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[Anxiety]

Sorta cruiser sorta curb board




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Ace 44
1/4 riser
60mm 95a slimeballs

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Re post from 9 inch deck thread

I just got run over by a car while bombing a hill.

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Glad you aren't dead!

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madness 9.5 deck
indy 149's
oj juper juice x moon eyes collab
darkroom bearings i had laying around

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Love this. I had a Dane1 setup like that before putting wider trucks and 54mm wheels on it. Skated it 3 times since then so I think I'm going back to having it like this.

My favorite combo was Dane1, 8.5" trucks and Super Juices. I would use that setup the most. Sadly the OJs didnt last more than couple months after exploding. I wouldnt ride anything else.

[Plan9Customs]

Sorta cruiser sorta curb board




Vision
Ace 44
1/4 riser
60mm 95a slimeballs

Is that a Jinx deck?

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Sorta cruiser sorta curb board




Vision
Ace 44
1/4 riser
60mm 95a slimeballs

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Is that a Jinx deck?

it's his graphic for sure.

[moonordie]

I fucked up my ankle while trekking so I setup this with stuff I had lying around so I can do some pushing

Player "Egg" 8.75 14wb
Jessup I think
1" diamond Allen that I hate
AF-1 44
X99 V5 53mm
G3 (ew)

[Anxiety]

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Sorta cruiser sorta curb board




Vision
Ace 44
1/4 riser
60mm 95a slimeballs

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Is that a Jinx deck?

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it's his graphic for sure.

Yeah it’s a jinx

They did some “horror series” last Halloween which was a bunch of their gnarlier graphics on coffin shapes

[biaherl]

Here's my new WSVT cruiser.







Sci-Fi board
Sci-Fi wheels
Ace AF1 66
Quantum Skate Shop Day Bearings
Mob Lurking Class Grip
Thunder 7/8s hardware

[hiljentaa]

Hike up to fun descent down Castle Creek today.

Baker OG 8.38
Indy 144 Ti w/ Bones hard
Spitfire Radial 93a 58mm
Pepper grip, Titanium 7/8 Allen w/ low nuts, fancy ceramic bearings.

Very hyped on these 93s so far. They fit my use perfectly. Long pushes, spot exploration, transport but I want to be able to skate em too, sometimes.

They've slid and pinched grinded on metal for me, they sound like a skateboard wheel. Not too bouncy. I dunno, other people have talked about em. They're good. Try em if yr interested.

[Candied cigarettes]

Chico stix big boy 9 (love this shape), royal 8.75s and oj super juices. Such a fun set up

[Frank and Fred]

AH Genius with Wheel wells
AF1 60s
Ace 1/16" Shock pads
Powell Snakes 82a, were 59mm now a couple mms smaller
Ol mix match of Quantum bearings
Pepper Galaxy

[swongolianbbq]

Powell hardcore grip
Powell board 8.25(actually 8.38)
Aces with regular nuts and flat top washers 8.5", stock bushings
54mm 80d conical fulls
Ceramic reds

I think these are timps thanks strange

[back smith]

Melodica cruiser shape
Bennet Vector 5.0
Kryptonics Classic 65mm 80A

[Anxiety]

Best thing ever

Serious truck jealousy

[Pastasash]

bought and assembled back in 2011, and apart from a random sesh few years back, my ol college zip zinger hasn't seen much action since 2015, sits in the dark back corner of my trunk. Got some Krux and fat OJ cruiser wheels on em, should prob take those ripndip stickers of tho lol

[fernando the skater]

bought and assembled back in 2011, and apart from a random sesh few years back, my ol college zip zinger hasn't seen much action since 2015

Cool. I had the London Tube map version of the Zig Zagger back in the day.

[Texas_Tone]

Best thing ever

Serious truck jealousy

Apparently they are back

https://www.sk8kings.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=S&Category_Code=BEN

Kinda curious about the alligator wheels, I have an old madness deck laying around maybe I’ll ante up and grab a set of trucks and wheels, they also have a mini complete called the locker rocker

[OHJEEZZZUUSSS]

Been hurt been raining been bored so I went shopping and got this unity board put in my ace af1s 66 with kader radial fulls 57mm.  Came down to the skatepark between rain and ollied wet leaf piles.  Then it rained again.

[JimmyFive]

Melodica cruiser shape
Bennet Vector 5.0
Kryptonics Classic 65mm 80A

Wow!! What a blast from the past. Bennetts and Kryptonics! OG or reissue?
There are some older dudes that I skate with that are always reminiscing fondly re these trucks and wheels.

