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If you are doing anything fast, ANYTHING above 20-30 mph PLEASE tighten until the wheel does not move. If can cause major lack of slide control which can cause severe injury
Omg I’ve been tightening my wheels to get RID of that clicky noise because I thought it was a bad thing! And I’m over here wondering why I had to push so much to keep my wheels going!
Incorrect information, sorry. Your axle nut should be TIGHT. If your wheel doesn't spin with a snug axle nut, one of three things.. 1. Bad bearings 2. Imperfect wheel core/bearing seat 3. A combination of 1 and 2 To fix problem, buy good credible cast truck brands. Ex: Paris or caliber trucks The other simple fix, get zealous bearings. Save your money buy zealous. Best bearings ever, I ride them and I do serious DH, I have taken them to 60mph with confidence.
it's so painful to see this being so popular. a lot of beginners will watch this and reduce the performance of their board and degrade their bearings… the information in this video is completely wrong, if you have bearing spacers (which you should!), make sure the axle nuts are nice and tight, without any play. don't worry if this reduces freespin, that's no indication at all of how your bearings will perform under load. @OgdenSikel i hope you'll consider taking this misinformation down.
@@youneverknow3451 You can either get some bearing spacers and speed rings, or bearings that have both built-in (like Zealous, which is the best option price/quality wise). After that, make sure the axle nuts are snug, and don't loosen them like this video suggests. If you want to ride around town, bigger wheels will make a much bigger difference than bearings though.
AAAAAAAAAAA salamat!! I was practicing yesterday and thought I wasn’t pushing hard enough 😭 I felt like Im doing sum workout on my right calf muscle lmao
U need to put seismic bearings in those seismic tantrums so you can tighten them all the way down without hurting your roll speed. Professional longboarders always tighten their wheels all the way down to get a predictable carve and slide. If you don't tighten your wheels all the way down you will have way less grip and will cause your board to slide out from your feet when taking a big hard turns. I highly recommend built in berrings so you can tighten your wheels all the way with no problems and get the most predictable slide and grip.
@@OgdenSikel make sure you have bearing spacers. freespin is no indication at all of how your bearings will perform under load, which means actually riding the board.
Uhm... that's how you wear the inside of the bearings bushing out, they need to be tight to the truck otherwise you risk the wheels trying to skip on you when your carving. Also bearings need preload, the inner bushing that sits on the trucks thread will just roll with the balls in the bearing if they aren't tightened down not allowing you to actually use the ceramics or polished steel beads inside.
No. You need to get bearing spacers and speed rings. Install them properly, then tighten your axle all the way down. You should Take down this video and make another one before people watch this and ruin thier Bearings.
You definitely are, like 100%. If you tighten down all the way the nut is pressing on the bearing and causing extra friction, so you will experience a slight slow down
@@OgdenSikel if you have a proper spacer between the bearings in the wheel, you should be able to tighten them fully without them binding up because of friction.
Only do that if you're for some reason not using spacers. With spacers, tighten the axle nut until you feel noticable resistance. Then proceed not to care about how the wheel spins when you're hand spinning it, because that really doesn't tell you how well it's going to perform under load.
@@OgdenSikel The clicking noise is from slop, which not only causes vibration in the bearings, ruining their precision faster. But the fact that your bearings are not held down tight means that your inner race might spin on the axle itself, which effectively turns the ball bearing into a plain old journal bearing.
@@OgdenSikel I do downhill skateboarding. Your wheels are supposed to be on tight, with no rattle or play. They can be tightened all the way down without stopping the wheels prematurely. You're putting undue wear and stress on your bearings and you're telling 9thers to do the same. You dont have enough experience with this to be making how to videos.
If wheel is not free spinning with nut tight 2 possibilities, bad bearing or wheel and bearings have been installed with out spacer. The spacer is part of a metal sleeve that runs along the axel, from the truckhanger, inner bearing race, spacer, outer bearing race and then nut... speed rings can also be part of the sandwich. If a spacer is not used then the nut applies side forces to the outer and inner bearings with only the plastic rubber wheel/bearing seat separating them.
Use bearing spacers and you can tighten the wheel nut down completely, having slop like this is unnecessary. Spacers and properly torqued nuts also makes slides way smoother and less chattery.
Cool but bearings? You might have new skaters that bought a cheap board with awful bearings thinking “I don’t need new bearings I just need to loosen my wheels”
Awesome tip! I'm a new to skating so my longboard's wheels were tight as you described. Now that I've loosened them a touch, will they keep getting more loose with time? If so, how loose is too loose? Don't want my wheels spinning off my board while riding! 😲
They are usually coated with threadlocker or something so they wont come loose on their own! Good rule is that if there is 1-2 millimetres of movement, it's fine.
Notice how he said brand new to skateboarding/long boarding etc, a newbie isn’t going to go out of their way to get spacers and built in bearings and all the special stuff because not only can that get expensive but it’s not required when all you have to do is slightly loosen the wheel nut
you’re gonna spend more money repairing your fucked up skateboard than if you went out and got a pair of zealous bearings which is like $15 with built in washers and spacers lmao
I've had ceramic bearings lock up on my sorry ass if you ride frequently especially through dirt n shit just loosening the axle on the truck ain't gonna do it chief, it ain't that black n white. some acetone and speedcream will tho, like a 10 buck investment makes seemingly dead bearings new
Acetone is a dangerous game though its basically rubbing alcohol on steroids, if one drop of it gets on your longboard, your paint and the deck will see different ppl, it basically liquefies the dirt and shit in your bearings because it's a really fucking powerful solvent. This is why you lube em after.
I just screw the nuts the wrong way arround, give it 2-3 gos on a bumpy brickroad then drown it in wd40 and its gtg 😅 almost feels like it accelerates for a moment after the push every time
Bro, I’ve been wondering why I need to push so much three out of four of my wheels are tight as fuck. I’m gonna go get one of those tools as my local skate shop opens.
