The Set-up Thread

[SirPizzaSlayer]

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how are the ventures? I really skate some.

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I think I wrote this when half asleep.

[sneakpeekmeek]

The turning radius is wide and limited as its prone to wheelbite. However, they are stable, snappy, make your front end of the board feel a bit heavy. Kingpin sits high. I like them over thunders because of the extended baseplate for slides. However, if thunder's extended their baseplate further out, i'd be rocking thunders no problem. Until then, I'm rolling with venture.

[SirPizzaSlayer]

The turning radius is wide and limited as its prone to wheelbite. However, they are stable, snappy, make your front end of the board feel a bit heavy. Kingpin sits high. I like them over thunders because of the extended baseplate for slides. However, if thunder's extended their baseplate further out, i'd be rocking thunders no problem. Until then, I'm rolling with venture.

thanks maybe I’ll get them next.

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board so nice I bought it twice.
Girl Rick Howard 8.5x32
Krux K4s with meh Nora artwork
Spitfire f4s
Bones Swiss
Mob
Diamond hardware
And of course a sweet ass cat sticker like usual.
Hoped a fence the other day and landed in hobo shit so I tossed my states out and bought some Cromers. Pretty decent shoe although the insole is pretty mediocre. Might buy another pair.

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I wonder... Do those trucks turn?

They turn great. I ride my trucks very loose. I took this photo before I adjusted them how I like em.

[SirPizzaSlayer]

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board so nice I bought it twice.
Girl Rick Howard 8.5x32
Krux K4s with meh Nora artwork
Spitfire f4s
Bones Swiss
Mob
Diamond hardware
And of course a sweet ass cat sticker like usual.
Hoped a fence the other day and landed in hobo shit so I tossed my states out and bought some Cromers. Pretty decent shoe although the insole is pretty mediocre. Might buy another pair.

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I wonder... Do those trucks turn?

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They turn great. I ride my trucks very loose. I took this photo before I adjusted them how I like em.

i noticed that looser trucks make tricks a little bit harder for me to do because they turn while setting up.

[IanBZHD]

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board so nice I bought it twice.
Girl Rick Howard 8.5x32
Krux K4s with meh Nora artwork
Spitfire f4s
Bones Swiss
Mob
Diamond hardware
And of course a sweet ass cat sticker like usual.
Hoped a fence the other day and landed in hobo shit so I tossed my states out and bought some Cromers. Pretty decent shoe although the insole is pretty mediocre. Might buy another pair.

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I wonder... Do those trucks turn?

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They turn great. I ride my trucks very loose. I took this photo before I adjusted them how I like em.

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i noticed that looser trucks make tricks a little bit harder for me to do because they turn while setting up.

Loose trucks is an acquired taste and you can get used to the instability from the trucks. I personally can't stand feeling like I'm on railroad tracks setting up for a trick and like to swerve in. Next time you get new trucks, don't tighten them from the stock tightness and just let them break in naturally. From my experience they (Indy's at least) tend to tighten up as they break in for some reason, so I'll give them about a half to full turn looser once they feel broken in depending on how they feel. I understand people ride much looser trucks, but mine seem looser than 75% of people's boards I've stood on and still maintain a nice snap-back pump from a deep turn. This assuming you're riding stock trucks, disregard if you're one of those truck customizers that have preference over every piece of hardware.

Also nice set-up jc 

[SirPizzaSlayer]

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board so nice I bought it twice.
Girl Rick Howard 8.5x32
Krux K4s with meh Nora artwork
Spitfire f4s
Bones Swiss
Mob
Diamond hardware
And of course a sweet ass cat sticker like usual.
Hoped a fence the other day and landed in hobo shit so I tossed my states out and bought some Cromers. Pretty decent shoe although the insole is pretty mediocre. Might buy another pair.

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I wonder... Do those trucks turn?

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They turn great. I ride my trucks very loose. I took this photo before I adjusted them how I like em.

[close]

i noticed that looser trucks make tricks a little bit harder for me to do because they turn while setting up.

