Rollerbones Team Logo 101A Recreational Roller Skate Wheels (Set of 8)

1 year update review.These wheels are such a great deal for what they are. I’ve been riding the same pair for almost a year now. 90% rink and 10% park skating.These wheels are still rolling strong. With occasional rotation they have worn very evenly. Aside from horribly flatspotting one wheel during an emergency stop, I haven’t had any problems with them. They are a really hard wheel and you will feel it in your feet if the surface is not really smooth.I love the way they slide when I want them to and they do have a nice “bark” when doing hockey stops and powersliding through the corners at the rink. I would recommend them for anyone thinking of transitioning to woods or fibers. This wheel has just enough grip to maintain confidence but can still slip and slide when pushed.YOU WILL DEFINITELY WANT TO USE A BEARING PRESS TO GET THE BEARINGS IN (If you skate a lot, just buy one, makes life a lot easier.)

These wheels made my rink sessions so much better. I feel like I'm gliding on ice. They're nice and hard to give you effortless speed but still have just enough grip to lean into tight turns. And they look great! Highly recommend.

Wheels got lil ridges along the whees I think ut wears off when you use them but I might return them

The media could not be loaded. I got these wheels adding with the rollerbone bearings to update the wheels for my impala skates. My skates originally came with 87a wheels which I've learned are hybrid. Which are somewhat ok outdoors. But when skating in my home or at the rink, sometimes they can onto the floor like I rolled in gum. My first impression of these wheels are that they're sturdy and I can already feel the difference is smooth rolling compared to the hybrid wheels my skates originally had

I put on these wheels and hit the floor. They’re perfect for me.

I can definitely tell the difference with these wheels. I skate much smoother and is much easier to accelerate. if you have a skate bearing tool. It's easy to get the bearings in, especially if you are a man. The only reason I didn't give a 5 star is because I haven't worn them enough to know if there's any future defect with these wheels. But for now they're great highly recommended.

