Our Inline Warehouse staff has chosen the best urban skates for 2024.
based on comfort, ease, and value. Urban inline skates are meant to be durable and provide high control for freestyle or commuting skaters.

Rollerblade Lightning Skates

Now offered in both men's and women’s models.

Comfort: 9.5/10

These are one of the most breathable urban skates from Rollerblade with a lot of ventilation holes. Inside, the liners support the breathability with holes in the bottom with material that is sporty and very durable. The liners have anatomically shaped padding, and they are removable if you’d like to replace them. They also come with foot-board sizers so that you can get the perfect fit in between sizes.

Ease: 10/10

Rollerblade intended to make getting in and out of your skates as simple as possible so that you can skate wherever and whenever. They have memory buckles on both the cuff and 45-degree section which can be micro-adjusted to your exact size so that you can fully un-hook and hook them onto your feet. The only thing in your way is the standard lacing, which provides a comfortable wrap in the molded shell.

Not only are the boots easy, but the mounting is also easy as the boots have metal mounting blocks that allow you to customize the position of the frames. This also makes the energy transfer so much better with the aluminum frames which are also compatible with more mounting options.

Value: 9/10

We’ll be honest, they are not cheap but they do come at an incredible price considering all of their advanced materials and components. Metal mounting blocks are an advanced feature and so are aluminum frames. Even the bearings are good quality at SG7 with wheels that are durable and fair in quality. The molded shell although heavily ventilated have a very sturdy structure with bumpers that are replaceable.

FR Skates FR1 Deluxe Intuition Skates

Comfort: 9/10

This skate is the free-ride or freestyle skater’s dream skate. The dream skate starts with the best liners on the market, the Intuition liners take some breaking into but once they do they mold to the shape of your foot by heat naturally from skating or you can heat-mold them as well. They are also lightweight, low in volume, and made of high-density foam that is perfect for the most precise power transfer.

Ease: 7/10

We said that these skates are a dream skate but is the dream ever super easy? A beginner may not appreciate how un-simple these skates are but an advanced skater would crave this kind of complicity. The boots have adjustable cuffs, micro-adjustable buckles with metal buckles, lacing that goes into the liners, and outer lacing that all wrap together for an incredible fit. Underneath the frames are compatible with different mountings but the boots have a 7-hole energy plate that makes mounting seem limitless. In conclusion, they are not simple skates but they are the perfect skates for a die-hard urban skater.

Value: 9/10

The price may seem high, but it is right! We’ve mentioned them above but the Intuition liners are the best and on their own are $220 which is almost half of the price of these skates. They also come stock with premium wheels, FR Street Invaders which are well-loved by many freestyle skaters. FR Skates was created by freestyle skaters in France, Sebastian Laffargue and Gregoire Pinto who designed them to be the ultimate urban skate. Again, the mounting blocks and aluminum frames are great for skating in precision but also add to the skate's overall quality and durability.