Big Boards 9"+( I wanna hear big boys talk about their big boards)

[braksabbath]

Got the deck for cheap off a guy who gripped it with clear and rode it once. Even with a heatgun the clear grip was a pita to remove, couldn’t get any large pieces to peel off so it came off in a bunch of tiny chunks and looked like peeling dead feet skin. Nasty. Left a circle of it.

Cruiser wheels until I replace these 169’s, way beyond their lifespan for grinds.
Can’t decide between Ace 55/66/77 or Indy 215. The board is about 9.5/8.8 over the trucks. Leaning towards 215 cuz they’re novel but I want the quickest steering I can get on the SS Sweatpants 🛥

[oliknight]

Got the deck for cheap off a guy who gripped it with clear and rode it once. Even with a heatgun the clear grip was a pita to remove, couldn’t get any large pieces to peel off so it came off in a bunch of tiny chunks and looked like peeling dead feet skin. Nasty. Left a circle of it.

Cruiser wheels until I replace these 169’s, way beyond their lifespan for grinds.
Can’t decide between Ace 55/66/77 or Indy 215. The board is about 9.5/8.8 over the trucks. Leaning towards 215 cuz they’re novel but I want the quickest steering I can get on the SS Sweatpants 🛥

In my opinion 215s are way to big unless you like your wheels to stick out the side, I had 169s on this decks and that was pretty perfect but now I have 159s with some 54mm ojs and it’s really nice as a cruiser but also feels nice for tricks

[TastyBurrito]

Got the deck for cheap off a guy who gripped it with clear and rode it once. Even with a heatgun the clear grip was a pita to remove, couldn’t get any large pieces to peel off so it came off in a bunch of tiny chunks and looked like peeling dead feet skin. Nasty. Left a circle of it.

Cruiser wheels until I replace these 169’s, way beyond their lifespan for grinds.
Can’t decide between Ace 55/66/77 or Indy 215. The board is about 9.5/8.8 over the trucks. Leaning towards 215 cuz they’re novel but I want the quickest steering I can get on the SS Sweatpants 🛥

I have Ace 55 classics on mine and I love the steering on em.

[Woodshop]

Got the deck for cheap off a guy who gripped it with clear and rode it once. Even with a heatgun the clear grip was a pita to remove, couldn’t get any large pieces to peel off so it came off in a bunch of tiny chunks and looked like peeling dead feet skin. Nasty. Left a circle of it.

Cruiser wheels until I replace these 169’s, way beyond their lifespan for grinds.
Can’t decide between Ace 55/66/77 or Indy 215. The board is about 9.5/8.8 over the trucks. Leaning towards 215 cuz they’re novel but I want the quickest steering I can get on the SS Sweatpants 🛥

So good, but I wouldn't go for 215s on anything besides a 10+ pig.  Others ride it with 169s or around 9" trucks (Ace 55 or AF1 66) and it works really well.

The 215s are just too big overall for me on almost everything, but in saying that some people love them on anything.


Crazy how people set up boards and then get rid of them so quickly too and I would have been straight into getting rid of the clear grip too.

I feel like more and more of these Gonz decks are coming up, as per the DLX thread, where we were just talking about this board, so I copied your post to there as well.

https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=85076.1200;topicseen

[Plan9Customs]

New Juan

[big_kev_215]

Been rockin this at the indoor for the past couple weeks. The Polar Dane1 is the most fun skateboard I've ridden - I'm on my third one!



Polar Dane1 with Mob Grip
Ace AF1 66s with Krux K5 Kingpins (Stock Bottom bushing, Indy Super Soft White top)
Bones 56mm V6 99a STFs (RollerSurfer)
Bronson G3s
Homemade UHMW rails 🤓

Beautiful setup.

I also think the Dane 1 is the most fun shape and especially fun to spice up my usual grinds, slides, sometimes manuals street skating by adapting to the shape.  I’m waiting for Polar to put out another graphic of it in a new drop so I can stock up.  I had the same one you have but the graphics a little too busy for me to commit to buying multiple decks. 

[kevs.clips]

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Been rockin this at the indoor for the past couple weeks. The Polar Dane1 is the most fun skateboard I've ridden - I'm on my third one!
*pics*
Polar Dane1 with Mob Grip
Ace AF1 66s with Krux K5 Kingpins (Stock Bottom bushing, Indy Super Soft White top)
Bones 56mm V6 99a STFs (RollerSurfer)
Bronson G3s
Homemade UHMW rails 🤓

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Beautiful setup.

