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While water and snow are relatively easy to carve into, however, concrete and asphalt are most definitely not, putting skateboards at a bit of a disadvantage. Attempts <em>have</em> been made at better-carving skateboards, including the pivoting-truck-equipped <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808/http://www.gizmag.com/go/1191/" target="_blank">BMW StreetCarver</a>, the many-wheeled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808/http://www.gizmag.com/go/3096/" target="_blank">Freebord</a>, the caster-wheeled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808/http://www.gizmag.com/snowboarding-on-the-pavement-the-t-board/9056/" target="_blank">T-Board</a>, and the twisting <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808/http://www.gizmag.com/go/7300/" target="_blank">Ripstick</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808/http://www.gizmag.com/freerider-skatecycle/15721/" target="_blank">Skatecycle</a>. Now, San Francisco-based ARIS Sport has addressed the issue with a novel solution - a line of skateboards with conical wheels.</p> <ul id="gallery_images"> <li><a href="/web/20120126094808/http://www.gizmag.com/aris-sport-carving-skateboard/21063/pictures#1" class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/aris-0.jpg" title="ARIS Sport's longboard-style Blade Runner skateboard" alt="ARIS Sport's longboard-style Blade Runner skateboard"/></a></li> <li><a href="/web/20120126094808/http://www.gizmag.com/aris-sport-carving-skateboard/21063/pictures#2" class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/aris-1.jpg" title="ARIS Sport's snowboard-style Blade Runner skateboard" alt="ARIS Sport's snowboard-style Blade Runner skateboard"/></a></li> <li><a href="/web/20120126094808/http://www.gizmag.com/aris-sport-carving-skateboard/21063/pictures#3" class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/aris-2.jpg" title="ARIS Sport's snowboard-style Blade Runner skateboard" alt="ARIS Sport's snowboard-style Blade Runner skateboard"/></a></li> <li><a href="/web/20120126094808/http://www.gizmag.com/aris-sport-carving-skateboard/21063/pictures#4" class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/aris-4.JPG" title="ARIS Sport's snowboard-style Blade Runner skateboard" alt="ARIS Sport's snowboard-style Blade Runner skateboard"/></a></li> <li id="view_all"><a href="/web/20120126094808/http://www.gizmag.com/aris-sport-carving-skateboard/21063/pictures" class="blue">View all<br/></a></li> </ul> <div class="clear_both"></div> <p>ARIS' Blade Runner boards come in three styles, with decks modeled after a snowboard, and long and short surfboards. They all feature the company's trademark carving wheels, which have the diameter of regular wheels where they join the trucks, but become narrower as they go out to either side. That smaller outside diameter is intended to allow the board to tip more deeply into turns.</p> <p><div style="width: 529px; height: 237px" class="article_img"><a href="/web/20120126094808/http://www.gizmag.com/aris-sport-carving-skateboard/21063/pictures#2" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/aris-1.jpg" width="529"/></a></div></p> <p>Although the boards aren't available yet, ARIS' Toly Genov informs us that they are in production, and the company is already accepting reservations on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808/http://arissport.com/" target="_blank">its website</a>. They are priced at under US$200, with first deliveries scheduled to begin in March.</p>  <div id="bottom_unit"> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808js_/http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> </div> </div>  <span class="title">Share</span> <div id="article_share" class="dotsontop"> <span class="as_button"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="gizmag">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> twttr.events.bind('tweet', function(event) { if (event) { var targetUrl; if (event.target && event.target.nodeName == 'IFRAME') { targetUrl = extractParamFromUri(event.target.src, 'url'); } _gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'twitter', 'tweet', targetUrl]); } }); twttr.events.bind('retweet', function(){ var targetUrl; if (event.target && event.target.nodeName == 'IFRAME') { targetUrl = extractParamFromUri(event.target.src, 'url'); } _gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'twitter', 'retweet', targetUrl]); }); function extractParamFromUri(uri, paramName){ if(!uri){ return; } var uri = uri.split('#')[0]; //remove anchor var parts = uri.split('?'); //check for query params if(parts.length == 1){ return; //no params } var query = decodeURI(parts[1]); //find the url param paramName += '='; var params = query.split('&'); for(var i = 0, param; param = params[i]; ++i){ if(param.indexOf(paramName) === 0){ return unescape(param.split('=')[1]); } } } </script> </span> <span class="as_button"><script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808js_/http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=1"></script></span> <span class="as_button"><g:plusone size="medium" count="true" href="http://www.gizmag.com/aris-sport-carving-skateboard/21063/"></g:plusone></span> <span class="as_button"><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808js_/http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js"></script><script type="in/share" data-counter="right"></script></span> <span class="as_button"><script type="text/javascript">reddit_newwindow='1'</script><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808js_/http://www.reddit.com/static/button/button1.js"></script></span> <fb:like href="http://www.gizmag.com/aris-sport-carving-skateboard/21063/" send="false" width="450" show_faces="false" font="" id="facebook_like"></fb:like><script type="text/javascript">_ga.trackFacebook();</script> </div>   <div id="tags"> <span class="title">Tags</span> <div class="dotsontop"> <ul> <li>» <a href="/web/20120126094808/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/skateboard/" rel="tag">Skateboard</a></li> <li>» <a href="/web/20120126094808/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/wheel/" rel="tag">Wheel</a></li> <li class="clear_both"></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="bing_unit"></div>  <span class="title" id="comments">User Comments (15)</span> <div class="dotsontop" id="comment_dots">  <div id="comment-102088" class="a_comment"> <p>Nice, but much not usable wheel before you scrape the trucks. Concrete will eat them up quickly. </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Joseph J Shimandle</span> <span class="date">- January 10, 2012 @ 03:11 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-102091" class="a_comment"> <p>I think there will be big problems with this approach. </p> <p></p> <p>The smaller diameter will result in faster rotation, so as you go over on the side, the wheel speed will have to markedly increase. If the wheels compress at all, you'll have multiple different diameters in contact with the ground at the same time. Fundamentally the wheel cannot rotate at 2 different speeds at the same time, so this will result in one part of the surface having to actually slip. </p> <p></p> <p>therefore I see this having quite reduced traction. </p> <p></p> <p></p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Adrien</span> <span class="date">- January 10, 2012 @ 03:14 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-102118" class="a_comment"> <p>That doesn't add up Adrien. If that were the case then vehicles with curved or rounded wheels, like a motorcycle, would have major issues when turning at speed. </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Dustin </span> <span class="date">- January 10, 2012 @ 06:34 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-102157" class="a_comment"> <p>This thing is a revelation.It rides like nothing you have ever tried before.Like Dustin said,a motorcycle tire has rounded side walls so you can bank into turns.Waves are curved, this board makes the road feel like one giant wave. </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">shredder</span> <span class="date">- January 10, 2012 @ 11:07 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-102187" class="a_comment"> <p>You've tried one? </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Robt</span> <span class="date">- January 11, 2012 @ 02:26 am PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-102238" class="a_comment"> <p>The question of torque wind-up is a canard. The main concern is contact patch, which I assume can be dealt with by choosing polymers wisely. It looks like this would provide a straighter lean, where body/board/wheels are more in alignment, and the ground contact point would be more inboard than outboard. I bet it is faster going straight as well. If Shredder has ridden this unit I say his word is Gospel. </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Bruce H. Anderson</span> <span class="date">- January 11, 2012 @ 08:39 am PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-102271" class="a_comment"> <p>A little more wheel diameter please. More than few millimeters of wear and the thing will be bottoming out. Nice work in all other respects. How are you preventing axle bending with weight substantially over the outside of the long wheel? Mucho strong axlel and top flight bearings I hope. </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Mirmillion</span> <span class="date">- January 11, 2012 @ 10:00 am PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-102283" class="a_comment"> <p>I'd use a tapered axle and use a smaller bearing on the outside and larger bearings on the inside to over come axle issue. Agree, regarding needing more wheel diameter to keep the skateboard trucks from bottoming out. </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Jimmy Fallin</span> <span class="date">- January 11, 2012 @ 10:44 am PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-102331" class="a_comment"> <p>along way from the days were we nail two skate halves together on either end of a two-by-four, LOL!! Any Old Schoolers out there?!! </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Michael Carter</span> <span class="date">- January 11, 2012 @ 02:09 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-102397" class="a_comment"> <p>Here it is Carving. </p> <p></p> <p><br/><iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="500" height="300" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808if_/http://www.youtube.com/embed/tKIE8T_R1hY" frameborder="0"> </iframe><br/></p> <p></p> <p></p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">TMurder11</span> <span class="date">- January 11, 2012 @ 06:53 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-102409" class="a_comment"> <p>you could achieve exactly the same result by applying some negative camber to the axles </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Mark Napoli</span> <span class="date">- January 11, 2012 @ 08:29 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-102424" class="a_comment"> <p>With the smaller contact patches, especially when tipped over onto two wheels, how well does it resist skidding sideways on smoother surfaces? </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Gregg Eshelman</span> <span class="date">- January 11, 2012 @ 10:14 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-102628" class="a_comment"> <p>Thanks, Micheal Carter...its all about the ride and its all fun! </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">onearth1hominid</span> <span class="date">- January 12, 2012 @ 06:45 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-102877" class="a_comment"> <p>You can get just as much lean on a longboard with wheel cut-outs; seems like they're addressing a problem that's already been solved... </p> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094808im_/http://images.gizmag.com/layout/icons/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Marcus Jenkins</span> <span class="date">- January 14, 2012 @ 01:34 pm PST</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-103642" class="a_comment"> <p>I believe the "tilt" and "twist" in the trucks are what allow the tapered wheels to align to the turn- shape and gain added wheel-to-ground surface area. This twisting and tilting allows skateboards to turn, this should function to aid in turning and increase wheel friction.... 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