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Loose trucks is an acquired taste and you can get used to the instability from the trucks. I personally can't stand feeling like I'm on railroad tracks setting up for a trick and like to swerve in. Next time you get new trucks, don't tighten them from the stock tightness and just let them break in naturally. From my experience they (Indy's at least) tend to tighten up as they break in for some reason, so I'll give them about a half to full turn looser once they feel broken in depending on how they feel. I understand people ride much looser trucks, but mine seem looser than 75% of people's boards I've stood on and still maintain a nice snap-back pump from a deep turn. This assuming you're riding stock trucks, disregard if you're one of those truck customizers that have preference over every piece of hardware.

Also nice set-up jc 

I ride my trucks with no washers. Mainly because I feel like they turn better with out the washers.

[Seadramon]

Has anyone skated anything from dwindle recently? Looking for some testimonies.

Twist gives them the thumbs up if I remember correctly.

[moonordie]

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board so nice I bought it twice.
Girl Rick Howard 8.5x32
Krux K4s with meh Nora artwork
Spitfire f4s
Bones Swiss
Mob
Diamond hardware
And of course a sweet ass cat sticker like usual.
Hoped a fence the other day and landed in hobo shit so I tossed my states out and bought some Cromers. Pretty decent shoe although the insole is pretty mediocre. Might buy another pair.

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I wonder... Do those trucks turn?

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They turn great. I ride my trucks very loose. I took this photo before I adjusted them how I like em.

Interesting, from all the comments I've seen it seems to be 50-50. People saying they "turn" like Trackers and some other folks like you saying that they turn nice.

[mynameisnotjeff]

Has anyone skated anything from dwindle recently? Looking for some testimonies.

Twist gives them the thumbs up if I remember correctly.

Tempted to pick up a reissue, would love to hear anyone's feedback

[Fifty8mm]

Gall AWS 8.5
Venture FTC 5.8
Loophole 54 "classic shape" holding out well.
Swiss six
Bronze hardware
Jessup
SB Blazers Viotech and Todd Jordans.

[TwisT]

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Has anyone skated anything from dwindle recently? Looking for some testimonies.

Twist gives them the thumbs up if I remember correctly.

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Tempted to pick up a reissue, would love to hear anyone's feedback

Ive had 4 dwindle boards since last December. I find their budget boards to be a little heavier and steep. The r7 boards are great, in my opinion on par with with anything else.

[roba]

Gall AWS 8.5
Venture FTC 5.8
Loophole 54 "classic shape" holding out well.
Swiss six
Bronze hardware
Jessup
SB Blazers Viotech and Todd Jordans.

yes

[somethingmustbreaknow]

Gall AWS 8.5
Venture FTC 5.8
Loophole 54 "classic shape" holding out well.
Swiss six
Bronze hardware
Jessup
SB Blazers Viotech and Todd Jordans.

how dare you covering up the Saviour's name like that? 

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board so nice I bought it twice.
Girl Rick Howard 8.5x32
Krux K4s with meh Nora artwork
Spitfire f4s
Bones Swiss
Mob
Diamond hardware
And of course a sweet ass cat sticker like usual.
Hoped a fence the other day and landed in hobo shit so I tossed my states out and bought some Cromers. Pretty decent shoe although the insole is pretty mediocre. Might buy another pair.

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I wonder... Do those trucks turn?

[close]

They turn great. I ride my trucks very loose. I took this photo before I adjusted them how I like em.

[close]

i noticed that looser trucks make tricks a little bit harder for me to do because they turn while setting up.

[close]

Loose trucks is an acquired taste and you can get used to the instability from the trucks. I personally can't stand feeling like I'm on railroad tracks setting up for a trick and like to swerve in. Next time you get new trucks, don't tighten them from the stock tightness and just let them break in naturally. From my experience they (Indy's at least) tend to tighten up as they break in for some reason, so I'll give them about a half to full turn looser once they feel broken in depending on how they feel. I understand people ride much looser trucks, but mine seem looser than 75% of people's boards I've stood on and still maintain a nice snap-back pump from a deep turn. This assuming you're riding stock trucks, disregard if you're one of those truck customizers that have preference over every piece of hardware.

Also nice set-up jc 

I remember when I started skating my new friends made fun of me because my trucks were so tight. The next day I started riding them a la Matt Rodriguez. It took about 3 days to get used to it but it felt better when I cruised home after school. This is one of the two main setups and both are equally loose although my zipzagger is a little tighter because it has big ass yellow bones wheels on small ass ace 44s. As far as loose trucks go I like to hear them wiggle as I walk to my car. Tight women loose trucks as my wife says.