Used the 101A wheels today on a coated wood rink for the first time, and they were pretty perfect for my level and weight . I’m 6’4”, ~195lbs, and a beginner—at least it feels that way after not skating for over 25 years. I want to learn to rhythm skate a bit and was having difficulty finding reliable information about what hardness to move up to from my previous wheels, so this review is mostly to help others who might be in a similar situation.I was having trouble with the stock wheels on my inexpensive Roller Derby skates, which I now know were indoor speed wheels—they were simply too wide, likely too tall, and I now know too soft at a hardness of roughly 92A. I replaced the stock wheels with Rolerex ST360, 54x32mm, 92A wheels, and while a vast improvement in terms of control and agility, even thinking of trying to learn to transition between skating forwards and backwards scared me because they gripped the floor so firmly.So I looked for harder wheels, but reviews on any given wheel seem pretty mixed between too slippery, too sticky, and just right—it was a true Goldilocks situation! Complicating matters is the fact that, other than Roll-Line, I didn’t find any wheel manufacturer that labeled their wheel hardness using the D scale, which should really be the scale used once you get upwards of 95 on the A scale as it maxes out at 100 and measurements are less accurate at the ends of the range. So I bought a set of Roll-Line Magnum 57mm wheels at 60D hardness, and while I could skate around they were too slippery for me to trust on turns at the ring a what I feel is a sufficiently fast speed. These will be great when I’m more experienced, but I’m no where near that level yet.Thus I looked for yet another set of wheels. All online resources seemed to indicate that a hardness of 90A should correspond to 39D, 95A to 46D, and 100A to 58D. So I figured that a hardness of 60D should correspond to around 101–103A or so. But before continuing to blow money on wheels, I thought it would be a good idea to get an inexpensive durometer on the D scale to verify the comparative hardnesses.I picked one up for under $30, and boy am I glad! The 60D Magnums measured exactly at 60D, but the 92A Rolerex wheels measured at 38D or lower, the 96A Sonar Riva wheels at 44D, and these 101A Rollerbones Team wheels at 48D—all much lower than Internet resources indicated they should. This means that even the 53D and 57D Roll-Line Magnum wheels I picked up at a steal will likely be noticeably harder and more slippery than any polyurethane wheel on the market.The other problem was lack of information on the weight of the users reviewing the wheels. But I did find one post that was helpful. The user said that these 101A wheels were way too slippery and wondered if her weight at 115 lbs might be why. That made me think that any similar slippery reviews were likely from similar light-weight users. At 195 lbs, I figured that I’d be fine even as a beginner with a bum knee, and I was right. If you’re less than 180 lbs, then a softer hardness like 98A, 96A, or 95A might be better for you if you’re a beginner like me. On the other hand, if you’re an intermediate skater looking to upgrade from a 95A or 96A wheel to something with more slide for rhythm skating, then skip the harder urethane wheels like these and look at Vanathane wheels or Roll-Line thermoplastic—as opposed to polyurethane—wheels on the D scale, which at roughly half the cost of new Vanathanes would probably be the best option before spending well over $100 on wheels that you might end up deciding to replace with fiber wheels. The very hard urethane wheels like these might work on more slippery floors than coated wood or for artistic skating, which I understand benefits from a bit more grip, but I would be surprised if these or even 103A urethane wheels would cut it for the moves I’ve seen some do on Vanathanes, woods, or fibers.Finally, one factor that seemed utterly missing from most reviews or discussions on wheels is the difference in wheel materials completely separate and apart from hardness. In particular, hardness measures how much a material will deform under force/pressure. This affects how much the bottom of the wheel deforms and slightly flattens when a user is in skates, thus indicating more (softer) or less (harder) wheel surface in contact with the floor—the greater the surface area contacted the greater the frictional force and the less slippery a wheel will feel. But separately from that factor is that different materials will have different coefficients of friction, which essentially indicates how slippery different materials will be when in contact with the same given surface area. Thus wheels of different materials can have identical hardness measurements while being significantly different in their stickiness or slipperiness.Given that, and my albeit limited experience with two distinctly different material types—urethane and hard thermoplastic—I don’t think that it’s worth spending over $60 on a set of urethane wheels if you want to learn rhythm skating. These Rollerbones Team wheels are perfect until you advance enough to want more slip, at which point no urethane wheel will likely do what you want unless you weigh 115 lbs or less, like that reviewer I mentioned earlier. And even then, if you’re looking at the Rollerbones Elite 103A wheels at roughly $100, you’d be better served by Roll-Line Magnums at roughly $55 or even Vanathanes like Sure-Grip Velvets or All Americans at $100–$125.

I really like these Rollerbones wheels; they were the first indoor wheels that really worked for me. And I used them quite happily until about 7 months after getting them.While skating last week I started hearing a racket, but only when I put my right foot down -- I soon discovered that I've suddenly got flat spots on a couple sections of my right front inner wheel. That's probably the most-used wheel on either skate, so probably most likely place for a flat spot, but I'm still disappointed.I'm a competent skater, but not brutal on my wheels. I don't try hockey stops, slides, or jumps. Definitely do not (and would not) wear these wheels off-rink. And while I slow to a stop using the "T stance" method (one skate tucked behind the lead skate at a perpendicular angle, four wheels down for friction), I'm not grinding down on the wheels, or trying to stop short.So I was unhappy that after just 7 months skating once or twice a week, I basically have to buy a set of 8 new wheels. In fact, because I don't see a way to order these wheels in any smaller quantity than a complete set of 8, it doesn't necessarily benefit me to stick with Rollerbones. If I could get even four wheels at the same hardness and width, I would do that, even with a slight mark-up. But as it is, a single wheel got damaged (prematurely, IMHO) and I must replace all eight.I love these wheels, but wish they were more durable, or at least were offered singly or in sets of four.