Insights

Skate Bearings Explained: ABEC Ratings, Sizes, ...

What ABEC ratings really measure, 608 versus micro bearings, steel versus ceramic, and the maintenance habit that outperforms any upgrade.

Bont Skate Sizing: How to Measure Your Feet and...

How to measure your feet for Bont boots, plus the full size chart with standard, narrow, wide and double wide fits.

Do I Need Custom Boots? How Bont Customs Are Ma...

What a custom speed skate is, how Bont builds one from a mould of your foot, and how to decide whether full custom is worth it for you.

Semi Custom Bont Boots: The Fit Fix Most Skater...

A semi-custom boot fixes fit problems a standard boot can't, without the price of full custom: wide feet, skinny ankles, mismatched feet and more.

Getting a Good Bont Boot Fit: Models, Widths, B...

Getting the perfect fit from your Bont boots: model differences, width fittings, orthotics, room for growth, blister fixes and boot care.

Inline Speed Skating Wheels: How to Choose Diam...

Wheel durometer and diameter explained: which hardness suits track, road and marathon racing, plus the flexband and hub technology inside Bont wheels.