My new wheels…
I want to hump them. They are so sexay and grippy and lovely.
Let me back up to the wheels that came with my skates, for anyone who may be reading this who might be interested in a starter derby package.
STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM PINK SURE GRIP ZOOMS.
Also, apparently the green ones. The red ones, for some reason, don’t seem to be giving people problems.
The pink Zooms are very very hard and slippery. They have what seem to be extra deep groves that pick up every speck of dirt on the track. I’ve been spending 45 minutes after practice to scrape the accumulated gunk out of the wheels with a variety of tools and they’re still not clean. Skating on these wheels is like riding in a car with no suspension. You feel every tiny crack on the infield (and forget about the bigger ones) and where each panel of the track meets the next. You get 0 traction in your stride.
The Witch Doctors though… they’re like skating on grippy fast clouds. I’m gonna have their little blue “VooDooThane” babies. All 8 of them.
2 comments March 18th, 2008