Started skating to work a bit. It's 3 miles and a bunch of small hills.
Currently skating some 78a 56mm Clouds, which are great for flinging rocks tf out the way, but I am pretty terrified to get cookin on these things because I can't slide em.
Thinking about getting something harder that I can slide to speed check, but still not horrendous to ride over chunky ground. Dragon, X97 or maybe 97 F4 comes to mind.
Dragons are probably best application because I'm probably not going to skate this board normally. Do they make a 56 or 55 V4 Dragon?
Some 56 Radial Fulls sound fun though too...
I used to skate about 3 to 5 kms to work a lot with one job a while back and I got used to the route with a few hills and often not a lot of room to move, so having around 78 to 87 duro soft gummy wheels was ok for me for the most part - way easier than harder / more normal feeling wheels, but finding the exact right wheel might be more just down to trial and error.
The trucks on the cruiser boards I had were loose enough to almost slalom (go side to side a bit more) down one main hill but having wheels hard enough to slide to stop or avoid sudden issues was more of a pain, so I went with the big soft gummy things on that one, then had to almost run out / grab the board a couple of times when cars came out or something ended up in the way.
I guess I wasn't going that fast anyway, not compared to some of those crazy hill bomb type of situations, so as long as I didn't end up going faster than I could run out, everything was ok.
I did have some 60 mm 92 duro wheels that worked really well, could still slide a bit as needed and were big enough to roll over rocks and cracks well but I don't think they make them anymore.
The big wide 97 duro Spitfires and some other mid 90s duro wheels should still do the job and allow you to slide a bit more as well, so depending on how big you want to go or whether you have wheel wells / risers or whatever, you can rig up something quite fun that will still serve you well enough for everything to get from A to B, ollie up gutters if needed, roll over cracks, rough ground and be a fun ride rather than a hell ride.