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In
the spring of 1993, two inventors, Bert Lovitt and Warren Winslow
began working together to develop an all terrain skate. Winslow
was an avid skater and a skier. He lived on a farm in Northwestern
Illinois, and wanted some kind of wheeled ski he could wear
so that his dogs could pull him around his farm. His
idea was to take a pair of skis, cut them off short and put
large wheels at the ends of each ski. Sort of like a scooter
for each foot. Lovitt was not a skater but as an inventor,
he didn't like the "scooter for
each foot" idea. It was not elegant and could not be patented. He suggested
that they take a pair of large hub-less wheels and put a ski boot on rollers
inside the rim of each wheel. |
