i'm sick of breaking skateboards....

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

who makes a skateboard that will last?

i used to have a lib tech skateboard way back in the day that i bought for 45 bucks and it lasted me forever, but they bumped the prices up to like 100 bucks.... Confused

anyone have experience with Element fiber lights or Darkstar amour lights?

ZackFL(BRE) · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 2386 City: Tampa

Flip.

88skisupreme · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1342 City: ATX

http://www.metalsunglasses.com/skateboards-index.html

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

88skisupreme, Shocked

have you ever tried one? i kinda want to that would be rad haha

bromfutter · Posted: Apr 02, 2010 9:42 am Post subject:

no one makes an unbreakable board and one thing i have learned from looking for the long lasting ones like lib tech is that they have big disadvantages over just regular wood boards. When you get to the point where you feel like your breaking too many then start looking for cheaper boards.

GnarShredd · Backside 180 Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 1529 City: Seattle

The aluminum boards feel really wierd when you try and do anything. The only one I rode was a while back though and these look a bit different. It definitely looked like it could take a serious beating, but it rides really awkwardly.

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

GnarShredd, yea i read some things and this guy said that they didnt flex like wood boards do

bromfutter, yea but cheaper usually isnt better

daniel · Back Big Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 3669 City: Duncan

where are you breaking them?

almost's board held up for me longer than any other board I've had.

ZackFL(BRE) · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 2386 City: Tampa

Land on the bolts and you wouldn't break so many.

GnarShredd · Backside 180 Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 1529 City: Seattle

or just stop shredding so hard Smash

mojo · Posted: Apr 02, 2010 2:05 pm Post subject:

aluminum board sounds like the worst idea for a skateboard ever.

overstreet31 · Posted: Apr 02, 2010 2:07 pm Post subject:

I think ALMOST has a new carbon fiber board. May be a little pricey but probably pretty durable.

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

overstreet31, i just bought one today, i think its called the double impact

its sick and only cost me like 40 bucks Cool

oh and its got a 45 day guarantee against breaking

Schmaltz · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 721 City: San Jose

all decks from the same manufacturer, and veneer supplier, using the same wood species, are not the same!!! Many skate manufacturers get their veneer from a number of suppliers and a number of skateboard companies do get their boards from a number of manufacturers and in good faith are using the best veneer they can get to make your deck from.

That is why you may have one guy swearing by a particular brand and another guy saying he rode one and it snapped first day, or it lost it's pop really fast. It is this variation in wood that is generally the problem, not the veneer supplier, or the manufacturer using cheaper "Chinese Maple" or some other substitute wood. It is inherent in the natural make up of WOOD.

As you lay-up decks, you take one sheet after another from a stack of cores, you see the grain pattern slowly change, or the size/position of a small knot from sheet to sheet move, as they are stacked from the same peel/log. You can feel slight changes in weight and see the colour of the grains change etc as you go from sap wood to heart wood and back through the stack of veneers.

Most reputable companies are using 100%USA Hard Maple and the best glue and the best pressing techniques. It would most likely be just variations in the wood itself which can not be controlled, and not some conspiracy to make cheap dud products for profit.

labellethrasher · Posted: Apr 03, 2010 8:04 pm Post subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy5qtoQSjk8

I thought this was interesting... love Rodney

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

Schmaltz, why don't you just make skateboard decks the same way you make wakeskates? they would be so strong!

mojo · Posted: Apr 03, 2010 8:25 pm Post subject:

wow. what an informative and passionate video. very cool.

Evan71 · Posted: Apr 03, 2010 9:01 pm Post subject:

mini logos all the way, cheap and just as strong as a normal deck

wakemitch · Posted: Apr 03, 2010 10:13 pm Post subject:

labellethrasher, thanks for that link. very interesting

yookyle · Backside 180 Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 1002 City: Reno

i just buy whatevers cheap and has a cool graphic. i got a foundation for like 40 bucks has lasted me awhile