Visit SMB's eBay skate shop...

We have a range of specialist skate bearings available & also the grease to keep them running smoothly.  If you'd like to purchase some premium skate bearings from us, please visit our eBay listings today - we are proud to have received excellent feedback from our customers:

Latest from Aaron Skippings, downhill skater...

Aaron in action in California earlier this year

We had a lovely message from our friend Aaron Skippings at the weekend:

"I wanted to say a massive "thank you" to SMB for helping me so much this year and I am so grateful!   It's done a lot for me and helped me skate as fast as i can! Looking forward to next year!" 

Thanks Aaron!  We are so glad that our skate bearings have helped your 2014 downhill skate season to go with & bang & we can't wait to see how you progress in 2015.

Aaron Skippings, downhill skater update...

Our friend & SMB skate-crew member Aaron Skipping has already had a hectic start to his downhill skating season.  Aaron is competing using our ceramic hybrid skate bearings this year & it sounds like he's getting pretty impressive results with them.

Aaron says:
"I am in love with the ceramic bearings! Sooooooooooo fast!  I've been really busy lately with my skating! Just been in Belgium for the championships and did really well - I had 7 qualifying races to determine a position and I never finished below a 3rd place.   Unfortunately, because of time pressures they cut it down to 16 people bracket for the semi-finals so i didn't qualify!! Bit lame but hey, I had fun and the UK kicked ass in Belgium! 

I also just booked my flight to California for September!!! Exciting! I will be doing the Angies Curves in California and the famous Pikes Peak in Colorado! 2 of the gnarliest races on the IDF World Cup tour!  Too excited!!!"

Thanks for the update Aaron, it sounds like you were robbed in Belgium, but we're sure you'll make up for it during your US invasion later this year!  We can't wait to bring you more updates from Aaron as the downhill skating season progresses...

Welcome to Sickboards, now an SMB Bearings stockist...

SMB Bearings are delighted to say that Sickboards in the Netherlands

are now stocking our skate bearings.

If you aren't able to visit their amazing store in person, then check it out online - it's awesome!

Road Trip! Aaron Skipping's Euro tour...

Watch our Europe, Aaron's on the way!

Downhill skater Aaron Skippings says: "I've been knuckling down with work at the moment and getting ready for my euro trip in a few weeks! Hopefully I'll see Spoky (Spoky Woky - aka Marie Bougourd, an awesome French downhill skater) out there too.  I should do - I'll be skating in Switzerland, then off to Germany straight after for the German championships on the 17th-20th July....



Almatrieb 17th - 20th July...

 Marie's (Bourgourd, aka Spoky Woky) been doing amazing at the moment! Shame about her crash in california but shes always my favourite skater girl! ;D.



The legend that is Spoky Woky showing her moves Stateside...

Did you see the new leathers? I,m loving them! Looking like a sweaty wasp people call me  - haha!

Big love for helping me get them though SMB - wouldnt have them without you guys!"

 

Aaron looking awesome in his new leathers...



 Thanks, always glad to help Aaron - let's hope they keep you safe &

that the skate bearings we've sent you for your trip keep you rolling faster than the competition! :-)



SMB's skate bearing store, prices cut on ebay!

With the help of our lovely friends on Facebook, we've been conducting a review of the prices of our skate bearings &, as a result, have reduced prices across the board in our ebay store.  The bearings are the same professional quality, but we've tried to acknowledge the pockets of our younger, budget conscious clients!


ebay prices now start from £6.48 with free postage



We stock over 2000 different sizes - see our complete listing here -

for all other bearings please continue to contact us 

& we'll quote price & delivery by return.

SMB's eBay SKATE shop is now live...

We have finally joined the modern age (well, sort of!!) & opened an online skate bearings store at eBay!

You can buy sets of 4, 8 or double up & get 16pcs of the standard skate bearings or the ceramic hybrids. 

