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i feel like i will never truly understand the difference between OG classics and conicals but that's okay.
I don’t understand either. Based on a few months of research I feel like the OG classics are basically a wider, side-cut tablet with a pretty squared off edge. The conical fulls are essentially the same width but slightly more rounded on the edges and a little less side-cut so slightly heavier feeling.
It is definitely a lot easier when you see them in person, but there is so little in it as well between almost half a dozen of the shapes nowdays, only a mm here or there, a slightly wider surface, or profile and a slightly squarer or rounder edge that either cuts away or stays out a bit more.
Even as the wheels wear down, the profile and riding surface change considerably between say 54mm when new to worn 52mm or less.
At least the x ray looking / black with white lines spec sheet (with the inside line of the wheel clearly defined) gives a bit more info and if you are only looking at it on a phone instead of a decent size computer screen it will be a whole lot harder to work out the differences.
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Spitfire lists a 55mm tablet on that chart, but can anyone confirm that they actually exist? Google search will turn up results with retailers that have them listed but always out of stock. I'm beginning to think it's a conspiracy.
The chart has plenty of wheels that are no longer offered (or possibly never made) and it is also missing specs for wheels that they did make (51mm radials, 50mm tablets and other lil smokies).
Even their spring catalog on their website has wheels listed that I doubt they've made in the past year.
Sorry that I didn't make my post clear, they were supposed to be 2 different points. The chart that's included with purchased wheels don't have specs for all the wheels they make. The catalog on their website has wheels listed that they don't sell.
https://www.spitfirewheels.com/2020-delivery-4/I think I have seen pics from other shops or had almost every wheel in the past catalogs, but increasingly some wheels only go to a handful of stores (and I follow way too many shops on instagram) so if you are not there when that drop lands in those stores, you would most likely never see those wheels, especially seeing as there are only minimal quantities of some of them, even more so if they are prebooked - ordered in advance sometimes a few months before they even come out.
Apart from the F4 OG Classics in limited runs of 58 and 60 or the very limited run of 97 Conical Full, I don't think there have been any other wheels come out in anything bigger than 56mm, certainly no Classics, OG Classics or Bigheads in the original formula since the pandemic and production closures.
There are more F4 Classic Full wheels coming as well, but only in 52, 53 and 54mm (same as Bighead shape) for anyone who likes a slightly wider rounder wheel.
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