Skateboard Bearings
Problem or Research Question
Some of you have ridden a skateboard before, but some skateboards are faster than others. Why? Because some of the skateboards have faster bearings than others. Every skateboard brand has a faster or slower bearing and everyone has different bearings but may have the same brand. Some of you are probably wondering which bearing goes faster and which one goes slower. To figure out which bearing is faster and which one is slower is by putting it on a skateboard and push it down a ramp with the same force every time and see which one goes the farthest.
Hypothesis Some people may say that Bronson bearings are the best and that they are faster but the hypothesis says that if a skateboard has Bones
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One of the popular shops was called Fafnir and the cost of the bearings were very cheap. Later on in China they started to make Bones bearings and those are still around today. The very first Bones bearing was Reds and they have just gotten better and better. Then they made Bones Swiss and those are the fastest compared to the Bones Reds. When those kinds of bearings came out that was when skateboarding was born. Over time there were more and more types of bearings and each one was getting better and better. At first it started as to make a skateboard you would have to buy some roller skates and and take off the bottom part of it and then put that on the skateboard. So the bearing was not fully invented until the early 1980’s. The first brand was called the rolling bearings industry. This now helps the community by instead of going to school on your skateboard in 10 minutes you can get their in probably 5 or 6 …show more content…
You can ride it too much that the bearing will go even slower and slower. To play it safe you should probably get new bearing after about 6 Months to a year. Riding a skateboard is pretty hard to learn but once you get the hang of it then you would want to ride it everywhere you would go. But it takes about a few weeks to get the hang of it and you would have to ride it for about 30 minutes a day. When you ride a skateboard you have to make sure the bearings are about a size so that it can fit inside your wheel and so that it can spin. If your wheel is too big for the bearing then it would fall out alot. You have to buy the perfect size bearing to fit inside your wheels. Overall, the skateboard is hard to learn but once you get the hang of it then you would want to ride it all the time. To ride a skateboard you need all of the parts the deck, the trucks, the bearings, and the wheels. Once you have all of those parts then you can ride your skateboard. You will have so much fun once you get the hang of it. Riding the skateboard with a good size bearing would increase the speed of your skateboard. If you have the right size bearing then you will have the best time of your life riding a
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