[JPKab]

Agreed. As a longtime rider, I will unequivocally state that 95% of serious injuries on these things are from new riders who get overconfident (and ignore every single piece of advice on the website and on the tons of Youtube channels) and suffer nosedives when their small muscles in their legs (and nervous system as well) experience fatigue and trigger involuntary tremors. (any rock climber here will know what I'm talking about: When you see a newb climber getting this fatigue and their leg starts shaking like Elvis...)

The smaller wheel is a bad idea. Period. Can't fault the heavier weight though. Future Motion machines their aluminum rails from single billets. It's not something that you can replicate easily without tremendous capital expenditure.

I'm planning on buying the new GT soon, but it's even heavier, and my god is it awful carrying those things around.

[thrashh]

I haven’t used these but I can ask say from general experience is that you get injured when you do something outside your skill level. So sometimes you’ll hear about someone getting injured doing something but I find it to be a meaningless data point usually.

[MivLives]

There's also the accidents happen thing. Sometimes the wheel slips, sometimes you didn't quite think the crack was as offset, sometimes the wind blows unexpectedly and causes you to swerve. It's not just the people pushing it that get hurt though that is a lot of the injuries.