pavedwave longboarding

pavedwave · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 1120 Location: seattle wa usa

Out on the trail and at the garage a few times now... digging the setup (blue venoms in front, Stim/Khiro in back)

Will be pulling back the wheelbase a notch, and working on the flex!

cappa · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 42

Very cool, in glam-metal way Smile

Specs? Is it glass & wood?

thomas · Joined: 01 Jan 2009 Posts: 11

Looks cool. But why not make the board a bit shorter and mount the rear truck on the kick? I think it might be nice to have your back foot on the kick, like in slalom.

pavedwave · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 1120 Location: seattle wa usa

Yeah I'm moving both trucks back a full inch or more, the nose one is too far forward right now, and the rear will have multiple WB, one is not out on the tail but right on the transition, I'm going to move it back just another notch. WB is the part I can do here...tuning the flex is the trickier one.

There's glass, there's wood, there's glam-metal sparkles!!

LDPanda · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 418 Location: Seattle, WA

I got to ride it around a lil bit at our sesh last week. I agreed that the front truck needed to be moved back a hair, id like to see how it would be with the rear truck mounted on the tail, but i also know that my feet would be screaming if i did ldp in a slalom stance (with my rear foot up on the tail). I thought the flex was very nice for my weight (200lbs) but i can see how you lighter guys might want a lil more flex from it. The composite materials were very responsive imo. Ill be intersted to see how much sk8kings is able to sell the deck for with all them newfangled materials. The sparkelies were cool, the deck you brought was ungripped, so i didnt push it too hard. I know sk8kings has their own 'hardcore' grip, but i wouldnt mind if they stuck edger grip on it Smile

i like mine super uber grippy, like cut your hands to shreds grippy.

pavedwave · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 1120 Location: seattle wa usa

The Sk8kings AXE LDP is cancelled as of this time. Considering I started this conversation up with them at Hood River almost 2 years ago, it is a little disappointing. But I think given the time and cost it would take to make this deck work just right, I think it's a wise decision until they're ready to do so.

I did appreciate Sk8kings support, their enthusiastic jumping in and dedicating a "LDP page" to this right off the bat. But at the same time, I felt this made the page incongruous with Yandall's skogging thing. So in a really long-winded email to Maria, I recommended the changes that she put into place just a few days later, when the page went from "LDP" to the "Distance, Endurance, X-country" page. I just listed out those three words, and Maria saw "D.E.X." jump out at her, and ran with it. So for me, that was probably the most serendipitous event of this whole collaboration.

There's always a longer story, but I'm going to leave it at this for now.

blake · Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 198 Location: Seattle

that sucks i was looking forward to it i liked the idea?
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blake · Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 198 Location: Seattle

P.s. what are you gunna do with the Motley crue (fav glam metal band) board?

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