Girl Bannerot OG Knockout Loveseat 9" x 32" x 13.875" wb
Tensor Maglight 8.5" (stock bushings with bones washer on top. Initially I tried soft bones on bottom sans washer, but it ballooned out on me real quick so went back to stock and no issues so far)
Spitfire Conical Full 52mm
Bones Big Balls
SC Slimline rails
After lurking the board for the last year and a half and trying various combinations of trucks, wheels, rails and boards, feel like I finally found my goldilocks slappy setup. Shout out to @Xen for singing the praises of maglights. This is my second pair and they grind so good and are lighter than anything I've ridden before. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like the trucks are the real star of the slappy experience. Especially once you get grooves going and can just sit on your grinds. After trying some maglights in the 8.25 range with a polar ww hjalte (2nd best slappy setup so far), I knew I needed to find a good board to compliment some 8.5 maglights.
Enter the loveseat (good looks to @mattchew for his love of the loveseat). I've ridden the dane 1 and various heroin eggs, mutants, etc., but seeing him repeatedly talking about it got me curious. Right away I liked that it had a full, functional nose, and the slightly squared tail felt really good for the curb dancing. Additionally the 13.875wb felt comfortable and nimble, especially paired with the lightness of the trucks. Also, the availability of the boards are great. I didn't want to get into a situation where I fell in love with something like the symmetrical egg and then have to wait multiple seasons hoping for it to return. Craig has a ton of these bad boys available and they seem to be a mainstay (just ordered three more to put on ice).
I also went through a variety of rails, tried different versions of the lil jawns, but I found the sc hard plastic slides and feels much better than the cutting board style of the jawns.
As far as wheels go, I've skated the spitfire classics, tablets, conical fulls and bones spfs, and have had the best luck with the tablets and conical fulls. Both seem to go up curbs well and I've had no issues slipping out like I did with the classics.
After finally narrowing all that down, I will say I'm very curious to try out the craig couch with titanium 159s and either the tablets or conical fulls with sc rails. I guess the madness never truly goes away, but if this was all I had to skate for curbs, I think I'd be a happy man.
Bonus was that I skated this at home depot and AVE was there warming up and after giving him a head nod, he pointed, smiled and winked at me all at the same time.
Topic: Big Boards 9"+( I wanna hear big boys talk about their big boards) (Read 547105 times)