How To: Install a roller skate back stop (Quad skates hill brake)

Last video I spoke about doing a bit on my backstops and here's that video. So these are the backstops that I run on the back of my Bauer NS. They're universal bolt-on so you can, as far as I can tell, put them on any boot, ideally with a metal hanger. They're a good emergency brake, some people refer to them as a hill stop, and yeah I find them great for rolling down a hill and stopping in a bit of an emergency you know. I've got Clouds rubber stops on the back and I just find that they're a bit more reliable, a bit more easier to tell what they're about to do and they're gonna be nice for stopping. I bought these from Ollie's Skate Shop again and they sell it with a generic stopper on it, reasonable price and like I say I think it goes on my skate so I'll pop a link in the description down below. So you're gonna need a 10mm socket with a wrench as well. You'll need a 13mm socket, that'll do your axle nuts. Included with the kit you're gonna get the toe stop plate with a toe stop on and a bolt through it. You're gonna get this u-bracket and you'll get your fixings, washers and nuts. You're also gonna need a screwdriver, flathead or phillips head. If you don't have a ratchet handle with sockets then you might get away with a spanner, pliers, mole grips or anything like that. So first up we're just going to take the wheel off of our roller skate. You should be able to put it on with just one wheel off and that's how I somehow managed it the first time. You're going to offer the plate up to the boot, just make sure it fits on there nicely before you start bolting things up. You can see me struggling to get that u-bracket round, there's a method to it but it sort of seems like one of those puzzle games. I think I'm going to try for a bit here and eventually give up and here we go, take off the other wheel. 13mm socket goes back on and off it comes. And just like that, that's much easier. We'll pop the piece on, pop on the two washers included, finger tight the two nuts included and grab our 10mm socket to tighten them up properly. You still have to do left, right, left, right a bit otherwise you might end up with it tightening up a bit funny, ending up at an angle. I tightened one of them up a little bit too much and then I had to go back, back them off completely and reseat them so it was sitting nicely there. Just the final tweaks to get it flat. Obviously next step, pop your wheels back on. 13mm socket for these axle nuts, tighten them up. I like to tighten them all the way and then back them off a quarter turn or so. Just make sure that the bearings and wheel can spin freely. There it is spinning freely. Now we have it, that's a backstop installed, ready for escape. Just to cover all bases we're going to change over this backstop for a red one. They're exactly the same thing as the tow stops if it's for the screw-in tow-ins rather than an adjustable tow stop. So I can chop and change these from the front to the back. Just a screw out with a screwdriver, swap it over and screw it back in. Get that in there nice and tight so it doesn't fall off. You're ready to go. Just a little tip, I put mine on my right foot just to start with and was told that it was clear on foot because I was riding around with my left foot in front of me all the time on its back. Apparently that's your dominant foot, but my advice would be pop it on one of them if you're not sure and try the other one, see what feels better.