LIKU Unisex Fitness Inline Skates

TL;DR: The LIKU skates are pretty good, I'd say they're about equivalent to the Rollerblade Zertablade. The Zertablades are pretty nice but you can't change the frames, but these are almost as nice and have a few unique feeling features for the price range. I'd say it's essentially a wash and you basically can't go wrong unless you *really* don't want to fiddle with screws.I'm just getting into skating, so this review is from my perspective as a beginner who has done a lot of research. I just bought the Rollerblade Zertablades, which ended up fitting my partner perfectly, so she inherited them. They seem like a good baseline to set this review up against. I've taken a few sub 3 mile trips on these so far.Let's start with the boots. In skate-terms the boot is a hard boot, which means that it has a hard outer shell with a soft inner liner that can be fully removed (to wash or swap or whatever you might want to do with it). The alternative is a soft boot, which means that it has fabric or soft parts integrated directly into the design of the boot, like having a sports shoe upper on your skate. Both seem fine, I don't see any problems with the design so far. The plastic seems hard and strong, but doesn't necessarily radiate quality, basically it seems fine. The closure system on the boot is pretty nice and keeps the foot snug in the skates when you're wearing them. I personally found these boots pretty comfortable, but they definitely run slightly snug in a few places. I'm a US size 7.5 men, so I got the size 8 after (measuring my foot and then) consulting the sizing chart and the right foot still runs just slightly snug on my foot. Not so much as to be particularly uncomfortable so far, but I can definitely feel the squeeze a bit already. The other squeeze is on my ankle, so I've ordered a gel ankle sleeve to help mitigate this a bit as I've seen people mentioning having this issue with inline skates in general. They run about $20 and we'll see how they end up working out when they come in. As you can probably infer, the pain isn't horrible, but it's bad enough that since I intend to wear them fairly regularly I'd rather figure out a way around it than just toughing it out. I didn't notice this issue on the Zertablades. Finally, the last nice feature about the boot is that it's not riveted to the frames (the frames that hold the wheels, aka the 'rollerblade' bit), it's screwed on so you can adjust it or swap the frame for a different one with different qualities. The Zertablade (and most other similarly priced skates on the market, sub ~$100) have fixed frames that can't be swapped, which makes this a pretty nice feature at the price range. It allows you to replace a damaged frame or swap to different feeling frame instead of buying whole new skates. Pretty slick if you ask me.Next, the frames and rolling parts. It's important to mention here that they send you a rockered skate setup. This means that instead of the wheels all being the same size and flat to the ground, the wheels are set up in a way that the front and back wheels are farther away from the ground than the middle two wheels are, allowing for a smoother transition back and forth on your skates and slightly more smooth and flowing motion in them. The way this setup does this is by your frames being flat across the axels and including 4 slightly smaller diameter wheels for your front and back two wheels. This is great because in my opinion the rocker is super fun to ride on, but I still have the option of buying 4 new 80mm (or 76mm if I have smaller feet) wheels to fix my setup so that it's not rockered anymore. The wheels and bearings seem to be of serviceable quality. I've ridden skateboards for a while so I know really nice bearings, and these are not those. But they're not awful, I can ride around without feeling sticky and they don't grind or anything, they're just the cheap metal shielded bearings that you get with cheapish setups where it isn't a selling point. It's really not a big deal, I roll fine and it all feels pretty good to skate on right out of the box. some of the bolts on the axels are a bit tight out of the box, so when you're putting on the frames loosen them all and then tighten them all down to just tight enough so that the wheels don't rattle side to side audibly and not too much tighter and you'll be much happier with their roll. Also ABEC means basically squat, it's an engineering term about tolerances so they're just saying it to sound smart, don't be fooled. If you wanted to replace them right out of the box go out and get a *16 pack* of Bones Reds and you basically can't go wrong, they're the standard in skating in general as far as I can tell. (2 bearings per wheel, 8 wheels -> get the 16 pack)Now for the general feel of the product I feel like these are a really nice way to get into skating. For a hundred bucks or so ($102.99 w/ prime @ time of purchase) you get a nice set of beginner skates with the capacity to expand upward with you, if you want. For me, the ability to tinker with frames and the inclusion of a nice rockered setup pushes this into pretty equal competition to the well name brand's option at this price point. The zertablade has a slightly nicer set of bearings and the plastic seems slightly higher quality, but in the end the difference is really like the difference between skating with a Mac and a PC, you're just using a different shaped mouse to click a different shaped icon to open the internet: in the end it's really mostly the same.Now to address other reviewer's issues with the product:*Size up and they are fairly comfortable, if not quite as much as the soft shoe zertablades (WHICH RUN NARROW)*I haven't had issues with the screws holding the frames to the boot, but I tightened it down fairly tight*I can't speak to the brake, as I haven't installed it. That said the hardware is all right there in the box.*I don't in gods name know how the fellow bought their ice blade, I don't know if that's still a thing. That said, you *can* absolutely buy the full rockered wheel set, which is kind of nice because the set of wheels is actually fairly cheap and I seemingly don't have an inline shop in town. $40 for 8 wheels, 90A*I did not have an issue with the hardware (@ back screw person) at all, aside from the tightness of the front and rear axels on the frames, which wasn't even that big of an issue. Make sure your hex wrenches are seated well and turn slowly and you won't strip screws so much. That said, they could have had faulty hardware, I just know I did not*The gold is super shiny painted on over plastic parts. It seems fairly clear in the pictures and it's not the absolute best execution of it in the world, but it's not an awful effect and they certainly don't look like trash. The color on the frames definitely isn't gold, but it's clear from the pictures that that's the case. The frames are yellow orange, like yellow gold without the luster or depth I guess. It's not a bad look in my opinion.*And once again, I got all the hardware and separate parts to properly assemble all of the bits*And finally the instructions are indeed basically trash, but it is also fairly intuitive to understand and if you really have that much issue with the instructions, the seller *starts the listing* with a YouTube video showing the instruction. It's not properly hyperlinked there, but it's there friends.

