I have been skating 8.5’s for the last nine years straight now, and before that I was between 8 and 8.25 for a while; I don’t think I’ve been on 7.75s since 2007 or early 2008. For the past few months now though I’ve been thinking about doing a 7.75 setup on the side, just to fuck around on and maybe use when I’m trying more technical shit, and plus it just sounds like it’d be a fun lil change. I’ve had the idea in the back of my head for a while but never got around to doing it cuz it would always slip my mind whenever I was at the shop and even if it was on my mind when I was at the shop they just wouldn’t ever have any 7.75s in; ever. “They just don’t sell dude” is what they’d tell me.
Well, just yesterday i found this, a 7.75, tucked away in the corner; I couldn’t believe it; and it was only like 30 bucks too. At that moment I knew if I was going to go through with my idea I’d have to do it then and there, so I said fuck it and bought the board. Not a big fan at all of the graphic but I’ll manage. Dug through my box of used skate stuff when I got home for trucks and wheels and stuff and before I knew it I finally had my 7.75 setup.
I haven’t had a chance to really skate it yet, only did some mellow cruising, and I’m not gonna lie, going from 8.5 straight to this is making this feel like penny board to me, but towards the end of cruising around it started feeling a bit more comfy to me. I’m pretty excited to see how I fair on this thing.
- ATM 7.75
- Some old ass barely used stage 9 129 Indy lows that I found in my closet, I have no idea how I got these trucks or where they came from because I’ve never skated a set of Indy lows in my life, but they were somehow in my closet and the only trucks I had laying around that would fit this board so I threw em on. My friend said he was gonna hook me up with some Indy stage 11 129 standards though so once I get those imma throw those on and toss the lows back aside.
-bones hard bushings
-spitfire F4 99a 54mm
-random assortment of bearings
-iron horse hardware
-Jessup grip