Reflex urathane vs. ribbed inner walls

[Iceman]

I have a set of Lime BigZigz and everyone used to rave about the reflex thane and how it maintains speed and acts like a softer duro. How does an 80a reflex duro compare with the 80a Inheats with a ribbed inner wall? Which is softer? Which has a better roll speed?

[savage2424]

I have a set of Lime BigZigz and everyone used to rave about the reflex thane and how it maintains speed and acts like a softer duro. How does an 80a reflex duro compare with the 80a Inheats with a ribbed inner wall? Which is softer? Which has a better roll speed?

I prefer the "Her Pleasure", they've got both ribbed walls and what seems to me like reflex urethane, pretty sweet for speed, quickness, and hooking back up.

[Cranks]

i have trouble beleiving loaded makes anything "performance oriented"

ribbed lips? give me a break and stop selling gimmicky ####.

[enemy combatant]

There is absolutely no way that you are going to be able to find out which of these two wheels you would prefer by asking about them on the internet. The only way you will be able to tell any difference is by riding them yourself.

If you don't run into a fellow boarder with some Inheats that you can try, then get some Inheats when your BigZigs wear out.

[MJKam11]

I don't think any of them have a better roll speed, I think they're both good wheels with the loaded wheels having a better slide because of their not as square lip (resembles a gumball lip IMO).

[BigDaddy@TactisSkates]

The durometer and rebound test only measures the first 1/8" of material anyway... All the ribs could possibly do is stiffen the compression of the overall shape. Reflex formula urethane actually rebounds energy while standard thanes absorb it. The ribs have little effect if any and it has nothing to do with roll speed. Stabillity in hard cornering do to less deformity in the wheels footprint would be the only possible advantage. Seems like most guy's buy wheels they think look cool anyway.8)

Dano

[enemy combatant]

... Reflex formula urethane actually rebounds energy while standard thanes absorb it.

I thought you were a materials scientist of some sort. Don't say things like this.

The wheel makers only publish Shore A hardness specs with their products not any elasticity numbers. All urethanes absorb and then rebound energy. Some to a greater degree than others.

And WTF do Maseratis have to do with any of this?

[Blix]

I don't think any of them have a better roll speed, I think they're both good wheels with the loaded wheels having a better slide because of their not as square lip (resembles a gumball lip IMO).

?? The In Heats has a square lip, nothing like a Gumball lip.

[KyleDH]

+1 enemy combatant

[BigDaddy@TactisSkates]

I thought you were a materials scientist of some sort. Don't say things like this.

The wheel makers only publish Shore A hardness specs with their products not any elasticity numbers. All urethanes absorb and then rebound energy. Some to a greater degree than others.

And WTF do Maseratis have to do with any of this?

That was CL from another thread playing fish games... He plugged like twenty threads trying to be cool. I agree with you I tink on the rebound issue we are saying the same thing. Urethanes are produced in thousands of durometers and reflex rates. For Example a bowling ball is stupid hard durometer but verry high rebound!

I like the way you think my man.

[[ben]]

[Zach337]

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+1

[RyanTheDagger]

I got some in-heats and compared to my bigzigs, they grip more, but still manage to have a decent drift. I would not want to turn those monsters completely sideways though.

[savage2424]

I beat you.
muahahaha

[stringtheory]

Reflex duro is just another way to say high rebound. Loaded's new wheels are a high rebound urethane as well.

The ribs were added to supposedly add a more progressive rebound out of a turn, when the lip of the wheel is compressed then uncompresses as you straighten out.

I think it's just snake oil, but they sure do look purty.

[MJKam11]

?? The In Heats has a square lip, nothing like a Gumball lip.

Woah they do,

The 4presidents have a gumballish lip though, I guess the inheats are more different than I thought they were from their smaller counterpart.

[GravityRider15]

Woah they do,

The 4presidents have a gumballish lip though, I guess the inheats are more different than I thought they were from their smaller counterpart.

Aren't the wheels exactly the same except for that extra 5mm? lol

[K-Rimes]

The 4Presidents are more like a Flashback than a Gumball, that's for sure... Gumballs are in a class of their own as far as shape goes... Not really anything else on the market is similar.

[Hmann]

The 4Presidents are more like a Flashback than a Gumball, that's for sure... Gumballs are in a class of their own as far as shape goes... Not really anything else on the market is similar.

do they ride like a flashback?

[K-Rimes]

They ride like a ZigZag and a Flashback mixed, with more traction and a more crystalline wear pattern.