Turning Da Buggah

[mauiskategeezer]

Boards over six feet get real wild. The dynamics of the whole board change. I find that to maintain any real directional control, I have to stay forward of the halfway point on the 8' 6" wheelbase of "Da Buggah".

It's fun and challenging to try and turn Da Buggah while at the tail. The front stay's on course while the rear turns. It's real weird, but it would be great to get this manuver down because I'm sure it would look waaaay cool.

My favorite thing to do is walk that sucker. It's a long walk, there's time to do a 360 spin on the way to the front, and it makes you feel like you're surfing a longboard on mellow wave. I MUST get this thing up on Holomua Road and ride it one afternoon...

As far as setup, I run Randal II's with Kryptonic 76mm Classic K's.

The deck is a 2"x10" Fir floor joist. It used to be in Sailboards Maui in Paia. I did a demolition of the store when they moved and salvaged the lumber. Of course you could go buy a 12 foot 2x10 at a hardware store and make one from that. It would cost about $20.
Build one and ride it!

[longboardbuddha]

welcome to the world of really long decks...yes its a weird feeling being at the front and having 80% of the deck behind you....the really weird bit is where you are bombing a hefty turn and the rear blows out and overtakes you kinda of like a pendulum slide that you didnt mean to do.....advice for boardwalking is to tighten up that rear randal so it screams with pain..much more stable then

[Docter M]

you should put a removeable sail on that thing and try to break some lind of land speed record.

[mauiskategeezer]

Yea like the speed of the shyte leaving me arse.


I was thinking that same thing about the rear truck. It's more like a trailing link ala VW.

Ahh the trailing link suspension... my favorite design. Hit a speed bump in a VW bus at 20 mph and feel a "bump" like ya ran over a squirrel.
Do that in a Ford Bronco II and get yer kindeys replaced ....

but I digress....

[longboardbuddha]

just like that dude....i mean how many times have i fell off doing spinners before i mashed the back truck down....vw's and long decks rule

[Docter M]

i gotta build myself one of those. really. it'd be pimp.

[melifont monk]

103 inches of Wheel base!...nice...biggest i've made/ridden was 85 inch....but a 100 or 105 would be sick...you reckon a floor joist is the best timber for the length?

[07boardrally]

way old post man... but i believe it should..