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Anyone order from warehouseskateboards?

I remember from the Sale Gear thread that some people had their cc info compromised after ordering from there. I haven’t ordered from there in a few years but I never had any issues when I did. YMMV

[manysnakes]

Anyone order from warehouseskateboards?

Yes, I bought some bearings from them during a sale earlier this year. Everything was legitimate.

[DarkPools]

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I remember from the Sale Gear thread that some people had their cc info compromised after ordering from there. I haven’t ordered from there in a few years but I never had any issues when I did. YMMV

I think you're remember Skate Warehouse that had the CC info breach. I don't recall Warehouse Skateboards having that issue

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Anyone order from warehouseskateboards?

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I remember from the Sale Gear thread that some people had their cc info compromised after ordering from there. I haven’t ordered from there in a few years but I never had any issues when I did. YMMV

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I think you're remember Skate Warehouse that had the CC info breach. I don't recall Warehouse Skateboards having that issue

Oh yeah you’re right, my mistake. Thanks for the correction

[DarkPools]

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I remember from the Sale Gear thread that some people had their cc info compromised after ordering from there. I haven’t ordered from there in a few years but I never had any issues when I did. YMMV

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I think you're remember Skate Warehouse that had the CC info breach. I don't recall Warehouse Skateboards having that issue

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Oh yeah you’re right, my mistake. Thanks for the correction

No problem! They have similar names

[Bill Salt]

this one

[TwisT]

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I remember from the Sale Gear thread that some people had their cc info compromised after ordering from there. I haven’t ordered from there in a few years but I never had any issues when I did. YMMV

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I think you're remember Skate Warehouse that had the CC info breach. I don't recall Warehouse Skateboards having that issue

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Oh yeah you’re right, my mistake. Thanks for the correction

I ordered from warehouse earlier this year when I found they had some hats and other products mispriced and it actually shipped.

They definitely don't advertise or do sales as much as a tactic or SW. Not many deals to be found, but if you are looking for something from an established brand, willing to pay retail price, and on the East Coast, then it's good.

[rawbertson.]

What are the differences between Powell Flight Decks and Santa Cruz VX Decks? Any advantages to Flight Decks over VX?

I know some heavier send skaters who ONLY skate like 9"+ VX Decks because they are unable to break them. they retail for about $120 here in Canada.

Powell Flight Decks are more like $150-160 CAD for a team popsicle (more for an Andy Anderson shape...) and I don't really see any major advantage here because a VX deck already seems pretty indestructible + light. 

I could see there being differences in the way that the boards age and the way the nose / tail wears down, how steep it stays, maintains pop, spring etc. but seems to me like not worth the extra $30-40.

[rocklobster]

What are the differences between Powell Flight Decks and Santa Cruz VX Decks? Any advantages to Flight Decks over VX?

I know some heavier send skaters who ONLY skate like 9"+ VX Decks because they are unable to break them. they retail for about $120 here in Canada.

Powell Flight Decks are more like $150-160 CAD for a team popsicle (more for an Andy Anderson shape...) and I don't really see any major advantage here because a VX deck already seems pretty indestructible + light. 

I could see there being differences in the way that the boards age and the way the nose / tail wears down, how steep it stays, maintains pop, spring etc. but seems to me like not worth the extra $30-40.

Only rode the Flight in 8.25 and VX in 8.5 so I'll comment on the shapes more than the durability since I don't huck anymore. Flight decks are mellower especially around the kicks, pretty medium across the middle. VX have a very pronounced concave especially on the nose and tail, you get that signature wave when looking at the side profile.

In terms of stiffness VX beats out the Flight decks, pretty unforgiving but not as bad as a fresh DSM Impact deck which are painfully stiff for a few sessions.

My biggest complaint with both is they razor tail faster than an average 7-ply, but still remain stiff and snappy despite that.

Given the choice I'd go with VX over Flight decks, because they are readily available and you can snag some on discount from 303 or TGM, I've almost never seen Flight decks on discount online.

[rawbertson.]

not surprised. I had a feeling you are paying more for the name of powell rather than an increase in performance / technology.

My one friend is like 6'4" / 240 lbs and I feel like the VX would be a great board for him because he is even breaking 9.5"+ Krooked Shape boards on flat ground tricks.

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

I liked my flight deck but it razor’d as fast, arguably quicker than any other board so not worth it.  If you’re a board breaker, they are a good option….

[rocklobster]

I liked my flight deck but it razor’d as fast, arguably quicker than any other board so not worth it.  If you’re a board breaker, they are a good option….

For board breakers I'd recommend the Impact decks, painfully stiff for a start but they razor at the rate of a regular 7-ply. Since Almost / Madness / Enjoi went under you can find them on clearance if you don't mind questionable graphics.

