Gear madness support thread

[munchbox]

im in the end stages of madness
comfortable with my setup and shit, worrying about colors
gonna break in these spits today

[JM]

im in the end stages of madness
comfortable with my setup and shit, worrying about colors
gonna break in these spits today

Well mine just activated. Where did you get those wheels and what formula??

[munchbox]

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im in the end stages of madness
comfortable with my setup and shit, worrying about colors
gonna break in these spits today

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Well mine just activated. Where did you get those wheels and what formula??

zumiez (not my fault)
formula 4 classics 99a 52mm

[Mbrimson88]

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Starting another round of "Ohhh those colours look really nice" when I know I will just ride natural Formula Four wheels and take the graphics off after a day or so...

At least new wheels are a nice feeling, no matter what size or colour they are!

[goodatmeth]

Just switched from 8.38 twin, 14.33, 51mm to 9.0 egg, 13.88, 57mm. Using the same 8.25 trucks.
Starting the year as mad as possible

[JM]

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im in the end stages of madness
comfortable with my setup and shit, worrying about colors
gonna break in these spits today

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Well mine just activated.  Where did you get those wheels and what formula??

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zumiez (not my fault)
formula 4 classics 99a 52mm

lol, that’s exactly the only place they turned up for me on an internet search. Dammit

Maybe it’s a Zumiez exclusive

[munchbox]

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im in the end stages of madness
comfortable with my setup and shit, worrying about colors
gonna break in these spits today

[close]

Well mine just activated.  Where did you get those wheels and what formula??

[close]

zumiez (not my fault)
formula 4 classics 99a 52mm

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lol, that’s exactly the only place they turned up for me on an internet search. Dammit

Maybe it’s a Zumiez exclusive

search “spitfire multi swirl”
they were stocked by a ton of real skate shops earlier in 2023
any stock left is the last of them

[JM]

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im in the end stages of madness
comfortable with my setup and shit, worrying about colors
gonna break in these spits today

[close]

Well mine just activated.  Where did you get those wheels and what formula??

[close]

zumiez (not my fault)
formula 4 classics 99a 52mm

[close]

lol, that’s exactly the only place they turned up for me on an internet search. Dammit

Maybe it’s a Zumiez exclusive

[close]

search “spitfire multi swirl”
they were stocked by a ton of real skate shops earlier in 2023
any stock left is the last of them

Thanks. I really wish Bones didn’t have awful graphics. Spitfire has way better.

[Xen]

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im in the end stages of madness
comfortable with my setup and shit, worrying about colors
gonna break in these spits today

[close]

Well mine just activated. Where did you get those wheels and what formula??

Yeah Zumiez tends to have LOTS of swirls -https://www.zumiez.com/search/Spitfire%20Formula%20Four%20Multiswirl%20Pink

And usually well after they're gone from regular shops.

[moonordie]

I was happy and with an eased mind since I had things figured out and then it happened... Damn eggs. Got 2 8.375 (which I'm not fond of at all) and a 9.125 which is just ok.
Now I know to only stay in popsicle boards between 8.25 - 8.375 / WB 14 - 14.25 / length 31.7 - 32
Same goes for wheels, only OG classics, Conicals or Conical Full 99.

[DakotaRed]

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im in the end stages of madness
comfortable with my setup and shit, worrying about colors
gonna break in these spits today

[close]

Well mine just activated.  Where did you get those wheels and what formula??

[close]

zumiez (not my fault)
formula 4 classics 99a 52mm

[close]

lol, that’s exactly the only place they turned up for me on an internet search. Dammit

Maybe it’s a Zumiez exclusive

blacklistboardshop.com has some. I found a set of 52's at my local play it again sports.

[ejazzle]

Just switched from 8.38 twin, 14.33, 51mm to 9.0 egg, 13.88, 57mm. Using the same 8.25 trucks.
Starting the year as mad as possible

you chose chaos for 2024. Godspeed

[JM]

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im in the end stages of madness
comfortable with my setup and shit, worrying about colors
gonna break in these spits today

[close]

Well mine just activated.  Where did you get those wheels and what formula??