I also think the Dane 1 is the most fun shape and especially fun to spice up my usual grinds, slides, sometimes manuals street skating by adapting to the shape.  I’m waiting for Polar to put out another graphic of it in a new drop so I can stock up.  I had the same one you have but the graphics a little too busy for me to commit to buying multiple decks.

Word thank you! Totally agree with you. Hoping there's a new wheelwell version this next drop. I hear you on this graphic - I'm into it overall it's definitely a unique one. my partner was wondering why I bought a board with a dead bart simpson on it hahahaha.

[purjo00]

Been rockin this at the indoor for the past couple weeks. The Polar Dane1 is the most fun skateboard I've ridden - I'm on my third one!



Polar Dane1 with Mob Grip
Ace AF1 66s with Krux K5 Kingpins (Stock Bottom bushing, Indy Super Soft White top)
Bones 56mm V6 99a STFs (RollerSurfer)
Bronson G3s
Homemade UHMW rails 🤓

Lovely setup!
Do you have risers on your setup since you are having 56mm wheels?

I´m on my first Dane 1 and totally in love with it. I´m with Ace 66 classics instead, but got quite heave wheelbite issues with 54mm Spitfire tablets. So I made wheelwells by hand (front only), got better but would hit wheelbite if going up to 56mm that I would like try.

[kevs.clips]

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Been rockin this at the indoor for the past couple weeks. The Polar Dane1 is the most fun skateboard I've ridden - I'm on my third one!
*pics*

Polar Dane1 with Mob Grip
Ace AF1 66s with Krux K5 Kingpins (Stock Bottom bushing, Indy Super Soft White top)
Bones 56mm V6 99a STFs (RollerSurfer)
Bronson G3s
Homemade UHMW rails 🤓

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Lovely setup!
Do you have risers on your setup since you are having 56mm wheels?

I´m on my first Dane 1 and totally in love with it. I´m with Ace 66 classics instead, but got quite heave wheelbite issues with 54mm Spitfire tablets. So I made wheelwells by hand (front only), got better but would hit wheelbite if going up to 56mm that I would like try.

Hey thanks so much!!
Yeah, I rock a 1/8th riser - should've mentioned that. I still get a little wheelbite every once in a while but not too bad. I'd say I ride my trucks on the looser side of medium, but not anything crazy. I think with 1/8th + wheelwells you'd have no issues at all!

[purjo00]

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Been rockin this at the indoor for the past couple weeks. The Polar Dane1 is the most fun skateboard I've ridden - I'm on my third one!
*pics*

Polar Dane1 with Mob Grip
Ace AF1 66s with Krux K5 Kingpins (Stock Bottom bushing, Indy Super Soft White top)
Bones 56mm V6 99a STFs (RollerSurfer)
Bronson G3s
Homemade UHMW rails 🤓

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Lovely setup!
Do you have risers on your setup since you are having 56mm wheels?

I´m on my first Dane 1 and totally in love with it. I´m with Ace 66 classics instead, but got quite heave wheelbite issues with 54mm Spitfire tablets. So I made wheelwells by hand (front only), got better but would hit wheelbite if going up to 56mm that I would like try.

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Hey thanks so much!!
Yeah, I rock a 1/8th riser - should've mentioned that. I still get a little wheelbite every once in a while but not too bad. I'd say I ride my trucks on the looser side of medium, but not anything crazy. I think with 1/8th + wheelwells you'd have no issues at all!

Thanks! I´ll give it a try next time we have dry concrete again. Now it´s covered in snow again...
Time for some love to the bearings.

[MysticalTypeExperience]

New Juan

Love it, what are the dims?

Also, how often does Scram put out new decks? Everything they release is so rad but sold out everywhere (Like the 8.75-9" Fink Planet deck).

[Plan9Customs]

N:7 3/8” T:6 5/8” WB:14 1/2”(center/center) L:33 3/16” W:9”
Black Market had 11 when I got this and it looks like they’re down to 4 now. Same shape as the wishmaster they did a while back but 1/4” longer over all and nose is longer and steeper on this one.

[Woodshop]

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New Juan

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Love it, what are the dims?

Also, how often does Scram put out new decks? Everything they release is so rad but sold out everywhere (Like the 8.75-9" Fink Planet deck).

