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Summary: The fastest bearings for a skateboard are Bones Swiss bearings, which have been around since the late '80s. Find out why Bones Swiss are the best skateboard bearings available with advice from a professional skateboarder in this free video on skateboarding equipment.
Simon Bingham is the co-owner of No Comply Skate Shop in Austin, Texas. Bingham has more than 20 years of professional skateboarding experience and has traveled the world to perform in...read more
"How you doing there? I'm Simon Bingham, and this is No Comply Skate Shop and I'm going to tell you what are the fastest bearings available. These are them right here, Bones Swiss. The originals. These have been around for twenty years. They know what they're doing. They're the fastest bearing and I'm going to tell you why. It's because they have Swiss metal, which comes from the Swiss Alps. And it's harder than any other metal that you can get. And the low balls can't get dents easily, so that way they last a lot longer and go a lot faster. Because when you ride your bearings, the bearings actually heating up as its spinning. So, that can create little dents in those bearings and that'll make your wheels go slower. So, if have the Swiss, it's a lot harder to heat that hard metal up when it's spinning around like that. So, they actually end up lasting a lot longer. So, once again, these Bones Swiss are the fastest bearings available out there."