The company offers three board lengths, 32", 36" and 42". Silverfish Longboarding tested the 42" board.

This board at a glance (and from what I'd heard) looks like it would unstable and difficult to push on the flats. I found that not to be true--it took less than an hour of riding around on it before I completely forgot to worry about it being unstable. After a day riding it, I was able to walk the board (42" inches isn't much to walk, but that's beside the point), even at low speeds.

The carving is what is amazing about this board. It still surprises me when I lean hard, expecting the wheels to come off the ground or to have to step off the board, but find that I can carve as deep as I want. It's a great feeling. The turning radius is amazing--I'd estimate it conservatively at 5 feet. At lower speeds, the movement from one wheel to another is almost unnoticeable, carving is very fluid. Once you begin to pick up speed, you can feel movement from one wheel to the next, but it's not jerky or jumpy. I've found the wheels to be sticky enough--not slipping even on very tight carves.

The weight of the board is also nice--it's comparable to the weight of a board with standard trucks. Carrying it back up the hill is no problem.

The major downsides I found were that the board isn't made for high speeds--about 20 mph seems the max you would want to hit on this board. Another downside is that while with the new yellow wheels (62mm x 24mm 84A), it's faster than it was, it's still not an exceptionally fast board. Most of the time you are riding, you are on two wheels, the transition from one set of wheels to the next means that the wheels have to go from stopped, or spinning slower than the wheels you are coming off of to full speed almost instaneoulsy. That causes some friction--more than what you get when you are on the four wheels of a standard longboard all the time. For someone who's more into the fluid carving feel than hitting breakneck speeds, that shouldn't make much of a difference.

I haven't had to do this yet, but one thing to consider is that once the wheels and bearings wear out, that's 14 wheels and 28 bearings to replace, which could get rather expensive.

I've found this to be one of the most versatile hybrid boards I've tired. It's good for carving, good on the flats, good for downhill (at medium speed), easy to learn and carry. The kicktails make it even easier to maneuver, they are very functional, shorter boards can be used in parks and pools, and for doing ollies and other shortboard tricks. The kictail on the longer boards make manuals, nosewheelies, tic-tacking and other similar tricks possible.

Dealing with Mike Richardson at Flowlab has also been great. Emails are always returned quickly, and he's been great about answering questions. You might notice that you'll see some boards that look a whole lot like Flowlab's boards--the company licenses out their DCS system to other companies who have the option of putting them on their own boards. We'll be reviewing GhostRiderX's version of the DCS very soon.