Decoring Wheels. Skating style or a wheel issues?

**jgh004** · 31.08.2009, 16:53

Been hearing a lot if differenet things about decoring wheels. I'm assuming it'd be a wheel construct issue but i was wondering if the way in which you skate can cause it. Like the old flatspots from doing cess-slides wrong issue etc. Is decoring a combination of a treatment issue and a hardware failure or just a hardware failure?

my experience, roces, senate, 2rm, and undercover, alllll either chunked or decored on me. 4x4's generally have been better but i couple of older ones i had decored and a mate of mine had similiar experience but then with some new 4x4 farmers he got they decored on him too.

basically, wanna get new wheels and curious why some decore and others can wear down to the very core with no issues.

Anyone got some perhaps EDUCATED opinions not necessarily just, oh that brand is crap.

**Alex Coe** · 31.08.2009, 17:52

Eulogies are better because they are poured in America.

AMERICA!

**Gonzalo** · 31.08.2009, 18:47

What causes wheels to decore is overheating, which can be caused many things like loose axles, bad bearings, bad wheel and frame alignment leading to rubbing, shitty cores that warp and/or expand causing the wheel to be misaligned, etc. So both the wheels themselves (quality of cores, for example) and external factors can contribute to it. Most of the time this has happened to me it was due to the core expanding (you'll notice this was the cause if the bearings just fall out of the wheel when you take it out of the frame). Good wheels have cores than don't expand easily and have a good bond between the urethane and core that resist increases in temperature.

**al dolega** · 31.08.2009, 19:37

Gonzalo's got me covered.

Buy Eulogys, use bearings that are not too shitty, and make sure everything is tight and aligned right.

**Dagobert** · 02.09.2009, 18:57

it's not all heat, It's the bondability of the core material and the urethane being poured around it. most use mechanical locking methods to hold the material in place. but inferior plastic hubs don't bond and the mechanical features fail.

**jakeordie** · 02.09.2009, 19:41

Originally Posted by jgh004

Been hearing a lot if differenet things about decoring wheels. I'm assuming it'd be a wheel construct issue but i was wondering if the way in which you skate can cause it. Like the old flatspots from doing cess-slides wrong issue etc. Is decoring a combination of a treatment issue and a hardware failure or just a hardware failure?

Certainly a smoother style will put less side load & torque on the wheels & bearings, but a bigger problem is design failure of the skate as a whole. The overly simplistic design of skate hardware forces the wheels & bearings to absorb forces that are intensified by the modifications aggressive skating has made to the standard design.