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Oh no… I have wandered into a new thread.
Talking to a longboarder-neighbour last week he touched on a holiday at the coast with a long ass boulevard ideal for roller skating. I said I’d owned some aggressive inlines nearly 20 years ago that were swiftly given away.
Those things were damn heavy and didn’t inspire me to ride. At the time I know what I wanted but those were the only ones available in the local shop… so that was something like £150-200 I gave away almost BNIB after maybe two or three short goes.
It’s bothered me since, especially as I never got to ice skate as a child and I think I wanted the fun of quads anyway.
Fast forward to yesterday and a pair of old and rusty looking quads came up in my size on marketplace for a fiver. Half hour drive to the next town and I’m now the owner of these.
The bearings need replacing (or at least a soak), and the bushings eventually too but they’re otherwise solid.
Need to find my wrist guards and enough confidence to go embarrass myself somewhere.