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

Great quality wheels and factory sealed.

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.

Affordable slip and sliding wheels. Come in cool different colors, Lovem!!!!

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.

Noticeable difference from stock. Easy to put on pending you have the right tools. If you’re considering then buy them.

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.

Just as I expected always wanted some roller bones and my favorite color purple will use them tonight

I decided to try these because my sure-frip fame wheels was not working out for me. I am a bit on the heavier size and I could feel my weight pressing down on them which cause me to stop when I didn't want to. I did my first session with these babies and they were perfect. I was able to keep a roll without having to do much and also was able to go backwards without much effort, as opposed to my other wheels my feet and legs would get so tired afterwards. The only problem I had with these was fitting in the bearings. I had to use all my strength to get the in, but other than that they are great!!

Love these wheels right hardness for skating indoors good wheel for easy roll and sliding your feet with minimal effort but enough grip when you need it.

Excellentes roues, super qualité, vraiment contente de mon achat !

Really good wheels for indoor rinks

So happy with these wheels. I can skate so much faster and use much less energy. No more sweating and resting. I can skate all night.

These are very good quality hard wheels with a great balance of grip and speed !