used risers religiously for almost 2 decades. stopped using them and didnt really notice a massive difference tbh
You didn’t feel let down without them?
Would you say that they were holding you up?
Shit gags.
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they didn’t rise to the occasion
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I started skating with risers again after seeing Oyola in EE3! Kept them ever since. Too much wheel bite without them and I don’t like change.
Who cares what people say about your setup?
always little rubber risers but I feel they are/were more helpful to minimise the hard angle point of breakage. Meaning it was as much a shock absorber as a riser.
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I ran double kick Cell Block IIIs because fuck knows what I was thinking I was 12
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I had Gullwings and heaven only knows what risers.
Took me ages to realise the risers weren’t necessary because the trucks had their own integrated into the baseplate.
I must have been able to peer into the upper deck windows of a double decker bus up on that shit.
so im still running my last board from '05 when i stopped skating,
its a ghetto ass Fracture blank (i burned so many of those decks)
some indy trucks,
cant for the life of me remember the wheels,
and the still strong Bones Reds.
i picked up another cruiser like set up a few weeks ago to skate home from work on, i never realised how much i missed just riding a board.
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That was normal for the time and everybody’s wheels where around 65mm anyway.
For me and my fellow idiots of the day, it was about creating a steeper angle when you hit the tail to get higher ollies… Nothing to do with muscle strength or height or things like that.
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I’d love to try to skate that. I know it wouldn’t work but I’m sure it’d be fun to try for a minute.
Fun, till you notice the trucks.
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The trucks are the reason why I’d love to try it. If they’re both set up the wrong way, you know what to expect, but how’s this gonna work?
I guess the board will try to stay straight when you want to turn. Say the front truck is on the right and correctly mounted, then it should try to turn properly, but the other truck turns the opposite way, so you get ditched.
Not sure it would mess with your direction so much. It wouldn’t control well.
It does create more distance between the tail and axle, less pop and easier to snap.
exactly this!
When I first started getting into skating properly my mate found me some odd scraps of a board and set it up for me. He set my trucks up like that as a joke. We walked to our school with some wood to make a fly off thing and I went straight for it without thinking. Board would not turn, I ground up the side of the wood and suppermanned to my face. Split my chin open like a baked potato. I have a hot cross bun scar under my beard now.
have death team boards changed at all in the last 10 years or so? have gone back to my teenage years and ordered a skull deck. can’t remember why i stopped skating them, nor can i remember what they were shaped like. this may be some kind of weird mid life crisis. i’ll keep you updated on these exciting events
Pretty sure @roncalow knows.
I only had one and loved it!
In the last 10 years? Probably not.
Especially when I think of 2009 it doesn’t seem that long ago
Are they flat or curvy concave? Guess I’ll find out soon enough
