Wheels Thread

[FuzzGNU]

Thanks guys... I'll definitely look into Powell Bombers. I didn't know G Slides lost their slide. What's the point in that?


I'm pretty excited about getting some big soft wheels. The streets around here are brutally crusty and very busy. Not a good combo. It will be nice to have a board for a relaxing ride where I'm not battling the road.

[Frank and Fred]

3 sessions on my Loopholes on pretty good ground and still don’t feel as fast as the smaller F4 they replaced. Another weird thing is they’re shedding chunks. It’s not abnormal for wheels to do this especially on asphalt, but I never have that happen with F4 on the same ground. So far I’m not super sold on em.

I'm about three sessions deep on my first set also. they are holding up well and feel like they suck up rough ground well for a hard wheel. However, they are too sticky for my taste. The slip to grip ratio is just not as good. Maybe on steep rough hills like those guys skate they'd be ideal?

Good wheels but back to F4s once these are cooked for sure. its always good to try different wheels every once in awhile so you can remind yourself how good F4s are.

[big_kev_215]

I ordered a set of the 58mm 99a Snot wheels from the new drop.  I will report back on how they skate.

[switchfrontshuv]

Surely, if you are good at flip tricks like Ben, you pop first and then flick, thus negating the influence of wheel shape?

If you do shitty early 90s flip tricks like me where the board is often rolling on the ground, then I can see the wheel shape helping.

nah it makes a difference on certain tricks (not flatground mostly) but usually pinchy tricks (for me)

[Qebrus]

Take the plunge on some of the new drop 53mm 99a snot wheels or go with the fan favourite f4 classics 99a?

[rocklobster]

Take the plunge on some of the new drop 53mm 99a snot wheels or go with the fan favourite f4 classics 99a?

Depends on the price I'd say and your expectations. For under $30 non-F4 wheels are a fun change up, even better if they are $25 or less with a discount. I assume Snot wheels are from Creative Urethane, good but not F4 great.

Above $35 and I'd stick to F4.

[braksabbath]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ca8lqtLFvSS/?utm_medium=copy_link
Does Acid pour their own in house ?

[iw0]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ca8lqtLFvSS/?utm_medium=copy_link
Does Acid pour their own in house ?

i think so, i wanna say i remember seeing them have some posts/stories with wheel cutting/shaping?

power edit - i remembered right

[Qebrus]

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Take the plunge on some of the new drop 53mm 99a snot wheels or go with the fan favourite f4 classics 99a?

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Depends on the price I'd say and your expectations. For under $30 non-F4 wheels are a fun change up, even better if they are $25 or less with a discount. I assume Snot wheels are from Creative Urethane, good but not F4 great.

Above $35 and I'd stick to F4.

Fuck it for £20 cheaper it’s worth a punt, they’re already going on my 10” egg, AF1 77 so might as well experiment. Plus the pale blue n black core is hot

[animalflesh]

Doubling up on some of the new slimeballs will report back

[Buster_Poosey]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ca8lqtLFvSS/?utm_medium=copy_link
Does Acid pour their own in house ?

Yes, Acid pours, cuts, prints, and packages in their warehouse located in Oceanside Ca. The wheels are awesome

[Justrollingthru]

Recently just bought my first pair of spitfire wheels ever and one wheel is noticably wobbly. I took the bearings off multiple times, mixed them up, bought a bearing press, did it all again multiple times and that's the long story short.

https://imgur.com/a/3vINWLG (here's the imgur video of the wheel spinning. I'm still learning how to make media appear on here.)

I've mostly skated bones stf, and rictas for street/park skating and a some ojs and satoris for cruiser wheels.

I'm pretty bummed on this.

The lower quality of the gif doesn't even do a justice.

[Ok]

So I’ve got some f4 classics, same shit. I thought it was the graphic being not centered, didn’t think too much of it. Mine aren’t as wobbly. Not very fast. I’m chocking it up to how it goes sometimes. What am I gonna do? Not skate f4s? Shits are like $40, last 8x what wheels used to last
Not ideal tho

[Ronnie Rodriguez]

I too have a bad set of F4s where the bearing keeps coming unseated in one of the wheels. I know DLX customer service is known to be super responsive, but I've been slacking on getting in touch with them.

