Undercover Exclusive Interview
Hi Neal, it’s nice of you to take some time to talk about aggressive wheels. Some call you the Master of PU wheels, other’s say the Pope of Rolling, some absolutely have no idea who you are. How would you introduce yourself?
Some folks in our little world of wheels know me I suppose. I guess I’ve been involved in the manufacture of polyurethane wheels for around 25 years.
That is a hell of a long time in one place by today’s standards. I dream only in circles now. I love donuts. I hate square pegs. Gravity is good.
As far as aggressive wheels, along with my current partner Tony Gabrielle, I helped run-out the original aggressive brand, Senate, back when it was still produced in the USA. Maybe the better way to be relative to my wheel making career is with numbers.
I was asked to look back over some annual manufacturing volumes throughout my career. It wasn’t for a museum or anything. I think if was for life insurance.
Anyway, considering all types of polyurethane recreational wheels out there, I’ve probably produced over 200 million wheels in the USA of all shapes and sizes under my own designs and proprietary production equipment. My goal is 1 billion wheels made and served. I can’t die soon. [...]
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December 12th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
This interviewer is a complete asshole!! If you don’t want to hear the guy’s answer, why bother to ask?? “please be brief, its almost christmas” what a total asshole! no wonder why rolling sucks these days! not to mention, no one is commenting, so I guess, none of you dumb new kids on the block read too…
gees… whats the world coming too when rollerbladers don’t know about rollerblading!!!
December 12th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
I completley agree with Fred. Neal was clearly devoted and seemed as though he was really proud of the partnership and products he had made with UC, and the interviewer totally shat on him. Makes me think much less of the conference for posting an interview like this.