So I am an old and old school skater. I’m 46 this summer and I’ve been skating since I was in grade 5. Lol. These days I only ride mini ramp and a little bowl/flowy park. I’m not a big trick guy....lip tricks only and your basic old school mini ramp stuff. In the park (I prefer pumpy carve parks....evergreen park style) I rarely go to or above coping...just love to carve and get speed. But there in is the problem. Speed. Right now I ride the Chris Miller couple shaped deck by welcome. It is 9.6/31.6. 159 Indy’s and 60mm slimeball vomits 97a with bones reds. On mini ramp I love this set up. Feels rock solid to me. In the park though, I feel I struggle to keep speed with those bike fat wheels. I recently tried a pair of orbs spectres 56mm 97a and I HATED them. I had no confidence with them. No feel. On ramp they were just terrible. I quickly went back to my slime balls. So. My question is....do you have a suggestion for an old school skater like me that is looking for that old school feel of the slime balls, but perhaps something a bit faster?? Thoughts??
DW99
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I’ll look in to upgrading my bearings.
STF is only marginally slower than SPF and good on all wood too.
There are plenty of wheel options to increase speed from 97a slime balls....
One thing is you got to expect a little acclimatization time,,
probably everything will suck if your been riding the same wheels for years and overall are happy except for speed
stf/spf will slide and that will be a new thing...
It really depends where you want to be on that scale.
As said, SPFs are the fastest and have a really hard ride. It's what I use at the park on my big board to go fast.
STFs are almost as fast and feel a slight bit better - but I'm guessing still harder than you want. I skate these on 3 setups.
Spitfire F4 101s would be the next down and a bit closer to what you are looking for. I have one setup with these.
I think your winner is the Spitfire F4 99a in one of the wider cuts (or possibly the Bones Easy Streets - although I haven't skated those.) I have two sets of these and don't run them because I don't find them fast enough.
Anything softer it out of my zone.
bowl/mini/vert make 6 balls ideal
either focus on bearings or think about getting bigger or harder wheels
but harder will detract from the old school feel you want
and bigger than 60mm is getting too big for mini
so bearings is the way forward
@DW99 when was the last time you replace/maintained your bearings?
Lightweight kids stay light on their toes and weight/unweight more efficiiently.
I'm 56 and sometimes I got lead in my shoes and no spring in my step that day.
STF and ramp slides could be fun...
I love sliding on skatelite mini...
if you dont want to lose the old school feel that you like so much
swiss 6
stf only slide when you want them to, but spf will slide out on masonite unexpectedly
but you will def get more speed on both these formulas
try urethane ones
makes your setup feel like its got softer wheels
means you can go harder/faster with wheels and not have such a bony ride in the rough
but too many people want speed plus softwheels
cant have both
but high density urethanes like 80hd, clouds and dtf/rough riders
went some way to getting a bit of both
look what this reviewer thought of SC calling keyframes a 'filmer wheel'
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2-8iifpElcM
keyframes are 87a
yet way harder than clouds 92a
which are probably the same as 97a slimeballs and spitfire 80hd
OG 95a g bones are harder than reissue 97a g bones
its a minefield of errors!