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.
52 comments
talentlessquitter
Wouldn’t want to stick my finger in there….
RICK WILSON
Hey Guys,
I was wondering how the Rims were selling ? Or have you decided to drop this idea.If you are still making them and need a distributor to push them maybe we can work together. I’m a firm believer of cool stuff ,but it has to work and be competitive in the real downhill world contact me if you want to continue..
elias
i would like to get some of those so what can you work out email me back please
BC Longboards
Great Idea! Excellent
whoami
umm, the owner of genghis has not been skating for ten years, and he was the one making those posts, not Josh Rolf. So please, don’t think Rolf is full of himself, he agreed to help make crappy wheels so he could make good trucks.
Good work on callin out the marketing schemes, I love that shit!
also, try garbage in the search field to find genghis products, might help.
a lifetime of downhill
Or at least she has the iq of a gradeschooler, I mean honestly. Did she really think skateboarders were going to take this crap seriously?
Ryan Heckler
I think it was a grade school student that designed them…
a lifetime of downhill
Whoever designed these horrible, slow rip offs should be fired. I rode these down the stadium and around campus only to be truly dissapointed. Ride Orangatangs or if you really want a large silly wheel ride abec 11s, at least they are fast, grippy, and resist flatspotting compared to these pos.
I think therefore I slam
Yeah, you just know how to read the label on your OAKLEY’S….officer?
Who's the lil' champ? You are!
WINNER:CABRON!
enemy combatant
Cabron? You’re annoyed. I win.
enemy combatant
so you wear them?
Nah. I just know how to read.
ALIAS AND ANNOY
You got the ghetto-dictionary? Look up sentita, Cabron.
ALIAS AND ANNOY
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.
enemy combatant
And
ALIAS AND ANNOY
Thanks, I tried…
Ryan Heckler
at least ‘gentleman and a skater’ had his heart in the right place, he was attempting to Annoy….
GENTLEMAN AND A SKATER
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.
enemy combatant
Oakly-wear’n holmes?(sic) Hooligan soccer with chicanos?
WTF?
Ryan Heckler
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.
GENTLEMAN AND A SKATER
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.
Concretin Nik
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…
houseofneil
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.
Citydistrix
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.
bailgun
just swinging by to post a comment in what is sure to be a classic.
JKP
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.
Ryan Heckler
Dear City Districts(wow maw, I CAN spell),
1) you longboard 2) your possibly a college student 3) do you push mongo?
Citydistrix
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.
JKP
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
Ryan Heckler
i was gonna say they all look suspiciously like the same person posting
Tempepimpy
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?
Cancer Chris
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!
Pickupstix
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
Pickupstix
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…
NSIMN8 TO THE MAX
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!
Citydistrix
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
JKP
Oh yeah, they are tight. Too bad the owner is a homophobic moron.
Innovate my ass, it’s not even a new idea.
Citydistrix
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!!!
whirldPeas
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.
Ryan Heckler
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….
SDazSK8T6
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?
nweyesk8
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….
Ryan Heckler
Blinging isn’t for skateboarders, it is for assheads who don’t really skate as much as they pose…….
Josh Madsen
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!!!!
bailgun
“spinner rims are next.”
already here, broseph…
http://www.skubbros.com
orezona
tires have air in them if I’m not mistaken.
drakkars
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 ….
damienhialation
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.
Casey M.
All I know is Josh wasn’t riding those at the race in BC last week, if that says anything.
carvin marvin
how about some 63mm 101’s?