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WHITE Aluminators
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On 2/7/2000
Hizzout
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Ha ha Fuzz. Sorry, I'm not laughing AT you, I'm...well, okay I am laughing at you. :)
Give me your thoughts on the softer Aluminators, I'm thinking of grabbing another pair once warmer weather comes around.
Keep Carvin'
(and remember no sliding on those Aluminators unless there is no other choice!! You paid too much and waited too long for those wheels to tear them up like that! and most importantly...have fun bro).
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ALUMINATORS....78's (oops they're 74's)
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On 2/7/2000
STOOPID FUZZ
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Yeah they're white...man, I feel stoopid...
It says 78a's, I feel such a doofus...DOH!
Cheers Glen and others...I'm now gonna go and give 'em a try...I'll let you know how they go
YOURS FOOT-IN-MOUTHINGLY
DOPEY FUZZ
xxx
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Aluminators
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On 2/7/2000
glen
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Adam is right. Even though the sidewall on the Aluminators say 78A, the white ones are actually 74A. So the white wheels are correct.
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Re: ALUMINATOR 74a VS 78a
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On 2/7/2000 Adam
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FUZZ,
If your Aluminators are *white* then they are 74a, regardless of what the sidewall stencil says (mine are the same way). 78a's are translucent red.
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Re: ALUMINATOR 74a VS 78a?
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On 2/7/2000
Hizzout
wrote in from
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Hey Fuzz...sorry to hear you waited that long to get different durration wheels!
I've got the 78/a Aluminators (The red ones). At first they were a little too hard for my liking, and I thought I wasted my money. But I decided to give them a month. After breaking them in, I love these wheels. Faster than greased snot, and they still grip very well. I've also got the Power Paw 70mm 74a Super Grip Wheels (Non-Aluminators) and these things are super grippy, but nearly as fast as the aluminators.
So there's some feedback for you. Hope it helped. I also got my wheels from www.longskate.com, and Rene at the site hooked me up well. Great representative and great company. I can't recommend them enough!!!
Keep Carvin'.
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ALUMINATOR 74a VS 78a?
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On 2/7/2000
UNSURE FUZZ
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After a heart wrenching weekend (surf contest didn't happen and if you watched the Wales vs France game on Saturday, you'll know what I'm talking about - an awfull performance) and much pints of Caffreys consumed on Saturday - drowned my sorrows, I awoke this morning to discover my NEW ALUMINATORS on the doorstep...
Ripped open the parcel, whacked in the Black Panthers and bolted them on my stick...it was only then that I discovered something was up... I ordered 74a's but I've been sent 78a's, bollox!
Now, I planned to bomb/carve serious downhills with these babies (the 74a rubber - tacky and cushioned?) but are the 78a's gonna be so bad? I don't wanna use them coz I'll have to send 'em back... What shall I do? Keep the 78a's, or sort out the 74a's? At $56 a set I'm kinda skint, it's either one or the other...
Can anyone post their opinions/advice here...remember for downhill and serious carving (absolutely no slides!).
Thanx Guys...
I'M IN A DILEMMA!
FUZZ (CHIN STROKINGLY)
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Blading/Boarding/Luging
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On 2/6/2000
todcar
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As for speed, I've got bad news for speedboarders. In the both x-games and the gravity games as well as at Barret, the bladers posted faster times than the stand up guys. The lugers beat them both. What's the difference really? Some macho interpretation of what matters? It's not about speed or who is best, but what FEELING do you prefer. I've always preferred the "cross body" feeling of surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding to the "through body" feeling of skiing, blading and ice skating. Does this make one feeling better than the other? Only on an individual basis. So, don't worry about comparitive performance, if you are digging your own scene and are open to others, you've got the right vibe. If a blader beats you down a hill, remember, he's not feeling what you are and you are both winners at doing what you love. As for wheel performance, it's a crap shoot. The lugers ride 4 skateboard wheels and beat the bladers on 8 inline wheels who beat the skaters on 4 skateboard wheels. It's obviously NOT the wheels - but what happens on top of them - center of gravity, drafting ability and balance.
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Herbn
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On 2/6/2000
DT
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How's your Aluminators holdin up?
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Half -track for Noel
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On 2/5/2000
Cliff Coleman
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Hello Adam,
Noel would love the Half-track. He doesn't have e-mail ao I'll inform him of your offer. My e-mail is temporarly out of service. At least my out folder is. I tried to send a thank you letter to Frank Waterhouse through "Landlugelasvegas.com" and it wouldn't send the letter and has damaged my out folder. I'm working on getting this problem fixed and will be back to mailing my friends when it is. Adam, if you will e-mail your phone number I will forward it to Noel.
Thanking you for Noel,
Cliff Coleman
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Quad Skates
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On 2/5/2000 Adam
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Let me also attest to Noel's abilities and the unbelievable performance potential of quad skates for downhill. I photographed Noel and Cliff on the Buena Vista and Centennial runs in Berkeley a couple of years back and quad skates ruled. These runs range from 30-45 mph (my estimate) and like Cliff says, the two were pretty evenly matched on the straights, but the quad skates ruled on the corners. To get an idea of the force in his slides, Noel has to rotate his wheels after every run or two since they cone out so quickly (keep in mind we're talking about eight wheels here!) Noel, if you're out there somewhere, I still have a Tracker half-track with your name on it for those crazy skates of yours.
