If you can’t knock yourself off the board when you’re not paying attention, is it really worthy of being called DIY?
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Even when I am paying attention really.
If it isn’t faster than you want is it really fast enough?
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Mixed cores are a bad idea even for 2WD boards.
Drive wheels wear much faster (at least for me) and need to be rotated.
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I’m talking about over a year ago when a group of engineers came to the forum or the other one (have read a lot of posts and forgotten a lot of stuff sines) think thay said thay developed wheels for other sports with lots of super high Teck exspencive software. Said a small gummy type wheel with turbine looking core would give the perfect solution to comfort and distance. I’m either getting them mixed up and there difrent people or were this product started.
Unfortunately advanced search has not found the original posts yet/ was deleated
Is there a warning on the site?
Was not saying it was a wrong move, just an observation.
Of course… the conversion is inevitable 
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Hello,
Sorry. I don’t know which design you’re looking comparing my design to. Can you post a link? I think I’ve been pretty straight forward and honest and giving thoughtout answers in this post. If you have any specific questions, please let me know.
Also, good points on the ABEC and Kegel. I’ll still be asking. I got both tooling and I’m getting a lot more wheels that what is reserved in the batches sold in these pre-order.
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Hmm… I think I’m dumb. don’t know how to use this quote feature. Hope I did it right.
No, that wasn’t me. I put all my engineering reasoning on the product page. Probably too much. People will start copying the design.
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Same guys?
I think this is what your talking about.
Their original post has been wiped from the OG forum.
A bit more thought went in to this wheel for sure. Looks like a man with a plan.
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That’s always part of the risk but you do have a good bit of stuff that isn’t there, materials, dimensions, etc. Hopefully no one will copy you.
I agree
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Made out of PU 
Thane Class
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Moe, are you gonna pick up a set of these to test out? I’d be really curious to hear how you think they perform and grip compared to your rubber wheels (and other thanes and pneumatics).
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Ok, definitely need to try them out on something with more power than a boosted. 
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I wish I knew a source for 22x12 bearings, then we could throw them on your proto
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that would be seriously fun. people keep trying to source those bearings. but they aren’t that cheap. it even defeated @kevingraehl 
I could be lazy and go skatekastle expensive af. kit.
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Yeah. I feel defeated too. And I usually don’t give up
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Yes I saw them. Looks interesting. Will definitely give them a spin when I get the change.
Specifically for the short track I have these initial thoughts: As I understand it they have reduced contact path when not in a turn. From time to time I spin the wheels when accelerating hard out of a turn or starting from a stop. And that’s with the rubber race wheels with 60mm contact path. So with a PU wheel with reduced contact path I fear that would spin more easily.
More generally I love the fact that they can’t puncture. So if they turn out being close to pneumatic in the feeling but with better range, these are very interesting.
For really high speed my concern is that the outer lip is “loose”. How will the inertia effect that outer lip?
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