Building a better Dervish

**jmasta** · 12-13-2009 04:11 PM

i think the dervish could also use more concave

**clay-911** · 12-13-2009 04:11 PM

lol @ this thread
10lawls

**NeoStreetRacer** · 12-13-2009 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by clay-911

lol @ this thread
10lawls

word

more douche in here than a summers eve warehouse

**rosewood thief** · 12-13-2009 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by killdozer

If you changed the design then it wouldn't be a better Dervish lol. The Dervish is what it is. Love it or leave it. There are other companies that build boards intended for similar types of riding style like the BC Eel and the Gravity Kalai. They each have their own take on it and that doesn't make one "Better" than the other, just different. If you are set on getting that type of board, the best thing you can do is get one, ride it for a while to test it out and then build a board that has features YOU would have changed about it. Again, remember this doesn't make it better. Just makes it more suited to you.

ily

Originally Posted by slide

I'd suggest contemporary, it really impresses the ladies. However pop lock and wave is the most fun type of dance I have come across.

You eat your mommies bloody tampons in your strawberry pudding.

**NeoStreetRacer** · 12-13-2009 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by rosewood thief

I eat my mommies bloody tampons in my strawberry pudding.

Fixed

You sad little emo boy

**rosewood thief** · 12-13-2009 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by NeoStreetRacer

Fixed

You sad little emo boy

How clever, no YOU'RE a little emo boy. It hurts doesn't it?

Usually I pass up e-fights, and this is the first time in a while that I've played an asshole. But this is too precious to pass up.

**atomicturtle462** · 12-13-2009 04:38 PM

Hmmm.

Wider, less flex, more concave, bigger nose and tail.

This is shaping up quite similar to an FSM.

I know that the FSM does not have camber.

**Viebster** · 12-13-2009 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by rosewood thief

You eat your mommies bloody tampons in your strawberry pudding.

You sad little emo boy

Please, continue.

**NeoStreetRacer** · 12-13-2009 04:54 PM

sig
that is all

**Kevin in Edmonton** · 12-13-2009 05:29 PM

Everybody needs to read this book...

**slide** · 12-13-2009 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by spoctopus

lulz
slide, grow up stop having pm wars with people.

Jesus Christ, you're like herpes, you just won't go away.

**xjweezyx** · 12-13-2009 06:10 PM

i would make it...
considerably stiffer
like 9.25 inches wide or so
less camber
more concave
make the nose and tail flare up a bit
more durable

Originally Posted by slide

I hope you made that typo on purpose.

Originally Posted by NeoStreetRacer

Well done sir. As a 34 year old man spitting off prepubescent insults and misspelling them WHILE insulting someones intelligence. THAT is the height irony.

No he didn't, that's what makes it so funny. And a typo is a typing mistaek. Misspelling "you're" is not a slip of the fingers, it's a lack of intelligence.
Funny how he called you an idiot though

and to adress this whole bitch fight going on here over a typo i give you this:
[swf]http://www.youtube.com/v/RsBEbsdFe4Q[/swf]
lol i suck at embedding

**NeoStreetRacer** · 12-13-2009 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by xjweezyx

i would make it...
considerably stiffer
like 9.25 inches wide or so
less camber
more concave
make the nose and tail flare up a bit
more durable

and to adress this whole bitch fight going on here over a typo i give you this:
[swf]http://www.youtube.com/v/RsBEbsdFe4Q[/swf]
lol i suck at embedding

http://www.youtube.com/v/RsBEbsdFe4Q

LOL

**slide** · 12-13-2009 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by xjweezyx

lol i suck at embedding

Edit - I tried embedding that too, what the crap.

**NeoStreetRacer** · 12-13-2009 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by slide

Fixed it for ya, Enjoy

beat you to it!

btw thx 4 the rep, you read my sig lately?

**slide** · 12-13-2009 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by NeoStreetRacer

beat you to it!

btw thx 4 the rep, you read my sig lately?

I assumed it was reverse psychology.

**NeoStreetRacer** · 12-13-2009 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by slide

I assumed it was reverse psychology.

nice, you're smarter than the average SF'er

**akimaveur** · 12-13-2009 07:11 PM

if you add a little kick like a moray, don't make it vertical like the moray seems to be like

**speedrasta** · 12-14-2009 08:28 AM

This is hilarious! Thanks to everyone who gave legitimate answers. The flipped nose and tail sounds like a good idea. I really should spend some more time riding a Dervish, but no one around here has one and they cost $220 deck only in the Great White North, so I more or less plan on making one instead and figured I might as well hotrod it a bit.

Questions:

People say make it wider. This seems like a good idea, but doesn't a slimmer shape make it slightly less responsive when you're walking all over the rails with cross-steps and the like?

Doesn't the flex also make it more forgiving while doing these moves?

I say this because I've only tried these moves on my LY Dropspeed, which is wide and stiff, and it likes to dive right across the street as soon as you start to lean on the rail.

**-Mu-** · 12-14-2009 09:18 AM

My mind is blown. Someone makes a simple joke about dancing terminology (don't we al do #### like this?) and then everyone gets bent out of shape?

This is like...either the strangest discourse I've seen in a long time or it's some crazy kaufman-esque sketch comedy routine.
If it's the later....do go on.