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rodgon
Joined: 16 Jul 2008
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my new baby. enjoy!
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LD skater since 1971
Joined: 09 Jul 2008
Posts: 126
Location: Leucadia,California
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Very cool board rodgon all black. it should carve up the bike trails really good. The only thing is watch the black board when sitting up side down while resting. Black absorb light and heats up fast I hate to see the fiber glass delaminate from the board like on all black surf boards.
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rodgon
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| its actually a dark purple. not black |
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samhell
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
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Location: San Diego, CA USA
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Hey guys, just an update.
I have launched my new website.
I hope everyone is having a blast on their boards.
Theold site is long gone, thank god!
http://www.galaclandsurfing.com
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jat.
Joined: 28 Jan 2008
Posts: 91
Location: Norway, the realm of crappy weather
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I've had that web page on my display for the last 24 hours and man .. I just want to send off my paypal and get to the waiting part, but the icey and salted roads outside make me hold off until January or February.
I could start to consider what colour I want it in ...
John, would you mind posting some samples of the different colours, excluding the orange, the trio James posted at the start of this topic and the seductive dark purple Rodgon has shown off (leaving blue, black and raspberry to be revealed ... and yellow if there is another type of yellow than Yandal yellow, which is the coolest name for a colour yet)?
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jat.
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Location: Norway, the realm of crappy weather
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Just saw the updated pictures on the site.
Great stuff!
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samhell
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
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Location: San Diego, CA USA
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Jat, here are some shots of the colors of my boards, they aren't all LDP's,
but they are the same colors available. The yellow I offer is Yandal yellow.
Telal, pink, blue
The green
Black
I don't have a shot of the raspberry, but it's a cool color somewhere between pink and purple, very bright and happy... 
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pavedwave
Joined: 22 Oct 2007
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Location: seattle wa usa
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| egret wrote: | | pavedwave, have you gotten more miles on yours? Opinions? Have you changed up the setup? |
Wow man, yet another question directed right at me which I've completely overlooked...by finally taking some winter vacation i'm starting to do things like clean up the garage, and notice 3-month old posts 
In general, this is a stiffer ride than most of my other boards, so I offset that by mounting my 72a 75mm Avilas, and all soft-angled risers. I also drilled extra WB holes for more flex. If I was really going to make this my long haul, cross-country board, I'd ask John to take out a ply or two to add more flex. The big thing about big rides is getting the vibrations out of the game.
In designing this deck the main idea to go more lo-tech, back to basic roots, flat top, and simple surfboard-longboard lines. Galacs designs nail that look and feel. You want to start out with a little more stiffness than you might with a multi-layered carbon-glass composite board, because all-birch or all-maple decks will have more of a breaking-in period where they eventually get a slight but perfect rocker feel to them. They won't snap-back as much as CF, but I don't use this as my high-speed cyber miler board either. This one's my Alki and Greenlake cruiser.
The whole LDP thing really started for me on the FlexdexPro60 deck, which was 5-feet of flexy birch. But the thing that was really needed with that board was more width, better grip, and a shorter wheelbase to make pumping actually efficient and sustainable-- which is what this board was designed to do.
The grip is holding up amazingly, and this is pretty key because on a flat deck unless you start playing with foam wedges or skyhooks, you need to have that extra grab to your feet.
Now that I'm actually taking some time off, I'll get some more time on this baby, in the garages!! Southern Cali may have sunshiney boardwalks in the winter, but we have lots of lightbulbs and security cameras when we cruise 
Lovin the new site look John! |
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Parson Adams
Joined: 02 Jun 2008
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Location: San Antonio
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James and John,
I am really having trouble dialing in my GALAC. I guess I just got used to the mermaid, but I really love this board and want to cruise it more. My set up for the Mermaid is 20 degrees of wedge in front with 4.3 bennett--running blue, white, hanger, orange. 12 Dewedge in the rear with RTS and yellow khiros. I run 1 soft wedge for each at 5 degrees. I also use Purple/Blue combo Speed Vents.
I am running the same set up with the GALAC, but I feel like I have no leverage. It also feels like there is way too much effort needed to keep up momentum.
Any suggestions? This is really frustrating. I played with bushing combos--what I am using for the mermaid seems to really work, but maybe not so for the Galac. What is funny is that I run the same set up with my Spoon Nose 45 and I go for miles on end. I really want to be able to do this on the GALAC.
Another question...is there a correlation between camber and concave (Mermaid) and a flat surface (GALAC)?
Thanks to anyone else who may chime in.
Jim
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Parson Adams
Joined: 02 Jun 2008
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Location: San Antonio
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| Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:33 pm Post subject: problem fixed |
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Problem fixed. I lowered my front wedging from 20 degrees to 15 degrees...and BAM...smooth, fast, and sailing. My average speed today actually went up--10mph to 15 mph.
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