Official Longboard Thread

dervish is a great choice

Originally posted by IceCoast lmao im with you too guys. this season ive spent well over $2000. and im only 16 i buy and resell tho. so in the end its not that much

nice, are you selling anything good this year? i'm looking for a cheap set of cartels, est on non est, or any good burton binding (ie no mission, custom, or freestyle)

no thats cool, i just fell for the huge burton sales on boards and now i need burton bindings to go with an ics board. i wish i could put unions on it. but whatev, i've got a long time til thats got to be worried about.

meanwhile, i'm stoked about longboarding. i was looking at loaded's website, and i think i'm going to hit up one of the challenge series and get 50 bucks off my dervish when i order it.

Jeez Ice good thing your husslin' the stuff your not using 2grand is a lot especially at 16. 

Originally posted by panther sick. i might just have to wait and get some of those. i have an $80 price adjustment that i might just have to keep until then. do you ride unions?

ive had two pairs of unions this season, i honestly had nothing but issues with mine. im going back to 390s next season, i got a pair off here cheap, and will use them for the rest of the season.

I have a Kracked Skulls Scimitar. Awesome board for the money plus the guy who makes them has AMAZING customer service!

http://www.bustinboards.com/

My buddy rides for them... looking to pick one up this summer

I posted over at the Silverfish forums, but was curious what the folks here would recommend for first time longboarder:

I'm 5' 11", 180 lbs, size 12 feet.  The daddiesboardshop.com faq is pointing me towards  something around 42", 65-70mm wheels, Randall 180s, Bones Reds bearings. I've also heard that a kicktail board is better for a beginner.

As for what I'm doing- I can't see myself bombing any hills at 40mph, or being a super trickster.  So something forgiving and general-purpose, the closest thing to a quiver-killer in longboards if that exists.

I'm trying not to get hung up on looks, but man, those Arbor decks look awesome.  I've also been recommended KS, and a few from Earthwing.  The tone over there seems to be to stay away from Sector 9 and Loaded.  The Bustin Boards also look pretty sweet, but I don't know how good they'd be for a beginner.

I love it short...

The top short board out there looks like the Longboard Larry Salamander at  35"

Well I jumped on the Loaded bandwagon. But not the Dervish, I just ordered the Vangaurd Flex 2 from Daddies. It looks like a Dervish without the drop-thru mounts. It has mad flex. I hooked it up with Randall 180mm trucks, 76mm Gumballs 81a wheels, IDS ABEC 7 Bearings, and some Venom bushings. 

Yea your avatar helped inspire me.

Like everyone said, Sector 9's are awesome. Own a mini, love cruising on it.

You guys need to check out the holesom. It is a new board designed with the help of Long Board Larry. It looks really nice it even has hemp in the deck instead of fiberglass. They have two more boards coming out but they are pricey. The holesom is $190.

i want the freebord soooo badly. snowboarding on pavement!!

nice dude. yea i havent gotten to ride much, it was 40 degrees here today.
i have off school all next week, so ill be snowboarding almost everyday.
probably about7 days out of the next 9. my season is coming to a end soon. ill be longboarding when it warms up some.

sounds awesome dude. theres alot of paved walking paths here in the woods and around lakes and stuff. and i just got my license so it will be fun this summer to find new places to cruise. when im not working.

i think that generally people who dont know the sport of longboarding, think that you have to have hills, when thats just one part of what you can do.

damn.
your probably guna have to tighten those trucks up when they come.
i got mine from there, and they were so loose when they came, that i couldnt do 2-3 hard pushes before wobbling all over the place. lol.
and no its not my balance, ive been skating for about 8 years and always ride my trucks loose. hahaa

Originally posted by panther i just bought a loaded tan tien. its so sick, i cant wait to ride it. i messed up my knee pretty bad last week snowboarding though, so i might have to wait a week or so

Don't get a sector 9, go to modern in centerpoint mall(I'm guessing you live in GR since you were in the B.O.B. rail jam this year) and they carry neversummer. My friend just got the NS hiest and it is sooooo sick.

lol, ya loadeds are expensive.
im probably guna get it as a complete, and have my dervish for cruising and the tantien for everything else.

good thing im 16 and dont spend my money on anything besides snowboarding, longboarding, and xbox.

oh ya and now gas

well you have a badass girlfriend. Im getting durians on it, 86a. or stimulus 86a, which ever ones are the 70mm. i think its stimulus.

i have randalls, i dont have any complaints about them, but im guna get paris on the tantien, just to try something different. ya know?