The Set-up Thread

[Richard Skidder]

A little before and after breaking my truck and setting up some new ones on a board I only got to skate for an hr
8.38 Karsten WKND
Thunder 148 team hollows
54mm F4 classics
Bones Swiss
Pepper grip and new Thunder bolts

Tom Knox 600’s

Commenting so this doesn’t get lost at the bottom of the previous page.
Love to see it, way to squeeze all the juice out of those trucks!
WOULD GNAR

[YungJugg]

quasi bbs 8.25 x 14
venture 5.6 v-cast
f4 56mm classic 99a
jessup
swiss
bronze allen

[FatGuy92]

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A little before and after breaking my truck and setting up some new ones on a board I only got to skate for an hr
8.38 Karsten WKND
Thunder 148 team hollows
54mm F4 classics
Bones Swiss
Pepper grip and new Thunder bolts

Tom Knox 600’s

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Commenting so this doesn’t get lost at the bottom of the previous page.
Love to see it, way to squeeze all the juice out of those trucks!
WOULD GNAR

Gnarred for you. I've never broken a truck before, they usually bend or get so worn down that the kingpin affects my grinds. Those thunders didn't look too fucked. How did they break?

[tom]

I always axle the back truck in the same spot. It never goes all the way across. Lots of frontside grinds, 5-0’s, 50-50’s(both backside and frontside lock in on my heel), feebles/smiths, and maybe 4 total sw crooks. The hanger cracked about a week before the hollow axle cracked. It bent all the way down and I just kept skating it until it broke

[Anxiety]

Shop 9” (14.5)
169
58 97 CF
Swiss
1/8 riser
1” hardware
Rails
Pepper

[RT]

Getting back after it after a few years on the sidelines...

-CCS Blank- 8x32, 14.25 wheelbase. That's right, the lowly ccs blank! I actually really like this deck. Reminds me of some of my Alien boards from back in the day. We'll see how she holds up...
-OLD Stage 9 Indy 139s. Picked up right where they left off! Perfect for this deck. Made in Merica
-OLD Spitfire 53s.
-OLD but unused Swiss Super 6.
-Whatever hardware
-Psyduck courtesy of my 9 year old Son. 

Been loving this set up for knocking the rust off. I'm amazed and what all I can still do, although I'm nowhere close to what I was at 17. Since I've been gone, y'all are skating much bigger decks! I skated hard from '99-2011 on 7.5s and 7.75s with one 8" SJ Habitat deck thrown in the mix (hence the 139s above...), that was accused of being a vert deck  . Next deck will probably be an 8.125 or 8.25 to try that out.

[Tireeedd]

Shop 9” (14.5)
169
58 97 CF
Swiss
1/8 riser
1” hardware
Rails
Pepper

now this is what a bloard should look like

[mrosk8]

A little before and after breaking my truck and setting up some new ones on a board I only got to skate for an hr
8.38 Karsten WKND
Thunder 148 team hollows
54mm F4 classics
Bones Swiss
Pepper grip and new Thunder bolts

Tom Knox 600’s

Is this WKND 8.375 squared like a classic PsStix 8.25?

[TwisT]

Glue 8.125
Thunder 147
Spitfire F4 52

Pretty set on these PS Stix 8.125s, but I've been curious about Thunders for awhile. First time skating them.

pink stain supremecy

[Enrico Pallazzo]

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Set this up last night and had to get emergency oral surgery today, so I’ll just be looking at it for another week but can’t wait to get out there on it.



Swim John Fitzgerald Guest 8.75” Full Shape
Ace Classic 55s
Sci Fi Fantasy F4s
Assorted Bones bearings
Black socks

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Hope you’re feeling better @Enrico Pallazzo
How’s that board treating you?

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Much appreciated, feeling ready to rock. Gonna take it for a roll at the local park or my neighborhood curb tomorrow or Friday and will follow up with a ride report.

Finally got a few sessions under my belt after all the rain. Loving the nose and tail on this thing, sort of a reverse egg effect that makes it lock into slides like a giant board despite feeling pretty nimble with the 14.5” wheelbase and Aces. Would absolutely grab another Swim based on my experience so far, or at the very least another board with similar dims. Top shot (excuse the dismal grip, lost my last good razor somewhere in the garage):

[munchbox]

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Set this up last night and had to get emergency oral surgery today, so I’ll just be looking at it for another week but can’t wait to get out there on it.



Swim John Fitzgerald Guest 8.75” Full Shape
Ace Classic 55s
Sci Fi Fantasy F4s
Assorted Bones bearings
Black socks

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Hope you’re feeling better @Enrico Pallazzo
How’s that board treating you?

