How bout longboard wheels on roller skates?

**kraffft** · 05-04-2009 10:04 PM

Just sayin...

**Barf** · 05-04-2009 11:38 PM

Why?

...just askin'

**kraffft** · 05-05-2009 12:48 AM

Putting the idea out there for anyone who might be interested in both. If you happen to have eight similar size longboard wheels (probably need to be sideset), and a pair of roller skates, it could be fun to try.

Maybe:
faster, more comfortable ride, better grip for tighter cornering and more lean at high speeds... drawbacks: wider, heavier.

Or another approach.. fasten four shortboard/longboard trucks to the soles of some shoes or boots.

**Bomb303** · 05-05-2009 12:50 AM

It would be cooler to just strap two minis to your feet...

**kraffft** · 05-05-2009 01:10 AM

Heh, was just trying to roller skate standing on two shortboards..

**pavedwave** · 05-05-2009 07:31 AM

that's where i got four sweet sets of 70mm kryptos, off two pair of old roller skates from a local Salvation Army.

they used to put lots of "longboard" wheels on rollerskates

**kraffft** · 05-05-2009 10:24 AM

Yeh, of course, funny to be going back to where skateboards came from. Maybe bringing a little something new though too.

All the derby girls I know love the Bones Reds.

And totally, roller skates and blades, always worth grabbing nice ones for cheap even just for the bearings.

**NJ Joe** · 05-05-2009 10:53 AM

oh look, krypto route 70s!

**Barf** · 05-05-2009 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by kraffft

Putting the idea out there for anyone who might be interested in both. If you happen to have eight similar size longboard wheels (probably need to be sideset), and a pair of roller skates, it could be fun to try.

Maybe:
faster, more comfortable ride, better grip for tighter cornering and more lean at high speeds... drawbacks: wider, heavier.

Or another approach.. fasten four shortboard/longboard trucks to the soles of some shoes or boots.

Cool. Just wanted to see where you were coming from.
Here's mine:

**RyanTheMann** · 05-05-2009 09:49 PM

Originally Posted by Barf

Cool. Just wanted to see where you were coming from.
Here's mine:

Coolest things I have ever seen. Ever.
Setup?

**Barf** · 05-06-2009 12:09 AM

Originally Posted by RyanTheMann

Coolest things I have ever seen. Ever.
Setup?

Wow, a setup question about a quadskate on Silverfish! Never though I'd see it.

Sure-Grip Skins plates, Rainskates Hornet 65mm/95a wheels, Hartford Gold bearings (7mm!), Crest Cutaway Toe-Stops.

I have to be honest, though.. I only have 4 Hornets. I put 'em on the one skate and rolled them once just to see how they did (meh), but then they came back off and went on a board. Proper speedskate wheels work better indoors, and the Hornets are too hard for outdoors.

Check out some more (these aren't mine):

Quads need sideset hubs:

...and .300 bearing spacing:

..and then:

Cut down Speed Vents:

OMG! "Freeride" Quads!

**Bombsquad_Manny** · 05-06-2009 12:20 AM

I once saw a chick with side set original lemon zigs at the beach on her skates.
Coolest thing ever!!

**sk8norcal** · 05-06-2009 12:55 AM

there is a downhill rollerskater in berkeley, Noel,
does high speed check slides...

he rides Hyper Super Mundo...
i sold him a set a long time ago...

YouTube - sgsk2.mov

**msk** · 05-06-2009 01:59 AM

Originally Posted by Barf

Cool. Just wanted to see where you were coming from.
Here's mine:

Vans, in conjunction with ACS, made similar hightop rollerskates back in the 70s...

Originally Posted by kraffft

Putting the idea out there for anyone who might be interested in both. If you happen to have eight similar size longboard wheels (probably need to be sideset), and a pair of roller skates, it could be fun to try.

A lot of "longboard" wheels actually are rollerskate wheels. Anything that uses a .300" spacing was originally designed for skates (or at least the core was). When slalom started making a comeback 10 years ago, most of us were using rollerskate wheels, because those were the only suitable wheels that were available. Even the first slalom specific wheels in the early '00s (ABEC11 Stingers, Turner TLCs) were made using rollerskate wheel molds (ABEC11 Stingers, Turner TLCs).

And back in the 70s/early 80s, a lot of the big skateboard companies made rollerskates and parts for them, like Powell, Sims, ACS, Vans, Independent, and Tracker...

**pavedwave** · 05-06-2009 07:26 AM

don't be surprised if chaput releases new rollerskate wheels before our pre-coned wheels come out

**SalManilla** · 05-06-2009 08:00 AM

Back in '79-'80 I had a pair of Van's hightop skates with Krytos. We did all the same stuff with our skates that we did with our boards.

If you've never seen Fred Blood skate then take a look here.

YouTube - Monsters of Roll 2004 # 5

**kraffft** · 05-06-2009 01:33 PM

Just got these last night, and skated em for a couple hours:

55mm indoor wheels, 62mm outdoor wheels, boots, extra trucks, extra set of bearings.. (16 wheels total, 48 bearings total) All nice quality, 40$ on craigslist.

Going to be pretty hard to resist chopping all of that into longboards!

Still have never seen any 97mm's on a roller skate... so gotta leave those boots alone to try that some time..

Also, sneak peak at a real hybrid experiment in the corner of that photo...

**endzone_bob** · 05-06-2009 02:33 PM

OMG, Fred Blood - haven't heard that name since reading Thrasher in the mid 80s, when his roller skate antics were covered occasionally, in the 'kooky things folks do' vein.

I'd love to see some Avilas on some skates; seems like it'd be a fun ride.