For all other enquiries, we'd still like you to contact us - we have over 2000 different sizes/types of bearings in stock & sadly we can't list them all, but we welcome all enquiries!

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eBay shop is coming soon...

We are delighted to announce that we are developing an eBay store, launching shortly, primarily to offer our skate bearings to our younger customers.

At SMB Bearings we actually hold over 2000 different sizes/types of bearings - see our product catalogue for more information.  For all other bearing types & sizes in our range, you can continue to order in the normal way & pay by business account, by card, cheque or by PayPal.

If you are in search of some technical help, check out our website's comprehensive technical pages to gain a better understanding of bearings & their performance.

We are always happy to talk to you if you're not exactly sure on your requirements, so please feel free to contact us if you want a bit of advice.

SMB Bearings review from Aaron Skippings, downhill skater...

Thanks so much to Aaron Skippings for his fantastic review of our products - it's always great to hear that our bearings are a real help to competitive skaters, gravity sports exponents, cyclists & more.  Here's what Aaron had to say:




Skate Bearing



Ceramic hybrid skate bearing



"SMB Bearings are an awesome bearing company from Brize Norton in the UK , these guys have been hooking me up with bearings for skating use , in the picture above on the left is a standard skate bearing from smb and on the right is the ceramic version . As soon as i used these i knew i liked them , they run super smooth and dont make noises or rattles . The bearings are also pretty good at holding the water out if you decide to ride in wet conditions.  I took a few sets of these bearings away with me on the euro tour, i wanted something decent for the world cup races and smb showed me the way. The ceramic versions i especially love as the smoothness of the bearing is at a super high level , no noises and no nonsense from smb again. its hard to say if there is a speed difference between the ceramic and the standard either way i couldnt tell but you know the quality is much higher in ceramics.There super kool bunch of guys have definatly created a brilliant bearing and i hope that other skaters from the uk and even global try these bad boys out , because i gurantee once these bearings are in your wheels ,you'll be riding faster!
Aaron"


Thanks so much for the high praise Aaron - we've put a lot of work into finding the best quality, genuine skate bearings around - we've lots of technical info on them at our website & we also tell you how to care & maintain your bearings for the best performance.

To keep up-to-date with Aaron, check out his blog & of course we'll update you when we have news of his latest exploits to share :0)

Skaiti - skaters raising money for Haiti

SMB were delighted to sponsor Keith O'Leary, who took part in Skaiti (a fantastic fundraising event for disaster relief in Haiti) on Saturday 10th April.  Skaiti was a 24 hour event in which 250 brave souls attempted to skate as far as possible in 24 hours, around Dunsfold Park in Surrey. 

Keith has survived to tell the tale & reported his progress to us today:

"Well, I managed 125 miles in total and had a fantastic time in the sunshine before taking a tumble at roughly 2am on Sunday. Stepping on a wheel in the darkness often results in a face plant.

My tent looked incredibly welcoming at that point, so I grabbed a little sleep before setting off again. The organisers, Jo, Jack, and Steve did an amazing job in putting on the event and looking after everyone. The Ceramic Bearings you supplied fared very well and I got some good feedback from other participants - especially regarding the cost price (Powell/Bones ceramics being a lot more expensive, and not commonly stocked).

I took a photo at the start of the event with my nice clean SMB T-shirt and hat. There's also one of me coming out of a speed tuck and looking far too camp for my liking (to save Keith's modesty, we promised not to show the "camp" picture!). There will be a few more emerging as people upload images to Facebook etc.

Thanks again for your support.  Keith "

What a phenomenal event!  The official website http://skaiti.webs.com/  will be worth checking out (it's not too late to make a donation) & should have more photos of the event coming up soon.  Our hearty congratulations to everyone who took part, volunteered, organised etc, as you've managed to raise an impressive £13000 so far.

Skate Vid...

A little something to keep you entertained over the weekend... have a great one folks!

Think you can do better than this?



