Salomon Widebody Customisation
by Filip “Casper” Lederleitner
Although the widebody provides amazing soul space, ideal for stable switch-ups and cess slides, every single roller notices weak ability to press your foot to the right position for royale and torque tricks. That’s why I came up with this customization.
I’ve been trying to create the best possible setup for my Salomon Chaz Sands skates.
I decided to choose the amazing Kizer Horngacher frame, because of it’s outstanding groove and wheel constellation, which allows you to roll flat or antirocker.
This is where i stumbled upon a problem. Although the widebody provides amazing soul space, ideal for stable switch-ups and cess slides, every single roller notices weak ability to press your foot to the right position for royale and torque tricks.
That’s why I came up with this customization. It provides superb soul space, with great possibility to do royale and torque tricks to the fullest. Especially, when you like to bend on the trick, just to enjoy that shit in style.
Filip “Casper” Lederleitner
^ Details of the cut on Salomon ST Brandon Campbell 2 Skates
How to cut your Widebodies, Hints.
I polished the edges of the cuts, because they were quite sharp. This would eventually prevent the smoothness when switching-up from torques to truespins or backslides to alley-oop.
One last hint - be sure to get yourself a reliable cutting tool. You don’t have to worry about cracking, the material is pretty solid.
Tags: salomon
March 17th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Awesome, finally someone fixes that ish.
March 17th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
ooo quality idea i think im going to do that on my salos unless i get some usd 2 piece soles
March 17th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Or you could just cut out a bigger groove for royales in the widebody… Or get night souls and Razors backslideplates…
March 17th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
thats so old, he didnt think of it, octona did it and many many others.
March 17th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
my friend just bought salomons and was having trouble royaling… sick idea…
March 17th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
great idea.
March 17th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
i´ve made this with my widebodys 1 Year ago.
March 17th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
there shite i made beta 1s like a year ago an minton stole my idea
old news !!!!
March 17th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
wouldn’t that lack of material fuck up your skates? I absolutely hate skates with you backslide area. I damn near do nothing but royales/unity/h block tricks minus the occaisional topacid, but does that mean that I have to buy new skates once I grind through my boot? It’s cheaper to get backslide plates and replace them instead.
March 17th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Thanks everyone for your responses. I know that people may have done this customisation before, but there probably still are those who like this. I previously tried to make a solid groove into the widebody, but it just wasn’t enough. Especially with the new Kizer frames. If you remember the days when widebodies didn’t exist on Salomon skates, I am pretty sure that the boot could put up with a lot of damage. I don’t think there is too much to worry about. Just look at Don Bambrick or Rob Thompson, they didn’t use widebodies at all. :)
I am glad to be able to help some of you guys, who had the same problem just as me.
-Peace out!
March 17th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
thanks alot man i think i mite do this wit my sals…and calm down people it aint a race to see who has the newest set up first..its about findin wat works best and enables u to skate the best pzzzzz
March 18th, 2006 at 6:03 am
He may not be the first, but hes the only person to expain it properly with diagrams and all that. But honestly, if you guys are gonna skate your salomons like this, why not just get some original Night souls?
March 18th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
OLD NEWS!!
March 18th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
The front part looks like the usd classic’s one ;)
March 18th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
es un good idea
March 24th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
ugh, ive just dun that with mine, but i cudnt find anythin 2 cut em with so i ended up using just the blade from a little hacksaw thingy, it took soooooooooooo long! but it dus sk8 pretty well, thanx 4 the idea
March 25th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Pekne to vyzera……..Tesim sa kedy budeme jazdit!
April 30th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
cool
June 7th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
they look good but its nothing new