Skate Quiver : Eight-Wheeler.....

The eight-wheeler skate may be the closest to actually surfing on dry land than anything else that has come down the pipe, no pun intended. To ride the dang thing you gotta' walk it and use the edges, all of it's real-estate. Very interesting, and very disconcerting at times. Also quite funny.

And embarrassing. I had it at the park one day and a kid comes up and say's "What the hell is that?"

I handed it to him and told him to try it. He did. Very well I might add. I think he had no preconceived notion of the mechanics involved or what it took to make it turn. He just did it. It was cool.

The stick was developed by Lonnie Toft. Steve Holt has a pretty good handle on the eight and you can check out his eight-wheeler tips site HERE and his biography page over at Bulldog Skates HERE.

The old eight is a Sundance, I think. It has vintage Tracker Mid-Track trucks and a single Cell Block riser per truck. The wheels are fairly new school Spitfires at 60 mm diameter and 99 durometer. You can slide it in a heartbeat. The bearings are Bones Reds.

Sometimes I'll put a set of Indy 215's on it and some wide-ass Bulldog Skates Dub-Cons and skate it as a super pig.

Here's an interesting movie about a rocket-powered skate. Kid's, as usual, do not try THIS at home....

Thanks to the pitcherlady for the link.