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im not sure if its just me or does anyone else find that their cards develop a bend/snap to them after a few hours practice?

ive found that (only recently) my red back bicycles are unusable after pracicing with them for only a few hours as they develop a bend that kinda pops when you push down on the pack... i can only think this is from springing the cards...however i used to practice the exact same spring for hours and my cards were fine!!

help is it me or is it the bikes?

its you. What your doing when you practice springing, is conditioning the cards. They kind of soften and relax after a while. If you do this with a brand new pack... they are not broken in, and will develop the bridge.
Answer? Dont spring new cards.

It could also be a heat crimp? From time to time if you leave them in a pocket or on the side in certain temperature they will get one. It will be a click or bounce in the centre when you touch the middle of the deck?

Will go if you continue to use them.

Faro the cards a couple times and then simply dribble them. This tends to get the click bend out of them pretty quickly.

awesome thankyou i will hold off springing them till there broken in and hopefully save my self a small fortune as ive gone through 4 packs in the past couple of weeks!!!

great advice thanks once again

miriam397 wrote:awesome thankyou i will hold off springing them till there broken in and hopefully save my self a small fortune as ive gone through 4 packs in the past couple of weeks!!!

great advice thanks once again

If you keep using them you will wear them in as well, this is day 4 of a new pack for me and after spending hours every day messing about with them they are in great shape!
I also have a pack with me I've been messing about with for months and lots have signed it, and it is so soft!

miriam397 wrote:im not sure if its just me or does anyone else find that their cards develop a bend/snap to them after a few hours practice?

ive found that (only recently) my red back bicycles are unusable after pracicing with them for only a few hours as they develop a bend that kinda pops when you push down on the pack... i can only think this is from springing the cards...however i used to practice the exact same spring for hours and my cards were fine!!

help is it me or is it the bikes?

It's not just you. I get exactly the same (replete with 'pop'). All I can suggest is to cycle through a few decks. The one's you don't work with, keep under a few heavy books to straighten them out.

I got a couple of packs like this.
Parked the ruddy car on them, & it still hasn't made any difference.
Just a bad batch I suppose.
Any more, & they are being returned with a complaint.

As with the above posters most of my new decks develop a click after a bit, but it works it's way out with more usage. It can feel awkward working with a clicking deck though.

Robmonster wrote:As with the above posters most of my new decks develop a click after a bit, but it works it's way out with more usage. It can feel awkward working with a clicking deck though.

Makes Haunted Deck a lot easier though

Lawrence wrote:

Robmonster wrote:As with the above posters most of my new decks develop a click after a bit, but it works it's way out with more usage. It can feel awkward working with a clicking deck though.

Makes Haunted Deck a lot easier though

ah, ya beat me to it Lawrence!it can be prety useful ni some circumstances actually, DB's out of this world for one. I had it happen a couple of times just from having the deck in my pocket, porper clip would stop this happening (or any kind of card clip i suspect), although if its a result of you springing the cards then obviously this won't help