Dec 082010
| Information | |
|---|---|
| Color | Green, Yellow, Pink, Ice Blue, Red, Royal, Black |
| Hardness | 88a |
| Price | $60 |
| Size | 62mm |
| Width | 43mm |
Still haven’t skated on these bad boys but if you have let us know below in the comments section and give them a rating for us.
I started out on these … I had the yellow. They served me well when I was just starting out and learning derby.
Now that I have progressed a bit I felt that they were a bit bulky and I felt slowed down by them agility-wise. I was also constantly being tripped up in the pack or tangling skates with other skaters.
I just moved to the Atom G-Rod 2.0 (slim) and I have to say I noticed an immediate difference. The G-Rods are lighter (Flat-out 3.8 oz / G-Rod 2.0 slim 3.4 oz) and less bulky. I notice a marked difference in the amount that I tangle skates with other skaters.
I would recommend these for new skaters to derby as I got a lot of stability and grip.
As a note, I skate solely on Sport Court.
I’m definitely a fan of Flat Outs! They’re great for a new skater, like me, and provide some pretty good stability. However, I do find that I trip myself up all the time by clipping my own wheels, but that’s just a product of wider wheels, not the Flat Outs themselves. I’ve used them on wooden tracks and on concrete. The wheels have great grip and decent maneuverability on concrete, but I don’t recommend them for wood tracks as I, personally, felt like I was skating in molasses… they were just too grippy for the wood floor and it took a lot of work to get going.
These wheels came stock on my Vixens. I liked them at first because they weren’t the crap plastic things with flat spots from the rink rentals I had been using. Even then, though, I wasn’t in love. I got tons of wheel lock (more so than I do now with wide g-rods and stingers), was slow (though admittedly my bearings, and at that point, my legs, were too)and they balded really fast. Seriously. I got them mid-December and by March I was sliding out all the time. As stock wheels I hear they’re not so bad, but really they only last long enough for someone moderately indecisive like me to decide what to upgrade to.
I was a new skater when I started on these wheels, a couple of months ago, and I’m still a new skater because I had a serious injury when the wheels got locked together and tripped me up. Most of that was do to me being a beginner, but I’ll chime in on them being bulky! As someone else pointed out though, thats wider wheels in general, not specific to the flat outs.
I did find them to have good grip for a beginner on both wood gym floor and polished concrete, I don’t think I slipped once, but was still one of the faster skaters in my fresh meat group. And they are definitely good and stable.
I can’t really rate the quality as I only used them a few times, but I’ve seen them hold up reasonably well for other girls.
Overall I’d say they were great beginner wheels, just a little too wide for me personally
I too had the Flatouts to start with on my Vixens. I found them to stick quite well. They are a wide wheel so it does make for some fun when in the pack and locking wheels with others. When jamming they gave good grip and lasted me almost a year. We practice on a regular coated rink floor, our home venue is wood flooring basketball court and while others were switching out their wheels for Poisons due to the slick floor I found that if I just adjusted my skating style a little I was fine.
Like I said I’ve had them just under a year and they were finally showing some flat spots and starting to slip a little so I’ve since changed them out for RollerBones Koi’s.