[yourbreakfsat]

Recently just bought my first pair of spitfire wheels ever and one wheel is noticably wobbly. I took the bearings off multiple times, mixed them up, bought a bearing press, did it all again multiple times and that's the long story short.

https://imgur.com/a/3vINWLG (here's the imgur video of the wheel spinning. I'm still learning how to make media appear on here.)

I've mostly skated bones stf, and rictas for street/park skating and a some ojs and satoris for cruiser wheels.

I'm pretty bummed on this.

The lower quality of the gif doesn't even do a justice.

Contact them here and make sure to include where you bought them from and include all relevant media.

https://www.spitfirewheels.com/guaranteed/

[big_kev_215]

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Take the plunge on some of the new drop 53mm 99a snot wheels or go with the fan favourite f4 classics 99a?

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Depends on the price I'd say and your expectations. For under $30 non-F4 wheels are a fun change up, even better if they are $25 or less with a discount. I assume Snot wheels are from Creative Urethane, good but not F4 great.

Above $35 and I'd stick to F4.

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Fuck it for £20 cheaper it’s worth a punt, they’re already going on my 10” egg, AF1 77 so might as well experiment. Plus the pale blue n black core is hot

I just got the 58s.  They look cool but so far I’ve had a mental block to actually setting them up on my board cause they’re so much more narrow than all the conical, v-cut, and radial shape wheels I’ve skated recently.  Gonna take the plunge and throw them on there this week. 

[Qebrus]

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Take the plunge on some of the new drop 53mm 99a snot wheels or go with the fan favourite f4 classics 99a?

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Depends on the price I'd say and your expectations. For under $30 non-F4 wheels are a fun change up, even better if they are $25 or less with a discount. I assume Snot wheels are from Creative Urethane, good but not F4 great.

Above $35 and I'd stick to F4.

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Fuck it for £20 cheaper it’s worth a punt, they’re already going on my 10” egg, AF1 77 so might as well experiment. Plus the pale blue n black core is hot

[close]

I just got the 58s.  They look cool but so far I’ve had a mental block to actually setting them up on my board cause they’re so much more narrow than all the conical, v-cut, and radial shape wheels I’ve skated recently.  Gonna take the plunge and throw them on there this week.

Very similar mindset to me then. Never really given the classic cut much of a go. Looking proper good though!

[Justrollingthru]

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Recently just bought my first pair of spitfire wheels ever and one wheel is noticably wobbly. I took the bearings off multiple times, mixed them up, bought a bearing press, did it all again multiple times and that's the long story short.

https://imgur.com/a/3vINWLG (here's the imgur video of the wheel spinning. I'm still learning how to make media appear on here.)

I've mostly skated bones stf, and rictas for street/park skating and a some ojs and satoris for cruiser wheels.

I'm pretty bummed on this.

The lower quality of the gif doesn't even do a justice.

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Contact them here and make sure to include where you bought them from and include all relevant media.

https://www.spitfirewheels.com/guaranteed/

Yeah holy shit thanks I had no idea it was like that.

I'm not trashing spitfire, I'm still hyped. It's my first pair and I think spitfire is sick but for real tho. out of all the wheels I've ever skated; Bones, ricta, satori, board brand wheels, haha flip tri cuts was my first "real" wheel, but all that to say I've never had an issue with any other wheel like this. Every other wheel had rolled straight.

And yeah I emailed them, Cameron something got back to me and requested all the required stuff. I provided all the required shit including video and it's been two days and I've heard nothing. I'm honestly getting kinda butt hurt now.

Really hoping to get a replacement set. Hell I even started off asking for just one wheel to get sent to me.

[Boog]

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Recently just bought my first pair of spitfire wheels ever and one wheel is noticably wobbly. I took the bearings off multiple times, mixed them up, bought a bearing press, did it all again multiple times and that's the long story short.

https://imgur.com/a/3vINWLG (here's the imgur video of the wheel spinning. I'm still learning how to make media appear on here.)

I've mostly skated bones stf, and rictas for street/park skating and a some ojs and satoris for cruiser wheels.

I'm pretty bummed on this.

The lower quality of the gif doesn't even do a justice.

