even faster in the curves.
It has japanese secret weapon bearing which are not produced anymore.
It has full set of 90mm on elbow and knees. Originally Gyro wheels equiped the suit.
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2008 SPEED RECORD SUIT 116
In 2008 with a speed soft back, and the pterodactyl helmet of 1996, the suit could reach 116km/h. Matter wheels for speed, and Kryptonics for the hard braking.
in 2010 the suit has to be repaint in blue for a commercial movie.
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YESMAN SUITS
In 2008, 4 suits have been created for the YESMAN movie, 2 women, 2 male. Jim Carrey did hold a suit for him. Since the film YES MAN, the new wheels are from MATTER. These wheels are the actual best in the world.
YESMAN last rehersal with Monica Brauninger
The suits has no wheel on the back because it did not need to roll on the back for the movie. I call it soft speed back. The women soft back are adapted to the female morphology.
'Plumes' is a fantasy version of woman soft back with feathers. Soft back is weightless, it allows more freedom of motion, which makes the first steps more easy.
2011 Iron Silver
This suit took 4 years to be concieved and build.
It is the expression of what a serial production sut should look like. It has many upgraded features.
The comfort is increased, the setting possibility is higher, allows the pilot to test his own wheel combination concept.
Best allied steel is used for axes. Wheels get faster. Locking system is easyer to use.
This suit has been choosed by a famous chinese actor for his movie.
We expect also the born of the BAD suit.
an idea of how the bad suit may be and then how it is starting to be : NilloR YgguB
2012 NilloR YgguB the BADass suit
It is very close to the drawing...
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- A Helmet
The helmet Should be light because the head has to move a lot when the suit rolls on it back.
The mouth has to be protected because it is so close to the floor.
The Eyes must also be protected because of the dust and high speed wind.
The mouth and nose should be free in order to give the lung enough fresh oxygen.
As many thing about BUGGY ROLLIN there is nothing on the market that fit exactly the needs of this sport. So even if an intresting product is found, it must be Modifyed. By Modifyed i mean colpletly deconstruct, redesign, reinforced, ventilated and more. Every helmet have need weeks of hand work.
Historical helmets
  
First Helmet Bought at fleamarket 1$ Second helmet for Carbon proto 3rd Boeri metal modifyed too warm
completly reconstructed. It was Bought at "Emmaus" 3$ full rebuild first sponsored helmet.
setting the standard of BUGGY With a lot of love in the material choice.
ROLLIN identity.
ACTUAL HELMET (in use)
 
Perfect helmet not produced anymore A HMR modifyed. This one one should be available for production.
two weeks of work for one helmet Even it need to be completly rebuild, pieces went in oven,
even if the base is good, it need perfect Grid had to be 3D formed, holes more opened, and foam taylored,
optics, and made to measure chin guard. plus special paint.
The YESMAN helmets are skydiving Oxygn helmet. They have been modifyed under my instruction by the special effect team of
the studio Warner with allowance of the stunt coordiantor. I am remodifying it for the season 2011. Again several weeks of work.
This helmet is available on american market.
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- A front
The front also named chest or front is the first specific element which makes diference between women and men.
It is composed, as all the part of the buggy rollin suit, of a hard shell, this shell has on one side the wheel system, on the other side the body interface. Around the shell are the conectors to the back part.
The Hard shell is designed to support the weight of the body when it rolls on the chest. It is actually made with a scientifically calculated of mixed layers of hightec material.
The wheel system has been changing with the time and the aim of the suit. There were 3 spinnig wheel at the beggining. Then we had 5 big wheels on line, or 4 x 100 plus 2 spinning. Then One straight and 2 spinning. later we have 8 wheels on 2 blabes of 4. It can evolute more.
The body interface is designed to fit the chest, give him enough freedom to keep biological functions working.
The connectors keeps the elements of the rollin armor on the right place around the body.
The "Metal" front chest has 3 wheels: one fix 100mm and two 85 mm spining wheels
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- A back
The Back exist with wheels and without. Without wheel, we name it speed back or soft back. It has also no hard shell. So it is very light and comfortable. We use it a lot as easy step for beginer.
The regular back has the same structure as the as the front chest.
The Hard shell is designed to support the weight of the body when it rolls on the back or siting. It is actually made with a scientifically organised of several layers of differents hightec material.
The wheel system has been changing with the time and the aim of the suit. There were 3 spinnig wheel plus a pair of wheel under the butt, at the beggining. Then it had 4 spinning wheels plus a pair near the butt. No reason to change by now.
The body interface is designed to fit the shoulder and pelvis, give them enough freedom to keep biological functions working, and necessary body balance cinematic.
The connectors keeps the body and on the right place inside the elements of the wheelsuit.
 'Metal" back connected to front.
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- Shoulder pad
The shoulder part, was not existing at the beggining. But it became essential as the sport reached the extreme in speed and risks. There is a hard shell wich prevent from scratches, some complex shock absorbers, and strapes to wed the body. There are different shapes shoulder pad.
 The "Metal" shoulder pad
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- Hip pad
The hip pad, as the shoulder, appeared with the time and experience. It is composed of intelligent multiarticulated shells mounted on shock absorber and closed with light connectors.
 The "Metal" hip pad as you can see it is not useless...
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- Arms
The arms are the absolute key of the wheelsuit. They are the steering wheel of the BUGGY ROLLIN rolling armor. They are designed to be precise, energy efficient, protective, and confortable. It is maybe the most complex and technical element of a BUGGY ROLLIN wheel suit. Mostly they have 3 wheels. The arm is composed of a hard ogive which encloses a biodesigned ergonomic handle, a setting system, and multilayer of absorbing materials. It is articulated around the elbow. The design of arms arms take into account many angulations subtlety wich result strongly sided element : there is a left arm and a right arm.
The arms of the "Metal" suit.
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- Legs
The legs have a pair of wheels each. One more time we have a hard shell, a high quality setable schock absorber system, and memory reactive connectors. There is a right and a left.
The legs of the "Metal" BUGGY ROLLIN
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- And you need skates
There are lot of skates in the market. But only a few fit the BUGGY ROLLIN sport.
The skates have to be COMFORTABLE, and the front wheel MUST be in front of the big toe.
Then they must be strong to resist to presure and presice to not loose the precious skating body energy.
SEBA is actually making the best skates. Sebastien Lafargue who is firstly a great skater succeed to factorize a complete line of technical intelligent skate. there are some cheap and some complicated carbon skates.
FR1 is enough - just need long frame.
The SEBA GT are perfect out of the box.
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