While listening to drum and bass, i came up with this design, Its a double cutaway hollowtail pintail that is at its widest point 11"!!

I call this shape the slip stream shape, as the small front leads on to a large tail, sought of like a slip stream when a relatively small object creates a large wake which other objects can travel through with less friction than if they were fighting the air head on. The slipstream racer, is obviously, a downhill racer, and the dimensions of this deck are to suit my own, i have size 12 feet [british size] so i decided on having a large platform, this also means ill be able to put more force into the turns, as i can place my weight further away from the kingpin, which i must point out, is mounted through the deck, for maximum stability. The hollow tail is meant to get rid of vibration, which will reduce the life span of the deck, i have a rather large hollow tail on the template because i ride alot of bumpy country lanes.

I recomend that if you decide to make a slipstream board, you use downhill specific trucks and 80mm+ wheels and the fastest bearings you can get, i will be using Randall DHs, 85mm kryptonic classic K and abec 9 bearings.

The design allows for very tight turns, you may notice that the wheel base is not large compared to the legnth of the deck, because of the large hollowtail. This means that hopefully you should be able to get maximum performance out of the downhill trucks, that if mounted through the deck, will resist speed wobble a hell of alot.

The only flaw i can think of at the moment is that as the trucks are mounted through the deck the force of which you lean will be drastically reduced, however, with the large platform, this should counter act this.

I will be building this board quite soon, but i will have to save the money to get the components required.

nearly 800 ppl read the origanal article on the slipstream design, less than 8 of you made comments....

any who for some time now the construction of this board has been going on, about 2 months ago, the finished board was handed in as a graphics project to be marked, i will not recieve it back [along with my only set of wheels] for a month or so. I know you can feel my pain.

just so you know, the slip stream design was an artistically motivated downhill racer a controversially large hollowtail. it had drop through mounting trucks and a rigid deck. the goal was to acheive a downhill board that had a small turning circle [for a DH board] and was super stable, the result was the slipstream design. [if you want to know more about the design i suggest you read the origanal article]

[note to marcus, putting the origanal schematic picture here would be good, but its your website so by all means tell me to piss off]

origanal questions that were asked were about dropping through the trucks and wheel bite, mounting the trucks [randall DH] through the 20mm deck was fine, the trucks have very high kingpins, obviously desighned with drop-thru mounting in minds, but one finds it hard to think how high a board would be if they were mounted normally, any way, wheel bite did become a problem as the wheels where extremely close to the board, also, i underestiamted the amount of which the DH trucks can turn, so i will have to recut the cutaways when the board is returned to me.

[note to marcus, putting in the two photos of the board here is a suitable place i think, but im not entirely sure so you decide.]

at 44" the board is big, about normal for a DH like bozi board's  mad bomber or creation's velocity for example, however, its wheel base is much closer than theirs so naturally the turning will be sharper, personally i think its looks good too, even thought you cant see that in the photos.

I have yet to ride it because until i get the issue of wheel bite soughted it is a death trap. so expect the final article about this project coming soon.

feel free to make a constructive comment about this board, they will be read and replied too, also, if you are making a slipstream board then please tell me, there are alot of interesting tips i can bore you with about its construction.