[back smith]

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Melodica cruiser shape
Bennet Vector 5.0
Kryptonics Classic 65mm 80A

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Wow!! What a blast from the past. Bennetts and Kryptonics! OG or reissue?
There are some older dudes that I skate with that are always reminiscing fondly re these trucks and wheels.

They are reissues. The Bennett Vectors have a dreamy turn, feels magical, but a very high truck and the hangar shape catches some wheel shapes.

The wheels are just some kind of cheap rollerskate wheels, fine but just a standard 78A wheel. They aren't the Kryptonics Star Trac wheels your homies are reminiscing over. I do have a set of the Dusters (Dwindle) Kryptonics Star Trac reissues as well, 55m 85A, and just recently put them on my regular board so that I can stay on it in the super slippery indoor plywood park. Now those wheels are fantastic, I hope they do a re-reissue.

[fernando the skater]

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Melodica cruiser shape
Bennet Vector 5.0
Kryptonics Classic 65mm 80A

[close]

Wow!! What a blast from the past. Bennetts and Kryptonics! OG or reissue?
There are some older dudes that I skate with that are always reminiscing fondly re these trucks and wheels.

[close]

They are reissues. The Bennett Vectors have a dreamy turn, feels magical, but a very high truck and the hangar shape catches some wheel shapes.

The wheels are just some kind of cheap rollerskate wheels, fine but just a standard 78A wheel. They aren't the Kryptonics Star Trac wheels your homies are reminiscing over. I do have a set of the Dusters (Dwindle) Kryptonics Star Trac reissues as well, 55m 85A, and just recently put them on my regular board so that I can stay on it in the super slippery indoor plywood park. Now those wheels are fantastic, I hope they do a re-reissue.

The Kryptonics name is now owned by Wallmart. Dwindle leased it for a couple of years to do the Star Tracker reissues, but the cost is too high to do it again.

[back smith]

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Melodica cruiser shape
Bennet Vector 5.0
Kryptonics Classic 65mm 80A

[close]

Wow!! What a blast from the past. Bennetts and Kryptonics! OG or reissue?
There are some older dudes that I skate with that are always reminiscing fondly re these trucks and wheels.

[close]

They are reissues. The Bennett Vectors have a dreamy turn, feels magical, but a very high truck and the hangar shape catches some wheel shapes.

The wheels are just some kind of cheap rollerskate wheels, fine but just a standard 78A wheel. They aren't the Kryptonics Star Trac wheels your homies are reminiscing over. I do have a set of the Dusters (Dwindle) Kryptonics Star Trac reissues as well, 55m 85A, and just recently put them on my regular board so that I can stay on it in the super slippery indoor plywood park. Now those wheels are fantastic, I hope they do a re-reissue.

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The Kryptonics name is now owned by Wallmart. Dwindle leased it for a couple of years to do the Star Tracker reissues, but the cost is too high to do it again.

Kryptonics is owned by Bravo Sports, not Walmart. And Dwindle is owned by them too nowadays. The licensing shouldn't be an issue anymore. But a new Star Trac reissue might still be unlikely, I agree, because the corporate life be like that sometimes.

[Texas_Tone]

Need some advice, got an old madness deck that measures 8.5 over the front bolts and prolly 8.1 or so at the back, my buddy has some 8 inch Indy trucks he’s willing to let me take off his hands, I’ve got some oj mini juice wheels that are slightly offset, do y’all think I’ll magic carpet at the front a bunch by skating the 8 inch trucks??

Or better yet tell me what size Bennett vector trucks to get

[minilogoflow]

Need some advice, got an old madness deck that measures 8.5 over the front bolts and prolly 8.1 or so at the back, my buddy has some 8 inch Indy trucks he’s willing to let me take off his hands, I’ve got some oj mini juice wheels that are slightly offset, do y’all think I’ll magic carpet at the front a bunch by skating the 8 inch trucks??

Or better yet tell me what size Bennett vector trucks to get

I've found with the wider cruiser wheels that they can split the difference on a 1/4"-1/2" between axle and board. I've ran 149's on a 9" deck with rough riders and super juices and didn't get significant magic carpet.

[minilogoflow]

Heroin Mutant 10.1
Ace AF1 77
Bones Rough Riders 59mm
Mini logo bearings
Pepper galaxy grip
Loaded button head hardware
Double stacked Ace 1/8th risers

I haven't been doing much "regular" skating lately and have been putting some miles on this thing. It's been fun to just a ride a board and not stress out on landing tricks.

