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- lebruf, on 07/11/2009, -2/+46Q: What's the hardest part about rollerblading?
A: Telling your dad that you're gay. - mogdor, on 07/11/2009, -1/+14All I know is when I was a kid in the 80's, my skateboard had bigger wheels than the tiny ones they have nowadays.
- crazzy88ss, on 07/11/2009, -1/+13did they screw up the text a lot on that graphic, or was it just me?
- pingpants, on 07/11/2009, -0/+10Kinda into the High Rebound Double Radial: Faster, Softer, Pink.
- SpookyBoots, on 07/11/2009, -0/+9Dugg for there being something about skateboarding on Digg.
- itomato, on 07/11/2009, -3/+11This is crap. Someone has a hardon for Tony Hawk. He had no direct influence on wheels specifically for 'vert', aside from T-Bones, which were his own assymetrical design, the urethane of which never came close to what NHS were pouring - think Santa Cruz wheels.
Bleh - some teenage Powell/Hawk fanboy's jerk-off session with Illustrator. - freshgrease, on 07/11/2009, -1/+8What, no spinners? Wait, wrong subculture.
- ChromaVita, on 07/11/2009, -1/+8The reason for that is explained in detail in the graph.
- Malik112099, on 07/11/2009, -2/+7taken from a shoe skate and nailed to a ???
Also, there are 9 wheels mentioned and only 8 shown. - tgc1, on 07/11/2009, -0/+5My first skateboard was from K-Mart.
- carterjs, on 07/11/2009, -0/+5I would love to give those metal ones a chance. big spin 360 whoopdee
- TripKid, on 07/11/2009, -3/+7Boooo!!!! You only went up till 1992??? Weak!!!! I was ready to learn something about the new about wheels. 1992 is when I stopped skating. You Suck!
- justdru, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4This is a pretty weak 'evolution of wheels.' Not to mention the wheel from 1988 definitely didn't pop up in 1988.. they only dreamt of graphics that crisp on a wheel then.
There's honestly pretty sick things happening in the skate wheel market right now. Wheels are now so durable that many companies (see: Element) are offering lifetime warranties against flat spots!
Buried for being useless, incomplete, and inaccurate. - milkmit, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4Wow, I owned not only those exact Spitfires from 89, but also those Powell's from 92.
I'm old. - IgorUnchained, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4The documentary "Dogtown and Z Boys" will make you appreciate what the pioneers were doing on those early wheels.
- Yarkz, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4Awesome Cadillac wheel
- eanbowman, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3It ends in 1992? Really?
The wheels I roll on these days are 52mm and those seem large compared to some. They seem really resistent to damage. I picked them up from a local skate shop. I really didn't look into them so much as ask the guy at the desk what he thought would be good for a lot of street riding.
Hey, have you guys ever rode one of those "banana boards?" They were super skinny and looked a lot like those long-boards they sell now. They were tiny though, barely wider than a shoe and had really wide wheels. - eanbowman, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3I think I might have unwittingly bought one of these new generation wheels because I've worn out my grip tape and almost my deck but my wheels look the exact same as the day I bought them.
- inactive, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3:) I started on old school poly wheels for rollerskates, kinda like the urethanes, and ended with a set of 'big balls slimeball editions' glad i never road steel wheels though. Those would probably rattle your bones to bits on pavement let alone street, ouch.
- jamdogg, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3The evolution of skateboards has plateaued since 1992.
- justdru, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3Not surprising anymore. Wheels have went from Polyurethane to Durathane. If you have a pair of Element wheels and they flat spot you can send them to them - without a receipt even - and they will replace them for life. Funny thing is... in all my time owning a skate shop, I never sent back one pair for anyone.
- tech9, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3back in the days when tiny wheels were so cool. now it doesnt matter anymore.
- Treshnell, on 07/11/2009, -4/+6Smoothest ride I had back when I played around with skateboarding, was when I traded out my crappy skateboard wheels for my rollerblade wheels. Smooth ride and fast.
Made it impossible to get any air, though. Just couldn't get the board off the ground.
Eventually I just went back to blading. - STKILDAFC, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2there are significant omissions from this list...sadly I am old enough to remember ...I skating in the 60's in the steel wheel age....next came the rubber wheel age ( from roller skates)...then the clay wheels (smoking) age...then the cadilac wheel age...road rider (2...4...6.....) power flex, ojs..sims, kryoptonic (big reds...smooooth), yoyo, tunnel, yandells, wonkers, wings bones etc...........