[theblandest]

What are the differences between Powell Flight Decks and Santa Cruz VX Decks? Any advantages to Flight Decks over VX?

I know some heavier send skaters who ONLY skate like 9"+ VX Decks because they are unable to break them. they retail for about $120 here in Canada.

Powell Flight Decks are more like $150-160 CAD for a team popsicle (more for an Andy Anderson shape...) and I don't really see any major advantage here because a VX deck already seems pretty indestructible + light. 

I could see there being differences in the way that the boards age and the way the nose / tail wears down, how steep it stays, maintains pop, spring etc. but seems to me like not worth the extra $30-40.

A buddy of mine took a flight deck to the lower shin on a hardflip and it fractured his bone. Take that how you will

[Candied cigarettes]

Please berate me if this has already been discussed in detail, but anyone have experience with strangelove? Very curious about their shapes and i really like a few guys on the team.

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Please berate me if this has already been discussed in detail, but anyone have experience with strangelove? Very curious about their shapes and i really like a few guys on the team.

my last has been years ago, i’ve kept it because i adore the graphic. wish i had bought more when i could have.
they used ps stix. some shapes were deliberately funky, almost early welcome levels of different. the popsicle i have, is shaped exactly how i’d like a skateboard to be: flat, mellow, some taper from front to back.
did i mention the graphics are the best?

[Mbrimson88]

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Please berate me if this has already been discussed in detail, but anyone have experience with strangelove? Very curious about their shapes and i really like a few guys on the team.

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my last has been years ago, i’ve kept it because i adore the graphic. wish i had bought more when i could have.
they used ps stix. some shapes were deliberately funky, almost early welcome levels of different. the popsicle i have, is shaped exactly how i’d like a skateboard to be: flat, mellow, some taper from front to back.
did i mention the graphics are the best?

Sounds about right from seeing them around.

@Sativa Lung can tell you all about them too.

[DarkPools]

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Please berate me if this has already been discussed in detail, but anyone have experience with strangelove? Very curious about their shapes and i really like a few guys on the team.

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my last has been years ago, i’ve kept it because i adore the graphic. wish i had bought more when i could have.
they used ps stix. some shapes were deliberately funky, almost early welcome levels of different. the popsicle i have, is shaped exactly how i’d like a skateboard to be: flat, mellow, some taper from front to back.
did i mention the graphics are the best?

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Sounds about right from seeing them around.

@Sativa Lung can tell you all about them too.

Since StrangeLove use PS Stix some of their sizes (8.5 for example) may use that WKND shape that's super blunted nose and short square-ish tail. Not sure how many of their sizes use that type of mold, but I do recall StrangeLove offering quite a few decks similar to the FA/WKND style that some love and others loathe.

Definitely check the specs or see if IRL photos of the board can be found if you're not in a shop

[Sativa Lung]

Please berate me if this has already been discussed in detail, but anyone have experience with strangelove? Very curious about their shapes and i really like a few guys on the team.

Wutchu wanna know bud?

I've had about 10-12 of them. Got really into them right before they got popular and the hypebeast kids temporarily turned them into the dunks of skateboard decks. They use PS and cliver is very involved in the shaping and dimensions they use, it's not just off the shelf shit in most cases. My favorite is the short 8.25 they run with a stubby little tail, but the 8.12 and 8.5 are both nice too. The dims and stuff should be listed on the site but just beware that they list length with concave like PS so the tip to tip will be shorter.

Also if you send cliver a SASE with $2 in it he'll send it back absolutely stuffed with stickers and a handwritten thank you note. After all these years, still one of the best and most creative dudes in skating and I wholeheartedly encourage you and anyone else who reads this to support them.

[rawbertson.]

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I liked my flight deck but it razor’d as fast, arguably quicker than any other board so not worth it.  If you’re a board breaker, they are a good option….

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For board breakers I'd recommend the Impact decks, painfully stiff for a start but they razor at the rate of a regular 7-ply. Since Almost / Madness / Enjoi went under you can find them on clearance if you don't mind questionable graphics.

i wonder jacuzzi will offer something similar because it is the same woodshop?

[PuffinMuffin]

Has anyone successfully fixed axle slip? I've tried the old-school solution of putting Bones spacers into my Bones wheels and cranking them down tight. I went for a quick morning push around town and now the board feels sluggish (because there's way too much preload). Probably because the spacers aren't wide enough? I also miss the wiggly-wiggly feeling and bark of loose wheels on the axle.

A man on YouTube alleges to fix his slipping Ventures with a propane torch and hammer. It's obviously really nice of him to put the video up to help others, but I don't really see how it's a permanent solution:



Does anyone happen to remember those Titan Ti-Lites with the little screw in the center of the axle? Think it would be worth the effort to replicate it? I don't have access to a drill press, just a drill, so it makes me apprehensive to ruin a bunch of bits trying to drill through a titanium axle. Has anyone done this before?

