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Bearings: Super 6
Bearings: Super 6
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About Super Swiss 6
By George A. Powell

Bones Swiss bearings have the best reputation in the skate... industry, and have had this honor for the past 17 years because of their performance and quality. Everyone who rides Swiss knows how fast they are, and most also comment on how long they last, typically several times as long as low cost bearings. When you are number one, it is hard to do better since you have already done your best to get there. Thus, over the years, we have only adjusted clearances, improved ball retainer materials, shield materials and lubricants to make Bones Swiss incrementally better, but have never modified the basic design of the bearing... until now.

Bones Super Swiss 6 Ball bearings (SS6) are fundamentally different from our standard 7 ball Bones Swiss. Super Swiss have 6 balls instead of 7 as you might expect, but the 6 balls are 20% larger in diameter than the balls used in 7 ball Swiss are. The reason we use 6 balls instead of 7 of the larger balls is also pretty simple, we can’t fit 7 of the larger balls into the size constraints of the 608 bearing.

The major advantage of using larger balls is that they roll slower, creating less friction at the same wheel RPM. Some additional benefits we discovered only after skating our test bearings were even more interesting than the modest decrease in rolling friction, however. The Super Swiss 6 ball turns out to:

  • Have a higher top speed (because the balls don’t have to turn so fast)
  • Accelerate faster (because the races are thinner and there is one less ball)
  • Roll farther (because of the reduced friction and ball rotation speed)
  • Last longer because it is STRONGER!

    Skaters who use Bones Swiss do so because they want the very best equipment they can get and they know the difference between ordinary and exceptional. Check out our bearing team, it is a who’s who of top skaters and we are proud to be associated with each one of them. What’s more, each one has come to us and asked to be sponsored because they already used Bones Swiss to help them skate their best.

    The feedback we get from these great skaters is very positive, and we only heard of one area we felt we could improve in, and that was impact strength. These guys (and girls) skate so hard and go so high that sometimes they broke a bearing when they or their board landed. The trend towards harder and harder, smaller and smaller wheels seems to have aggravated this somewhat in the past few years and so we started testing the 6 ball bearing. Those who have been able to test various versions of our developmental bearings have all agreed on one thing, they are fantastic bearings. They are faster, quicker and stronger.

    Given the very positive feedback from our team and the results of our lab testing, we felt we needed to give these bearings a new name to reflect their superior performance. Super Swiss 6 ball may not be the shortest name ever, but this name does indicate what you will discover for yourself when you ride them... they are Super. Perhaps even more important to skaters is that the price differential for this significant increase in performance and durability is quite small. So if you are a Bones Swiss user or if you have broken bearings in the past, give our new Super Swiss 6 balls a try and see if they aren’t worth a few bucks more.

    Enjoy yourself skating!

    — George Powell


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