Morley Rollerdrome Blade & Skate

Excellent feel to the floor, but there are quite a few divits. Great for kids but weekends can get very busy and difficult to skate with the birthday parties (and the kids who are first timers attending the parties).
Star Classes are very good to help you get your feet & improve your skills. Available 9am Sat and Sun.
All the equipment feels a little old, and dusty, and I wouldn’t eat at the café. But skate hire is great & everyone is really friendly. :)

Morley Rollerdrome was my home away from home in my teens so I have a soft spot for this place. They have updated the hire skates and are slowly but surely giving the place a make over, most recently the good old booths were replaced with nice new ones.
The only complaint I have is that they painted over the amazing graffiti on the outside wall, that a fellow skater painted almost 2 decades ago, and replaced that with crap graffiti that is not kind to my eyes!

Morley Rollerdrome is almost too much fun. And the fact that walking through the doors takes you back to the decade when big hair and shoulder pads ruled the world is really just one, massive bonus.
You almost feel compelled to don a side ponytail and all the denim you own just to help contribute to the fabulous 80s atmosphere. And I maintain that’s not a bad thing.
The Morley Rollerdrome is great for a fun night out with friends — and a fairly cheap one at that, running at around $ 10 a skate. Not too shabby considering most clubs charge around that as an entrance fee — and you don’t get to roller-​skate in them.

This is a great place to have an eighties party. Granted the roller skates are pretty old as I dint remember them being so hard to control back in the eighties, so I’m going to blame my skates not my ability to skate.
The guys who work here are a laugh and they stood around and took the piss out of us all whilst we fell, fumbled and hopped around the Rollerdrome. We only got told off a few times and we were pretty loud and obnoxious.
They may have been relieved when our evening was cut short by my husband straining his ankle I have never seen someones face go so white so quickly!
I love this place, even the smell takes you back to the eighties– it also has a grittiness about it, just like how things were back then… not everything needs to be shiny and new!

It’s a bit 80s. The rink and its surrounds are dim and funny. The interior looks like it hasn’t been updated since Jane Fonda ruled the world.
Blue leather booths abound and photos of skaters in fanciful leotards teamed with skin coloured stockings adorn the walls. The photos are not well light which gives them a decidedly retro feel. Maybe this is all part of a master plan to coordinate the 80s feel of the rink. There’s a party room featuring much fluro furnishings too. Mintox.
At about ten bucks for a skate this 80s time machine is worth its weight in heavy skate shoe gold.
Some current tunes, 80s and 90s hits blast from the stereo system and coordinate with the flashing bright party lights. Woo hoo!
They run skating and rollerblading lessons here. Skating hit heights of popularity in the big and bold 80s and the moves are appropriately showy. I relish the fact I can perfect my ‘shoot the duck’ and Mohawk turn here.
Rollerblading was popularised in an era of grunge. Docs, angry girl music and checkered shirts meant the height of fashion had been attained. Rollerblading lessons are appropriately minimal, far less feminine and showy. But the guy who teaches them is a touch scary… and a bit serious.
The free skate on Friday night is fun… mainly popular with teenagers but people from all walks of life attend.