Typing with new Fila skates on!
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I just got my new Fila M100 skates! Yohoo!!!
Not as flashy, fast or expensive as Mike's new Bonts, but the skates are
still way better than me... :-)
I was rather surprised to see so many Filas at SkateFresh in the
Netherlands this year, and I really had to skate properly on my 5x80
mostly unlaced Salomon Vitesse. Maybe 5-6-7 guys guys were toting M100
with 4x100, some fewer girls used the M90 with 4x90, so I had to work a
little to keep up.
Compared to my Salomon Vitesse 3 they look almost the same size. The
jump from 80 to 100 mm is hidden somewhere. I guess better materials and
closer spacing is the answer. From the second wheel to the carbon shell
it looks like about 0,5 mm, so I hope new wheels are close tolerance!
It's also a big jump to go from a loose fitting never buckled up half
size too big skate to a smaller close fitting skate. Feels like my feet
are being strangled, but I guess all break-in periods of stock skates
are like that. I went through that period with my Salomons too.
I tried the M100 at the 400 m track in Oslo yesterday and managed to
x-over comfortably the whole curve for the first time, I've always had
to fight the curve a bit. Higher speed I guess.
I have to lift my feet a teeny bit more, otherwise they drag on the
ground in the recovery phase.
Got through simple slaloming cones ok, but on one leg I couldn't do it.
I can on 5x80, on a little wider spaced cones, but even doing two cones
at a time didn't work. Only skated a bit over one hour in them though,
so no real differences encounted. Skates are still skates... :-)
The lacing was done wrong though, I guess it looks nicer the factory
way, but it is easier to lace up if one uses ordinary
underneath-through-over lacing. (Does lacing have names, like tie knots?)
Yes they do:
<http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm>
Actually I wonder if the lacing is neccessary, the fit is so snug that
the instep strap seems enough... I'm typing with my skates on inside,
waiting for my feet to mold the liner...
Oh, and I also got hold of a pair of Nighthawk 90s, with a split frame.
Funny and scary skates, first time I've tried Nighthawks, they turn like
h. I haven't put on a short frame skate in about a year, hence the
scaryness. Probably a good FNS skate, turns sharply but has 90 mm wheels
for fast cruising. Something happens at the heel in a sharp turn so it
feels loose, but the skate doesn't loose grip, it just turns. I can
usually carve my heel and make a sound, but with these I couldn't
yesterday. They felt mushy at first, me being 95 kg, but they don't
loose grip in my turns. The boot is stiffer, almost like a slalom boot,
but it seemed to mold faster than the M100.
These were just my first impressions, I have to take them for a spin in
the street, but it is raining now. Sigh.
So, I enter the ranks of skate nerds with 4 pairs of inline skates and
two pairs of ice skates now, and maybe a fifth inline in a couple of
weeks...
br Franklin
-involved with Fila Skates Norway
Arjan Renting
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> The lacing was done wrong though, I guess it looks nicer the factory
> way, but it is easier to lace up if one uses ordinary
> underneath-through-over lacing. (Does lacing have names, like tie knots?)
You mean 'Criss Cross Lacing' as it is named on the website you mentioned?
> Yes they do:
>
> <http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm>
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Nice site!
I prefer the 'Display Shoe Lacing' because while tightening the shoe the
lace won't slip because it basically gets jammed between the shoe
tongue and the shoe.
Arjan
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Arjan Renting wrote:
> You mean 'Criss Cross Lacing' as it is named on the website you mentioned?
I think so. I googled after I wrote about wondering about it.
> Nice site!
I thought so too! People really get into stuff.
> I prefer the 'Display Shoe Lacing' because while tightening the shoe the
> lace won't slip because it basically gets jammed between the shoe
> tongue and the shoe.
Mmm. I just start off with an extra turn if I need that. I wondered
about the double helix system, of giving that a shot. I am used to speed
laces on my Salomons, and I just thought what a drag to start tying
laces again... :-)
He has a great tip for soaking laces in Nixwax, I must remember that for
the winter.
IV
helix method up to the last two loops. At that point, I switch to loop back
lacing. I disagree with the summary on the site about that style. I never
had a problem with shifting laces. Perhaps this is because I have wax laces
pulled tighter than the average lacing. The advantage that I found was that
the lacing didn't loosen nearly as much as I was skating along. I would recommend
trying this style lacing for the top one or two loops only.