My new summer ride..

[nate]

Not positive yet, we'll see how this board I'm building turns out. But probably some Randals would be good. Though I've heard Indys are super fun and a nice change from Reverse KP so I've been thinking of trying that out.

[EmptiMind]

Indys are great, I love them on my Comet FSM. That's my all-purpose/slide/other-stupid-stuff board. For downhill, I wouldn't recommend an Indy type truck. Reverse Kingpin is much better.

Also, they're pretty short. I don't think they'd work well on your drop design, you'll probably end up getting a bit of rail bite.

Here's my stuff.



Left to right, Zooey, Lilith, and Marla.


Savvy


How Zooey used to look.


How Zooey looks now.


A picture of everyone, besides Savvy, she's hiding.
Left to right, Zooey, Lilith, Ayanami, Marla, and Delaney.

[nate]

Haha very nice indeed. Dropped indys must be super low.

I'd be tempted to switch to indys on my M1 and then move my randals to the drop deck.

[EmptiMind]

I own more Randals than anything else, not only cause they're cheap, but they're quality.

[nate]

So my new longboard is (was) finished. Super fun, but it started to break at the drops. So now it's back under the knife. (meaning more carbon fiber at the weak spots) But I love the drops, so easy to lock yourself against them. Only other problem is not quite what I had expected. Railbite is definitely not an issue, but I'm getting wheelbite even with my <70mm wheels. I was hoping to be able to run some bigger wheels (maybe Hesher Snoballs) but I'll have to reconsider.

And my wheels are getting a little flat-spotted/ovaled. 70mm Flashbacks at about 59mm now.

Anyways, longboarding is fun.

[EmptiMind]

Hah, I hardly have any wheels less than 70mm. My drop decks are running 90mm and 80mm wheels. That's the BENEFIT of a drop deck. Might've made the necks too wide, or too short.

[nate]

Haha yea. The nose is too short. Plus the deck is over an inch thick. So that eats up some clearance. Oh well live and learn.

[EmptiMind]

Yeah, both my drops are thick. They're tanks, but man, walking back up hills really sucks. One weighs about 25lbs fully setup. With my bum knee and my normal 1 to 1 and a half mile hills. I go down twice if I don't have a ride, then I hibernate for three days.

[Greco]

ultimate longboard...

[Dave Bloom]

That was one of the coolest things I have ever seen.

[EmptiMind]

New board, no name yet. Thinking Envy.

[nate]

Envy would be a great name, really good looking board. Suprised to not see some Indys on it though.

I got some 215's and put them on my M1 dropped. Needs some modifications though, no wheelbite, but hangarbite. Thinking about making some hangar-wells haha. Not close to wheelbite at all really. Also got some of the new Earthwing wheels. 70mm Floaters. Seem pretty nice so far.

[EmptiMind]

This is a freestyle fast board. I've already got a freestyle slow board. Plus, I'm out of 215s. :P

I'm getting wheel bite, I'll need to make its neck longer.

How you liking the 215s? Awesome, eh?

[nate]

Yea, but I don't really like the stock bushings. Need to play with them a bit. What do you like in yours? Do you mod the kingpin for taller bushings?

[EmptiMind]

I've got a Core baseplate. So I can get real busihings in there.