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Information on your Bauer roller skates

The ice hockey boots were made in the same way, except for the obvious difference that they came with a blade instead of trucks and wheels. The blade is curved at both the front and the back to allow the ice hockey players to go backwards easily.     

Bauer Roller skates are still made and offen seen as Supreme Roller skates, but because there are so many people who own Bauers they are still used today by regular skaters and some hockey players too.

Regular skaters can be seen at various meets from indoor roller rinks to outside parks or seaside organised events. A popular skating scene is Hide Park, London.

Many of the outdoor skaters tend to use softer wheels because they are more forgiving on the rough concrete surfaces, a softer wheel will grip the surface better and is ideal for the jam skaters (dance skaters).

The indoor skaters however use both soft wheels for grip or hard wheels for speed depending on their style or preference. The hockey players would tend to use hard wheels such as Belair Hockey wheels, these wheels can be made to slide to make the players stop quicker, this is know as a spay stop.

Apart from the different wheels, there are many ways to change the look of your skates, you can change the colour of the laces, the colour of the stoppers, you can even wear hockey socks or puffers over the top of your skates, these come in various styles and colours and can give your skate that individual look.

The old Bauer roller skates were mianly made in black plastic, but they did come in some different colours, the light blue bauer skates were called bauer bravos, the dark blue bauer skates were called bauer street, the white pair were called bauer malibu skates and they did a pair called bauer panthers which were black but the back part was grey. 

 I hope you have found this guide helpful.