[vxbrandon]

Do you guys really care about your board being a couple mm off?
Like skating 8.5 Instead of your usual 8.38. or an 8.125 instead of an 8.25.
Found this board on sale cheaper than my usual. The shape/size is a tad bit off.
Would you go for the board with the good deal and say fuck it? Or spend $20 more for ol trusty.

[frontsideNECKTIE]

Do you guys really care about your board being a couple mm off?
Like skating 8.5 Instead of your usual 8.38. or an 8.125 instead of an 8.25.
Found this board on sale cheaper than my usual. The shape/size is a tad bit off.
Would you go for the board with the good deal and say fuck it? Or spend $20 more for ol trusty.

If it fits the trucks I wanna run, +/- any less than .25in is fine wit me

[rawbertson.]

Do you guys really care about your board being a couple mm off?
Like skating 8.5 Instead of your usual 8.38. or an 8.125 instead of an 8.25.
Found this board on sale cheaper than my usual. The shape/size is a tad bit off.
Would you go for the board with the good deal and say fuck it? Or spend $20 more for ol trusty.

I find I care less about the width than the WB and as long as its fatter than the trucks ( cant stand hot rods)
Like Primitive has a really good deal for the mystery boxes, and I really like their 8.38" size because it has a short wb at 14-1/8", while the 8.5" from them runs a 14.5" wb which i am not a huge fan of. i can hardly tell the difference in width, but the difference in wb feels very noticeable to me. so yeah since I could find a deal, I just found something that worked well for me out of what was available on sale good luck!

[manysnakes]

Do you guys really care about your board being a couple mm off?
Like skating 8.5 Instead of your usual 8.38. or an 8.125 instead of an 8.25.
Found this board on sale cheaper than my usual. The shape/size is a tad bit off.
Would you go for the board with the good deal and say fuck it? Or spend $20 more for ol trusty.

Not really. When you start getting to the fractional measurements, everything is pretty squishy. I can move between 8 and 8.25" without any issues whatsoever.

[Lou Strux]

Do you guys really care about your board being a couple mm off?
Like skating 8.5 Instead of your usual 8.38. or an 8.125 instead of an 8.25.
Found this board on sale cheaper than my usual. The shape/size is a tad bit off.
Would you go for the board with the good deal and say fuck it? Or spend $20 more for ol trusty.

To echo what some of the others above have said, I've got a BBS/Deluxe 8.38 & an 8.5 right next to each other, and I'll be damned if I can feel a significant diff between them. One's got about .12 more wheel base, the other's got about .12 more width. Only noticeable variation my shoe-clad feet can detect is the very slight difference in the concave/kicks, as one is a II in the stack & the other is a IV. Even that feels pretty subtle to me, though.
I spent many a "therapy" hour cleansing myself of product madness and have come to believe that we all have our own ideal dims for how we typically ride, but most of us will still perform well within a half inch tolerance either way.

[LebowskisRug]

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Do you guys really care about your board being a couple mm off?
Like skating 8.5 Instead of your usual 8.38. or an 8.125 instead of an 8.25.
Found this board on sale cheaper than my usual. The shape/size is a tad bit off.
Would you go for the board with the good deal and say fuck it? Or spend $20 more for ol trusty.

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To echo what some of the others above have said, I've got a BBS/Deluxe 8.38 & an 8.5 right next to each other, and I'll be damned if I can feel a significant diff between them. One's got about .12 more wheel base, the other's got about .12 more width. Only noticeable variation my shoe-clad feet can detect is the very slight difference in the concave/kicks, as one is a II in the stack & the other is a IV. Even that feels pretty subtle to me, though.
I spent many a "therapy" hour cleansing myself of product madness and have come to believe that we all have our own ideal dims for how we typically ride, but most of us will still perform well within a half inch tolerance either way.

Those decks are noticeably different to me. The DLX deck is not only narrower, but has significantly more tapered kicks, a longer nose, and shorter tail. It skates smaller than it measures, flicks super fast thanks to the taper, and usually comes with mellower kicks.

The BBS version is more squared, with a slightly shorter nose, and longer tail. It definitely feels like a bigger board to me but not in a bad way, just different.

So, the dimensions do matter but I don't think about it in terms of difference in width, but how the overall dimensions make the board feel. It's mostly in hindsight of "hmm, maybe this thing kinda made it feel that way, which was cool", but I'm not sitting there blaming my lack of abilities on the dimensions.