I think not being a very big company, they might have had more significant delays and setbacks with all the pandemic delays in production and other issues, when compared to some of the bigger companies, as well as most of their stuff not being updated a whole lot, but you could DM them and ask about it.

If you didn't get a reply, it might be easier asking the shop that has some when they last brought some out.


Their product pics and highlights are from a while ago now, that's for sure.

[GBLange]

The new curb crusher looks good..

[braksabbath]

I want to like Scram more but the shapes and art make it look more like Bulldog Skates barney gear than anything else

[MysticalTypeExperience]

Current big setups -

Winkowski 10.4
Indy 169 standard
OJ 56mm Insaneathane

Heroin Big Egg 9.125 (tapered nose and tail)
Indy 159 standard hollow
F4 101a 54mm conicals

Holy shit that Winkowski graphic is one of the best I've ever seen. Found the artist Ken Taylor from Australia but unfortunately I don't think he's done any other decks that I can find.

Bittersweet browsing the older pages of these threads and finding shit you want so badly but will never have.

[TastyBurrito]

Winkowski's are beautiful shapes with the craziest graphics.

[animalflesh]

I want to like Scram more but the shapes and art make it look more like Bulldog Skates barney gear than anything else

When they first kicked it off I was loving everything that came out… and then they did the thing that every company like this does and just all started skating transition only and taking cues from 70s and 80s “punk” brands… kinda losing individuality

I love the skaters on the brand and nolan but it doesn’t appeal to me as much anymore

[Rodogulous]

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Got the deck for cheap off a guy who gripped it with clear and rode it once. Even with a heatgun the clear grip was a pita to remove, couldn’t get any large pieces to peel off so it came off in a bunch of tiny chunks and looked like peeling dead feet skin. Nasty. Left a circle of it.

Cruiser wheels until I replace these 169’s, way beyond their lifespan for grinds.
Can’t decide between Ace 55/66/77 or Indy 215. The board is about 9.5/8.8 over the trucks. Leaning towards 215 cuz they’re novel but I want the quickest steering I can get on the SS Sweatpants 🛥

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So good, but I wouldn't go for 215s on anything besides a 10+ pig.  Others ride it with 169s or around 9" trucks (Ace 55 or AF1 66) and it works really well.

The 215s are just too big overall for me on almost everything, but in saying that some people love them on anything.


Crazy how people set up boards and then get rid of them so quickly too and I would have been straight into getting rid of the clear grip too.

I feel like more and more of these Gonz decks are coming up, as per the DLX thread, where we were just talking about this board, so I copied your post to there as well.

https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=85076.1200;topicseen

Agree re 215s. I had 215s on my Krooked Gonz initially and they were just way too wide - heaps of wheel bite and hot-rodding all over the place. Settled on 159s which are perfect at the rear and probably a bit narrow at the front, so I think i'd be comfortable running 169s or 159s on this deck.

[Prostate Exam]

I want to like Scram more but the shapes and art make it look more like Bulldog Skates barney gear than anything else

I actually quite like it. I still have some boards at home and they were pretty good. I don't really mind the graphics.
Only complaint I have is that the boards are usually a bit short (around 31.00-31.5)

[braksabbath]

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Got the deck for cheap off a guy who gripped it with clear and rode it once. Even with a heatgun the clear grip was a pita to remove, couldn’t get any large pieces to peel off so it came off in a bunch of tiny chunks and looked like peeling dead feet skin. Nasty. Left a circle of it.

Cruiser wheels until I replace these 169’s, way beyond their lifespan for grinds.
Can’t decide between Ace 55/66/77 or Indy 215. The board is about 9.5/8.8 over the trucks. Leaning towards 215 cuz they’re novel but I want the quickest steering I can get on the SS Sweatpants 🛥

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So good, but I wouldn't go for 215s on anything besides a 10+ pig.  Others ride it with 169s or around 9" trucks (Ace 55 or AF1 66) and it works really well.

The 215s are just too big overall for me on almost everything, but in saying that some people love them on anything.


Crazy how people set up boards and then get rid of them so quickly too and I would have been straight into getting rid of the clear grip too.

I feel like more and more of these Gonz decks are coming up, as per the DLX thread, where we were just talking about this board, so I copied your post to there as well.

https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=85076.1200;topicseen

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Agree re 215s. I had 215s on my Krooked Gonz initially and they were just way too wide - heaps of wheel bite and hot-rodding all over the place. Settled on 159s which are perfect at the rear and probably a bit narrow at the front, so I think i'd be comfortable running 169s or 159s on this deck.

