Inline Skate Wheel Profile

[Sghockey21 1]

I'm wondering if anyone knew if you do not rotate your wheels often (1sr to 2nd etc), would the profile of the skates (wheels) be the same for different chassis.

For example, a worn pair of Tri D vs HiLo vs Vanguard.

It's natural for the first and last wheels to wear the fastest, so I'm thinking all skates would eventually have a rocker based on your skating style right?

[TheBert 0]

I usually wear out my front wheels first, and only the front. I'm pretty sure it indicates something bad about my skating on inlines, but I don't know what.

[start_today 773]

I think the first problem you'd see is that all of those chassis use different size wheels. You can't just switch Tri-Di (72-76-76-80) to Vanguard (76-76-80-80) to HiLo (72-72-80-80) because of all the different wheel sizes.

Unless your idea was to try to combine them, such as the 76s from the Tri-Di with the 80s from Hi-Lo onto Vanguard.

All those skates are designed without a rocker, such that all four wheels are touching at once. However, a small change in skating style between two might lead to more wear on a certain place. Your problem would probably come in that you don't have the exact same skating time on one set vs the other, so that one will be more/less worn than the other.

Honestly, I think your best bet is to just take the time and switch wheels around and see what comes out of it. You mentioned that you don't rotate your wheels that much, it might be time to just block out an hour, put on some tunes and hang out with your skates. Nothing more relaxing than that.

[Fury of One 6]

I think he meant in the old school of rotating wheels on a flat chassis, 1st and 3rd would switch, 2nd and 4th do the same. With the new setups, you can't necessarily follow that so you end up with a smaller front and back wheel. But with a hi-lo, I would just swap out the 1st and 2nd, 3rd and 4th. On a Tri-di, I just rotated (flipped) them.

[opivyattack 0]

My wheels always seem to crack or chip before I need to rotate them. Am I waiting too long to do the rotating? I used to always rotate my wheels when they would start to edge over to one side. I never see this happen with my hockey skates.