Handle Pole Springs!

Springs! Gotta love 'em! Not only do they help take all that weight off your arms that allow you to ride longer, complete all those fancy tricks, and let you lift the entire pole with a finger, there may be and additional benefit you didn't know about.

Handle pole springs can literally save your hull. Think about how hard that pole slams down onto the fiberglass when you take a hard fall, or that sickening "smack" when you fall back down after a huge jump. Yikes! I've personally dealt with this problem with my Kawasaki 650SX. I was riding around with a broken spring and guess what i see? Waves. BIG WAVES. So I do the natural thing and before i knew it, "BANG!" My handle pole smacks down on the stops and the shockwave ripped through fiberglass at the weakpoint in the hull.

If I would have had a working spring, the impact would have been much easier on the hull because it would greatly reduce the hit the handle pole made, and therefore preventing me from cracking the fiberglass. 

You need a spring!

Springs are sold at ebay, and other websites for around $70.00