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Contact them here and make sure to include where you bought them from and include all relevant media.

https://www.spitfirewheels.com/guaranteed/

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Yeah holy shit thanks I had no idea it was like that.

I'm not trashing spitfire, I'm still hyped. It's my first pair and I think spitfire is sick but for real tho. out of all the wheels I've ever skated; Bones, ricta, satori, board brand wheels, haha flip tri cuts was my first "real" wheel, but all that to say I've never had an issue with any other wheel like this. Every other wheel had rolled straight.

And yeah I emailed them, Cameron something got back to me and requested all the required stuff. I provided all the required shit including video and it's been two days and I've heard nothing. I'm honestly getting kinda butt hurt now.

Really hoping to get a replacement set. Hell I even started off asking for just one wheel to get sent to me.

You could have just taken them back to the shop you got them from and asked for a different pair. I know the guys at my shop have no problem replacing faulty gear and it would be alot easier for them to get ahold of a dlx rep to get an extra pair added to their inventory.

[FuzzGNU]

I just ordered some Spitfire F4 Radial Full 56mm. No idea what to expect.

The specs I've seen on store sites says that they are slightly wider (contact patch and overall) than Conical Fulls of the same diameter, but about comparable. I think with the rounded edges, these things will be even better at rolling up to sketchy spots. Hopefully the rounded edges also make them slide a bit easier without that hard edge biting the ground.

I wonder which is going to get the axe from Spitfire between the three: Radial Slim, Radial, and Radial Full.

To me it seems like Radial slim still fills a huge hole in their line-up, but I feel like either Radial or Radial Full has to go. Makes sense for them to push "the rounded version of our most popular wheel" in the Radial Full. I could see them becoming the third choice behind Conical Full and Classics for that very reason.

[TerrorizedCivilian]

Has anyone tried the oj elite 99 or 101? I’m looking to get either those or the shin sanbongi model in 58mm, Id be curious to hear what they are like in comparison to Spit 99s or loopholes as im looking to try something different and to go back to something above 56.

[FuzzGNU]

Has anyone tried the oj elite 99 or 101? I’m looking to get either those or the shin sanbongi model in 58mm, Id be curious to hear what they are like in comparison to Spit 99s or loopholes as im looking to try something different and to go back to something above 56.

OJ elite 101 are decent if you like hard wheels. Not as hard or slidey as Bones STF. I posted a review in this thread if you want to read it: https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=82118.msg3747972#msg3747972

TL;Dr they're worthy wheels, but I would only grab them if they're on sale or STF/F4 aren't available.

[TerrorizedCivilian]

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Has anyone tried the oj elite 99 or 101? I’m looking to get either those or the shin sanbongi model in 58mm, Id be curious to hear what they are like in comparison to Spit 99s or loopholes as im looking to try something different and to go back to something above 56.

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OJ elite 101 are decent if you like hard wheels. Not as hard or slidey as Bones STF. I posted a review in this thread if you want to read it: https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=82118.msg3747972#msg3747972

TL;Dr they're worthy wheels, but I would only grab them if they're on sale or STF/F4 aren't available.

Cheers for the reply

[intendedreceivers]

I just ordered some Spitfire F4 Radial Full 56mm. No idea what to expect.

The specs I've seen on store sites says that they are slightly wider (contact patch and overall) than Conical Fulls of the same diameter, but about comparable. I think with the rounded edges, these things will be even better at rolling up to sketchy spots. Hopefully the rounded edges also make them slide a bit easier without that hard edge biting the ground.

I wonder which is going to get the axe from Spitfire between the three: Radial Slim, Radial, and Radial Full.

To me it seems like Radial slim still fills a huge hole in their line-up, but I feel like either Radial or Radial Full has to go. Makes sense for them to push "the rounded version of our most popular wheel" in the Radial Full. I could see them becoming the third choice behind Conical Full and Classics for that very reason.

Radial Full is significantly chunkier than an equivalent Conical Full, like a quarter inch wider both on the contact patch and the overall width of the wheel.

EDIT—I’m an idiot. Those are regular Conicals I was comparing them to lol.

[big_kev_215]

I just ordered some Spitfire F4 Radial Full 56mm. No idea what to expect.

