I don't understand this. Although I won't say something extravagent like "my asphalt is hotter than anyone else's," I will say that I doubt anyone is skating on surfaces hotter than I do. When it hits 95 during the day with no clouds and no cooling off in the night, the surface just gets hotter and hotter. Going barefoot is a great way to suffer 2nd-degree burns.
I'm running two sets of Dan's Avalons, two sets of Howard's Cambrias and a set of Avalons I got from JG in 2002, which might be some of the first out of the mold. My wheels are perfect: no wear, no lip, no cones, no cracks, no concave, hardly any deformation of any kind at all.
I do, however, do one thing that might be considered "different" from just about every other racer I know: my wheels NEVER leave the surface. I don't kickturn, spin or any way "lift and hit" my slalom wheels on my slalom boards when I ride. I've learned that most wheel coning and edge chipping comes from this almost-unconcious "slamming" of the wheel when stopping and spinning the board around to go in a different direction.
I wonder how much of this Donald, Gary and Dave are doing to their wheels? It might be telling as to why your wheels are deteriorating at a rate much faster than mine.
Oh, for the record, I skate about an hour a day, two or three on the weekends. so it's not like my wheels are sitting in the corner gathering dust. That, of course, is another excellent means of extending wheel life. You don't get any faster, but you can brag about some fabulous equipment.
