The Conference has reportedly licensed a patent originally issued to a Japanese schoolteacher in 1936 for a tractor skate frame, which will finally enable aggressive inline skaters with offroad flexibility and allow for full tread grinding with spool heights of up to 90mm. Sources say this revolutionary new frame will "breach the gap" between aggressive, speed, and offroad skate specialties.

Scan via ModernMechanix via June 1936 PopularScience