OK, I was in a hurry and I forgot to take a pic, but I just found an oooooold setup of mine from when I was a kid and its HILARIOUS. This is like a meme or something. I could see Gifted Hater building and skating this as a joke.
Deck: 7.5" CCS - Blank (Black)
Trucks: Phantom II Trucks - Black (oh yeah baby)
Risers: It looked like a double stack with a soft pad/hard riser combo? It had some sort of spooky/edgy words on it, so maybe it was Phantom branded. For some reason I recall them being built into the truck (see: glued on to it as factory default)... but I can't find any evidence of that online.
Wheels: 40mm(?) CCS - generic blank Black wheels... like barely bigger than the bearings.
...and
of course the logical allocation of budget went to
Bearings: Bones Swiss
Gotta love how kids think. Get some awful deck and wheels, so you can get some sick bearings. And then my dumbass at the time didn't even know you could take bearings out of wheels, so they only got used until that board was unusable. Which actually was a decent amount of time since as a kid, gotta make things last as long as possible. That meant until the tail razor tailed... then I would use the board the other way until the nose razor tailed.
I remember I would always ride really tight trucks and tic-tac instead of lean (probably from always skating such awful trucks that couldn't turn anyways).
I was in a hurry but I took the wheels and bearings off the board so I could salvage the Bones Swiss (it looked like they still rolled well despite sitting in a basement for so long). I will have to take a picture of these wheels before I take the bearings out. They are so small, I don't know how these things could even roll over sidewalk cracks.
I'm not sure what's the funniest part. The phantom trucks? The small wheel size + tall riser combo? The budget build with Bones Swiss (its like a sleeper car as they call it in street racing LOL)?
I will say though, the aesthetic was ON POINT. Black on black on black on black with some red and black hardware. Good job little me.
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