Fierocious1
About
- Username
- Fierocious1
- Joined
- Visits
- 157
- Last Active
- Roles
- Member
Comments
-
hate to say it but this is quad forum section....
-
or make your own
-
handmade plates or special order. Most plates are not near tall enough for free movement with large wheels.
-
Cushions and wheels. Ask doc skate.
-
If you are generally skating, nothing fancy, just cardio. Above 175lbs I would skate a metal plate skate. Nothing expensive unless you catch the skating bug badly.
-
So you work all day with roller skates on?
-
A few years ago I bought 30+ pairs of skates for $2.50/pair. Got about 90% good bearings out of them. Some of the bearings were the junk bearings with extended inner races and tapered outer races. I don't use them, but I bought all the skates, so no…
-
I was skating up to 4 hours a week with slight heel height. Consider myself a strong skater. I skate as fast as the rinks and floor allow me to. Usually I don't fall for months and usually because of something that was caused by someone else. It's n…
-
Another thing to consider. Freshly greased bearings not run in(self clearanced greased areas inside the bearing). Since oil is so thin, it gets slung out all over the skate floor, kinda trashes out the floor for skaters depending on traction. AS oil…
-
I diddo the math but knew that we weren't turning 7k+. Most electric motors turn only 1800 rpm. Some 3200 or so. Die grinders will turn higher rpms. Skaters, way lower rpms.
-
Welcome to ceramic bearings. Not uncommon for them to shatter.
-
You would be surprised at how much this industry is "feel".
-
So what is the temperature of a typical bearing or pair in a wheel at 25mph surface speed... 230# skater? Never ever seen a hot set of skate bearings. Seen worn out, never hot. If they were that hot, the heat would have been transfered. With spacer…
-
I bought another pair of nice very low mileage inlines at the thrift store. Barely wore the mold sheen off the wheels. Nice smooth spinning bearings in them. More bearings for my supply box. $2.50 for the skated iirc. Junk the skates, keep the beari…
-
wobble of bearings, not much of an issue, depends on how course the surface is. Weight makes a difference as tested by Armadillo for years building ultralight weight skates. Edges could make a difference. It depends Contact patch/duro, big variables…
-
You said there was woman that had a noticable difference when axles were tightened and tightened further. Something has to give to get anything from that kind of adjustment. Skates long ago, nearly all had spacers. It was required to prevent skater…
-
Metal hubbed wheels do that..
-
bearings on skates don't get hot, they wouldn't be bearings if they did. They would be junk bearings. Ive shot bearings/wheels with laser temp guns years ago. The wheels and bearing's temperature were generally the same. Usually the wheels and beari…
-
So your spacers are being crushed? Better upgrade your spacers if you can tension and effectively change bite. I've tried everything before, never saw any change as described. But while we are on this, better build a tester that can prove it. Show d…
-
some of the slickest wheels I tested were low duro. Some of the stickiest wheels I tested were 97/98 duro.
-
If you put in oil, you do bearing maintenance or see your bearings die much sooner than later. 10 to 30% of what? You skating 30 % slower? The most precise part of a skate is the bearing, logically it is the least component to affect your overall pe…
-
Had mine made by wild42 years ago. Don't know where he is now. 8mm titanium flips in DA45 SG trucks. He does excellent work.
-
Bearings with grease offer little more(minute amounts) of drag compared to oils, when under loads. The drag is small in the big picture. The preservation of the bearings life is handled best by grease. Maintenance time is pretty much negated by grea…
-
Duro is for roll or comfort. Comfort if skating outside vs roll and a skaters weight. Skating too soft of a durometer kills speed and increases work of the skater just to stay up to speed. Heavier skaters require harder duros than lightweight skater…
-
Got them. Won't fit skates though. They fit good.
-
dand, no edit!!!! Several typos lol
-
I skated quads for years, then switched over to inline. Inline hurt my knees over time and I had to leave it. I had sold most of my quad parts so to get things going again I designed my own plates that adapt inline speed boots to quad trucks. DA 45 …
-
I had an uncle that skated up til he passed away. He was 72
-
A/C, bathrooms, food, music(your own maybe) mostly clean floor to skate on.... I love it!
-
Hello everybody, I'm an addict.... LOL. I resterted skating almost 10 years ago. Skating for fun, relaxation, cadio/fitness. Now 59 yo. As soon as my foot heals, back on my wheels. Usually skate 3 hours a session. I did a lot of skate testing and w…