Nice rims
May 23rd, 2008 by Kilwag
Hello, I have recently developed these unique performance wheels. They are pictured being track tested by professional rider Josh Rolf at speeds in excess of 50mph. Aside from being really fast, and incredibly sweet looking, they also drift, and slide predictably and comfortably. This wheel system also allows riders to inexpensively swap out their tires in order to change appearance, and durometer. I believe this awesome wheel system would be an excellent addition to your outstanding product line. I look forward to hearing from you, and hopefully we can work something out.
First of all, this is not a new idea. You may recall there was a company that sold the same type of system for short boards in the early 2000’s (Dang! Do I write the ’00s instead?) I can’t remember the name, but Grover actually tried a set and found them craptacular. They would spin on the hub. That seems like a problem that would be easy enough to fix though. Second of all, I swear I read the word “inexpensive” in there somewhere, but at $300 for the rims and $20 per tire???? That’s not inexpensive. Good luck with that patent.
Genghis skate wheel
Aluminum hub with replaceable tread concept - Testing pictures from Genghis Skate
I’m not sure if a helmet would help much if your head hit one of those rocks at speed. I guess it would make clean up easier.
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:53 pm
spinner rims are next.
May 23rd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Damn is those some double deuces. Tight.
May 25th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
how about some 63mm 101’s?
May 26th, 2008 at 1:18 am
All I know is Josh wasn’t riding those at the race in BC last week, if that says anything.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:10 am
anyone ever skate “power core wheels” and have the “power core” accidentally “separate” from the “wheel” when they heated up? That kinda “sucks” when you’re bombing through “Newberg” (oregon’s best skatepark 5-6 years ago for about a year-and-a-half) at a “kizillion miles per hour”. I imagine these are just as rad.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Nothing new under the old sun ….
This kind of product re-appears every 5 years or so …. since the 70’s
And it’s still a good piece of crap.
Those kind of wheels are slow as hell ….
May 29th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
tires have air in them if I’m not mistaken.
May 30th, 2008 at 2:37 am
“spinner rims are next.”
already here, broseph…
http://www.skubbros.com
May 30th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
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June 18th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
These rims ARE blinging! Forget what you think you know about a skate rim concept, because these do perform, and are so blingin they would blind Flavor Flave! The patentable idea is in the rim, and it is this mechanism, which prevents the tire from a catastrophic dehubing, or other SNAFU at high speeds. Although the tires are low pros they definately DO NOT dehub or walk in a slide. Though these are not race wheels per say, they work great. Josh Rolf may not have been on them in BC, but he was on our trucks, as he was in Albuquerque too when he took 1st place by a mile!!!!
June 19th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Blinging isn’t for skateboarders, it is for assheads who don’t really skate as much as they pose…….
June 19th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
i tried to view their products at their website and I got nothing, the rest of the links seem to work, but they don’t actually sell anything apparently….
June 19th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I saw some of this guys wheels on campus the other day. They were hot! I got to ride them too, and believe me they were not “craptastic.” I went to their website, but could not buy anything… Where do you get them?
June 19th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
did you try using ghengis-skate.com, they have a rad search feature that allows you to quickly sift through their mountain of product to find the item you need. but make sure you use keywords when you do the search, Turd, fecal waste, complete waste….
June 19th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Ahh, you guys are just jealous that while you all are watching wordpress generated blogs all day that others are building, designing, and innovating. Those Genghis wheels look tight.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I wrote to orders@genghis-skate.com about purchasing a set after I saw them on the front page of the newspaper. Josh wrote me back, and said they had suspended their shopping cart feature on the website bc their inventory had recently been bought out. He apologized, but I was still pissed bc I want them NOW damn it!Those rimz are tight!!!
June 19th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Oh yeah, they are tight. Too bad the owner is a homophobic moron.
Innovate my ass, it’s not even a new idea.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Whatever JKP. Ive never seen anything like those rims, and Ive been looking all afternoon. Maybe Google does not index other skate rims. Or maybe descent equipment just isnt in your budget! Chill dude, these rims sexy panty pealers
June 19th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Yea,bc those little rimmzzzzzz are tight…!!! I want some now for my little car! Right now, ou’ wantz em’ wight now! HMMPH! Then ou’ will stwaps on my woah’er bwades and hope I dont swip and fawl!
June 19th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Yeah, you wordpress fella’s dont know what u r missin’! I guess maybe if your lucky some the girl scouts that bought em’ out will sell you a pair! At retail cost! hehehe I bet Citydistrix is a Sex and the City faaaaaannn…
June 19th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Yea,bc those little rimmzzzzzz are tight!!!
I want some now for my little car! Right now, ou’ wantz em’ wight now! HMMPH!
Then ou’ will stwaps on my wower bwades and hope I dont swip and fawl,tee hee
June 19th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Failed marketing ploy#1 - Anonymous insults when someone writes something you don’t like.
