-Rainskate Hornets 65mm 98a (1kg for 8 wheels, 1.15kg with bearings and spacers, 10mm spacers), hard core, 100% Ketchikan, Alaska product.
-Cortech disc 60mm 98a (700g for 8 wheels, 10mm spacers), gravity molded at ambient temp: hard disk core is bonded at molecular scale!!!!Wheels are lathed to 60mm and come from Sidney, Australia!!!! Brand Cortech from 1978 by Tim Dawe.
For comparing, Powell Bomber 68mm 85a are 1kg without bearings (10mm spacers), Powell Bowl Bombers 64mm 95a are 1.35kg with bearings and spacers (10mm). All these wheels have bearings centered, Powell ones don't have core!!
More news after 25 december.....
Here is how they compare (in shape) to the Powell Bowl bomber 64mm, PF:
Update
ReplyDeleteThanks to Joe, Bernhard and finaly some good weather, I tried the Cortech discs (98a/60mm) these last sessions. I love them!!!!!
On 2m ramps (fiber glass/gel coat), their grip is between the rainskates and the Powell PF.
Speed/acceleration is very good (the core disk maintains the wheel shape under pressure).
For tricks on the coping, the shape is perfect (take care, they clip a bit more than wheels with bigger diameter).
The wheels are leathed, so perfectly concentric with the bearings, with micro grooves that helps to grip.
On the bearing seats, the bearings are tightly secured which is good, as lateral impact thends to tilt a bit the bearings (used a hair dryer to dilate a bit (40°c) and put the bearings in). The only minus is that the spacers are a bit less than 10mm, so I put 25 years old bearings without spacers (ouch!!!!) before I find/make the good spacers (or making thin washers between bearing/wheel) with new bearings.
A very good point is that I loose 150gr per skate with the Cortech!!!!
I'm impatient to try them (and the Rainskates) on bigger ramp and in bowls!!!!!!!!!
Cheers
And thanks again very much Joe and Bernhard!!!!!