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This boot may look familiar. It's the same boot shell as of today's Salomon skates. This skate is called the ST8, and is not UFS. I am not totally sure when this skate came out. I am almost positive is came from their second line of skates. I am gonna say around 1999. Anyways this skate was awesome. I never got a pair. I came into the shop a few minutes too late, and I had to get the new st8 but it was brown skate, lame. So this skate finds its way to my house. A friend got them from a friend. That friend left them at my house for a few months. I claimed ownership, and took them to the grinder.

I was determined to find a better way to mount the wide bodies. This first thing I did after I stripped them of the stock parts, is to flatten out the bottom of the skate. I made it simple and grinded the whole boot flat. Why waste time. I figured if plan A didn't work, I still have perfectly broken in night soles that will bolt right on. One thing I hate about Salomon is their poor excuse of a soul plate. There is a lot of dead weight, and it's all bad. So I wanted to get rid of some of that useless plastic that haunts these skates.

I spent a bit time trying to come up with a way to only have the wide bodie on the skate. They made it kinda of hard to modify it. I didn't want to get too crazy with this thing, I wanted to go out and roll. So I cut the stock souls and put them under the wide bodie. Then I bolted the frame straight to the boot. UFS holes-there are none. This is a crucial step. What happens if you mis drill the holes? Luckily Salomon's have changed little over the years. The non UFS boots, match up with the UFS soul plates. Making a perfect template for the UFS holes. This makes the frame sit so low to the ground. And with the thickness of the two soul plates, we're talkin low. Almost too low, but so far so good.

When I skated the widebodies on my ST90's I couldn't get used to them. I couldn't find the sweet spot where I like to balance top souls. That's when I got the night's soul plates. I don't know if it's because of the frame sitting so low, or if it's just that I am on hard boot skate, with the hybrid liner. But wide bodies feel a whole lot better. I know that shaping them didn't help(but they look better), maybe it is just a combo of things. Less weight, hard boot, smaller boot shell, nice liner...I don't know. So far it's working awesome...

This skate weighs in at 3.85lbs.