Necro I suppose, but the thread hasn't moved down the board much so I'll post anyway
Some extra information about the history of the duncan wheel.. just because I can and I don't get to tell these stories that often
In the late 90s guys like Stan Zygo, Mo Chavez, and various others started modding cheap Duncan Wheels to take bearings. I 'think' Stan was the first to do this, but it may have been Mo.. either way, it caught on.
Steve Brown had long liked the shape of the Wheel and took this idea and ran with it.. it led directly to the development of the original Freehand sometime around 2001 (I could be a little off on the date).
Stan, being a metal worker, at some point made an aluminum version of the wheel.. it was fairly crude/simple but they worked well. He originally sold a few directly, then was convinced to sell a handful through the yoyoguy store. They used spintastics guts at this point I believe.. though other versions existed.
I bought one and desperately wish I could find it now...
Stan kinda vanished from the yoyo world shortly after, and stopped making the metal wheels. Years later (~2003/4) somebody tried to buy my Stan Zygo aluminum wheel.. I refused, but it occurred to me that I could make them myself.. from that was born the Immortalis.. essentially a modernized copy of Stan's work.
Those early bearing wheels directly or indirectly led to a -ton- of yoyos... the fh, fh2, fhz, immortalis, world's metal zero (metal zero that predated the duncan one by about a year), the duncan metal zero, etc.
Kyle
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