Can you use sandpaper to break in long board wheels
you probally could but i am not shure
When you first get your wheel it is going to have a lovely shine to it. This is the mold release that is left on the surface. Your goal is to wear off this slick layer with WD-40 and toothpaste, joking. Ride your new wheel around the neighborhood, just some good old cruzing. This will begin to wear off the slick layer. Start carving it real hard but do not try to force it to slide yet. (If you try to slide a wheel too early it may chunk the wheel or wear down the edges a little weird.) Or you can also Carve on them hard for a good 30 minutes or so and then you can try to begin sliding them out a bit. Do hard carves and push it out and have the back end drift a bit. Keep this up. If you can do stand up 180’s, then bust them as much as you can. The board might go around 120 degrees and stop and toss you off, but keep working the wheels in. Try to slide both directions to break the wheels in evenly. You can also do hands down slides to help break the wheels in. I would hold off on doing colemans until they break in a little more. Or At first the wheels are going to slide a bit choppy and noisy but over time they will begin to slide smoother and smoother. It is up to you to show them the way. I would give the wheels hmm a couple days of hard skating and sliding until they will slide like butter. Some wheels will slide more like butter than others because of their design. And yes, it is possible to get Pink Big Zigs to slide like butter. You just got to be good at sliding. If you don’t want your wheel to slide easily I would not recommend breaking in your wheels this way.
