pavedwave longboarding

peppermint rhino · Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 57

I was thinking about picking up this board for a good pusher. Would it make for a good pusher and cruiser or am I kidding myself? Also, how well does it take speed humps. I'd probably use it for riding around campus and my niehgborhood which has a lot of speed humps.

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

the Evo's a bit on the heavy side, but I still consider it a great pusher. the one I still own was from G-Bomb Mark and has a handle cutout which makes it double awesome for hiking up hills and carving down. as for the humps that will depend what trucks and wheels you decide on. i ride it mostly with randals and 76mm SpeedVents so its pretty low and I do scrape on curbs and bumps if they're short and high. nowadays a lot of speedbumps are kind of big and gradual (to make SUV's bottom out, haha!!!) so no bottoming out issues over those.

IMO the Evo is totally undercelebrated in design. the genius is this is the first deck I'm aware of that "wedged the front, dewedged the back" -- built right into the angles of the board. other board designers started mimicking it but I'm surprised it actually took a couple years for this to happen.