Bones

Founded by George Powell

Wheels

Started just a year after the first Powell Peralta decks were released, George Powell’s work in creating BONES Wheels started in the kitchen where the chemical-savvy creator crafted a formula referred to as MDI diphenylmethane diisocyanate.

Composed from a pair of commercial grade compounds, the particularly difficult blend called for 90% of one compound to precisely be mixed with 10% of the other. Challenged by this specificity, Powell faced difficulty in determining the proper ratio before eventually dialing it in. The result of this mixture was an opaque wheel whose solid white color was the first of it’s kind, unlike all the other semitransparent wheels on the market. Judging by their skeleton-like hue, these wheels were subsequently dubbed, ‘BONES.’

With this in mind, it is fitting to say that George Powell’s offshoot company, BONES Wheels, has followed a similar trajectory of engineering revolutionary new concepts in the urethane department and shattering the molds (both literally and figuratively) used to shape skateboarding wheels as we know them.

Bearings

Bones Bearings started when George Powell saw the need of skateboarders for faster bearings in the early 80's. After searcing for a good bearing manufacturer that would still be affordable to skateboarders George found a manufacturer in Switzerland that had bearings that were faster than any that they had at the time. He worked with them to design a bearing that would be ideal for skateboarders.