[iw0]

Does anyone happen to remember those Titan Ti-Lites with the little screw in the center of the axle? Think it would be worth the effort to replicate it? I don't have access to a drill press, just a drill, so it makes me apprehensive to ruin a bunch of bits trying to drill through a titanium axle. Has anyone done this before?

wasn't familiar with them so i had to look up those titan ti-lites and yeah it certainly seems like a way to fix axle slip as long as it goes all the way through like theirs seems to, otherwise i feel like someone might end up with a lurpiv kingpin situation. only thing i'm noticing about those vs venture is that it doesn't look like the axle is exposed at all on the backside/kingpin side? i'm only looking at one ebay listing so the photos might not be the best example though

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Do you guys really care about your board being a couple mm off?
Like skating 8.5 Instead of your usual 8.38. or an 8.125 instead of an 8.25.
Found this board on sale cheaper than my usual. The shape/size is a tad bit off.
Would you go for the board with the good deal and say fuck it? Or spend $20 more for ol trusty.

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To echo what some of the others above have said, I've got a BBS/Deluxe 8.38 & an 8.5 right next to each other, and I'll be damned if I can feel a significant diff between them. One's got about .12 more wheel base, the other's got about .12 more width. Only noticeable variation my shoe-clad feet can detect is the very slight difference in the concave/kicks, as one is a II in the stack & the other is a IV. Even that feels pretty subtle to me, though.
I spent many a "therapy" hour cleansing myself of product madness and have come to believe that we all have our own ideal dims for how we typically ride, but most of us will still perform well within a half inch tolerance either way.

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Those decks are noticeably different to me. The DLX deck is not only narrower, but has significantly more tapered kicks, a longer nose, and shorter tail. It skates smaller than it measures, flicks super fast thanks to the taper, and usually comes with mellower kicks.

The BBS version is more squared, with a slightly shorter nose, and longer tail. It definitely feels like a bigger board to me but not in a bad way, just different.

So, the dimensions do matter but I don't think about it in terms of difference in width, but how the overall dimensions make the board feel. It's mostly in hindsight of "hmm, maybe this thing kinda made it feel that way, which was cool", but I'm not sitting there blaming my lack of abilities on the dimensions.

My bad for the unintentional miscommunication, Ol' Ruggy.
What I meant to convey is that BOTH of the boards were DLX brands (1 krooked, 1 real) as made by BBS, as opposed to some sort of made in China "complete" scenario from either brand.
An apples to apples camparo, as it were.

[Mbrimson88]

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Do you guys really care about your board being a couple mm off?
Like skating 8.5 Instead of your usual 8.38. or an 8.125 instead of an 8.25.
Found this board on sale cheaper than my usual. The shape/size is a tad bit off.
Would you go for the board with the good deal and say fuck it? Or spend $20 more for ol trusty.

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To echo what some of the others above have said, I've got a BBS/Deluxe 8.38 & an 8.5 right next to each other, and I'll be damned if I can feel a significant diff between them. One's got about .12 more wheel base, the other's got about .12 more width. Only noticeable variation my shoe-clad feet can detect is the very slight difference in the concave/kicks, as one is a II in the stack & the other is a IV. Even that feels pretty subtle to me, though.
I spent many a "therapy" hour cleansing myself of product madness and have come to believe that we all have our own ideal dims for how we typically ride, but most of us will still perform well within a half inch tolerance either way.

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Those decks are noticeably different to me. The DLX deck is not only narrower, but has significantly more tapered kicks, a longer nose, and shorter tail. It skates smaller than it measures, flicks super fast thanks to the taper, and usually comes with mellower kicks.

The BBS version is more squared, with a slightly shorter nose, and longer tail. It definitely feels like a bigger board to me but not in a bad way, just different.

So, the dimensions do matter but I don't think about it in terms of difference in width, but how the overall dimensions make the board feel. It's mostly in hindsight of "hmm, maybe this thing kinda made it feel that way, which was cool", but I'm not sitting there blaming my lack of abilities on the dimensions.

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My bad for the unintentional miscommunication, Ol' Ruggy.
What I meant to convey is that BOTH of the boards were DLX brands (1 krooked, 1 real) as made by BBS, as opposed to some sort of made in China "complete" scenario from either brand.
An apples to apples camparo, as it were.

To me, woodshop and concave come first above everything else, so a different woodshop with concave that I am not used to is going to be a definite NO from me.

Anything from BBS and especially anything DLX is going to be a whole lot closer to each other, but then skating a board with a 14.5 wb on the 8.38 compared to skating a board with a 14.25 wb on the 8.5 board, I can really feel the difference.

Others are often not quite so picky with anything, but trying a slightly different board can be a lot of fun too, just to see, so who knows - maybe you will like it a lot, maybe you will like it less, but then at least you know what you do want or what you don't want for future deck purchases.

[LebowskisRug]

Why can I not buy a Drehobl popsicle?