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Quad Skater
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On 2/5/2000
Cliff Coleman
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Hey D.T.
The quad skater you mentioned is named Noel McComas. In a straight line a skateboarder can match his speed. Once you add turns to a very steep hill then he takes over. He can change the width of his stance and has more stability. Noel is the last of a breed until more learn from him. He is just like a skier except he is on asphalt. He does hockey style slides and yes at speeds of 50 mph. This guy has never had a sponsor until recently when I was able to get Gravity to flow him some wheels. He is a legend and his fame is now growing to other areas beyond the San Francisco Bay Area. You have to see this guy to believe what he does!
Gravity, thanks for your support of both Noel and myself.
Cliff Coleman
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wheels
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On 2/5/2000
Jeff
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The "A" you see for a wheel (ex. 78A) is used for the durometer rating of the wheel. It's simply a measure of the hardness of the urethane. The higher the number, the harder the wheel. So if you want wheels that are faster and slide easier, get some wheels that are harder than the ones you have. The XT slicks are very soft. You probably don't want wheels that are too hard (above 92A or so) if you have any cracks or rocks to deal with.
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XT Wheels are slow slow slow!!!
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On 2/5/2000
Keith Fellmy
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The XT Wheels (slicks or dirt) are very squishy and slow. Granted you can roll over about anything with them. The are very soft and eat up a lot of speed. In a quarter mile luge ride (down the local soap box derby hill) I was about 75 feet behind the other three guys. That is a lot in that short of a run. Try CHerry Bombs, 72mm Hyper Super Mundos or Labeda 90mm. I also use a wheel called a Satalite it is 76mm. In a practice run for a race I passed Lee Dansie with these wheels, in a corner. Then his thin body and better aerodynamics ate me up on the straightaway. But I did pass him. Not many can say that. The wheels I listed above I have used for luge and stand up downhill. So I can attest to their gripiness and hardness. My wheels are on Randall Luge Trucks also.
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wheels in general
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On 2/5/2000
Matt
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This is going to soung really dumb but i'm new tho long boarding and i have no clue what the number you put when talking about wheels that are followed by an "A" or "B" mean. Could somebody tell me? Also I have a set of kryptonics 65's that are pretty squishy that don't hold speed well in the flats and that i can't make slide for the life of me. Can somebody tell me what kind of wheels i want to help me overcome the problems? I was thinking about the xt slicks because i was thinking that larger wheels would go faster (roll over things that would slow down small wheels) but i really don't know. please help.
thanks
Matt
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Inliners,SK8boarders,going down..
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On 2/4/2000 Pre-School Rider
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Two advantages I've noticed that Bladers have over Skateboarders in downhilling;1}pushing.2}drafting. I personally don't like my butt fondled at 40 m.p.h.,but I've seen this drafting technique used,in a daisy chain,by inliners to gain more speed.I also noticed at the last few X-Games that Lugers and Skateboarders used LEATHER for epidermal protection,whereas the Inline crowd used fast-melt LYCRA the enhance the scar tissue surface area in the {common} event of a high speed fall!I won't comment as to who is more sane...
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blades & quads
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On 2/4/2000
DT
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Dont underestimate bladers and quad skaters, although there arent as many, the top ones are faster than the fastest skaters. They did do the SAME hill, only a few showed. Scott Peer is a good example of a really good inline skater, and one of Cliff Coleman's friends ,Noel, from what i've heard is mind blowing! Were talking a quad skater doing slides at 50 mph.
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downhill bladers
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On 2/4/2000 herbn
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yeah, sounds like a really cool sport, to watch; from the inside of the corner(out of the path of flying bodies)I don't even know if they were on the same course,there were only three survivers,err competitors listed.
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Downhill bladers
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On 2/3/2000 Lindsay
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When you mentioned bladers going downhill through corners
Herbn, I just got this shiver...
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oops
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On 2/3/2000 Herbn
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was looking at the luge times,blades were a little faster than stand up speedboard probabely because of their straightline push,oh well
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blade wheels vs skateboard wheels
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On 2/3/2000 Herbn
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It was interesting to see the times posted for both blades and skates for the Barrett Junction race, I'm sure they all had fun but its just a matter of physics, even with speed skates attached where you can accellerate pretty quickly and to higher speeds,bladers can go faster on flat ground no doubt,but downhill through corners,well; lets just say the results speak for themselves.The fastest blader was on parr with the 14th in speedboarding.This isn't even supposed to be antiblader,just anybody using surplus blade wheels mounted on longboards can't very well argue these results,if so, lets hear it.
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lucid wheels
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On 2/1/2000 rene
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Hey those are generic 72mm 78a from hyper same core as the gravity (older), and old super mundos (roller skate wheels). Its a nylon hub cheap price point wheel...
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lucid wheels
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On 2/1/2000
jens
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Black with holes
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lucid wheels
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On 1/31/2000
jens
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Lots of holes.
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unknown wheels
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On 1/30/2000
drew
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what was the hub like on the "lucid" wheels? (color, centerset vs offset hub, distance between bearings)
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previous message
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On 1/29/2000
jens
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I found the word: The wheels are "clear" he he
jens
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