On big wheels

Periodically I like to inspect the ads that Google throws up on my site. Technically its a violation of the terms of service, but I think in this case it's alright. You see I'm not supposed to go visit the ads with the intention of driving up the hit count and thus the money Google pays me, rather once every few days I just like to make sure the ads are topical, that is to say I want to ensure the ads relate to my web site in some way.

Anyway there was (is?) a recent ad on my site for cheap skates (or something to that effect) you go to the site and it turns out to be, Shopzilla. Now I've gotta rant for a second, if I want a search engine, I use Google. What the hell good is a search engine of a search engine. Is this some sort of new distributed recursive programming? Guys, DNS is a good example of distributed systems doing something recursively, Shopzilla is just annoying. Then again Spam is annoying but since somebody out there makes money on it, our inboxes just fill with crap for Viagra or Cialias. (I wonder how the makers of those drugs feel knowing so much spam out there is just selling knock offs of their product?)

Anyway I noticed a link to Skatebuys, a web retailer - of less that outstanding quality - of all things skatish. (Hint, a better designed better priced site would have to be inlinewarehouse for a major online store to carry Luigino is pretty impressive. Although I have found the best places for speed skates are the Mom & Pop shops.) But back on the Skatebuys website I noticed a number of what looked like 3 wheel speed skates. I know there's been talk but I have not yet seen any evidence of commercially available 3 x 125mm wheels. I have to ask, does it make sense? At some point wheels size get too large, trust me I've learned this the hard way. I'm not saying I regret for one second my 4 x 110mm setup, I'm just saying that at indoors and on the track I have to go 4x100 or smaller. 4 x 110 is great on a level trail when you go in a nice straight line, but I get my rear-end seriously whumped every time there's a tight turn or a hint of an up hill. Now I'm sure as I improve the hills and turns will not be such a big barrier, but even so, does 3 x 125 make sense? Somehow I don't really think so, I think there is some bio-mechanical limit and we may already be close? But then again I wonder what people said when Eddy Matzger first appeared stage right with 100mm wheels?