Amazing video, really helps understand the differences. I have reds and purples. I love the reds, they have the perfect amount of grip for me on a slalom setup. The purples I use for more pure freeride. I don't take my kevos on any road I find intimidating, they are purely a go have fun wheel. For fast open roads it is bigger grippier wheels only.
So.. Red if I wanna do Roman Candles, Green if I wanna get lost in the sauce, Purple if I wanna slide through THE WHOLE Corner and Yellow for GRC pack runs?
great synopsis & summary of a legendary wheel of the downhill/freeride skateboarding disciplines.... I ain't man enuff to take the yella 80a openroad, frfr
Isn't the yellow ssf pro urethane? In 80a it should be grippier on the lip with more stopping power than traditional ssf and better suited for faster speed slides. I may have heard the 77a slide more due to lip traction. I may be remembering wrong, but I thought that's what Kevin reported. I have yellow snakes and they are faster than my other snakes, and they have a snappier slide but they are easier to over do. A tad less forgiving. But I only have the purple ssf 72a kevo's and they are not even fully broken in so little experience with kevo's. Great video. These take a lot of work in my experience. Please keep it up
Thanks for the great review!... but now I'm concerned that because of this video everybody's going to go buy up my favorite Wheels and I'm not going to have any to skate.
Thank you!! I really appreciate the recent tutorial vids you've put out. I recently got a Pantheon Gaia and am trying to figure out my set up with it. It's the summit series one that doesn't have the micro drops. In the vid that they put out for the board, Kenny says he's riding snakes because it was cold. You touch on that a bit here also. Do you have any videos explaining why and how the temperature matters and affects the experience you can expect with different wheel duros? Or is it the actual urethane that matters most? Curious since we're heading into fall/winter. I have a set of the new formula snakes in the 82a. I guess they'll be good to learn in the cooler weather but I'd love to understand why.
Well I'm not a scientist but from my understanding its to do with friction/how the wheel deforms/ how the wheel interacts with the pavement. Thaney/ in the pavement wheels slide a lot more in the heat compared to in the cold while more durable/ on the pavement wheels are less affected by temperature. Compare a thaney wheel to a stick of butter, scraping it on a hot road would melt it/cause it to wear down quite a bit, while scraping it across a cold road wouldn't melt it much and would wear it down less. Could also compare to breaks on a car, when heated up from use like when driving downhill on a mountain road for a long time they become less effective and can even stop working its the exact same reasoning.
You can tell the difference already by your confidence when entering the corner. 😄 Red and green looked way faster than the other two. Great video man, thx for doing this!
they also have oranges and blacks (both supposed to be grippy) but are discontinued. this is a sick vid bro summed up my feelings about all 3, have a set of yellows coming tomorrow haha
Hey man happy Christmas. I’m watching this again as I’ve just got some reds (and it’s a great review!). But on a completely different note what do you think of the Byron Essert Pros?
I havent actually skated them but from what I understand they are a little bit grippier and more in the pave feeling than snakes, I have been meaning to try a set just havent got around to it yet
@@ChemTrailSkate yep that would be my description too. I find them I really nice free ride wheel with a very trusty release and slide but a bit more grip than snakes.
Yup, thanks, I ride them also in a GMR, low I like the feel@@ChemTrailSkate thks for answer, I have 24 boards to ride, wanna try one? Canada still collectin also
