Anybody try these Lime Zig Knock off's?

[Redline]

Did a search & didn't see any posts here on these:

Come w/free bearings too.(no, it's not my auction)
SoCal Skater Green Cruise-N-Slide 70mm longboard wheels - eBay (item 140256930380 end time Aug-16-08 20:41:09 PDT)

[TIMORNE]

Why would you buy these when for a few $$ more you can get name brand wheels.

[pistol pete]

there not really zig knock offs cause they have rounded edges it looks like

[dsatwork]

Originally Posted by TIMORNE

Why would you buy these when for a few $$ more you can get name brand wheels.

It is my auction and they are coming out of the same factory as Abec 11. Check out the eBay feedback on my SoCal Skater Cruise-N-Slide wheels. I just started the selling the Green 80A, but everone loves the 83A in Blue and Red. If you want a free SoCal Skater sticker just email me from from the any auction and mention silverfish.

Dave

[rvilla4]

Originally Posted by Redline

Did a search & didn't see any posts here on these:

Come w/free bearings too.(no, it's not my auction)
SoCal Skater Green Cruise-N-Slide 70mm longboard wheels - eBay (item 140256930380 end time Aug-16-08 20:41:09 PDT)

so you ask why purchase these. well start with cost. your average set of namebrand wheels will run about 45 dollars out the door. but you have to add in bearings, to be fair, lets say another 17 with tax. so your looking at roughly 62 dollars. these wheels cost about 25 with shipping and bearings. not bad i say.

ok but what about the ridability? well lets start with my credentials. i have a wide variety of boards, surf, snow, skate, random things, you name it, ive probably tried it at one point. for skateboards, between my brother and i we have 3 carver skateboards, longboards with randall II trucks, 2 twenty two inch to thirty inch boards, and 3 boards over 6 feet. 3 of my boards currently have these wheels. ive ridden hills, parks, parking lots. ive seen quite a bit. so that said, i feel i have a good idea of how a wheel grabs the road and maintains itself in the process. for the price and performance ive seen none better. these have a nice hardness to start with. soft enough to grab during a hard carve without being ruined. the shape helps with this too. the edges give enough to bit but not enough to tear itself apart. what about the height. well they roll over bumps well, increase and maintain speed well. over all the wheels are a great product.

the appearance you ask? it doesnt have any nice script on the walls of the wheels. ok guys lets be honest with our selves. any board you ride, not ride hard, ride will loose the fancy script logo sooner or later. when that happens your left with this ugly, uneven looking wheel. i think its better without the logo. stays they way you expect it too. and personally, ive only bought the blue wheels, i like blue. these wheels have held up better than my sector 9 nineballs of the same shape. 72mm nineballs if i recall correctly. the slalom style. ill never buy them again. im sticking with these "Knock Offs"

[Redline]

Well for $27 shipped w/bearings I went ahead & pulled the trigger.
I need an extra set & these might fit the bill.
I'll give some feedback after I ride them a while

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by rvilla4

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First post giving a very very extensive review/reccogmendation for another user who has only five posts?

I smell something...

[oldnbroken]

We have a number of vendors that support the fish.
These vendors are on here regularly to offer their expertise and they provide great service to their Silverfish customer base.
We also have at least three wheel company heads that are on the fish regularly that provide the same kind of expertise and support.
They also sponsor a bunch of riders who are Silverfish members.
I believe their wheel designs are innovative and extremely well thought out and they push the limits of what wheels are expected to do year after year.
I gladly pay the price that these online vendors and wheel designers/manufacturers ask in return for what they bring to the table.
I am all for new companies (like Earthwing) coming to market with their new ideas as long as they are selling something of real value that they conceived/designed to fill a need.
Cheap copies just provide a means to rip profit away from the guys that did all the hard work.


Do I want to support a cheap knock off artist?..............not so much.

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[karrot]

i kinda want a set of them
look like fun wheels

[sk8norcal]

Oldbroken, I have to disagree.
For one, these aren't knock off's ,
no one owns any patent on any shape.
abec11 don't own the rights to their formula.
and these aren't exact shape as zig zags...
They can claim great performance all they want (after all, its advertising)

Whether you want to support "legitimate" companies or not, that's up for debate. Your personal choice.

people sell blanks in the shortboard world, now its moving to longboarding..
capitalism at work....

if you want to gamble with blank products.
go for it. might be good or might be crap..
price does look good...
but I highly doubt it's the same urethane as ABEC11.....or comparable...

[rp1313]

zig knockoffs? ever look at madrids manx wheels. these look more like gators.
Manx 69mm slalom racing wheels -- EACH

[MJKam11]

Originally Posted by oldnbroken

On the other hand, do I want to support a cheap knock off artist?..............not so much.

What wheels exactly do you think they're knock off's of?

I gotta say, i'm normally skeptical of wheels, but those don't look anything like any wheel out there, people are being very close minded about these wheels. They look sort of like rounded off Grippins, which is a wheel that i'd like to see more often (I am so sick of these slalom style wheels now).