8”s grrreat

[Ok]

Decks and trucks, anyone regularly enjoying 8’s?

[iw0]

Decks and trucks, anyone regularly enjoying 8’s?

almost made a similar thread earlier, awesome.
been stuck on 8's and 5.6's for a bit but recently messed around on an 8 with 5.0's and now my life is in shambles

[j....soy.....]

Any over 40 under 8’s?

[pdknox]

Strictly.

139s with 8” feels great. Would’ve went back to my childhood with 7.75 but the pickings look slim

[bbk]

I've been on 8" since it became the norm, 2008-9ish. Skated some 8.125s and a few sets of 8.18-25 trucks through the years, but 8" with 52 mm is pretty much what I've skated since then.

Edit: I'm 34 years, 183 cm/6 feet, size 9-9.5.

[MOE SYZLAK]

Oh yeah! I was riding 8.25 for more than a decade. Flip tricks just got to be to much work. Stepped back down to an 8 and got my Tre flips back. Been an 8 enjoyer for 3 years now

[Idk]

I skate the G08

[FatGuy92]

Once I get more money I'm going back down to DLX 8.06 shape (I still count this as a 8.0). The 14.38WB seems wonky for a small ish board but honestly so versatile if you have different trucks laying around to try

[Bupstop]

I regularly skate 8-8.125. I sized up from years on 7.75.

[Richard Skidder]

Just went down to 8.13 with 148. Don’t know if that counts but the ol flip and spin has been a lot easier.

[Ok]

Thanks all for the thoughts, and setup details.

I’m way over 40, spent lots of time under 8. The 7.5 era was my personal best time, because I was young, not because 7.5. Whenever I’d ride an 8 during that era I would land more tricks, chuckle (like a moron) about how insanely large the board was, and get another 7.5-7.75 asap.
2010 ish when people started sizing up, I tried, and that’s when the madness really kicked it up a notch: I am the most influenced/trend hopping rube of all times. There hasn’t been a skate trend I haven’t ran towards. That’s why I get so hyped when I see someone that’s skated the same setup/wheel size/shoes/whatever for a long time, it’s just beyond me to settle down.
There is absolutely things that work better on an 8.5, but as soon as I get on an 8* (ish) setup, stuff starts to get a bit easier, and doesn’t need to be the specific combination of wb, truck brand, tail degree, for sets of flat, wheel width, etc etc.
* 8” decks, and or trucks. 8.125 on 8” trucks totally fits under the umbrella of what I’m thinking about. When I’m in this range, the specifics start to be much less important. The dlx 8.06 with the longer wb sounds terrific. The 8.125 ps stix I’m skating rn feels a little too short. I think @TwisT said it in another thread, but there absolutely was a time where I could just grab an 8, fuck it an 8.25, and if I had 139s, no biggie. I can have a lot of fun on bigger boards, but it’s some baldilocks shit fr, fr, and absolutely no one wants to hear it.
As the most skate media influenced person I know, I started thinking, again, about this (8s) after watching Wade’s part. So many of my favorite skate video moments have come from people skating 8ish setups.
Blah blah, thanks for indulging my blabbering on a rainy no skate day.

[artskool]

I started skating 8" when they were often hard to find, around 2005ish. Only tranny dogs were skating decks over 8 at that time. Had to skate a bunch of hideous creature decks. Stepped up a little a few times, but always came back.

[Madam, I'm Adam]

Any over 40 under 8’s?

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[Ok]

Ah, meant to share my setup details and get some 8 ish setup recommendations:

8.125 quasi
Thunder 147 hollow lights
52 Conical Fulls, 101

The deck is short, and the wheelbite intense. I think forged thunders are 49 mm, so would that be the same as riding a 58 mm wheel on regular Indy’s? Is the truck height to wheel size ‘math’ one mm increasing the height, allows for an upsize of 2 mm in wheel diameter?
Another poster in here shared physical details, for reference I am 5’7”, size 10+ Shoe, old, 165+.

[funeral_tuxedo]

yes indeed my current go to is
8.0 or 8.06 bbs
139 Indys
52 or 53mm Spitfires

[rocklobster]

Another benefit is 8" decks are often on clearance since they became less popular and 8.25 seems to be the de facto size (used to be 7.75, then 8.0). You can often pick up 8.0 decks for cheap.

[Frank and Fred]

Any over 40 under 8’s?

8" was my go to out of necessity for a long time. mostly b/c I could not get anything wider on a regular basis. with 139s and 58mm wheels, it was a really bad combo IMO (despite how cool it looks in EE3)

And then when I did bump up to 8.25" I lost all my flip tricks. Now I doubt I could ride anything under 8 3/8" ever again and have learned more flip tricks than I could do when I was twenty on 9"+ boards. It is a funny old life. I love aging with my skateboards.

[Paul_Glider Skateboards]

I normally ride an 8.25 but we unfortunately sell the least amount of 8.0s out of all the sizes (kids these day  ) so i've been riding 8s for that reason alone. Because i mainly ride flat, i actually like it. kickflips got more consistent

[gsosa]

I started skating 8" when they were often hard to find, around 2005ish. Only tranny dogs were skating decks over 8 at that time. Had to skate a bunch of hideous creature decks. Stepped up a little a few times, but always came back.

