Setup for sliding
Submitted by jackson on Thu, 08/05/2008 - 3:21pm.
Tagged: Anything skateboarding!
A mate of mine if wanting to get into sliding and is wondering what the best setup would be ie what trucks, wheels, bearings and deck.
Jestah has a slide board
Jestah has a slide board which i think he wants to sell mail him: jestah at neednotollie.com
You can slide pretty much any board, but special purpose slide boards have:
Hard smallish wheels - 60-70mm & above 90a
Not too long, but longer than a normal skateboard say 35 inches
a kick tail at one or both ends
and low to the ground and nice and light
if its his first sliding board, it will get pretty beat up so i would suggest just getting some harder wheels for a regular longboard.
slide set ups
here is a good link about slide set-ups.
http://www.silverfishlongboarding.com/forum/skateboard-sliding/33072-new...
Im bringing my slide deck to the Wellington Race if you mate wants to give it a go.
Its a 33 sergio pro model set up with Orion 150mm with risers, Oust moch 9 bearings, 60mm 99a sergio sliders.
My Slide Set-up
Funhouse Big-Fish deck, Tracker 160 trucks and kyptonics 68mm/78A. Slide reasonablly well.