The Griptape thread

[jums]

Black Magic is the best. I bought Shorty's last inventory.

[Slave IV]

Grizzly is actually a really nice level of grit but.. it’s Grizzly. Mini Logo is sick too but I can’t find it anywhere anymore

ML is probably the same as Powell but looks like they have it available exactly where you could expect it to be: https://www.skateone.com/skateboard-accessories/grip-tape

[Texas_Tone]

Sounds like you are saying that regular (G5) Pepper is what you like better and it feels like Mob after worn down?
Or are you saying you like G5 better but XG gets better after it wears down and is more like Mob?
Sorry, when reading your post it is a bit unclear which one you are talking about for what.
Also, interesting if you are saying XG is what they are sending out instead of G5 because XG is out of stock at Mesa's website while G5 is available. Not sure how long it's been that way though.

I usually just get the G5 because it’s not super grippy at first, but I don’t really have a preference, simply noting that XG ends up feeling like mob after a few sessions, and what I heard was that the shop I go to ordered a box of G5 and got XG and someone at mesa saying they are trying to run through the XG (which I’m guessing is leftovers from the previous factory) I don’t buy griptape from from anyone besides the skateshop, so I am not sure what’s for stock on mesa’s site, but this is all hearsay anyway and we are all just floating around on our pepper gripped skateboards trying to figure it out, XG or G5 be damned

[Obijuan91]

Anybody mess with black gold yet? Just seen my local mainland has it

[fatratz]

So I’ve been riding pepper galaxy grip for like 2 years and recently I just bought some sheets of the midnight grip, I guess it’s different from the standard G5 black grip but I can’t really tell other than it feeling less grippy compared to my galaxy grip, has anyone else noticed this or know if the midnight grip is supposed to be less grippy?

[Llewellyn Moss]

tl;dr Pepper G5, mayne.
Random ass story but I've always seen grip as insignificant in the overall until basically this year.
I rode Jessup for the majority of my youth/early 2000s. Got back on it, with Ultra, in 2019. Was all good.
Then I tried Mob and it became my go to.
Had zero reason to change; it was consistent and just, better. Way better. Was too grippy with vulcs but I'm exclusively on cups now so that doesn't matter.

Years passed and curiosity/hype crept in, which led me to try Pepper G5 for the first time, this year.
I liked it. It was as described; in between Jessup and Mob. Ran it almost 4 months skating twice a week 2-3 hours per session. The level of grip was consistent for the life of the board. That blew my mind.

Coming off Mob and Jessup, both were consistent, but both consistently and predictably wore down in levels. Mob would initially wear down a level or two to Jessup Ultra. Somewhere near midway through it smoothed to a regular new Jessup. And its usable life ended somewhere above a half-worn regular sheet of Jessup (with regular Jessup basically evaporating before the deck dies).

Yet the feel of Pepper and its levels of grip
changed very little over 4 months.

For my next (current) board, you'd think the choice was obvious. Pepper.

And yet. I go to the shop and bro pulls out 3 sheets of plain black grip. Asks me to look at/feel each and guess which brand is which. I was dead wrong on every guess. He said with the current batches they were being sent, something like Mob was coming in less grippy (this was late summer few months ago) and Jessup was feeling more like Mob.
So I looked and felt up those 3 sheets laid on the display case again, and for some reason felt I should walk out with a receipt for Mob grip. So I did.
And I partially regret that now.

First session was awful trying to break in my current new deck with fresh Mob. I anticipated that. Next session was a bit better but everything was still so stiff. Also anticipated that. Both sessions I skated the same pre-worn shoes I do anytime I set up a new deck and grip.

Guess what I'm saying is with Pepper G5, the one time I rode it, I didn't have to adjust so majorly. It was ready from day 1. Even seemed like the deck itself was dying out before the grip.

Anyway I'm going back to G5. Just hope the formula remains.

[Hqjdncm]

Anyone try Alveer grip? Sewa seems cool and I wanna support him