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Sure, the development started long beforehand, but the origin of the modern MPC speed wheel first gained attention when it hit the track in L’Aquila, Italy on September 4, 2004…
Pro speed skaters are often seen with more than one type or color of wheel on their skates, trying to get the maximum performance from their skates in race conditions. A little know-how will help you get more out of your skates when you’re next assessing a race course…
When skating conditions are changed by water – either because of falling rain or just a wet skating surface, how do you change your skating, and select the right wheel setup, to get the best performance?
MPC technology really is just that, our own. We possess Patents and have active Patent applications for the very engineering innovations that make MPC speed wheels the performance leaders…
As wheels become larger, speeds ever-higher and technical advantages increasingly critical, MPC speed wheels lead the way in speed skating performance. Not only because we are working with teams, athletes, chemists and scientists every day…
“It was a very, very slippery course so, we knew in the first laps that it was going to be a breakaway, and if not a breakaway then a very small peloton, because everybody had to work hard – it didn’t matter if you were leading or in the back of the pack…”
On the skates of unsponsored athletes, Road War wheels took all 3 podium places in Julianadorp at the Mens 2009 NK Marathon. Following 10 of 12 senior victories on MPC at the NK Track Championships…
Luca PrestiWinner of the 2004 World 300m sprint title – on the never-before-seen MPC Black Track wheels, Gregory DuggentoHolder of the 200m World Record (16.209s – Anyang, Korea 2006) set on MPC Street Fight wheels, Brittany BoweSwitched to MPC Street Fight wheels on the track in 2008 (Gijon, Spain – World Championships) and set the [...]