Got some barely used 169’s for $20, cha ching

[layzieyez]

The rails on that board are killing me. Why are they two different lengths?

[braksabbath]

I had to cut deep wheel wells on the Warpig cuz I refused to accept I needed risers on loose Ace’s/56mm wheels and kept wheelbiting on the rail on my heel side so I cut it down. Also need to move the rails inward cuz the deck almost scrapes on slides so this thing is getting some more speed holes soon.
Whatever board OCD is, I have the opposite.

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I had to cut deep wheel wells on the Warpig cuz I refused to accept I needed risers on loose Ace’s/56mm wheels and kept wheelbiting on the rail on my heel side so I cut it down. Also need to move the rails inward cuz the deck almost scrapes on slides so this thing is getting some more speed holes soon.
Whatever board OCD is, I have the opposite.

my friend once broke one when a screw stripped and he tried to pull it off, then still kepy using it, i thought that was what happened.
i had a 14" wheelbase deck with rails last summer and you could see the shape of the wheels edged into the rails there. tey need to make shorter rails for short wheelbase decks.

did you switch the kingpin nuts on the old indys? mine are in a similiar state but the nuts are worn down to where i can even adjust the back truck anymore.

[animalflesh]

Slappy hour makes a 13.5 rail

[braksabbath]

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I had to cut deep wheel wells on the Warpig cuz I refused to accept I needed risers on loose Ace’s/56mm wheels and kept wheelbiting on the rail on my heel side so I cut it down. Also need to move the rails inward cuz the deck almost scrapes on slides so this thing is getting some more speed holes soon.
Whatever board OCD is, I have the opposite.

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my friend once broke one when a screw stripped and he tried to pull it off, then still kepy using it, i thought that was what happened.
i had a 14" wheelbase deck with rails last summer and you could see the shape of the wheels edged into the rails there. tey need to make shorter rails for short wheelbase decks.

did you switch the kingpin nuts on the old indys? mine are in a similiar state but the nuts are worn down to where i can even adjust the back truck anymore.

Yeah the nuts were ground down at a steep angle and the washer had mushroomed around so they had to go when I replaced the blown out bushings. Had to push down on the hanger and use vice grips on the nut cuz there wasn't enough for a skate tool to grab on to.

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I had to cut deep wheel wells on the Warpig cuz I refused to accept I needed risers on loose Ace’s/56mm wheels and kept wheelbiting on the rail on my heel side so I cut it down. Also need to move the rails inward cuz the deck almost scrapes on slides so this thing is getting some more speed holes soon.
Whatever board OCD is, I have the opposite.

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my friend once broke one when a screw stripped and he tried to pull it off, then still kepy using it, i thought that was what happened.
i had a 14" wheelbase deck with rails last summer and you could see the shape of the wheels edged into the rails there. tey need to make shorter rails for short wheelbase decks.

did you switch the kingpin nuts on the old indys? mine are in a similiar state but the nuts are worn down to where i can even adjust the back truck anymore.

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Yeah the nuts were ground down at a steep angle and the washer had mushroomed around so they had to go when I replaced the blown out bushings. Had to push down on the hanger and use vice grips on the nut cuz there wasn't enough for a skate tool to grab on to.

yeah front truck washer is also folded around it on mine. the bushing is blown out too but cant be bothered anymore.
funnily i replaced the back truck bushings once, but was too lazy to do both. running completely diffrent bushings in both now. might also have the opposite of that OCD,

Slappy hour makes a 13.5 rail

yeah that's what i was thinking of! sadly not in Europe.
it's crazy how 14.5" is so standart. some are 14" but never saw smaller ones before. also sucks some rails don't actually have the lenght specified so you won't know what you get.

[Painted Baby]

^Uh oh I sense the need for a new thread. I got a couple of different brands I can measure.

[braksabbath]

Shaped boards are tight but I think I’ve become a ride-the-board-backwards person and now my shits all fucked up. Need a company to put out shapes with extra steep kicks

[Woodshop]

Shaped boards are tight but I think I’ve become a ride-the-board-backwards person and now my shits all fucked up. Need a company to put out shapes with extra steep kicks

To me some of the steeper boards with good shapes in wide sizes included Creature (and some Santa Cruz, but they were shorter), then some of the reissues from Dwindle like New Deal (also shorter) just to name a few.

I would have to check through the list but I could probably give you at least a dozen from a few different woodshops.