Can longboard wheels be TOO BIG?

[reee]

Dude you easily makes the best and most informative longboard videos out there. Ive been longboarding since i was 15 and am going on 27 and still find useful information in all of your videos. Keep it up man!

[guitarwirdo]

Hardware bite holy hell i never expected to hear a phrase like that

[derowmediataskforce]

I’ve ridden a lot of dh wheels kind of starting with the basics and always focusing on shape and slide ablity. Basically, if they had sharp lips and didn’t wash out in corners and were nice smooth predictable slides I was sold.
Started out with Otang In heats which rolled great but slid like way to much. Then reflex thane bigzigs and Sector 9 78a raceforms. The raceforms were the most consistent I’d found. Tried some more stuff like seismic speed vents and rad advantages. speed vents were probably the best nimble open road Freeride wheel but kinda slow, the advantages were the perfect in shape and consistency. Since then I’ve tried alphas, Mags and A1’s and as far as a race wheel that could handle open roads, the magnum probably felt the most safe, but took a while to break in to the point where a person at my weight could control it. They were a bit to heavy for my liking though. As for the alphas they were also very slippery right out the gate and had an enormous amount of road dampening which I wasn’t a fan of. I see with my feet sometimes when riding and those left me feeling kind of blind. As for A1’s they are very fast and grippy but I got smoked trying to drift them and they kind of hurt to slide. I think the Mach 1 74a cannibal might be the answer.

[tituslazare]

4:55 sums up my experience with most of the big abec11 wheels🤣

[Kufunninapuh]

Back in my day the reflex thane was considered unslidable and the classic urethane unracable. It would be really cool to have them compared to popular racing compounds today.

[pseudomugilidae]

I remember having a really hard time with the 75mm monster hawgs on my friend's board. didn't seem to grip as well as my round lip 70mm race forms, nor did they slide as smoothly or predictably. Just really chunky chattery slide way before I expected it.

Mostly unrelatedly, but since I learned to slide on round lip race forms, I had a hard time adjusting to slippier round lip freeride wheels like snakes. they just didn't have the edge grip I was used to for gauging when they were gonna let go. I like them now for slower speed stuff, but I still prefer wheels that are a little more communicative for where the edge of traction is. I like my savanna slammas but even find them a little slippy now that they're fully broken in. I'm trying to move towards more DH riding since I have the terrain for that where I live now, but having a hard time finding a transitional wheel towards full DH wheels. I'm trying square lip race forms for now. It's really interesting all the factors that go into how different wheels ride.

[HDDH_Stoked_Hippie]

Man that's funny, I skated a lot of runs with you at the spring Maryhill 24

[RatBürgerSk]

Honestly I've experienced 70mm wide wheels (Biggie Hawgs) which have significantly less grip than round lipped wheels like 78a Raceforms. I think it's because a large contact patch spreads your weight over the width of the wheel too much past a certain point. So while the wider contact increases friction, it reduces the amount of downforce into the wheel lips. Balancing these two factors seems key for a good race wheel.

Kinda wish there were more non "race wheel" options for DH wheels nowadays. Most of the stuff coming out is intended to be hyper competitive and grippy, and that's just not what I prioritize when I skate.

[eBoardR]

*Another wheel topic discussion!*
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[felipe-t_br]

funny, I'm 220+ and it always felt like people's descriptions of wheels didn't quite match my experience. They say "these X big wheels are pretty grippy" and after I try them I think "no they're not, they slide pretty normal"

[knifejames]

I couldn't get magnums to work for me until i changed trucks. They suit narrow trucks with spherical ect.

[NPCOasis]

72mm, 54mm contact patch, 83a wheels work great for me and run fast enough for fun rides...

[trment]

I got a set of the 83mm big zigs and they still are pretty chattery but because of the narrower contact patch they are surprisingly predictable when paired with my 155mm gen 6's, there are definetly better wheels out there but they are a viable 83mm wheel in my personal opinion, but im easing my way back into DH because I had a nearly fatal fall a year ago, so my gear knowledge is pretty rusty and ldp warped

[Fyjypko]

Im curently skating a 44mm 100a wheel and compared to these its a basically a bearing cover. Xd

[scramblex]

was that repeater crash when you dropped next to lauren? I was right behind you when you biffed. glad i didnt smoke you.

[pkpotate]

I wonder if someone built a wheel like this but with a more normal car tire design so the pattern can grab the ground better. I don't know how long it would last but I bet you would get some crazy grip while they lasted

[Aminormaze]

As a skateboarder I want to try longboard wheels because I love big chonking wheels, but which ones slide the best? So I don’t stick on noseslides and stuff

[anotheryoutuber_]

i always prefer a lil drift to maximum grip because it feels more predictable. also, could you do a video on shimming tkp trucks? please

[sparkc]

71 mm contact pact seem more gear to down hill racing. For just cruising which you rarely get above 10 mph 51mm contact pact is more than enough. For cruising I feel 40mm is good enough.