Slushcult's $10 Grom Wheels and the Step Up From Toy-Grade Plastic

Four things you would normally want before spending money, none of which are in the material:

• Diameter and width. No measurements are given. Wheel diameter changes how a board sits against coping and how much clearance you have on a 32–34 mm deck, and nothing in the listing tells you where these land.
• Bearing type and size. "Precision bearings" is a category, not a spec. Whether they are a standard size you can replace separately isn't stated.
• Axle compatibility. The listing doesn't say which trucks these are cut for, so if you're running something unusual, that's a question for the shop rather than an assumption.
• The durometer scale. "100 duro" on a plastic wheel doesn't name Shore A, D, or anything else, and the two are not interchangeable. Treat the number as the brand's shorthand until it's clarified.

Also unstated: whether $10 buys a set of four. The product photos show four wheels, but the listing text gives a price and a product type, not a quantity.

Nothing I can attribute. The material in front of me carries no community reports on Grom wheels — no threads, no Discord verdicts, no unboxings — and that is the honest answer rather than a paraphrase of the brand's own copy.

So the listing's claim that the bearings "spin super smooth" stays where it belongs: in the listing. A bearing wheel at this price has to make compromises somewhere, and the usual places are shield quality, how tightly the bearing seats in the core, and how the plastic behaves after a few weeks of grinding a metal-edged ledge. Plastic is harder and louder than urethane and will not grip a painted table the way a softer recycled urethane wheel does. None of that makes it a bad wheel for the money; it makes it a different wheel.

If you buy a set, the useful things to report back are: whether the bearings still spin after a month, whether the plastic flat-spots, and how they sound on wood versus a built park.

If you are riding the wheels that came on a complete and $10 is what you have, this is a sensible place to put it — bearings and CNC machining at that price are a real step over molded toy-grade wheels, and you are buying from a shop that drops product weekly rather than a marketplace listing that vanishes.

If you are already on bearing urethane and wondering whether a $10 plastic wheel is a sidegrade, the answer is almost certainly no. Plastic at 100 duro is a different feel on the surface, and nothing in the listing suggests Slushcult is claiming otherwise.

The caveat stands on both counts: until diameter, width and bearing size are published, you are buying on trust in the shop rather than on the numbers. That's a reasonable bet at $10 and a poor habit at $40.

Where to buy

The yellow version is listed on slushcult.com, and the white one has its own listing. Both were $10 and in stock on October 10; stock moves, so check the listing before you count on a color.