Rocker
Rockering your skates is when you use different sized wheels along your frame to produce different effects. The most common rocker [other than a flat setup] is the banana rocker, which gives you great agility, but less top end speed.
This would be a 76/80/80/76mm setup on each skate for example.
How do I rocker my skates?
There is a brilliant guide on rockering here (full credit to Marcus Theirstein for this comprehensive guide)
Rockering Guide
Rotating wheels
The practice of swapping your wheels around to make them wear evenly.
When should you rotate your wheels…? How To guide coming soon!
Proper rotation will hugely extend the useful life of your wheels.
Soapy
You may have heard this term and wondered what it means. The opposite to grip. It is used to describe how slippery a wheel is. Soapy wheels are great for slides, but tricky on corners.
Play
A wheel with a lot of “play” is somewhere between soapy and grippy. People go for these if they want the best of both worlds.
Cored
This is when you have worn a wheel down to the core. Definitely time to replace it.
Triangled
This is when you wear down your wheels so much they are flat on one side. Often down to not rotating them enough.
Flat-Spot
Unlike "triangling" where you wear down a wheel completley on one side, Flat-Spotting is when you manage to wear a flat area in one spot on the wheel. This is usually down to one extremely long and power ful slide. This can be a problem as then every time thereafter you slide or T-Stop your wheel will want to find the flat spot again and it will get worse. This will also result in an incredibly uncomfortable ride. You can cure this with some sandpaper, or some light T-Stopping that still allows the wheel to spin. This is quite rare but worth a mention. |