How and When to Change your Inline Skate Wheels // Rollerblading Tips

The wheels on your skates are similar to the wheels on a car. Eventually you’ll need to replace them. I’m going to show you how to tell when your wheels need to be replaced, which wheels you should replace them with, and how to get more life out of your wheels.

0:00 Intro
0:47 How to Rotate Your Wheels
1:13 When to Change Your Wheels
1:42 How to Set Up New Wheels
3:02 Wrap Up

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[JustinThursday]

Perfect. Exactly how tutorials should be. Quick and to the point.

[Locreai]

i skate very hard wheels, and rotate often. I've found that a set of wheels can last a couple full years if you really fuss over the wheel for your skating style and rotate often. that said I have another tip for people who DO rotate a lot and it is LOCKTIGHT

[francesco]

Finally someone in the skating world with good communication skills. Well done

[Julescoming]

Can we all give this man a round of applause

[chilli-iceolive-abode]

It's also interesting seeing how you insert your bearings. I've always used my hands unless they're super tough.

[MatiZak]

Thanks. I just bought a new wheels to revive my very old, spare inline skates (they will be only in use on rainy group skating) and I found it hard to put the bearings on them. Your method worked excellent.

[MattMc]

The 65mm 90a wheels I just got from 50/50 are like riding on clouds. Thanks for the recommendations. Thought I needed a harder wheel but the bigger wheel feels right.

[gcram]

Not only was this helpful and easy to understand but I have those exact skates .
Thanks for info brother !

[whigan]

Thank u sooo much!! This video is short & to-the-point-yet very jam-packed with blade knowledge!!🤯🤯 Although I had to learn the majority of blade terminology alone{before finding your video}, it was still super reassuring to affirm my freshly self-taught knowledge, alongside just general knowledge!!

No idea why rollerBLADING, in particular, went so out of style, but all info & resources attached to it seem super hard to come by, so THANK YOU!!🙏

[SerialWheeler]

Really like this new format. Great advice!

[MaxMining]

loved this tutorial, helped alot, i just wanted to add that i used a hammer and allen key to pop out my bearings from the wheel

[disastergs]

can you make one about getting bearings in/out of metal core wheels? Love the channel.

[jakobhoult]

Great video! Can you do one about bearing cleaning? I'm curious to know what others use for that process.

[aBudSmoker]

thank you for this video Law! need to snag some Back to Blading merch to add to my shirt collection!

[meganbasurto]

Very helpful and pretty straight-forward. Thanks a lot!!

[MatejVancoCG]

Absolutely great! Straight forward, well described. Thanks!

[asmaabouaamri]

very useful for me as a beginner skater, thank you very much

[Sam-gfeb]

One way to lengthen the life of your wheels is by using a different stopping method. The T method and push stop will damage the side of your wheels more than a spin, step, or heel brake will. If you use the T method and push shot regularly, make sure to rotate the wheels regularly. With the T or push stop, you grind one side of the wheel, so rotating the wheel makes it so that grind both sides at a relatively equal rate.

[chilli-iceolive-abode]

It pains me to see wheels worn so unevenly on one side! I've always switched my wheels round after every couple of sessions and I find I can wear them down evenly.

[kaaws]

this is a PERFECT tutorial man love this video hope you can to more videos like this