[Texas_Tone]

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Need some advice, got an old madness deck that measures 8.5 over the front bolts and prolly 8.1 or so at the back, my buddy has some 8 inch Indy trucks he’s willing to let me take off his hands, I’ve got some oj mini juice wheels that are slightly offset, do y’all think I’ll magic carpet at the front a bunch by skating the 8 inch trucks??

Or better yet tell me what size Bennett vector trucks to get

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I've found with the wider cruiser wheels that they can split the difference on a 1/4"-1/2" between axle and board. I've ran 149's on a 9" deck with rough riders and super juices and didn't get significant magic carpet.

Appreciate it the response G

[Mbrimson88]

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Need some advice, got an old madness deck that measures 8.5 over the front bolts and prolly 8.1 or so at the back, my buddy has some 8 inch Indy trucks he’s willing to let me take off his hands, I’ve got some oj mini juice wheels that are slightly offset, do y’all think I’ll magic carpet at the front a bunch by skating the 8 inch trucks??

Or better yet tell me what size Bennett vector trucks to get

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I've found with the wider cruiser wheels that they can split the difference on a 1/4"-1/2" between axle and board. I've ran 149's on a 9" deck with rough riders and super juices and didn't get significant magic carpet.

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Appreciate it the response G

Just looking at the wheelbite marks on the right painted side in the pic, they look fairly similar in position on the edge of the board, so overall I don't know that you would have a big difference between where they sit from front to back.

That said, overall I know I tend to overthink things like board taper which is why I haven't set up quite a few boards over the years, but when I did end up seeing the same boards set up, it was minimal at most, and usually some of those shaped boards do have a naturally wider front end than the back.

As long as the trucks don't make the board feel too tippy, then all good, otherwise adding a few more washers and turning the axle nuts over to put them on in the reverse position will add another half inch in width of truck / wheels to any setup easily enough.  That might sound really weird, but after I tried it and saw it worked, I am not so bothered by it any more.

Definitely works well on any slightly wider wheels so you don't really see or have issues with the axle nuts sticking out either, but I was able to get about six washers on the inside of each very easily, none on the outside, just the reversed nut and never had issues with them popping off or loosening on their own either.


* I tried to find a pic of a cruiser board I have with Indy 139s with reversed nuts and six washers on an 8.5 with similar wheels and it fits really well.  Will add when I get the board out if interested, as I can't seem to find a pic of it right now.

[Texas_Tone]

Here she is, my liquor store cruiser, old madness deck I had in the garage, threw the mini juice on there, some hand me down ventures, they don’t magic carpet (thanks guys for the responses) at all with the offset wheels, changed out the bottom purple venture bushing for the softer barrel from the heated wheel trucks, kept the top purple since the HW top wouldn’t fit



Took it to the store to grab a 6 pack yesterday, went over everything no problem, nice and carvy, and the board is big enough I can throw the six pack between my top bolts and it rides there pretty well

[Rick Trapasso]

After some conversations in the Indy thread I decided to get some Indy 109s. Then I had the idea to cut down my recently skated 8.38 14.5wb easy rider eagle into a slightly longer, slightly wider, longer wheel base zip zinger shape. I've had my zip zinger for like 8 years or so, so it's getting kinda soft. Here's how I did it. Ask and you shall receive @Mbrimson88 .

After pulling the grip off the easy rider I used a clamp and two hardware bolts on the nose to keep the boards lined up while i started tracing the outline. I decided to use the nose on the easy rider as the tail for the new board because of how the shape of the zip zinger lined up on it. Using the larger nose gave me more room for error since the tail of the zip zinger was longer and came to basically the end of the tail on the easy rider.





First mistake, I did not shift the bolts to the back truck when tracing the rear of the deck, this would have caused the tail to be too short. So I traced the rear of the deck again with a different color.




After I got my template straight I used a jigsaw and started cutting. I went to the outside on most of my lines since I wanted it to be abit wider and longer. I did end up freehanding a bit too.









Finished cutting it out and was pretty stoked on it. Ended up being about a half inch longer. And maybe 1/8 inch wider all around, with slightly less taper to the rear.






After that, I had a decision to make. @yourbreakfsat suggested I get a router to do the edges properly and I didn't have one. This was kind of a budget project, so I decided not to buy a new tool for this and just sanded the sharp edges down with 60grit and went around the outline on the board to try and smooth out any areas I didn't do too good on with the jigsaw. Then I used 120 grit to finish and it came out super smooth. No, it's not perfectly rounded off like a proper skateboard, but it's good enough for the intended purpose.