Fancy being an SMB team rider? Send us your vids & stats & we'll look at sponsorship options. We are proud supporters of our riders & indeed all those that we currently sponsor in cycling, skating & rc modelling. You don't have to be well known - if you're just enthusiastic & motivated then we'd love to hear from you!

Catching up with Tony Hawk

Birdhouse East Coast Tour - watch more skate, snow, surf, and moto videos

Skating, surfing, snowboarding - Playmobil style...

A slightly long, but excellent homage to those most excellent Playmobil dudes.




I just used to lose their heads/limbs/torsos under the sofa & then get them stuck in the vacuum cleaner during botched rescue missions myself...


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Latest inline skate/landboarding vids..

This amazing video has just popped up on YouTube & we thought it was well worth looking at!




And we must give a nod to an excellent chap from America, Pat Hinch, who has grabbed my fancy by combining two favourite hobbies, landboarding & skating (although he appears to be a lot better at both than I ever was). Just click on the link below to be whisked to his video:



And sticking with landboarding for a few minutes...




Good eh?!!! When I needed replacement bearings for my board I got rubber sealed bearings & had them re-greased with water-resistant, free running grease so that they turned easily but kept all of the beach nasties out! Just a little pointer for landboard bearing maintenance - if you brush your wheels to get the sand off them after a landboaring sesh at the beach, be careful not to brush the seals that cover the bearings as you might actually be pushing grit into the bearings, eventually making them much harder to turn.

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Ye Olde Fashioned Skating 1970's stylee...

Oh bless them! Little did they know whilst practising their skating-into-the-wall trick many, many times that we'd all still be laughing at their obscenely short shorts 30 years later (I'm clearly only jealous - I had to wear my brother's hand-me-downs through the 1970's & 80's, including his old underwear & dubious combat phase, & I'm a girl... no one should have to suffer like I did!).

Check out this uber-cool retro offering from 1978 :

Happy weekend everyone!

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NASS '09 Skate highlights

Our little skate-dude Schaeffer Mclean's sponsors, Route One, bring us some tasty highlights from NASS 2009 - enjoy!

Also coming up, we have the ESBC '09, which should be amazing, check out: http://www.skateboardeurope.com/ESC09/ for more details - isn't summer just great?!

Think Decks...

These new decks pay homage to some of the most intelligent, witty & charming ladies of our day... you can now ride on Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, or Nicole Richie...

Thanks to http://www.blackstork.com/ for the heads up!

For the ladies among us, this deck is possibly a bit more appealing:

Designed by Unkommon Kolor,

this deck is a real beauty & has just a wee cheeky dig at the boys... I want one!

Skate news...

We're in the process of developing a little clothing line for our sponsored skaters & we're delighted to bring you a sneak preview of our work so far - any comments welcomed!

We'll also have some decals available for your decks soon, so watch this space...

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We've found some funny guys at http://2headedhorse.blogspot.com/ who have produced the following promo vid for Fuel TV:

We thought it might strike a bit of a chord with skate-nuts everywhere!

Schaeffer Mclean - sponsored skater update

More Skateboarding >>

How cool is our little dude?!

If you didn't get the chance to meet him at the recent opening of the new Glastobury Skate Park & want to meet the mini miracle in person, Schaeffer will be at the NASS (National Action Sports Show) at the Bath and West Showground in July. He says "I am looking forward to skating the street course and ramps and as part of the Route One Riders Team".

Schaeffer's Mum has given us all a real boost, by telling us "He is always telling other kids about SMB bearings and they frequently ask to see his bearings in action. He usually kicks down on his wheels very hard and shows them how long they spin for. They even have competitions to see whose wheels spin the longest and his always win!! As you can imagine he is very proud of being sponsored by you."

A big thank you to you both, we're really pleased & proud to be your sponsors!

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Roller-blading, Southern style

Southern Motion Trailer #1 from David on Vimeo.

We found David's vid tagged on his blog & can't wait for the second helping, coming out soon.

See more about David at http://ideasforlions.blogspot.com/