Advantage is low investment
Another advantage would be more tire life. Paddles wore down? Just "lower" the carcass.
My boy has been riding the dunes with a set of sand stars. He loves them. I tried to get him to use a set of haulers. They have decent hook for what they are. Loren
Good to know, I have just wrote off molded paddles for 15+ years but maybe I should consider them a bit more.
I always felt the same way about molded paddles until 5 years ago when I tried skate 2's for the first time. I like those tires alot now... My previous experience with molded tires was the 22x12x8 Cheng Shin dune hoppers I ran on my R back in the late 80's & those suck.