Ordered a few eggs and some 8.75 / 9.0 trucks to go along - pseudo birthday setup for myself.
I haven't Venture-d (heh) past 54mm wheels in the past 5 years back on my board, what size wheel could I go for without needing up risers? I'll be riding Film (55mm) or Indys (53-55mm), thinking 56mm might be the max?
* Adding this "Forgive my humour" because sometimes it is a little off, but here goes:
Starting out with a generalisation, people riding eggs to be period specific should be on sub 50 mm wheels, like some awesome humans I know... If you can't get Lil Beatdowns, then OJs have a Lil Chubbies range, or really I guess anything with LIL in the name should be about right - Lil Smokies good wheel, good price!
Now I got that out of my system, the reality is any and every skateboard no matter what the use, really only needs up to a certain size before things get out of control or become detrimental to the overall use. That size is determined by a number of factors, but generally something that is not going to be going super fast / down hills / vert ramps or the like can easily be anywhere from 50 mm through 52, 54 up to 56 mm max. I guess this is also why the most common skateboard wheel size is still 52 mm, even though that seems like a running joke for some, it also goes with 8.25" trucks and 8.3 or so boards, as the most common size parts. Size 10 shoe as well, if we really want to go middle of the road.
But getting back to wheel size, sure I have 60+ mm wheels on some boards, also have 43 mm wheels or even rounded down some old wheels into the 38 mm wheels of the 90s, but overall most of my main boards now have 54 to 56 mm from new and more often than not they are closer to 50 than to the original sizes they started from new. Riding larger wheels often doesn't help me much, but it is fun to get out a board with bigger wheels every so often just for kicks.
I don't skate big ramps, deep bowls or even a whole lot of street tech, so my take on this is pretty limited to smaller ramps, skateparks, small spots, curbs, or similar things, not really going super fast either anymore, but I find that the wheels I have on now are perfect for almost everything I like to do and work well for where I am at in my skating. That's not to say you just had a birthday, getting older, slowing down, or whatever else, but then the question is, what wheel size do you really want to go up to, before you think you maybe should have stayed at a certain size and going past that was a little bit too much fun for you? I think maybe 54 mm is a good max / soft limit, unless you find a wheel size / shape / other option that you really like and want to give it a go.
Not even going to get started on different duro options to maximise performance and overall use, but there are a few too many things you could take into consideration here, along with wheel shape, wider or narrow, skinny like a Classic or fat like a Radial Full (Spitfire shapes sure, but other shapes too) and all that other stuff as well. Even the newly reformulated 97s in the Pedro Radial in 55 mm are almost a bit big, but they work well and I have enjoyed them on one of my boards, but I think the other size in 57 mm is just a little too big for me, even on 9" sized boards, where I often like a little bigger / wider wheel to make things look more in proportion.
That's is probably already over my word limit for today, so I will leave it at that for now.
** Making a fun setup is worth the effort, so look around and get whatever tickles your fancy, give it a go and see if it works. If not, take things off, change things out and experiment and see how it goes.
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