Spitfire formula four

[Banned from the room]

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I like this wavy version of the full size swirl. I would rock those on the outside no issue.

[Banned from the room]

Not gonna lie, I film a lot and a lot in areas with hills so a sliding filmer wheel is a fucking necessity, which is why I have been riding Dragons like a year and a half ago and those are amazing. But not gonna lie that I sanded down the graphics in both sets I've had because I'm not really a Bones/Powell fan and the Dragon graphics suck.

I only skate Spitfires on my normal board so having a Spitfire that does the sliding cruiser wheel thing which Powell definitely re-defined shit over with is amazing! I'm so glad we now have the Spitfire version!!

Couldn't agree more. Bones stuff is sick. Powell stuff especially of late is wah wah wahhhhhhhhh. I like the dragons. Still wanna try an Andy board but it's never gonna happen.

Im in a different world. Dlx has always understood me. They've always been on my board. Definitely after the tfour it's been constant.

I'm a Thrasher baby. Poweredge too. I like TWS had a script forever but thats ramp local shit. So is Powell.

Bones is sick. Those graphics dagger a little.

[144p]

Just radial, not the full version.
I rode some conical full samples so they are coming potentially.
Classic Reynolds 52/53/54
Radial 56/58

[MC3]

imma get some 53 or 54 classics for the slappy setup i've been scheming in my head

[rikki]

Glad they chose Classics and Radials and not some uber-fat shapes.

[texastoast]

https://youtu.be/nhi2lXmvm5Y?feature=shared

6:15
93 58mm radial sample

[drinny]

Have they tweaked the formula for these 93s then?

As lots of people (here) don’t find F4 97s easy at sliding, or fast on smooth stuff?

Wouldn’t a F4 93 be even stickier and gummier and not much like an F4 at all? If they have improved the lower duros… can kind of see them dropping the 97s eventually  as a stop-gap.

(me - I ride the F497, think they slide and roll fine, tiny bit gripper but the serviceability on crust makes up… but Dragons x97 -and- 93a are has to be said -much- faster ‘one push’ on wood & smooth park out the gate).

[drinny]

Still no idea what the “Sapphires” were meant to be for, and nobody gone be buying their OJ3 knock off shapes…

[144p]

Have they tweaked the formula for these 93s then?

As lots of people (here) don’t find F4 97s easy at sliding, or fast on smooth stuff?

Wouldn’t a F4 93 be even stickier and gummier and not much like an F4 at all? If they have improved the lower duros… can kind of see them dropping the 97s eventually  as a stop-gap.

(me - I ride the F497, think they slide and roll fine, tiny bit gripper but the serviceability on crust makes up… but Dragons x97 -and- 93a are has to be said -much- faster ‘one push’ on wood & smooth park out the gate).

The 93 definitely slides more than the 97 and really well on rough ground. They are exceptionally fast also. I was able to skate spots that would bring me to a stop on my traditional 99s, I know it doesn’t make much sense how softer wheels could slide more, but the properties in the materials they use to make wheels can be manipulated I’m assuming to create different responses, adding a little more of this, taking away a little of this causes the wheels to respond differently.
I’ve talked with a few people in the industry about urethane and the other compounds brands like Powell use to make wheels and this option has always been there, but it wasn’t in demand so no one was pursuing it until now.

[Xen]

Have they tweaked the formula for these 93s then?

As lots of people (here) don’t find F4 97s easy at sliding, or fast on smooth stuff?

Wouldn’t a F4 93 be even stickier and gummier and not much like an F4 at all? If they have improved the lower duros… can kind of see them dropping the 97s eventually  as a stop-gap.

(me - I ride the F497, think they slide and roll fine, tiny bit gripper but the serviceability on crust makes up… but Dragons x97 -and- 93a are has to be said -much- faster ‘one push’ on wood & smooth park out the gate).

That's what I was thinking, surely if it's 'better' than the 97s it's tweaked (I'm not a fan of the F4 97s as they didn't retain anything that makes an F4 an F4 - could have easily just ridden a 95 Nomad); they were soft and slow and didn't really slide.

F4 branding is too big for DLX to call them something different (different formula or not); BONES STF has been withering on the vine for years so 50/50 chance using STF would be better for the brand...I would have opt'd for STFx or some shit.

Wonder if they'll revamp the 97s - or maybe go 95....with the recent whiter F4s there's def some chemistry going on.

[Banned from the room]

 
I'm feeling like I should hurry up and buy a bunch of 97s 56 and above before they get discontinued.

Cuz I think it's perfection. Like absolutely perfect.

If lived out there I'd walk right to the office rn and say I need a shoe string of 97a 58s got any work that needs done?

I got house paint. Y'all wanna trade?

Cuz I'm feeling it. Feeling it way way harder than anything I've ever owned probably

One wheel. The clear blue SPF formula which I think was+84b. Super hard shit.

My beloved and gravely missed homie had a set. 58s or 60s. There's a video of him bombing the Lynch bridge during a One Gig race. Idk how he pulled it. He was doing 35 easy and screaming look out! Right around a 4 skater pile up and almost took out 2 bystanders one with a baby carriage who refused to move when i asked.
Never got to see the warned the.m.

Drew is the fastest skater I've ever seen. He ate it in Dorchester blowing a stop sign and got hurt. Once you break 30mph it's best not to put a foot down . sometimes the ground with just say NOPE! Get you wobbles. Maybe just a single jerk and you run over you pushing foots heel.

