Rollerskiing: a bit scary

Asphalt is hard and abrasive. I have to admit that cruising down hills on rollerskis with no brakes is proving a bit scary.

I'm working on my gear and technique to make it less sketchy.

I started with a pair of rollerskis that were given to me. They appear to be homemade and the wheels look like they are from inline skates. They had NNN bindings when I got them. I tried my classic race boots (planning to just do some double poling) as these are my only NNN boots. Result was face plant into the asphalt. Then I scrounged a pair of SNS profil bindings so I could use my SNS combi boots. This is better but still more unstable ("tippy") than I'd like. There are other issues too... one ski wants to veer left all the time (probably due to worn wheels). Perhaps slower wheels would keep the speeds down to "slightly less scary".

This morning I hauled out the piggy bank and ordered some new rollerskis (Pursuit T6101 from rollerskishop.com) with pilot bindings.

1) I hope these wheels will be slower (I ordered the speed 2/speed 3 wheel set)

2) I spent the extra dough to get the lowered shaft of the T6101 (it uses forks similar to Marwe) for added stability

3) pilot bindings will let me use my pilot skate boots which have more torsional stiffness than the combi boots

4) Bigger (and softer?) wheels should roll more smoothly

I think knee and elbow pads are in my future as well.

More time on rollerskis should improve everything... I hope.