SK8 FANATICS · CUSTOM ROLLER SKATES
BUILT TO ROLL. MADE TO BE YOURS.
From your first pair to your next custom build, find the skates, wheels, and skater expertise here at SK8 Fanatics. Custom roller skates, shoe-to-skate conversions, specialty wheels, and skate upgrades. Designed, assembled, and tested by skaters.
FILE 02 · ORIGIN OF THE WHEEL
Vintage wheel.
New twist.
Friction is a choice.
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Inspired by the original
The vintage phenolic wheels of the 1930’s were designed for grip and control. They had 2 to 3 deep grooves cut into the treads with rubber bands inlayed to hold the floor. In 2007 we reverse engineered the obsolete wheels without the bands = zero grip, the most slippery wheel on the market and we called them Fiberglass. The irony is the point. Originally designed for grip, and re-engineered to unleash the wheel’s maximum potential.
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Micro by design
No one had made a wheel designed to be 100% slide. No one had made one this small.
At just 32 mm, SK8 Fanatics Micro-Fiberglass Wheels are built to let go. Low to the ground. Minimal resistance. Maximum freedom.
Born in the U.S., the fibers are now rolling in Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, the UK, and beyond.
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Cali-Slide
We built an entire ecosystem around the art of the slide.
Every year, Cali-Slide brings skaters from across the country and around the world together for our signature skate party and famous Slide Competition. It’s where visitors discover the Cali style: micro wheels made to slide, custom skates built into dress boots, West Coast skating, rhythm, dance, and personal style.
You come to learn the culture. You bring your own style. You leave part of the slide.
Cali-Slide 2026 · Nov 12th–15th 2026 · ▶ Watch the promo Get tickets →
SK8 FANATICS DOCTRINE — modern tech, vintage soul: we take the roller-skate parts that history got right and re-engineer the rest.
FILE 03 · INTERACTIVE SKATE
Tap a part.
Learn the skate.
Every panel of the boot is a chapter of the flipbook; every piece of hardware is a part worth knowing. Explore it here, or open it full screen ↗.
FILE 04 · INSTRUMENT
The grip-to-slip meter.
Grip-to-slide is a dial, not a debate. Drag the fader from full urethane grip to full fiberglass slide and see which wheel lives there.
60 / 40 — where every skater starts.µ ≈ 0.41 · WAXED MAPLE
SPEC · 60/40
60/40 Clay
Clay wheels: sixty percent grip, forty percent slide. Enough hold to trust, enough release to feel the drift.
FILE 05 · FLOOR SESSIONS
Watch the floor work.
SHORTS — HOVER TO ROLL
OUR SERVICES
FILE 06 · OFF THE BENCH
Custom builds,
signed out of the lab.
No two leave the bench alike. Vintage plates, modern bearings, micro-fiberglass or hybrid wheels — built to the skater, not the catalog.
LOOK FOR SHOP THIS LOOK — TAP THE PINK DOTS TO BUY THE PARTS
SHOP STACY BALDWIN BOOTS — TAP A COLOR · $150
FILE 07 · YOUR TURN
BETA THE BENCH — spec your build.
The same configurator we run in the lab. Boot, plate, bearings, wheels — assemble your spec and send it to the bench.
BETA. We're starting with our most popular skate, but we build custom skates in any style. More styles are coming to this tool. Want something different today?
FILE 08 · START HERE
Not sure where
to start?
Tell us why you skate and how you roll. A builder reads your answers and comes back with a plan: boot, plate, wheels and price, matched to you.
- 1 A few quick questions about your style and skill
- 2 A real builder reviews them, not a bot
- 3 You get a plan and a price before anything is made