Longboard - Reborn

[Arclite]

So many of you heard about how I cracked my D.L.H. (Dervish replica)

well my dad and I.....

the pictures tell the story.


































Fun little beast to ride.
It threw me around the first few rides.
This thing whips around when you slide it.
I have video to prove it.
Will upload it later today.

[Bullwings]

pretty nice. You could turn that thing into a crazy pumping machine - just swap out the rear truck for something like the Seismic stable turn that your dad bought, wedge that front truck 7 degrees and throw on some khiro orange barrels and you have yourself a little street slalom pumper - they don't make very good sliders though.

Nice top floor - i missed it the last time i was there. We never made it past the third floor with all of the snowboards...

[Arclite]

We're trying to get a group night session at that structure on a saturday.

We went 3 nights ago - AMAZING!

He bought the bennett's for pumping i believe, they wont be permanent on that ..... thing?

It's wedged about 5 degrees with another flat riser - we were having problems with wheelbite with 66mm retros!

We even did wheel cut-outs, but i dont have any pictures of that.

Albert - you missed the 2 special boards that are coming next...

[pokkis]

If and when you put there soft Khiros, please take care same time of wheel bites too so make sure that you have relevant rising installed too, otherwise you will have another whip very soon.

[Bullwings]

Yeah, pumping decks need lots of clearance due to the highly active front truck.

Most full time dedicated LDP decks sit around 5 to 5.5 inches off of the ground - not very friendly for pushing... But you're supposed to be pumping anyway.

If you look at slalom decks, you'll see that they're risered quite a bit. I don't know if you remember the axe2.5 that i brought, but that one was risered quite a bit.

As for more garage and skating sessions, I'm out for a bit - I gotta finish applications to grad school and junk before I have anymore fun. Hopefully, the board I ordered from Subsonic is done by then. I'm getting a double drop board 42" long. it should have some flex too. Essentially it was hard finding a one off board with all of the specs I wanted. Your dad could have built me a board with the drop-through and flex, but no concave or drop down.

I also could have bought a Rayne with the double drop and concave that I was looking for, but zero flex, and at the same price as a subsonic.

Anyway, once I figure out how to slide, I can bump up the speed in that garage, which I was kind of worried to do. The place I skate is about 4 lanes wide with zero traffic since it dead ends and is located in an industrial/business office area - night and weekends are nice. it also has a really long run out, but it's pretty short - only about 1/5 of a mile - maybe around 1200 feet long.

[Arclite]

Double-drop boards we're originally made to push i believe.

I personally am not sure if I like drop-down boards, as that subsonic was too short for me.

I wanna try an evo because it has more foot space.


Video is uploading to Vimeo.

[Bullwings]

I personally am not sure if I like drop-down boards, as that subsonic was too short for me.

I wanna try an evo because it has more foot space.

It's short for a reason - it's an LDP board first, and a pusher second.

The LDP part pretty much confines the wheel-base to around 26-31 inches (measured inner screw hole to inner screw hole - actual wheel base will vary based on trucks and wedging).

The longer the wheel base, the harder it is to pump a board at slower speeds, but the better the cruising/clipping speed of the board.

Shorter wheelbase is easy to pump - like on that Axe 2.5 that I was pumping UP the parking garage slope, but has a slower cruising/clipping speed.

Anyway, that subsonic was definitely not a downhill or sliding board - I mainly modified the wedging and truck setup to make it more stable and carve friendly, but the drop-down part makes the usable space on the board rather limited on an already shorter "longboard."

By contrast the Evo is 41 and has a 37" wheelbase, definitely a tougher pump on flatland and most likely grueling with any sort of incline or headwind.