Fuck me 
there i go talking out my ass again
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In theory, demand for wheels that size and with that function (maybe with a bit more dampening) should be big. I’ll buy and test. That is, if German police will return my board at some point 
Oh yeah i see that now ip55 on everything except the battery which is ip56. Thats pretty wild.
I’ve gotten to ride the cloudwheel rover 165s and since these have the same construction I have a general idea of how these are gonna ride.
Comfort-wise they aren’t gonna be better than MAD105/hollow wheels since they still have a ton of plain ol thane.
Unless they change the rubber that they used it’s gonna be a very strange ride. I found the rover 165s to be extremely responsive compared to pneumatics since they don’t have a sidewall that can flex, but also VERY slippery at the same time. It helps you carve but at the same time it’ll just lose traction on you. It’s a recipe for disaster.
My hopes aren’t high, and the fact that they’re advertising small wheels like that for riding in wet conditions is pretty concerning.
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Yep. This is pretty accurate
And yeah idk about riding in wet conditions haha but I expect these wheels to be average with above average grip
Snugs are like better rovers, except they’re only 105mm
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Agreed! I definitely got the same feels when i rode them
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They’ve indicated that there’s very low dampening on these in the chart, I think the smaller size means it doesn’t have the cushioning you can see in the diagrams of the rovers. I think this would be much more uncomfortable.
Gotta love how they think that thane is puncture proof 
It can get punctured and that is far from the first time I had to remove shards of glass or really sharp gravel? from my sleeves. I haven’t had any issues with thane wheels but when it is a thin layer of thane on top of something else it looses that puncture resistance. Likely even more so if on top of a soft object or if there is an air gap between the thane and hard surface.
As an idiot who will ride in the rain, I fully agree with you. Don’t ride in the rain. Even if you completely ignore/don’t care about injuries at all you still shouldn’t do it because roads are disgusting and when they’re wet all that nasty road gunk gets flung up onto you from your wheels.
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Lol urethane is puncture proof in the sense that you can keep riding no problem, versus the pneumatic tires, which are pretty normal on their target market’s boards, that deflate when punctured.
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Proof implies that they can’t be punctured to begin with though. 
Might be more accurate to say puncture resistant so as to not lie about it.
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I suppose that would be more accurate
Or something else completely different
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That dude made an update. What a freak! 
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Truly excellent 
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just take some extra wheels and do this tbh
anyone seen the weight of these? They mention that they’re 100g heavier than their 90/64 thane wheels, but the weight of those arent listed either.
The good: They look really nice on the Exway Flex.
The bad: Disappointing behavior on dry surfaces. They might be only useable in wet conditions. On the two rides I had them mounted, there were only puddles to play with. There, it seems like the thread design does what it is supposed to do because there was a lot of sideways splashing going on.
On dry asphalt the grip is okayish but on smooth and dry cobblestone those Hydro wheels tried to kill me a few times because of surprising loss of traction. The ride comfort is comparable to stock urethane wheels.
After that I changed back to Cloudwheels.
When it’ll be raining for weeks and I will be suffering from withdrawal, I might try them again. For now I can’t recommend spending your money on those.
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Interesting - I’ll be putting them on my board soon ish to test but it’ll be mostly dry surfaces for me
Also the range is very bad. I was getting 12km on the regular Flex. That’s about the lowest I’m getting when riding fast with Cloudwheels.
interesting, i gain more traction compare to cloudwheels in the same corner that i lose traction with clouds
That is what I expected with the Hydro wheels because the contact patch is clearly larger. I can only imagine they have some kind of strange rebound behavior on mixed pavements in my case.
For me the important thing is: I can tell where and when the Cloudwheels will loose traction. But not with the Hydro wheels. They stab me in the back. 