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anyone here skated Lock Ins or Lock In Fulls? I bought the Grimple wheels at 54mm and they are Lock In Fulls. I would not have bought them if I had known that they were, I thought they were either conical or radial fulls.
Anyways, I haven’t rotated them yet because they’re asymmetrical, anyone skated them and just not rotated them? Buying wheels and not being able to rotate them cuts their life into a quarter of how long I would skate them or less.
This makes sense and will help a bit but the wheels will still not wear evenly. If I rotate them like you’ve suggested, I think the front inside wheels which wears out most quickly will wear less aggressively, but it will still continue to cone. It’s not going to even out like they would normally if I were to just flip the wheel.
I appreciate the advice.
& @moonordie , I thought they were weird at first as well but I’ve come to enjoy them a lot recently. I don’t know if I want to attribute my success 100% to the wheels, but I rarely miss frontside 50-50’s on round rails now. Without even trying to, I cross lock them every time. I’ve been going out of my way to try them more often and across the entire rail that we skate so it is a conscious effort on my behalf but I will say I have made a lot of progress while skating these wheels.
& I bought them for their graphic haha! which have held up fairly well.
I don’t want to buy new wheels but I just feel like rotating them how I would normally, given that each side is a different shape, would negate whatever “lock in” effect their design was created to enable.
I know it is all down to how people actually skate, as there are some very hectic wear patterns I have seen people come into the shop with, or even just in passing at skateparks or where ever, but at the end of the day, I usually don't find I need to turn the wheels around if I rotate them evenly on the board, eg usually front heel wears the least, front toe wears to the outside edge, back heel wears more inside, back toe more evenly but the most, so then front toe to back heel, front heel to back toe, at which time they seem to even out nicely.
Regular rotation is key though, so not letting something get so worn that it looks weird or makes the board feel uneven, eg worn smaller wheels in the back, then end up on the front, so the board tilt is now off for how you were used to it.
Lock in wheels in general hold up pretty well, Lock in full wheels maybe even more so as there is just so much meat to them, so they are less likely to cone down like other narrow wheels, but just don't leave them on the same way for too long and check and move them round the board as needed, often even just swap on the same truck too, if the X pattern is not working.
At the end of the day though, they can be turned around, so I would have them ALL inside, or ALL outside for the shape, but it is just getting used to the offset of 1-2 mm or whatever it is, which can be a bit weird, or even more so just the thought of turning them round, but people do it and it does work well enough. I tried it just to see and had no issues with either way once I was used to how wide they were.
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