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Daughter blew out the bearings in one of her heelys. Went to SOS to buy new set. Was suspicious the original bearings were slightly smaller than skate ones. Got home and confirm they are.

Thankfully only bought a set of entry level modus bearing not powell swiss!

Cheeky manufacturing.

Good to pass by shop and chat with my friend for a while.

Also bought myself a rad skater silhouette Foundation hat. Stoked.

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This kicked off a memory about some bearings I had having a black rubber jacket. That’s gonna fuck me off now while go off the deep end trying to figure out what that was.

If they are not much smaller and they fit in the axl, could try wrapping the bearing in electrical tape and send they insert and hold?

Slam were distro for ninja bearings I think it was, years back. They used a much smaller size and you got a big aluminium spacer to put around each bearing. They were pretty good, tiny little things, super light.

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Element did some too. With special wheels to suit

Acme did some ‘single bearing’ wheels in the tiny wheel era. They were obviously as shit as they sound.

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I remember them :joy:

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I joked with my friend that a 90s wheel would fit nicely on some heelys

Glad I wasn’t going mad!

My memory is telling me they were gold wheels bearings and the outta jacket was made to look like a lowrider tyre, to be all G and that.

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Don’t forget these

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I worked in Route One for a bit (sorry :sweat_smile:) and these were so popular. Bet they made a fortune.

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Listening to an old podcast and the iPad is just coming and the is a discussion on a new app called instagram and if Facebook likes will end up being currency and maybe instagram will be the next thing, vine is just popping off and coming to android soon…

logging off and going for a walk with no electronics for the rest of the day.

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Ha, wait until you reach the covid era. Every time I binge a long running podcast there’s a 2 year gap that I have to avoid

Yeah fuck dat

Just saw this on instagram. If you go to google translate English to Russian, and type the phrase ‘Epstein nietspe’, then translate it back to English, it says Epstein didn’t kill himself. WTF.

And it works, I just tried it

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I ran these hHahaha

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