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Anyone running 90mm wheels?

Discussion in 'Carbon GT' started by wiztecy, Nov 5, 2016.

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    I like the look of the lower profile 83mm wheels but in reality I love the safety and speed of the 97mm. I found 90mm ABEC clones for $28 shipped with ABEC 7 bearings and spacers. Love that low price with bearings. Curious if anyone has ran this wheel and their opinion. Top speed? If the 80mm has a 23mph top speed and 97mm 26mph TS, then the 90s should be running at 24.5 mph TS since its a 7mm up/down spread.

    Note when buying the clones you most likely have to use a dremal tool to grind down the inside of the wheel to make the hub fit. In my past boards the ID width of each inner cog area of the wheel hub is smaller by a couple of mm's, so material needs to be taken away. I think the Evolve ABEC drive may be the same way but I haven't looked.
     
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    I ordered an extra set of 32T gears from Evolve and modified them to fit the clone hubs which came to about 2mm smaller compared to the ABEC/Evolve wheels. The space of each cog is smaller. Used a dermal tool and a file to reduce the size of the gear cogs, tried them on a few of my clones and work great. Installed the 90mm clones with the clone cog, below are the pics. Going out for a quick run now to see how it feels.

    Odd thing is that they had a mix match selection for my rear spacers/speed rings. Its the large silver one for the inner part of the axle and the standard speed ring for the outside. Each side had a different combination between the silver spacer and black speed rings. Odd.

    So below are pics of my mounted $28 clones that came with ABEC 7 bearings and spacers complete. Wheels bring the board up to 24mph.


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    Last edited: Nov 12, 2016
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