Show me... abused wheels!

[Voxheed Longboards]

i think they where spitfires but they are thrashed to the max

Spitfires???
What in the (blank) are you talking about??
They make longboard wheels?

[Blix]

Spitfires???
What in the (blank) are you talking about??
They make longboard wheels?

Uh, is it so hard to imagine K-Rimes on something other than a longboard?

[Irish_]

Spitfires???
What in the (blank) are you talking about??
They make longboard wheels?

idk it had the little inferno dude on there so im assuming yes haha dude these wheels are from like 2003-4 haha

[AJ]

I've found myself without slidewheels before and having to buy the cheapest biggest wheel in the store. Sometimes it was a Black Label or a Deathbox or Bones, I got a set of Spitfire's S4 Tracers,
they didn't last very long until they start sounding like a chopper. If you have a choice to spend an extra 5-10 bucks I'd go for Rainskates, Sector9, Santa Cruz or Earthwing, but sometimes you just can't find 'em at your local skateshop.

Remember boys and girls, support your local skateshop.

[Voxheed Longboards]

Unless you local shop is full of poser douches that dont know jack about longboards.
God I hate Boardmart!!

Hey K-rimes nice destroyed wheels, how many sets do you go through in a month??

[kjc6]

Lightly used 62mm Slide As

Counterclockwise from top left:
45, 46, 48, 47mm



Close-ups of the 45mm:

[Voxheed Longboards]

Dude those slide A's got raped!!!
They look pretty cool now.

[Dervish Nightrider]

lol otang bumper

Did you glue some insulation on the end for a bumper?

[speshlspeclsteak]

reading what he wrote ftw!

[kjc6]

Did you glue some insulation on the end for a bumper?

It's made of little chunks of Orangatang (otang) wheels.

[kjc6]

Dude those slide A's got raped!!!
They look pretty cool now.

Yeah, the red stripe adds some character, huh? Hahaha.

Did some sliding today and got the smallest one down to 44mm, and it's still going strong. There's a tiny little gouge in the thane that show's there's about another millimeter of depth left. So my guess is that the cores are somewhere around... 42mm in diameter?

I can't believe how resilient those little buggers are!

[New Brian]

Yeah, the red stripe adds some character, huh? Hahaha.

Did some sliding today and got the smallest one down to 44mm, and it's still going strong. There's a tiny little gouge in the thane that show's there's about another millimeter of depth left. So my guess is that the cores are somewhere around... 42mm in diameter?

I can't believe how resilient those little buggers are!

Agreed, I've got a couple sets in the same range.

Keep em' spinnin

[Ian]

This

Caused this

Different angle with my hair in the way

[guroo]

Has anyone cored/almost cored a set of Blastwaves? I've been sliding mine for a long time and they're still going strong, really good wear.

[Rich Nelson]

Thats sad, looks like they had a lot of life left in them

[benmasters]

get a single wheel

[guroo]

get a single wheel

So he'll have three wheels around 60mm and one 72mm wheel? I don't see that working out.

[kjc6]

So he'll have three wheels around 60mm and one 72mm wheel? I don't see that working out.

It's actually not all that bad. 60mm vs. 72mm just means the new wheel's gonna be 6mm higher than the others. I've ridden a jacked up set of Sergio sliders ranging from 48mm to 60mm and it doesn't mess up performance beyond making the board feel a little uneven.

In my book, it beats buying four new wheels and letting three perfectly good ones sit around unused.

[Jesse Tighe]

lathe time.

[guroo]

It's actually not all that bad. 60mm vs. 72mm just means the new wheel's gonna be 6mm higher than the others. I've ridden a jacked up set of Sergio sliders ranging from 48mm to 60mm and it doesn't mess up performance beyond making the board feel a little uneven.

In my book, it beats buying four new wheels and letting three perfectly good ones sit around unused.

I've tried it, and I didn't like the feeling of it. I mean it's his call in the end though.