The specs I've seen on store sites says that they are slightly wider (contact patch and overall) than Conical Fulls of the same diameter, but about comparable. I think with the rounded edges, these things will be even better at rolling up to sketchy spots. Hopefully the rounded edges also make them slide a bit easier without that hard edge biting the ground.

I wonder which is going to get the axe from Spitfire between the three: Radial Slim, Radial, and Radial Full.

To me it seems like Radial slim still fills a huge hole in their line-up, but I feel like either Radial or Radial Full has to go. Makes sense for them to push "the rounded version of our most popular wheel" in the Radial Full. I could see them becoming the third choice behind Conical Full and Classics for that very reason.

I’m currently skating 57 mm Radial Fulls.  They’re excellent wheels. 

For comparison, for me the Conical Fulls are a little better than the OG Classics for slappies cause they’re more rounded on the edges and look cooler than the OG Classics cause they’re a little wider (AFAIK).  The Radial Fulls are wider than even Conical Fulls and more rounded than the Conical Fulls so they’re kind of like the most evolved form of the wider cut Spitfire F4 wheels offered.   

[Mbrimson88]

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I just ordered some Spitfire F4 Radial Full 56mm. No idea what to expect.

The specs I've seen on store sites says that they are slightly wider (contact patch and overall) than Conical Fulls of the same diameter, but about comparable. I think with the rounded edges, these things will be even better at rolling up to sketchy spots. Hopefully the rounded edges also make them slide a bit easier without that hard edge biting the ground.

I wonder which is going to get the axe from Spitfire between the three: Radial Slim, Radial, and Radial Full.

To me it seems like Radial slim still fills a huge hole in their line-up, but I feel like either Radial or Radial Full has to go. Makes sense for them to push "the rounded version of our most popular wheel" in the Radial Full. I could see them becoming the third choice behind Conical Full and Classics for that very reason.

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Radial Full is significantly chunkier than an equivalent Conical Full, like a quarter inch wider both on the contact patch and the overall width of the wheel.

EDIT—I’m an idiot. Those are regular Conicals I was comparing them to lol.

They are still wider than anything else though.

The Radial Full 56mm wheels are 39mm wide with 26mm contact patch.


All the info is in the Spitfire Formula Four thread, charts and such here:


https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=68020.msg3724959#msg3724959


The pics of the Spitfire wheels backing cards are huge when opened, so it is easy to see all the specs of all the wheels.

There are two different cards on that post, so at least it has almost everything to go by.

[DeepSpace9mm]

Recently just bought my first pair of spitfire wheels ever and one wheel is noticably wobbly. I took the bearings off multiple times, mixed them up, bought a bearing press, did it all again multiple times and that's the long story short.

https://imgur.com/a/3vINWLG (here's the imgur video of the wheel spinning. I'm still learning how to make media appear on here.)

I've mostly skated bones stf, and rictas for street/park skating and a some ojs and satoris for cruiser wheels.

I'm pretty bummed on this.

The lower quality of the gif doesn't even do a justice.

I had the same problem with 2 sets of those F4 OG Classics in 52mm and 55mm.

After I sent an email to DLX I was eventually sent replacements. It took a while but they handled it.

[thanksgiving]

Has anyone tried the oj elite 99 or 101? I’m looking to get either those or the shin sanbongi model in 58mm, Id be curious to hear what they are like in comparison to Spit 99s or loopholes as im looking to try something different and to go back to something above 56.

not sure if u are aware but a reminder sanbongis are not elite formula

[144p]

The latest batch of oj wheels non elite have been great, have the Sanbongi 56 99a mini combo set up and love the screech sound that is much deeper than f4 slide sounds. They are fast and slide well on most surfaces and are a bit grippier than f4 in instances I need them to be. No flat spots but noticed they are wearing out a bit faster than I expected.

[switchfrontshuv]

The latest batch of oj wheels non elite have been great, have the Sanbongi 56 99a mini combo set up and love the screech sound that is much deeper than f4 slide sounds. They are fast and slide well on most surfaces and are a bit grippier than f4 in instances I need them to be. No flat spots but noticed they are wearing out a bit faster than I expected.

thats kinda good if theyre so fat