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Message 1187 (19. Mar. 2004 02:27) (Tree)

NGKrush
longboard wheels
seeing those pics seems you dont even need broad trucks, i think i might give them a try because i'm doing a lot of city cruising atm going from home to school and back. haha 120km/h, my record is 70 hanging behind a scooter and that was fast enough to be scary! :)
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NGKrush: lingboard wheels (18. Mar. 2004 13:08)
 hey, i was talking to a friend of mine about rollerskatewheels and suddenly he asked what it would be like to put large longboard wheels under your skates, when using broad trucks so they wouldn't scrape the bottom of the shoe, would you gain that much more speed, or because the wheels would be too close to eachother not really give you that much more speed? has anyone tried this before?
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Bernhard: longboard wheels (18. Mar. 2004 13:23)
 I know that roller skaters in Stuttgart used to skate the C70 wheel by Kryptonics a lot. They also did a lot of downhill skating (possibly still do). It's rumored that two of thosse guys got measured by a radar trap doing 120 km/h.
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Tobi: longboard wheels (18. Mar. 2004 13:33)
 On one pair I have soft Kryptonics 70mm, they're really great for cruising, here's a pic. I had them on my other pair (pic), but switched to Krypto Impulse (pic 1, pic 2) because they're much lighter, which is better for jumping. But I still have the big wheels on the other pair, and it jumps well too (flick).
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NGKrush: longboard wheels (19. Mar. 2004 02:27)
 seeing those pics seems you dont even need broad trucks, i think i might give them a try because i'm doing a lot of city cruising atm going from home to school and back. haha 120km/h, my record is 70 hanging behind a scooter and that was fast enough to be scary! :)
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Bernhard: longboard wheels (19. Mar. 2004 08:57)
 : seeing those pics seems you dont even need broad trucks, i think i might give them a try because i'm doing a lot of city cruising atm going from home to school and back.

I'm sure that big soft wheels are big fun when cruising.

: haha 120km/h, my record is 70 hanging behind a scooter and that was fast enough to be scary! :)

70 behind a scooter can be scary, indeed. I did this scooter excercise once (albeit at lower speeds) and it ended quite painfully when we had different opinions on the direction we were going. I landed quite painfully on my rear part.

My personal speed record is something around 80 km/h going downhill. Can be scary, too. Especially when your skates become instable.
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Tobi: longboard wheels (19. Mar. 2004 11:30)
 > seeing those pics seems you dont even need broad trucks,

Depends on the height of the trucks (distance from the sole/plates to the axles), you might have to take some material off the inner edge of the wheels so that they don't acts as brakes in curves (dangerous), or use wider hangers.

> i think i might give them a try because i'm doing a lot of
> city cruising atm going from home to school and back.

You could try some Kryptos around 70 mm, if they are soft (not soo soft) and large they will be faster, more silent, and more comfy on surfaces which aren't perfectly flat, eg older streets or streets with little stones on them etc. (large and soft wheels are slower on perfectly flat and hard surfaces such as ramps, harder wheels are faster then)

Skate safe,

Tobi

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