OJ Wheels: Beer Run with Peter Raffin

Whoops I guess I submitted before I finished my thought. I'm going to give you an alternative suggestion, and then pros and cons of wheel sizes. **Alternative**: A cheaper, more permanent solution would be to replace your truck risers (if any) with shock pads. The thicker ones (like 1/4" to 1/2") absorb shock pretty well. (And if you ever decide to get bigger wheels for transportation purposes, you'd want these shock pads to prevent wheel bite.) [LINK] **Bigger wheels**: Go with the above-mentioned risers and bigger wheels in the 60-68 mm range. I turned an old deck into a cruiser with 78a 68 mm square-lipped wheels. They get me to where I'm going with comfortable quickness, but are much harder to slide with than 99a+ wheels (though the extra speed will help). You'd need tools and such to swap back into your street wheels, though, so that's extra to carry. This will also affect your ability to do tricks significantly, not only because of the added weight increase. **Smaller wheels**: OK, suppose you stick with your plan to get filmer/soft wheels that are your regular wheel size (52-56 mm). You can feasibly leave 'em on your board forever and do tricks and such. They're great for th…

Around 90A-97A wheels. My 87a OJ Keyframes throw me off on rotational tricks, they really grip and I have to land it just right or they throw me off (or maybe I just suck). This [VIDEO] advertisement video for the wheels is what pushed me to buy them initially, notice he doesn't really do much rotational stuff besides the tre-flip which he lands a bit sketchy, catching his balance with tic tacs to smoothen it out. I only recommend having two sets of wheels if you already own a board with harder wheels, a trick wheel set and a cruising set. I'm personally looking for the same type of wheels you are, a good all-around wheel I can 180 with while cruising the city's shit pavement. 99A is too hard for me and 87A is too soft, I want to try 92A or 93A since it's right in between the 2 hardness I skate. I might pick up some OJ Ditch Witch [LINK], they claim they are for tricking at rougher spots.

Nobody is trolling or picking on anyone, you're just wrong man. You seem to have a problem when anyone has to correct you but the priority here is helping beginners and me letting this guy buy rock hard 60mm wheels for cruising would NOT be helping him. >You know, as well as I do, that soft wheels are very hard to do tricks on, let alone learn tricks on. No I know the opposite is true. You really need to actually TRY these things before talking about them instead of going around repeating the misinformation that gets passed around the internet. Like I already said *some* tricks are harder on soft wheels, these are tricks that involve sliding on the wheels, but the tricks anybody is actually going to do on their first setup (ollie up and down curbs, shuvit, kickflip etc) are NOT harder on a soft wheel. I firmly believe (and repeat here almost every day) that beginners should be starting on softer wheels unless they plan to only skate at the skatepark. And we get the same post here over and over confirming that - people buy a setup with hard wheels and are back here a couple weeks later asking about a softer wheel for it. It's one of the most common threads we get. Tons of people her…