Thread: Longboarding

I have a Rayne Nemesis, crail trucks, and some new retro freeride wheels. The new wheels are so much easier to slide than my older Manx wheels. Those things would grip so frik'n hard. They are fast though......

Time to revive this old thread to see if any of you blokes out there now are into this stuff. I bought myself a Longboard for Christmas. Haven't been on a board for over 30 years. I may have a death wish or may just suffering midlife crisis...Again, but that's all beside the point. I'm getting into it more for the cruising aspect. plenty of long bike tracks in my area and not too many hills. I'm not that insane as to hold a desire for finding any big bloody hills either! I should add, I bought a Penny board for my oldest daughter to have a go at skateboarding. If she takes to it, it's something we may be able to do together. we already go on bicycle adventures through some of the nature reserves in the area over the weekends, so why not add another aspect to what we can do ?!


Mick

Sweet! I have been wanting a thread like this..

I started longboarding in the late summer/early fall this year.
I got my first board from a friend, its a Sector9 Pintail, some 48.5" in length

I love using it for both cross country riding, as well as down hill bombing.
I cannot yet slide, but hey.. i JUST figured out how to speed tuck before the snow came.
Before knowing how to tuck, i hit 40mph (64kmh) on a local hill. I want to give it another go in full tuck.. but now the snow hit, and hit hard.
The hill is about 1/2-3/4 of a mile long, and has a rather steep grade, and is actualy a saddle of sorts.
You go down the one hill thats steeper, but shorter.. and up the other thats shallower but alot longer. Then turn around, and go again.

This is the deck of my longboard, I painted it because i was restoring a bike for my ex (at the time, gf)
This is how i was going to paint the bike, Im actualy thinking about re painting the board again.. but in metallic gold and satin silver. (The same pattern)