[close]

zumiez (not my fault)
formula 4 classics 99a 52mm

[close]

lol, that’s exactly the only place they turned up for me on an internet search. Dammit

Maybe it’s a Zumiez exclusive

[close]

blacklistboardshop.com has some. I found a set of 52's at my local play it again sports.

Thanks yo.

Google shopping turned up one or two other small shops as well.

Play it again! Noice. Must have been like $20?

[DakotaRed]

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im in the end stages of madness
comfortable with my setup and shit, worrying about colors
gonna break in these spits today

[close]

Well mine just activated.  Where did you get those wheels and what formula??

[close]

zumiez (not my fault)
formula 4 classics 99a 52mm

[close]

lol, that’s exactly the only place they turned up for me on an internet search. Dammit

Maybe it’s a Zumiez exclusive

[close]

blacklistboardshop.com has some. I found a set of 52's at my local play it again sports.

[close]

Thanks yo.

Google shopping turned up one or two other small shops as well.

Play it again! Noice. Must have been like $20?

I think they were more or less standard price. Skate-wise it's usually miscellaneous price point stuff but you get lucky sometimes and they always have reds & hardware. I pop in when I'm in the area.

[JM]

Madness averted on the wheels. I have brand new x97’s that I love. 

Instead I just bought another one of the same deck that I’m skating now, in the same DLX press number. (Thanks sale gear thread. Thank you once again for separating money from my bank account)

[goodatmeth]

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Just switched from 8.38 twin, 14.33, 51mm to 9.0 egg, 13.88, 57mm. Using the same 8.25 trucks.
Starting the year as mad as possible

[close]

you chose chaos for 2024. Godspeed

It works. I absolutely love this setup. After a month of struggling and just not feeling right on the 8.38, this 9" setup does exactly what I want. It even flips much easier. Ollies feel right again and give me so much more confidence to jump on rails without missing the lock.
It's like I forgot I could skate. Sometimes it's actually the setup that's the problem, but I don't accept it and struggle for a month on a setup because I can't "waste" a deck. That's what growing up poor does to people I guess.
Now I'm gonna stick with this 9" setup for the life of the deck.
Kiss kiss goodnight

[Gleefull508]

I started skating dragon wheels and now if I try any of my other set ups I feel like my board doesn't roll at all.

I'm happy that I found the one setup I really enjoy (aces and dragon wheels) but now I have no interest in riding my other setups. I guess I have to get more dragon wheels but these spitfires I have on there are basically brand new so it feels like a waste

[JM]

I started skating dragon wheels and now if I try any of my other set ups I feel like my board doesn't roll at all.

I'm happy that I found the one setup I really enjoy (aces and dragon wheels) but now I have no interest in riding my other setups. I guess I have to get more dragon wheels but these spitfires I have on there are basically brand new so it feels like a waste

Once you go X, it’s what you’ll always expect.

[camel filters]

I started skating dragon wheels and now if I try any of my other set ups I feel like my board doesn't roll at all.

I'm happy that I found the one setup I really enjoy (aces and dragon wheels) but now I have no interest in riding my other setups. I guess I have to get more dragon wheels but these spitfires I have on there are basically brand new so it feels like a waste

I have dragons on my cruiser and almost died getting stuck trying to 5050 a quarter pipe. Please tell me this gets better as I break it in because I am not going to wax coping and the wheels work well on other obstacles.

[Gleefull508]

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I started skating dragon wheels and now if I try any of my other set ups I feel like my board doesn't roll at all.

I'm happy that I found the one setup I really enjoy (aces and dragon wheels) but now I have no interest in riding my other setups. I guess I have to get more dragon wheels but these spitfires I have on there are basically brand new so it feels like a waste

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I have dragons on my cruiser and almost died getting stuck trying to 5050 a quarter pipe. Please tell me this gets better as I break it in because I am not going to wax coping and the wheels work well on other obstacles.

I got that a couple times at first but not so much anymore. This wheel has changed skating for me more than any other piece of gear ever has its insane

[Ok]

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I started skating dragon wheels and now if I try any of my other set ups I feel like my board doesn't roll at all.

