{"id":2434,"date":"2014-07-16T04:41:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T04:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2016-02-11T22:43:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T22:43:50","slug":"grip-city-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/skate\/2014\/07\/grip-city-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Grip City Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/07\/gripcitywheels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2436\" src=\"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/07\/gripcitywheels-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"gripcitywheels\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/07\/gripcitywheels-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/07\/gripcitywheels-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/07\/gripcitywheels-275x275.jpg 275w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/07\/gripcitywheels-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/07\/gripcitywheels-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/07\/gripcitywheels.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Height: 59mm<br \/>\nDurometer: 85a<br \/>\nWidth: I lost my micrometer<br \/>\nContact Patch: I haven&#8217;t found my micrometer yet<\/p>\n<p>Grip City Wheels are not just the house wheel brand of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripcityboardshop.com\">Rip City Skates<\/a>, but more of a special project. They&#8217;re currently available only in one configuration: 59mm 85a durometer. These wheels are in fact, grippy and softer than your standard park or concrete wheel. I&#8217;m not sure what the intended application is, but if you&#8217;re looking for a wheel that is not going to rattle your teeth as you roll down the streets, then look no further. What city has money for repaving roads these days anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Each set is individually hand dyed in a variety of colors, without standard pad printed graphics at all. In fact they had to really convince the manufacturer that this was what they wanted. Let&#8217;s not kid ourselves, most skateboard wheels (outside of downhill specialty wheels) are made in the same handful of factories that everyone uses, unless you&#8217;re buying an obviously flakey brand made in China, which these are not.<\/p>\n<p>These wheels are unique to any other set you will buy, even if you buy more than one set of (Grip City Wheels).\u00a0They also come with a weird dot of grip tape decorated and scrawled on by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Turnco\/181844825299223\">Turnco<\/a> of Portland, AKA Skip Marcotte.<\/p>\n<p>Get yours at Rip City Skate in Portland, in person, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripcityboardshop.com\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Height: 59mm Durometer: 85a Width: I lost my micrometer Contact Patch: I haven&#8217;t found my micrometer yet Grip City Wheels are not just the house wheel brand of Rip City Skates, but more of a special project. They&#8217;re currently available only in one configuration: 59mm 85a durometer. These wheels are in fact, grippy and softer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,206574],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-skate","category-skateboard-wheels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/07\/gripcitywheels-post.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}