I don't know if this has happened to anybody running the Bolly gear, but right before I bought my Hydeout from a friend of mine, he was taking off and the gear leg broke about 3/4 of the way down from the fuse and kinda ruined his day. There wasn't any damage to the plane with the exception of the gear leg but if he was flying off of asphalt, that might have been a little bit different. My theory is that maybe he hit a small pothole or something in the runway (we fly off of Warren Thomas' farm - his runway isn't bad at all for those of you that know him) and that twisted the gear leg and it sheared in a weak spot. Don't know how relevant this is, but I got two new gear legs with the deal, and I haven't had any problems since.