I'm happy that I found the one setup I really enjoy (aces and dragon wheels) but now I have no interest in riding my other setups. I guess I have to get more dragon wheels but these spitfires I have on there are basically brand new so it feels like a waste

[close]

I have dragons on my cruiser and almost died getting stuck trying to 5050 a quarter pipe. Please tell me this gets better as I break it in because I am not going to wax coping and the wheels work well on other obstacles.

[close]

I got that a couple times at first but not so much anymore. This wheel has changed skating for me more than any other piece of gear ever has its insane

i haven’t given my dragons the time, skated them maybe 5xs.
my opinion is that they are keyframes. i don’t get it. they are cruiser wheels. this other stuff about them being the gift hasn’t matched up with my experiences.

but pushing down the street and ollieing up curbs is sick. truly.

[Rick Trapasso]

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I started skating dragon wheels and now if I try any of my other set ups I feel like my board doesn't roll at all.

I'm happy that I found the one setup I really enjoy (aces and dragon wheels) but now I have no interest in riding my other setups. I guess I have to get more dragon wheels but these spitfires I have on there are basically brand new so it feels like a waste

[close]

I have dragons on my cruiser and almost died getting stuck trying to 5050 a quarter pipe. Please tell me this gets better as I break it in because I am not going to wax coping and the wheels work well on other obstacles.

[close]

I got that a couple times at first but not so much anymore. This wheel has changed skating for me more than any other piece of gear ever has its insane

[close]

i haven’t given my dragons the time, skated them maybe 5xs.
my opinion is that they are keyframes. i don’t get it. they are cruiser wheels. this other stuff about them being the gift hasn’t matched up with my experiences.

but pushing down the street and ollieing up curbs is sick. truly.

Dragons slide much better than keyframes, though keyframes eat up crust a bit better.

[Slayer666]

I have two main setups rn and they are basically the same I used to have really bad madness trying all sorts of gear to see what I liked best and the conclusion was just to skate what you got in the end if you worry too much it’s just gonna fuck you over but I think it was beneficial to my skating somehow if you’re willing to take that plunge. My point is I still have some gear lying around from when I bought a bunch of stuff to try and I recently switched to 97a conicals on an 8.4 baker to skate an indoor park all winter then I bought and 8.5 baker and it didn’t feel quite right with the conicals something about it being a little less poiny than the 8.4 and my wheels being completely even with the deck made me have to switch back to the 99 radials I had setup before which are rounder wheels for it basically just not to bother me as much when I look down. But I still want to use the 97 conicals for the indoor park so I went back to my 8.4 baker but I also had brand new Thunder 151s lights left over from when I went crazy buying new shit I didn’t need so against my better judgement I currently have two super similar setups both with risers and thunders one with 54mm 99a radials on the 8.5 baker and the other one with 56mm 97a conicals on the 8.4 baker. I’m kinda hyped on baker too rn it’s been a while since I’ve had one and it currently feels the best rn I have no intention on switching anytime soon I’ll probably keep buying baker boards till I rot and die tbh. So long story short I don’t know why I have two setups it kinda just happened but I feel like the small difference between the two is kinda helping me skate in some weird way making me adjust how I do stuff ever so slightly (creating new neurological pathways in my skateboarding brain) Plus it’s kinda nice to spice it up and ride something else when I feel like it without it being too different where I can’t land my usual tricks. If anyone has time to read all this feel free to tell me how delusional I am or kook me as much as you like for the somewhat disgusting behavior of having more than 1 setup cause I’ve always been under the impression it’s kinda crazy to have more than 1 at a time until recently. I’ll probably go back to just 1 eventually but let me cook

[Gleefull508]