He was road rashed from head to toe. I almost secured the wheel in trade but he lost that board.

That wheel reminded me of the nicotine age for some reason. I don't think they had a tall clear blue skinny wheel tho so it must've been Drew's style.

He's 110% the real screaming deal. A tru king of hill bombs

[Daydream]

Yep radials are the ones. Need to grab, getting the itch

[tuesday]

I just hope the wide wheel fad dies soon.

...and radial slims become available again.

[Xen]

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I just hope the wide wheel fad dies soon.

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...and radial slims become available again.

Preach!

Even STF are scarce in v1/3 these days if you want a slim wheel; V2s (pretty much a radial slim as opposed to a tablet) doesn’t exist anymore. Ricta have a slim but it kinda isn’t (underrated wheels imo)- miss the super slim nyjah wheel his recent footage at prods park has him on some old ass yellow slims.

[camel filters]

I just hope the wide wheel fad dies soon.

I put my 52 classics on again after only riding 54 and 56 conical fulls and og classics for the past 2 years and I could not stay locked into crooks on them. I may have unknowingly converted fully to big chonky wheels. Not having to push as much is also a nice plus.

[Banned from the room]

Yeah turn out I prefer OG/Conicals.

Everything works but those just work the best for me. I love F4

I went from like regular old wheels to DTF bones in like 2002? Bought them at Brick House. The original one. Lost um. Went and got these local soft wheels called Super balls. Rode those every day till 2012-3. Ripped the core out Infront of the Wreck Ctr on Rugg Rd one night. Replaced those with natural 80hd classics.
I loved um.
Rode those almost every day still got them. They're like 48 mm down from 53. When in 2016 I bought my first set of 56mm 99a Conicals fulls. I loved the blue graphics.

I'm head over heels.

F4 and modern Venture are the best skater products I've ever had. I've had literally everything.

[Zane]

Just radial, not the full version.
I rode some conical full samples so they are coming potentially.
Classic Reynolds 52/53/54
Radial 56/58

No radial in 54? In the spitfire instagram post, it shows a non-Reynolds wheel labeled “54”. So I assumed that was the radial graphic

[Mbrimson88]

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Couldn't help but laugh as someone posted "Dragon slayers" in the Spitfire comments.

Fukin gold!!!!!

[144p]

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Just radial, not the full version.
I rode some conical full samples so they are coming potentially.
Classic Reynolds 52/53/54
Radial 56/58

[close]

No radial in 54? In the spitfire instagram post, it shows a non-Reynolds wheel labeled “54”. So I assumed that was the radial graphic

There is, my apologies.

[Zane]

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Just radial, not the full version.
I rode some conical full samples so they are coming potentially.
Classic Reynolds 52/53/54
Radial 56/58

[close]

No radial in 54? In the spitfire instagram post, it shows a non-Reynolds wheel labeled “54”. So I assumed that was the radial graphic

[close]

There is, my apologies.

No worries. I only ask because I’m already riding 54mm Radials, and loving that shape. Hyped for these 93s

[camel filters]

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Couldn't help but laugh as someone posted "Dragon slayers" in the Spitfire comments.

Fukin gold!!!!!

twas me lol

[pops]

I just hope the wide wheel fad dies soon.

I really dont see issue with it. There's bunch of slimmer wheel shapes available for those who dont fan out chunky wheels.

[Lou Strux]

Picked up some of these Easy Slider 93s today, ostensibly to test this new “Dragonslayer” flavor out
Wound up with the 54mm Radials.
Haven’t set them up yet, but I heard some talk & now I’m what you might call soft-wheel curious.
Mind you, I don’t ever see a need to stray from my beloved F4 99a formula, but the 97s have shown to have their application & I have a set of them in service on one of my current set-ups.
All the same, after trying the Bones X-formula on a friends ride, I was curious to see what a Spitty take on the softer feeling, but still slide-y wheel would be like, so here we are.
Impressions available after testing.

[Pasta Monster]

Val Surf has all the 93a wheels except for the 54mm Radial:
https://valsurf.com/search?q=93a&filter.p.vendor=Spitfire

[Frank and Fred]

Val Surf has all the 93a wheels except for the 54mm Radial:
https://valsurf.com/search?q=93a&filter.p.vendor=Spitfire

Gone. maybe they put them up too soon?

[Xen]

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Val Surf has all the 93a wheels except for the 54mm Radial:
https://valsurf.com/search?q=93a&filter.p.vendor=Spitfire

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Gone. maybe they put them up too soon?

Page is def gone now.

[144p]

They don't officially drop until the 1st.

[WideFeet]

They don't officially drop until the 1st.

April Fool’s

Really though, the 1st? I didn’t see a date, just said April on Spitfire’s post.

Edit: April 1st is a Monday, so that when shops will be able to order.

[rikki]

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I just hope the wide wheel fad dies soon.

[close]

I really dont see issue with it. There's bunch of slimmer wheel shapes available for those who dont fan out chunky wheels.

Partly true, but lately there have been a whole lot of new wide wheel shapes introduced to the market, and flat out zero new slim wheels from any manufacturer. Plus Spitfire has pretty much killed e.g. the Radial Slim shape. Just wishing for a more even balance with regards to options.

Spit's fat invasion has led me to ride more Bones wheels than I ever thought I'd ride.

[munchbox]

og classics get really sharp edges when they wear down…
right?