I am getting an 8 board, low or medium trucks, and 50-54 mm wheels. I will be skating mostly street and I need to know wether to get soft or hard wheels and how that is measured. Thanks so much.
Do your own homework and maybe you'll learn something.It's simple math a 12 year old should know.
Hello! I am here to help!! Okay, first off let me say that the smaller (49-50) and harder the wheel, the more likely you are going to fall off when riding over a pebble or rock (but this isn't a big problem unless your skating over gravel) the opposite for bigger (54-55) and softer, harder wheels will allow you to slide, this can help with rotational tricks, if you don't get that full rotation you can slide it out, if you have soft wheels it will be harder to recover tricks, the good thing about soft wheels is that you are glued to the ground so you can turn really sharply and know you won't slide. Big wheels will eventually go faster after lots of pushing but have a slow acceleration, small wheels have a much quicker acceleration but slower top speed. I would say small and hard because they are the most useful, because if your on the streets the small wheels can get the acceleration needed if a spot has little roll up, the hardness allows for correction if the trick wasn't quite executed correctly. The wheel hardness is measured in A a hard wheel would be 99a-101a and soft would be anything below 90a, this type of measurement in hardness isn't used that much anymore and the wheel will just say hard or soft but it's still good information to know. Ps btw Tiana is a dick, it's more helpful not to answer the question than to give you a stupid answer and false hope.