- MooseOfReason, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2You need some good Balls to have a good skateboard ride.
- aristideau, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2I'm from AU too (Geelong) and I remember first board had chalkies and was made by a company that made coffins (name escapes me, do you remember?).
My second board was a bahne superflex with chicago trucks and cadillac wheels and cost about $80 (which was nearly a weeks wages back then)
Dogtown decks had to be imported from the US and cost about $120 (again about a weeks wages) from the local surf shop (a new surfboard cost $170 in comparison) so I had to make my next deck. I fitted it with gullwing pro trucks and 70mm green kryptonics wheels (still have it).
I am kicking myself for not buying a dogtown deck, they now go fo a forturne on ebay - kcmedic, on 07/11/2009, -3/+5"2x4"
When a line ends, you generally go to the beginning of the next line down. - blippityblop, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Actually, there are many different types of wheels out there for different styles of skateboarding. I, myself, am not into the trick style as I am into carving the pavement. If you go into a legit skate shop you can talk for hours about the benefits of different types of wheels. Some like to slide and some like to carve. The wheel is one of the most important thing to put onto your skate (just like a tire on a car).
- metallic07039, on 07/22/2009, -0/+2Ditto.
- GoldenGlovez, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Damn.. I'm still on Steel rank.
- mikemehak, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2so thigns haven't changed since I stopped skateboarding in 1995
Good to know I can get back into with ease. - KingGorilla, on 07/11/2009, -1/+3That's what she said?
- LAMinator, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2wtf since when did bearings become wheels?
- eanbowman, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2I don't see how the large wheels would stop you from ollieing.
You could technically ollie just the deck sitting flat on the ground if you tap and slide it right.
Do you mean that it prevented you from getting _much_ air?
Incidentally, I learned on one of those oldschool one-way type boards and it was both heavier and bigger. Those things were a bitch to ollie as a kid. Learning it that way made it *****-tons easier to do it on a new board though. - cuervoman914, on 07/11/2009, -1/+3Rolling on the floor laughing, it actually happened.
- TotalHalibut, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Well, that did a stellar job of making an interesting sport seem incredibly dull.
- AdGre1, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2working at a skate park right now and after i read this i looked up and saw a kid on inlines and laughed out loud. literally.
- mishabear, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1YOU'RE old? HA! I owned those Cadillacs when I was about 14-15. But the cool thing is the store that sold to me was a new store back then and is STILL there selling boards! I love walking through and seeing the old boards on display.
- aristideau, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1Found it, they were called "webcraft".
These boards were death traps (I reckon that company may have had a hidden agender). They would slide out from under you (leaving chalk marks, hence the name) and would come to an compete stop sending you flying the instant you'ld hit the tiniest rock. I was so stoked when polyurethane wheels were introduced
There is a pic of it on the intro page of a this site on the history of skating in Victoria.
http://www.vicskatehistory.com/intro.htm
Also just remembered I had a first edition of "Stakeboarding Australia" that I had kept, but was thrown out when I left home. - Treshnell, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1The wheels were large, but they were also very soft. They absorbed a lot of the energy from the tap. I could just barely get the back wheels off the ground, not high enough to even attempt any kind of tricks
When I used friends' boards I could ollie just fine. - yoshihama, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1Tell me about it. I went looking for my OJ II's from '86. Now that was a smooth ride, and they wore like iron.
- darrellcskinner, on 07/11/2009, -1/+2face/palm the creator of that site doesn't proof read or edit. Also they are an idiot and I question if they've ever skateboarded or know any basic engineering (a bearing isn't a ***** wheel).
- narrative0, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1Big pants, small wheels, and pressure flips were the glory days. Skateboarding had nothing to do with Slim Jims, and jocks didn't carry around longboards as fashion accessories.
- eanbowman, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1Durathanes... that's what it was. Thanks! XD
- eanbowman, on 07/13/2009, -0/+1They didn't say the bearing was a wheel. They just marked the introduction of wheels using precision bearings in the timeline.
I mean, it does seem fairly incomplete but your point about the bearings is pretty off base I think.
My first skateboard was oldschool and had those loose bearings held in by a washer and a nut. Those things were balls. XD - micksterminator, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1The article forgot about sidecuts, guttercuts, hollow cores (rictas)....
***** article props to skateboardmag. -
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