I have two main setups rn and they are basically the same I used to have really bad madness trying all sorts of gear to see what I liked best and the conclusion was just to skate what you got in the end if you worry too much it’s just gonna fuck you over but I think it was beneficial to my skating somehow if you’re willing to take that plunge. My point is I still have some gear lying around from when I bought a bunch of stuff to try and I recently switched to 97a conicals on an 8.4 baker to skate an indoor park all winter then I bought and 8.5 baker and it didn’t feel quite right with the conicals something about it being a little less poiny than the 8.4 and my wheels being completely even with the deck made me have to switch back to the 99 radials I had setup before which are rounder wheels for it basically just not to bother me as much when I look down. But I still want to use the 97 conicals for the indoor park so I went back to my 8.4 baker but I also had brand new Thunder 151s lights left over from when I went crazy buying new shit I didn’t need so against my better judgement I currently have two super similar setups both with risers and thunders one with 54mm 99a radials on the 8.5 baker and the other one with 56mm 97a conicals on the 8.4 baker. I’m kinda hyped on baker too rn it’s been a while since I’ve had one and it currently feels the best rn I have no intention on switching anytime soon I’ll probably keep buying baker boards till I rot and die tbh. So long story short I don’t know why I have two setups it kinda just happened but I feel like the small difference between the two is kinda helping me skate in some weird way making me adjust how I do stuff ever so slightly (creating new neurological pathways in my skateboarding brain) Plus it’s kinda nice to spice it up and ride something else when I feel like it without it being too different where I can’t land my usual tricks. If anyone has time to read all this feel free to tell me how delusional I am or kook me as much as you like for the somewhat disgusting behavior of having more than 1 setup cause I’ve always been under the impression it’s kinda crazy to have more than 1 at a time until recently. I’ll probably go back to just 1 eventually but let me cook

Great advice saying skate what you got. And I probably will eventually. It just sucks when I got all this new gear for a new setup that I don't enjoy/ feel like is making me worse.

[Xen]

Great advice saying skate what you got. And I probably will eventually. It just sucks when I got all this new gear for a new setup that I don't enjoy/ feel like is making me worse.

It can easily make you feel worse (all the gear) then it reflects in your skating (why doesn't this work?).

I've been bouncing between 8.25/14"wb (too small) and 8.5/14.25"wb (too big), all hovering around 31.8x, having no luck with those dims, I decided to split the difference and found one that is damn close to the median numerically (quite surprised it existed and is regularly available)....first few skates and it's working great.

Using what you have on hand = the way (with the exception of having something that totally doesn't work, e.g., only having 159s and 7.75 decks on hand, then you should go buy something that fits).

[moonordie]

Should change my CF for some V5?

[DarkPools]

Should change my CF for some V5?

I did the other direction and realized the V5 was way narrow than the C or CF, which in my head before trying both, I thought V5 and CF were nearly identical in width and feel haha

[mstuntbless]

Here I am eating my words. I have venture 5.8s on a 8.38 14.25 board with 54mm classics. How is this NOT feeling like the perfect set up?! It’s been about 2 weeks on it

[Sedition]

Was at shop. They had a DLX 8.5/14.25. I've had those before. And always hated them (too short and stubby for me). But this one was a IV stamp. And my favorite color top stain. Stood on it, and was feeling nice. So, I bought it. Gripped it at home, and it was looking real, real nice. How had I not liked this deck, several times, before? Switched over trucks/wheels, and was excited to go skate it. Then I stood on it. "Oh, right. You really don't like this thing, and now it's all coming back as to why." Skated it for about 2 hours, and pretty much hated every second. Went home, and took that thing right apart. Why did I even buy this? Did I think it's performance aspects were suddenly going to change...if I tried it again? Oh, right. I know why I bought it; madness. That last few times I had that deck, I gave it away. I think this time I'll keep it around, so a year from now, when I decide to try it again...I won't have to buy another one.

[Ok]

Was at shop. They had a DLX 8.5/14.25. I've had those before. And always hated them (too short and stubby for me). But this one was a IV stamp. And my favorite color top stain. Stood on it, and was feeling nice. So, I bought it. Gripped it at home, and it was looking real, real nice. How had I not liked this deck, several times, before? Switched over trucks/wheels, and was excited to go skate it. Then I stood on it. "Oh, right. You really don't like this thing, and now it's all coming back as to why." Skated it for about 2 hours, and pretty much hated every second. Went home, and took that thing right apart. Why did I even buy this? Did I think it's performance aspects were suddenly going to change...if I tried it again? Oh, right. I know why I bought it; madness. That last few times I had that deck, I gave it away. I think this time I'll keep it around, so a year from now, when I decide to try it again...I won't have to buy another one.

this is me, with indys.

sometimes a deck just seems like the one tho. i can’t buy boards online anymore. hate it.