Failed marketing ploy #2 - Get you friends to go online and pretend to be interested customers
Genius!
June 19th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Failed marketing ploy#3: Being a pissy homophobe when your company’s key demographic is clearly homosexuals.
Failed marketing ploy #4: being a pissy little brat whose parents wasted good $$ on a college education and suggesting to someone that they fuck themselves with something “soaked” in AIDS. “soaked”? Its not dishwater or ink you fucktard haha, why dont “dip” your face in cancer then?
June 19th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
i was gonna say they all look suspiciously like the same person posting
June 19th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Patent one from 1996 http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5503466.html
Patetn from 1994 http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=1995012497&IA=WO1995012497&DISPLAY=STATUS
June 19th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
The only similarity between the appearance of the patents in those claims and the Genghis wheels in the newspaper is that they are round! JKP/Heckler I’ll bet you do not even skate, you are probably too fat, too lazy, or too busy talking crap on this stupid blog between bouts of arousal, which you immediately satisfy, by clicking a tab over to some porn while you play w your pathetic dongs. I for one longboard, and think the Genghis wheel is dope! However, in the unlikely event you all are right about those wheels, I will submit a real review, critiquing their failure. Only to a different site, because this one is lame.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Dear City Districts(wow maw, I CAN spell), 1) you longboard 2) your possibly a college student 3) do you push mongo?
June 19th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Yeah I guess your right, an inline skate wheel hub with treads you can replace is a lot different than a skateboard wheel on a hub with a tire you can replace.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
just swinging by to post a comment in what is sure to be a classic.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:10 am
JKP, comments like your last illustrate perfectly why Pontiac was able to perpetuate sales of their Aztec for so many years, or even create it in the first place. You see, some people are perfectly happy driving a total piece of shit. These folks have no problem advertising to the whole world that they enjoy being a tasteless douche, at least until they encounter a Benz, Ferrari, or Lambo at a stoplight. This is when they realize utter defeat, stare mediocrity right in the face, and come to terms with the fact there are pleasures at many stoplights that are not just beyond their comprehension, but forever beyond their reach. Go ahead and enjoy the simple things, you know like making mongo references, wishing you had some balls, etc., etc. Personally, I like things that push the boundaries of form and function to a higher plateau.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:12 am
you are so incredibly full of yourself considering you’ve been skating all of what, 10 years? There are a ton of people on this board who’ve been skating 30+ years. So I tell you what junior, take a step back, sit down, shut up and chill. Let the adults talk please.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:26 am
I actually think the wheels are kinda cool(seriously). But at $380, that’s a LOT of other skate gear I can buy… sorry. But keep up the great customer service and public relations work…
June 20th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Gosh, I sure wish I had some balls…maybe if I could afford the finer things in life like a ferrari. Or if I bought my way onto the bandwagon of some jock-ass-oakly wear’n over-glorified luge crap with fancy lookin’ rimzzzz. They are real panty pealer’s, holmes.
Sheesh,fuck your cash and expensive taste.
Accomplish something and stand on your own, make a statement.
You cant buy your way into that and its priceless.
Get a used deck from a friend, jump in on a game of hooligan soccer with some chicano’s at your local park. Learn something raw that teaches you how to meet different people, not patronise them.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:30 am
are you shitting me, 380$ for a set of skateboard wheels, some people just assume that a higher price tag means a better product. You need to find a website where they tell you how to spend 500$ to reduce that 1/1000″ of an inch shim on your slalom board’s axle, maybe those type of people would give a dead rats ass about your shitty overpriced, unoriginal ideas.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Oakly-wear’n holmes?(sic) Hooligan soccer with chicanos? WTF?
June 20th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Yeah, I was refering to non-league games played at parks in AZ, it aint the Scottish there so if you want in, you’ll be playing w/hispanics/”chicanos” most likely.
As far as “oakly’s”, I dunno, I pictured them fitting right in with that helment and, um, tightsuit being donned above. And “holmes” is slang.
Fuck, Im hungover, and it 8am, apologies if my point was lost in some incoherent language.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:22 am
at least ‘gentleman and a skater’ had his heart in the right place, he was attempting to Annoy….
June 20th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Thanks, I tried…
June 20th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
And “holmes” is slang.
Annoyance is good. However it is “homes” as in “homie” which is derived from “home-boy”. Hope this helps.
PS - Oakley is spelled with an “e”. Annoyed yet?
June 20th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Nah, heh heh heh. But you’re wrong, holmes. How did I misspell Oakly-oh w/out the “e” so you wear them? Thats cool. Very punk rock.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
You got the ghetto-dictionary? Look up sentita, Cabron.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
so you wear them?
Nah. I just know how to read.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Cabron? You’re annoyed. I win.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
WINNER:CABRON!
June 20th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Yeah, you just know how to read the label on your OAKLEY’S….officer?