| The Mad
Scientist |
Matter Wheels
are designed and chemically formulated by the
greatest chemist our industry has ever seen. Having
years of proven
experience, Neal Piper has been leading the pack
for well over a decade.
His passion for speed and hunger for victory continues
to produce
technology that brings the sport to a whole new
level, as the records
clearly show. |
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| Industry
Changing Hub Technology |
Solid-Core hub technology has been the
industry standard for
years. Neal chose to use this hub for the 80mm
and 84mm products
because it best compliments the smaller sized
wheels. Furthermore,
with the size of the hub on these wheels being
considerably smaller,
the weight of a solid core hub isn't detrimental.
Hollow-Core engineering is responsible
for breaking more records
in a single year than any other hub in the history
of inline skating.
Hollow-Core keeps the wheel virtually flex free
in the corners, making
it an indoor skater's greatest tool. At speeds
that skaters reach today,
the flexability of a wheel becomes extremely important.
This technology
greatly reduces the amount of squealing and barking,
allowing you to
attain speeds never before possible with larger
wheels.
EMT (Energy Management Technology)
is Matter's newest hub
design. Taking the Hollow-Core and incorporating
a concept of substantial rebound for outdoor,
EMT completely maximizes your efficiency.
This new design turns the entire core of the wheel
into a spring,
allowing it to give back virtually all the energy
put into every push.
EMT allows for flex and thus gives you incredible
grip as well. |
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| Remarkable
Urethanes |
Inline skating wheels
are made up of organic compounds called
urethanes. When mixed correctly, these
urethanes can display incredible physical
characteristics and adhere to specific
surfaces. Neal Piper, Matter's ground
breaking chemist, is more familiar with
this than any other person in the world,
and it shows. This process is a very specific
science and is by no means as easy as
it sounds; If it were easy to make an
amazing wheel, everyone would be doing
it.
Our outdoor urethane families are Juice,
Code Red, and XG. Juice was specifically
designed with roll in mind and has proven
to be the best road formula in the world.
Juice is poured in 3 different hardnesses,
displaying incredible diversity. Being
such a special and unique mixture, the
Juice family works surprisingly well on
many banked tracks around the globe as
well. Code Red was engineered specifically
for cement tracks, so the focus was split
equally between roll and grip. XG was
Neal's solution to slippery conditions,
so he designed this compound to grip.
Indoor is the hardest formula to get right
as many companies can testify. Matter
has spent years working on the perfect
formula to bring indoor skating to new
heights and we've no doubt struck gold.
Our two indoor families are G-Series and
Crazy Glue. G-Series is a true indoor compound
comprised of 3 separate hardnesses allowing
it to cater to any skater's needs. Crazy
Glue is a separate compound that was constructed
for those who don't have great conditions
to skate on or skaters just looking for
that extra burn in their work outs.
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| Gauging
Hardness |
Matter
wheels are not rated with traditional hardness
ratings produced by a durometer. The reason for
this is Matter's hub technology gives the wheel
a whole new set of characteristics that cant be
read by this device. Matter uses a scale from
F0 - F5; F0 being the hardest, F5 the softest.
This scale is relavent
only to each individual family, meaning that an
F1 Juice will not have the same traditional hardness
rating as an F1 XG wheel. On the scale to the
right,
green is softer, red is harder. |
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