Product News: Sneak Peak at the 2006 Rollerblades New Frame Will Stretch to Fit Both Street and Road Skating New Product to Include Ultra-Light Racing Frame and More Big Wheels (Page 2 of 2) Last But Not Least! One change skaters probably won't notice is that the new skates will fit differently. The reason for this: Rollerblade completely remodeled the inside of the skates for 2006 by building them around a new set of lasts, the forms that boots and shoes are built around. Rollerblade interviewed more than a thousand skaters before making the new lasts, said the company's marketing director, Nick Skally. "The idea was to build a skate with a better balance of comfort and performance," he said. "It's easy to build a more comfortable skate. You just bury it in foam. The hard part is to make a skate that is both comfortable and performs well." Talk about this story
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