[close]

Much appreciated, feeling ready to rock. Gonna take it for a roll at the local park or my neighborhood curb tomorrow or Friday and will follow up with a ride report.

[close]

Finally got a few sessions under my belt after all the rain. Loving the nose and tail on this thing, sort of a reverse egg effect that makes it lock into slides like a giant board despite feeling pretty nimble with the 14.5” wheelbase and Aces. Would absolutely grab another Swim based on my experience so far, or at the very least another board with similar dims. Top shot (excuse the dismal grip, lost my last good razor somewhere in the garage):

holy snowboard
i need one now

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Set this up last night and had to get emergency oral surgery today, so I’ll just be looking at it for another week but can’t wait to get out there on it.



Swim John Fitzgerald Guest 8.75” Full Shape
Ace Classic 55s
Sci Fi Fantasy F4s
Assorted Bones bearings
Black socks

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Hope you’re feeling better @Enrico Pallazzo
How’s that board treating you?

[close]

Much appreciated, feeling ready to rock. Gonna take it for a roll at the local park or my neighborhood curb tomorrow or Friday and will follow up with a ride report.

[close]

Finally got a few sessions under my belt after all the rain. Loving the nose and tail on this thing, sort of a reverse egg effect that makes it lock into slides like a giant board despite feeling pretty nimble with the 14.5” wheelbase and Aces. Would absolutely grab another Swim based on my experience so far, or at the very least another board with similar dims. Top shot (excuse the dismal grip, lost my last good razor somewhere in the garage):

very sick. very.


is this ps or the mysterious ohio woodshop?

[tom]

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A little before and after breaking my truck and setting up some new ones on a board I only got to skate for an hr
8.38 Karsten WKND
Thunder 148 team hollows
54mm F4 classics
Bones Swiss
Pepper grip and new Thunder bolts

Tom Knox 600’s

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Is this WKND 8.375 squared like a classic PsStix 8.25?

Almost pointy like a scaled up version of the AH 8.12 eagle(don't know if the dlx 8.38 is pointy or not)

[Enrico Pallazzo]

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Set this up last night and had to get emergency oral surgery today, so I’ll just be looking at it for another week but can’t wait to get out there on it.



Swim John Fitzgerald Guest 8.75” Full Shape
Ace Classic 55s
Sci Fi Fantasy F4s
Assorted Bones bearings
Black socks

[close]

Hope you’re feeling better @Enrico Pallazzo
How’s that board treating you?

[close]

Much appreciated, feeling ready to rock. Gonna take it for a roll at the local park or my neighborhood curb tomorrow or Friday and will follow up with a ride report.

[close]

Finally got a few sessions under my belt after all the rain. Loving the nose and tail on this thing, sort of a reverse egg effect that makes it lock into slides like a giant board despite feeling pretty nimble with the 14.5” wheelbase and Aces. Would absolutely grab another Swim based on my experience so far, or at the very least another board with similar dims. Top shot (excuse the dismal grip, lost my last good razor somewhere in the garage):

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very sick. very.


is this ps or the mysterious ohio woodshop?

This one’s PS, I’m not sure if it’s only specific runs or shapes coming out of Ohio, or if the dimensions of this were just too weird for them to produce.

[jums]

Lucero BL 90’ or ‘91? reissue
169s aftermarket cones Khiro hard cups
Indy 1/8 risers
60mm classics
Swiss 6

Maldonado reissue 8.38 really 8.25 
149s aftermarket cones
56mm F4 conicals
Swiss 6

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Set this up last night and had to get emergency oral surgery today, so I’ll just be looking at it for another week but can’t wait to get out there on it.



Swim John Fitzgerald Guest 8.75” Full Shape
Ace Classic 55s
Sci Fi Fantasy F4s
Assorted Bones bearings
Black socks

[close]

Hope you’re feeling better @Enrico Pallazzo
How’s that board treating you?

[close]

Much appreciated, feeling ready to rock. Gonna take it for a roll at the local park or my neighborhood curb tomorrow or Friday and will follow up with a ride report.

[close]

Finally got a few sessions under my belt after all the rain. Loving the nose and tail on this thing, sort of a reverse egg effect that makes it lock into slides like a giant board despite feeling pretty nimble with the 14.5” wheelbase and Aces. Would absolutely grab another Swim based on my experience so far, or at the very least another board with similar dims. Top shot (excuse the dismal grip, lost my last good razor somewhere in the garage):

[close]

very sick. very.


is this ps or the mysterious ohio woodshop?

