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Just set up a heroin craig questions board , do bigger boards feel soggy ? Feels like this board doesn’t have much pop or is it the softer wheels ? Otherwise love da big board and short wheelbase.
My Heroin 9.75” symmetrical egg felt soggy. It’s the biggest board I’ve skated as a normal board with the heaviest trucks. Not sure if it was the size of the thing or if it was just soggy. I had hard wheels on it. I’ve had 9.25” boards with longer wheelbases and soft wheels not feel soggy at all so who knows. Heroin BBS so I wouldn’t expect them to be soggy but it is a possibility.
The dimensions of your deck may make it feel soggy. A longer tail shrinks your pop angle in some cases, so you have to adapt to it, or compensate it with larger wheels or raisers. Most Heroin eggs have longer kicks, like 7", or even 7.25".
As for big boards feeling soggy, I never experienced that on Curb Crusher XL with 169 Indys and G-Bones, which is very big (10.25) and heavy. It works better for me than any other setup I tried before. I set it up and skated a couple of sessions in a mini-ramp before taking it to the streets. Then I ollied up 3 stairs on it first try and did a proper no-comply up the same 3 stairs. The pop felt insanely strong, and these tricks were really hard for me when I skated Polar Dane 1 with much smaller wheels.
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