I noticed a lot of reviews mention that the brake cannot be installed and that they are poor quality. THESE ARE AMAZING SKATES !! They come with a spare set of screw pieces that you replace in the back of the wheels on the shoe you want the brake on. my father installed the brake with no issues at all. they fit perfect ! super cute and super comfortable too. Really worth the money as long as you read the instructions properly and install the brake! People don’t know that the parts that come with the skates are meant to be used on the skates. but they are!

Love these ! Stylish and comfy . Would give 5 stars but I can’t get the brake on, screws don’t fit , don’t understand , but it is what it is .. so I’m using them without a brake Wish me luck ! Highly recommend if you don’t care about stopping safely !!

It looks nice a sleek, easy to assemble, make sure it’s adjusted well and always carry tools when using for the occasional wheel tightening

They aren’t made great and spending what I spent on them I expected better quality. As you can see in my pictures, the blades don’t sit well up against the boot. You have to put them together yourself, and I tried the two different position holes on each boot to see if it would sit better, and there’s still a gap between it no matter which position you secure it to. I have only rode them once- and had to reattach the bottom screws twice because they would fall off while blading. I almost ate the pavement the first time a screw came out and my wheels went sideways. And then the second time attaching the blades back to the boots, I went to put them back on my feet, barely even touched the bottom strap and it snapped in half!!!! 😡 I don’t recommend. And I’m so bummed. They are visually so beautiful. Don’t waste your money.

I read a lot of reviews before picking these . They’re fast and comfortable. They run a little big . So if you are half size order up not down . We live in New York City and they are perfect for zipping around.You will have to assemble them tho and the inner part of the skate will separate from the outer part if you don’t hot glue it in. I think it might be so you can was them. I’m telling you this in case you decide to tie the shoes to your book bag via the laces you might loose a skate if you aren’t paying attention because it’ll quite literally separate and drop out from the skeleton.Otherwise these are fantastic! Happy Skating 🥰

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I think the skate fits very well and I sized at a 10 using their chart 25.4 for a 25.5 . The clips tend to catch each other which is not a huge deal as I’ll probably 3D print something but coming to these after 3+ years of skating the bearings seem super rough like they weren’t greased. If the bearings were better it would be 5/5. As for the wheels my front one popped out because I didn’t tighten it all the way so make sure to snug them up all the way.

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Like the color, the finishing. Wheels look quite good. Material used is ok, not what you would expect for the price. I could not fit the brakes second stew,gave up.

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