I remember I had to get a Hook-Ups deck with a very shitty graphic (not so bad looking at it now, but I thought it was wack as fuck back then. ) because it was the only 8, this was like 2007.

[intendedreceivers]

…Blah blah, thanks for indulging my blabbering on a rainy no skate day.

Man, every time you post something, I’m thinking, “Shit, I might as well have written this about myself!”

Of course, I got seduced by the 7.5s and the tech kids, even though it didn’t fit what I liked to skate or what I was good at. Then I just stuck with the 7.5s and tried to skate my drainage ditches and parking lot gaps, too stubborn and too poor to figure it out.

Nowadays, I get my fun from trying everything, alternating between setups that make perfect sense and weird ones that end up being surprisingly fun. My first board in the 90s was an 8-inch, though, so I always keep a few in the stack. That size felt like a boat to me back then, but now it feels like a toothpick.

Of the small setups, my most recent favorite I think was the Black Eagle (yeah, yeah, it’s a little over 8 in.) on Ace 03s with 53mm F4 OG Classics. That was a beauty in more ways than one.

[tom]

My preferred setup for a long time was an 8.12 Anti Hero eagle, Thunder 147’s, and 52mm classics. I probably did my personal best skating ever on one of those setups. It just works

[El Freegano]

8 is great I have only once bought 8.25 in my life and it was enough to see that flipping gets way too heavy for me. I am 5.5(169 cm), 130(59 kg), shoes 7.5/8 and feel good in the range 7.875-8.125 (always with 8 inch trucks) but the gold is on 8, coz i can skate everywhere with that size, I got enough stability and i am still able to do my flip tricks easily.

[rocklobster]

8 is great I have only once bought 8.25 in my life and it was enough to see that flipping gets way too heavy for me. I am 5.5(169 cm), 130(59 kg), shoes 7.5/8 and feel good in the range 7.875-8.125 (always with 8 inch trucks) but the gold is on 8, coz i can skate everywhere with that size, I got enough stability and i am still able to do my flip tricks easily.

Stop, I feel the itch to setup an 8.0 with Venture 5.2 V-Hollow Lows.

My flatground was (and will always be) ass, stepped it up to an 8.25 since I'm doing way more grinds and slides these days.

[El Freegano]

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8 is great I have only once bought 8.25 in my life and it was enough to see that flipping gets way too heavy for me. I am 5.5(169 cm), 130(59 kg), shoes 7.5/8 and feel good in the range 7.875-8.125 (always with 8 inch trucks) but the gold is on 8, coz i can skate everywhere with that size, I got enough stability and i am still able to do my flip tricks easily.

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Stop, I feel the itch to setup an 8.0 with Venture 5.2 V-Hollow Lows.

My flatground was (and will always be) ass, stepped it up to an 8.25 since I'm doing way more grinds and slides these days.

You are gonna kill it with this setup The flips are gonna be sick on the lows, but as an all arounder the v-hollow HIs are gonna be better on an 8 inch deck (with a 14 wb), coz you will have very good kingpin clearance for the grinds and a super good medium height.

[Bupstop]

My preferred setup for a long time was an 8.12 Anti Hero eagle, Thunder 147’s, and 52mm classics. I probably did my personal best skating ever on one of those setups. It just works

Oh damn that’s the same set up I run!

[caked]

yessir! I got back into skating in 2018 after a decade away. Figured I could still skate a 7.75, since I'm a lady and have smaller feet than dudes.
Turns out growing into a full adult and gaining some weight meant I snapped those first two 7.75s I bought a few months into skating again. Had a Leticia Plan B 7.75 deck that lasted me quite awhile though.

Finally graduated to an 8.0/8.06 spring of 2021 and haven't looked back. I love it. Mostly skate flatground and occasionally parks. The 8.06 full SE Real board I scooped has been my favorite. Skating a 8.0 glue board right now and definitely had to get used to the wheelbase (shorter than most DLX 8.06 boards). Running 8" Krux K5s. 54mm conical fulls that I really like.

[Xen]

I can't do 8s, loose trucks and wittle trucks don't work for me. Now an 8.125 and 148 is great and the smallest I'd go.

For the longest time, I ran 8.18" Theeves and 8.18" DLX boards. Much fun, and that's where my flippity tricks were at their best. Shame DLX doesn't make many 8.18s, if at all, anymore...especially the 8.18 SE...so good.

[eSK3]

Been riding 8-8.125 for the past 6 years.
Current set up
Hopps 8
Ace low 33
51mm f4 worn down to 49ish
Swiss 6

[Lukabrazi]

Skate mostly 8” - 8.125” boards with 5.2 venture lows .

Recently inverted the kingpin and added venture low bushings and have been able to get the trucks much looser than normal and without significant wheel bite.
 
On 52mm f4 classics that are probably more of a 50MM now which has been really nice 

[DarkPools]

Haven't skated an 8" set up since 2008. Got a hand me down 8.25" from a friend after my fresh 8" Chocolate/Thunder Marc Johnson got stolen at school

I haven't gone below 8.38" since 2010 and I'm super tech! So I wonder what skating an 8" feels like with 11.5 shoes!

Anyone else run well over size 10US and small board combo? I always scaled up alongside my shoe size growing up