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This one’s PS, I’m not sure if it’s only specific runs or shapes coming out of Ohio, or if the dimensions of this were just too weird for them to produce.

hot

[augustmoon]

Chocolate Vincent Alvarez 8.0
Venture lows
Spit classics 52, 101a
bones reds
Gilbert highs

love the graphic/color combo on this one.  was riding a Palace previously, and it felt fine, a little too stiff though.  Feel more at home back on crail wood.  . 

[Anxiety]

Lucero BL 90’ or ‘91? reissue
169s aftermarket cones Khiro hard cups
Indy 1/8 risers
60mm classics
Swiss 6

Maldonado reissue 8.38 really 8.25 
149s aftermarket cones
56mm F4 conicals
Swiss 6

Are the cups better or do u just blow them out

[Cthulhu!]

Cross posting from the little board thread

Girl 7.5
old Venture 5.0 lows, flat top washer
Darkroom 50mm, these were the smallest I had sitting around so they'll have to do
Super Reds, Jessup and some mishmash of hardware

[jums]

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Lucero BL 90’ or ‘91? reissue
169s aftermarket cones Khiro hard cups
Indy 1/8 risers
60mm classics
Swiss 6

Maldonado reissue 8.38 really 8.25 
149s aftermarket cones
56mm F4 conicals
Swiss 6

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Are the cups better or do u just blow them out

At the time I was blowing out stock cups cause I skated mad loose, lot of friction, and Indy cups used to suck. Thin urethane and pitted. They’re good now, it’s unnecessary to swap from stock. The ones in my 149s are better.

[Lou Strux]

Got a little fidgety last night & set this “treated” DLX 8.38/14.5 deck up on the same AF1 55 hollows, w/ F4 99 Conical 54s.
Bones Swiss, some well used Shorty’s 1” Phillips & an assortment of grip scraps round out the assembly.

[144p]

Treated myself to a Christmas complete
Real true fit 8.75 x 32 14.12 wb
Venture 6.1 standard
Spitfire f4 radial full 55mm 99a Rowan
Bones super Swiss 6
Roughneck Allen
Jessup
Lil jawn rails
Dunks

[munchbox]

Treated myself to a Christmas complete
Real true fit 8.75 x 32 14.12 wb
Venture 6.1 standard
Spitfire f4 radial full 55mm 99a Rowan
Bones super Swiss 6
Roughneck Allen
Jessup
Lil jawn rails
Dunks

top pic?

[sweet son of a bitch]

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Treated myself to a Christmas complete
Real true fit 8.75 x 32 14.12 wb
Venture 6.1 standard
Spitfire f4 radial full 55mm 99a Rowan
Bones super Swiss 6
Roughneck Allen
Jessup
Lil jawn rails
Dunks

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top pic?

I love that real is making wide w/short wb.
Looks awesome.

[144p]

top pic?

[kneebone]

Dang, i saw that popping up on some sites that started to get the new DLX season, but only had the width listed. That short wb with a proper 32 length sounds amazing.

[sweet son of a bitch]

schaaf foot ball shape
ace 55
snot 53
swiss bearings
nyjah 2. Sz 9
normally I wouldn’t try & new board & new shoes.

[144p]

Dang, i saw that popping up on some sites that started to get the new DLX season, but only had the width listed. That short wb with a proper 32 length sounds amazing.

For me it’s perfect. The tail isn’t too stubby and the shape is full but not square.
Hope this shape sticks around. With ventures it balances perfectly.

[typeischeap]

Grimple Peter Hewitt 8.75 x 31.75 x 14.25
Venture Hollow Forged 6.1
Spitfire F4 Conical 54mm/99d
Bronson G3 bearings
Spa Gear Hardware
Deli Pepper grip
NB# Tiago 1010

Nearly a Christmas complete except the used wheels and bearings I had in a drawer. Riding Ventures unlocked some interesting wheelbase options for me, too hard to pass this one up at the local (remote) shop.

EDIT: WB measures 14.1875 in case anyone cares. Oh, this is SLAP Shoes & Gear, of course you do.

[Tireeedd]

Grimple Peter Hewitt 8.75 x 31.75 x 14.25
Venture Hollow Forged 6.1
Spitfire F4 Conical 54mm/99d
Bronson G3 bearings
Spa Gear Hardware
Deli Pepper grip
NB# Tiago 1010

Nearly a Christmas complete except the used wheels and bearings I had in a drawer. Riding Ventures unlocked some interesting wheelbase options for me, too hard to pass this one up at the local (remote) shop.

this would've been perfect without ventures