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Hubba Wheels

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ5926761
Source-derived summary

Hubba is a skateboard wheel company that has sponsored many professional skateboarders over the years. Hubba has a product line of more than 30 different wheel models. Along with wheel models, Hubba also sells a variety of soft goods, for example T-shirts and calendars, as well as specially designed skateboard grip tape, and colored skateboard hardware. Hubba uses a wide cast of female models for their ads, which lures in a large percentage of their fan base. These women are also featured on the annual calendar.

History

Hubba Wheels was founded by Fausto Vitello, the founder of Thrasher and skateboard wheel company Spitfire Wheels.

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This entry incorporates text from Hubba Wheels” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.