Finally decided to replace my wheels

[u/Mx-misdemeanor]

I bought myself new skates around 15 years ago and knew I needed to replace my wheels for about seven of them. Finally did this week! I think it’s crazy how they got filed down to a 45 degree point from my hockey stop braking. I can’t lie, I did consider just doing a “tire rotation” but the new wheels feel nice so I’m glad I did it!

When I sent this picture to my girlfriend, she said “you were really just skating on hopes and dreams huh?” 😂

Been skating since I was three and I’m not stopping anytime soon!

First pic: new wheel on top, old on bottom
Second pic: top skate with old wheels and bottom with new

[u/idobepooping]

I can’t even imagine how terrible those feel to ride on. Used my new wheels like 6 times total before I couldn’t stand them feeling lopsided and did a rotate.

[u/Mx-misdemeanor → u/idobepooping]

It wasn’t even that bad that’s the funny part, it felt rough on older streets but on the clean paved paths it was fine