Wheel size?

[grnmtnvt 18]

Newbie question: Why do my skates have 72mm on the front two wheels and 76mm on the back two wheels? Can they all be the same?

[gosinger 122]

You can use the search engine on that, a setup with smaller wheels in front and lager in the back is called a "HiLo" setup ("High Low").

The wheel-size you can use depends on the chassis mounted on your skates, while the Bauer/Mission ones are mostly HiLo, the newer Rbk/Labeda are "straight" chassis (meaning all wheels same size), then there are older Rbk chassis with (iirc 3?) different wheel sizes called "tri-di", and so on.

[grnmtnvt 18]

Wicked. Thanks.