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Would like to see which company can come up with a skinny wheel that handles crust and slides fast, sounds like an impossible task for an incredibly niche audience.
Coreless V1 new bones formula 95a is exactly that. If you can deal with how quiet it is.
I skated the v1 new bones formula in 95a today. So same exact wheel. Its skinny, can handle crust, and powerslides fast. Unlike the wide cored 95as I got which I gave some initial impressions on a bit earlier in this thread (which absolutely feel like a hard wheel), these are still in that hybrid, semi soft semi hard wheel territory. A bit harder and louder than my cored 93as for sure, but also still much softer than a spitfire f4 97a, and feel like a completely different wheel to the cored 95as I got. If it was a blind test, I'd assume they're a wildly different formula.
They powerslide very well, despite being quiet. But I still have the same gripes about it as I did with with the cored 90 and 93a, just a little less: pitch you harder from wheelbite vs a hard wheel, grips a bit more on certain grinds/slides on certain materials, and just less tactile and audio feedback (even though this you could probably get used to).
Skated rockridge curbs which is a slappy spot with somewhat rough asphalt ground. Rode amazingly, but still gripped noticeably more than f4s on slappys. There was a wooden ledge with some angle iron on the side. I was sticking pretty hard on noseblunt slides on the wooden top even after some wax, but was able to slide and do them pretty much every try on my friends board which had some spitfire 99 f4s on it.
I imagine on a waxed concrete ledge they'd slide a lot better, but besides powersliding on the ground, these (along with the cored 90 and 93as) are definitely less versatile for other types of slide such as nose/tail/bluntslides, pinching, climbing up curbs etc compared to a hard feeling wheel on many surfaces. And as for the cored 95as, they're great but I didn't really see any advantage they had over f4s at all, felt almost the same riding but were a little more difficult to initiate slides on.
I wonder if the coreless 97as will finally be getting to the point where they are a little louder, have some bark and screech, and are as versatile as a f4 whilst being a little more forgiving on soft ground. Couldn't get my hands on any, but at this rate after trying cored 90as, cored 93as, coreless and cored 95as, I'm not too optimistic. I have some cored 97as but those will probably just feel way too hard so I can't really be bothered. Was pretty fun to experiment on, and I definitely see a market for these wheels, but for now I'm going back to f4s. Though I did get some 56mm cored 90as for my cruiser which I'm certain I'll be hyped on after trying the 52s
also all of this was after I wore down the treads on the coreless 95as
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