Equipment: Men vs. Women-Wheels

Skates are primarily designed by men for men, and I have found a leading manufacturer that agrees with me.  Frames are super stiff; wheels are super hard.  A typical male skater has a few pounds on the average female skater.  Frames that flex sooner and wheels that are slightly softer are more apt to be friendlier to women.  We could also think of this in terms of skater weight rather than sex, and then we would need to take into account the actual strength of the push, etc.  Skater ability will always create even more variables as well as what each skater is able to tolerate in terms of harshness of ride, but the actual footprint of the same wheel will probably be smaller for a female skater than a male skater.  Whew!

Sticking to wheels for the time being and because of my contention, I looked for a friendly, softer, 100mm wheel.  While 100mm wheels are friendlier anyway, I also opted to go with 81A Gyro wheels.  And guess what?  They're even pink!!!  At $8.00 a piece, they weren't a bad deal either.  Mine came from www.nettracing.com. 

I have 3 skates on them over 20 miles.  The pavement was super ratty to super smooth.  I have found them to be an excellent all purpose wheel.  I wouldn't want to race on them, but considering how I used them, I was very pleased.  The conditions varied so much.  I never felt that the ride was unbearably harsh. 

Pink wheels, in this case, make real nice wheels for this skater-girl . . .