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- From: mstieb@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Stieb)
- Subject: Re: Wheel lore
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.192547.27282@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- I spent 7 years in roller speed skating and we used many different
- durometer wheels. I used to have about seven sets of wheels that i would
- mix or run a straight set of a single durometer.
- On the best floors, a wooden rotunda or log cabin design normally you
- would use a 97a exclusivly. On concrete floors, coated with rink grip and
- a top layer of roll-on you may use a 96 or 96.5.
- Most of the time during a meet the temperature and humidity were
- controlled as much as possible. The fastest times could be expected from
- higher temps and high humidity when the hardest wheel possible was used.
- The whole point for this was to get the maximum grip coupled with the
- maximum roll(least resistance). It usually felt like you were skating in
- the tropics when it was 30 degrees outside.
- As a note, it was required by the governing body to put down that
- roll-on on top of the skating surface. Roll- on was one part epoxy mixed
- with other stuff. It was very fast and it gripped like no other surface
- that I can think of. It smelled like fresh paint even after the
- obligatory three-four day curing process. And, if you should happen to
- fall at twenty miles and hour on it you were mangled by it. If you have
- ever slid across a new basketball court you don't know half of the pain.
- This stuff would just grab your skin and throw you when your top layer of
- skin broke free. A very sickening sound it was.....eeek...thump .. eeeek..
- .eek..thump about ten times faster than you can read it. Relax, it would
- only make that sound until you lost all of your velocity and your lycra
- was burned into your skin.
-
- Michael Stieb
- Stieb@outlaw.uwyo.edu
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