[Fifty8mm]

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Gall AWS 8.5
Venture FTC 5.8
Loophole 54 "classic shape" holding out well.
Swiss six
Bronze hardware
Jessup
SB Blazers Viotech and Todd Jordans.

how dare you covering up the Saviour's name like that? 
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holy shit! I was actually torn about doing it. I cut it out with a razor last night because it was bugging the shit out of me. haha!

[Bristol_Palin]

Gall AWS 8.5
Venture FTC 5.8
Loophole 54 "classic shape" holding out well.
Swiss six
Bronze hardware
Jessup
SB Blazers Viotech and Todd Jordans.

This is a cool set up. When you say Todd Jordan's do you mean that plaid blazer with the black sole from way back?

[Bagelskate]

Gall AWS 8.5
Venture FTC 5.8
Loophole 54 "classic shape" holding out well.
Swiss six
Bronze hardware
Jessup
SB Blazers Viotech and Todd Jordans.

I posted that deck in the rad things on eBay thread! I’m glad someone from here got it. Looksso good

[Fifty8mm]

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Gall AWS 8.5
Venture FTC 5.8
Loophole 54 "classic shape" holding out well.
Swiss six
Bronze hardware
Jessup
SB Blazers Viotech and Todd Jordans.

This is a cool set up. When you say Todd Jordan's do you mean that plaid blazer with the black sole from way back?
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Yes those. I always loved them. They look so good specially in person.

[tangar]

Quasi 8.75 x 32.625 WB 14.5
Ace 55s
F4 99 54mm classic fulls
Bronze
Mob
Jordan 1 Sports Illustrated joints

WKND 8.5 x 32 14.25 WB
VENTURE V-Light 5.8
F4 99 conical 52s
Bronze
Mob m-80
Problematic Bronson and hardluck bearings, need to change that.
Lightest board I’ve had since tensors last year.
Jordan 1 x SBs on deck

[Paco Supreme]

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Gall AWS 8.5

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I posted that deck in the rad things on eBay thread! I’m glad someone from here got it. Looksso good

I'm not certain thats one off ebay man, theyre right on habitats store as well

https://www.habitatskateboards.com/collections/decks/products/fred-gall-flower-reissue

[Bagelskate]

Ah man, thanks for the heads up!

[roba]

new deck new bearings new kicks

miniramp (fav polish skateshop, don’t really have a local but i like to support this kinda stuff) 8.5 x 32, 14.375 wb (i think)
ace 44 classic raw (stock everything)
spit f4 conical full 99a ~50mm now
modus blue bearings
powell rail
jessup grip (fuck mob)
7/8 inch hardware
hupper 2 lows (very nice)

[FrozenIndustries]

new deck new bearings new kicks

miniramp (fav polish skateshop, don’t really have a local but i like to support this kinda stuff) 8.5 x 32, 14.375 wb (i think)
ace 44 classic raw (stock everything)
spit f4 conical full 99a ~50mm now
modus blue bearings
powell rail
jessup grip (fuck mob)
7/8 inch hardware
hupper 2 lows (very nice)

Looking good. I like that graphic a lot.

[Number]

Real Chima 8.4
Indy Standard 149
F4 Conical 54mm
Reds

Old Wknd 8.3

[Fifty8mm]

Ah man, thanks for the heads up!

My friend bought it, got the wrong size and passed it on to me.

[Bagelskate]

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Ah man, thanks for the heads up!

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My friend bought it, got the wrong size and passed it on to me.

I was so hyped for a minute ha. Nice setup though!

[Paco Supreme]

Habitat 8.375
149s with yellow bones
Swiss and conical fulls, might be my last set for a bit curious to try classic shape spitfires again
Mob 80 that’s absolutely less grippy than standard mob

This board will probably hold me over through the rest of autumn into winter, getting harder to find a dry day lately

[Complements4U]

Krooked 8.5
Venture 5.8
Formula 4 classic, went back to conical fulls already
Swiss bones

[Dad you're embarrassing me]

Krooked 8.5
Venture 5.8
Formula 4 classic, went back to conical fulls already
Swiss bones

That welcome to Venture part must be producing  record profits