Gullwings?

**landsurfer86** · 02-02-2006 02:40 PM

Hey guys. Im thinkin of buying some gullwings for my ditch board. I was just curious if anyone had any opinions, positive or negative, about the quality of the trucks.

**laserblast** · 02-02-2006 03:05 PM

what gullwing truck are you interested in ? which type ?

**landsurfer86** · 02-02-2006 03:28 PM

Im lookin at the cruiser 60's, i think thats what theyre called.

http://www.gearguys.com/920010.html

**ninefeet** · 02-03-2006 02:08 AM

**Lyle** · 02-05-2006 12:42 PM

The gullwings on my friends bamboo burst I found to not be my likeing. they were ok but nothing special.

**Andrew in Ontario** · 02-05-2006 12:51 PM

its funny i found this ad in Concrete Wave, an ad for Gullwing trucks. the guy in the pic is riding Randalls.

**HerBDerb** · 02-05-2006 01:15 PM

In the pic, the trucks look a little bit more angled than an R2, so I would think its a gullwing super cruiser 60

**Andrew in Ontario** · 02-05-2006 06:34 PM

trust me its a set of randalls. u might not be able to tell from my pic but i have the magazine in front of me and there is no question.

**bgon** · 02-05-2006 10:30 PM

Yeah. In the newest issue of Concrete Wave there is an ad for Gullwings and the skater is skating Carver C7s (I think). Even if they are some other model of Gullwing it's wierd because the ad is for the new model of Gullwing. The truck on the board and the close-up truck shown in the ad are definitely not the same truck.

Diferent ad than the one shown above.

**YachtRat** · 02-05-2006 10:32 PM

^ im prettty sure that they are sidewinders. maybe not

**HerBDerb** · 02-05-2006 10:36 PM

I thought they were sidewinders also.

**tsmith25** · 02-06-2006 05:13 PM

those are definately randals i laugh at that every time i open that issue. i havent seen the newest one though. i think that says something about gullwing quality. they print ads with people riding another company's trucks. but i havent ridden the crusiers. they are based on a design that rides nice so they might be ok.

**Directive0** · 02-06-2006 05:35 PM

last ad: Randals
Newest ad: Sidewinders
next ad: ?

"Gullwing, advertising someone elses product inadvertantly!"

**Sensei** · 02-07-2006 10:35 AM

I've never owned a pair myself, but everyone that I've known throughout the years that bought a pair, ended up braking them reletivly quickly. Hence why I never owned a pair.

**EBasil** · 02-07-2006 11:23 AM

Does anyone remember (or remember hearing about) when Kryptonics was King? It was really true: Kryptos were better urethane and great wheel designs. We could dicker over when and where Kryptonics lost its performance leadership position (but why bother?), but it's generally accepted now that the NAME Kryptonics is now owned by Variflex and the name has very little to do with the chemists and designers of lore.

GullWings are much the same as Kryptonics, in my view. Mike Williams designed some great trucks that worked great, and later some great wheels (with Bel-Air) and more great trucks. Sure, you could break original GullWing slalom trucks if you dropped into ditches, rode ramps or tried to grind too many curbs (screeeee!!!) with them. Big deal. Later, the GullWing Pros came out, and that was a great truck...I still have mine and have even ridden them recently. Remember the "GullWing Army"?... Okay, we could dicker over when and where GullWing lost its way (but why bother?), but it's generally accepted now that Mike Williams is deceased (too early), that his former company has very little to do with the stoke of old and that it's essentially a name on OEM trucks for Sector/Dregs now.

Sure, they've had some unintentionally hilarious ads recently. My guess is that these things happen when people that don't skate are putting ads together.