Unfinished edge



Finished edge



Gripped it up, put some riptides in my new 109s and set it all up for a little celebration session.







Width is really nice, wheels hardly show at all. Can't even tell from this pic.




Board is super fun. Damn thing feels like a polarizer almost. The narrow trucks give it a crazy feeling turn. I really enjoy the extra length/wheelbase since I'm pretty tall (6' 4") and have long legs. Strangely enough, nollies feel really good on this thing?

Bonus pic of my cruiser quiver. Sorry for the long ass post. Hopefully someone finds this interesting lol.

[garbage_wagon]

After some conversations in the Indy thread I decided to get some Indy 109s. Then I had the idea to cut down my recently skated 8.38 14.5wb easy rider eagle into a slightly longer, slightly wider, longer wheel base zip zinger shape. I've had my zip zinger for like 8 years or so, so it's getting kinda soft. Here's how I did it. Ask and you shall receive @Mbrimson88 .

After pulling the grip off the easy rider I used a clamp and two hardware bolts on the nose to keep the boards lined up while i started tracing the outline. I decided to use the nose on the easy rider as the tail for the new board because of how the shape of the zip zinger lined up on it. Using the larger nose gave me more room for error since the tail of the zip zinger was longer and came to basically the end of the tail on the easy rider.





First mistake, I did not shift the bolts to the back truck when tracing the rear of the deck, this would have caused the tail to be too short. So I traced the rear of the deck again with a different color.




After I got my template straight I used a jigsaw and started cutting. I went to the outside on most of my lines since I wanted it to be abit wider and longer. I did end up freehanding a bit too.









Finished cutting it out and was pretty stoked on it. Ended up being about a half inch longer. And maybe 1/8 inch wider all around, with slightly less taper to the rear.






After that, I had a decision to make. @yourbreakfsat suggested I get a router to do the edges properly and I didn't have one. This was kind of a budget project, so I decided not to buy a new tool for this and just sanded the sharp edges down with 60grit and went around the outline on the board to try and smooth out any areas I didn't do too good on with the jigsaw. Then I used 120 grit to finish and it came out super smooth. No, it's not perfectly rounded off like a proper skateboard, but it's good enough for the intended purpose.

Unfinished edge



Finished edge



Gripped it up, put some riptides in my new 109s and set it all up for a little celebration session.







Width is really nice, wheels hardly show at all. Can't even tell from this pic.




Board is super fun. Damn thing feels like a polarizer almost. The narrow trucks give it a crazy feeling turn. I really enjoy the extra length/wheelbase since I'm pretty tall (6' 4") and have long legs. Strangely enough, nollies feel really good on this thing?

Bonus pic of my cruiser quiver. Sorry for the long ass post. Hopefully someone finds this interesting lol.

That’s cool. Like seeing stuff like that around here.

[Mbrimson88]

After some conversations in the Indy thread I decided to get some Indy 109s. Then I had the idea to cut down my recently skated 8.38 14.5wb easy rider eagle into a slightly longer, slightly wider, longer wheel base zip zinger shape. I've had my zip zinger for like 8 years or so, so it's getting kinda soft. Here's how I did it. Ask and you shall receive @Mbrimson88 .

After pulling the grip off the easy rider I used a clamp and two hardware bolts on the nose to keep the boards lined up while i started tracing the outline. I decided to use the nose on the easy rider as the tail for the new board because of how the shape of the zip zinger lined up on it. Using the larger nose gave me more room for error since the tail of the zip zinger was longer and came to basically the end of the tail on the easy rider.

Yeah that looks great.

As I said in the Indy thread, I think how flat the Easy Rider concave is would work well with that kind of setup too, not too much, or practically flat works well from a cruiser perspective.

The rest of the progress pics are amazing to see too!!!


* I used to have a small giveaway business going, where people would give me their old boards, usually worn down in the tail, so I would turn them around so the long and almost never used nose was the new tail, cut it slightly straight right across the end, so keeping almost all the length, reshaping the boards depending on what they started with and usually cutting the nose down into a bit of a point, or stubby rounded off or even semi squared off too.

They worked really well for a lot of people as a cruiser, often set up on old trucks that they had spare, then soft wheels or even normal wheels sometimes as people wanted to skate them as fun park boards, but any which way, it was cool to reuse so many old normal boards and turn them into something cool like that.

Your board looks pretty much perfect now for a fun ride.