NOOB Questions Answered By Dopamine David

[K-SHIZZ]

i've go some extra 1/8 BB lying around and i want to make a good DH board that corners hella well. how many plys should i use and how well would it turn dropped thru with crails and otangs assuming it has a the same basic design of a borderholic?

[st3v13]

: Mary is mid 40s if you have a huge tail wind, and 35-40 (if you have a very good tuck and clean lines) without wind.
The green thing on Chaputs board is a fairing, it is made to make him more aerodynamic with his brazilian tuck.

tm_cruzer: Jimz bushings are a cheap alternative to jimz bushings. $25 is not much to spend to make a randal turn the way they do. you can buy randals and the jimz bushings for less than a set of holeys, and they will ride as good or better than most trucks on the market in my experience.

you made a typo

Mexifly: don't you know a swallow isn't big enough to carry a coconut

So its itching me. I've ridden paris,gullwing,holey,randall,tracker Rt-X/s, Bennet, and Indy's
Question 1: Why do reverse kingpins seem so simliar and vertical kingpin trucks seem so different.
Question 2: What is the physics behind why reverse kingpins "don't get speed wobbles"?
Question 3: Pictures of my board =D

So if you'd answer that, that'd be great
I think question 3 wasn't really a question .. you get the idea =D
^ like 2 lonely testicles
Gosh i can't stop watching the stupid videos. I NEED TO DO HW!!!
Question 4: You (wanna) making anything REALLY weird that I might wanna buy(or fund)?
Question 5: How did that guy have s*x on a kebbek? I'd expect that the grip tape would hurt his/her stuff
Question 6: Should i get a dervish? (<-- this 1 is a joke)
Question 7: Why am i askign so many pointless question?
~ST3V13

[mc99david]

that would work great, the shorter wheel base the sharper corners you can take, gice yourself some good concave, use 5 layers assuming you are under 200 lbs. and you can definitly drop thru crails, but it takes some very careful cutting to cut for crails, but it is very do able.

have fun, and be sure to post pics when you make it, if you want it for sharp corners make the board 39 to 40 inches long so the turning ratio of the trucks can turn the corner you want to make

[skatercop]

YouTube - Dopamine Longboards

At
1 min 28 that is sick! it looks like your wheels are smoking! Are you selling any of your dope boards?

Anyways I have a kahuna creations 57" to fart around on and I have a 46" sector 9 goddess.

So it is prolly gonna be easier to learn how to coleman slide before I do a standup slide right? Im gonna have to buy sliding gloves then. I shouldnt try to slide with that kahuna?

You are one sick rider..that is so cool. And you are old like me..my idol.

Thanks braddah

LeLe

Skatercop - in the longboard world, a power slide is a stand up slide, it is actualy best to learn this on a short board with hard wheels, becuase you need a decent amount of speed with soft wheels to do this. So that is my first suggestion, is try it with a different board, and maybe in the rain, just to get the motion down, and so you can try it at slower speeds to keep you from killing yourself in the process.

but my main recomendation is practice your foot breaking a lot, you get good at this and you can take a 50mph and stop pretty quickly and you can practice this at pushing speed because most people can push up to about 25mph. but the main thing is, get some gloves, kneepads and a helmet, and get practicing them... no matter how good you get, you want to be able to do a coleman as the safty stop.

[mc99david]

steve, your questions will take me till tomorrow to answer all of them, but ill get there... and the jimz bushing coment wasnt a typo.. i think they are a great price for how good they make trucks ride.

[Steve Ignorant]

WHAT ARE PRECISION TRUCKS AND WHY DO I HAVE TO BUY THEM FOR MY EVO THAT I PUSH TO THE GAS STATION?

for reals

[K-SHIZZ]

that would work great, the shorter wheel base the sharper corners you can take, gice yourself some good concave, use 5 layers assuming you are under 200 lbs. and you can definitly drop thru crails, but it takes some very careful cutting to cut for crails, but it is very do able.

have fun, and be sure to post pics when you make it, if you want it for sharp corners make the board 39 to 40 inches long so the turning ratio of the trucks can turn the corner you want to make

i just drew it up a bit ago.
its 40" long, with a 32" wheel base about 9 ish inches wide but tapers to a little less
i'm giving it about half an inch of concave(is that too much or too little or just right?)
and im going to look up a template for the crail drop thru. but i might just go with randals

[mc99david]

steve: sorry already answered the precision truck question

skatercop: get some gloves and slide that kahuna, that will work just fine, but stand up sliding that will be tough, but also still possable, and im glad you liked the vid, that is actualy shot in hd, im excited to get that on dvd

[mc99david]

kshizz: i would go a little wider up front, maybe a half inch or so, and for the concave, i would sat 1/3 inch deep, but make the concave taper as well, so like six inxhes of flat in the middle of the concave in front tapering to 3 inches of flat or tub concave in the back. you can rail corners in a tuck when its like that.

[K-SHIZZ]

kshizz: i would go a little wider up front, maybe a half inch or so, and for the concave, i would sat 1/3 inch deep, but make the concave taper as well, so like six inxhes of flat in the middle of the concave in front tapering to 3 inches of flat or tub concave in the back. you can rail corners in a tuck when its like that.

awesome. i will do some tweaking! thanks bro!

[Daniel M.]

I don't think some of you guys understand the point of thread. It's not a regular open ended "anyone cane chime in and answer the question" thread. It would just turn into complete chaos like all the other threads here. With a bunch of noobs asking questions and all the other noobss answering. Ask the questions and let David answer damn it!

BTW D, how do I measure to drill bolt holes? What glue should I use? How do I build a cheap press? How many plies? Should I search first?

it is open ended though, as long as this thread is, this is america damnit 8)

edit: oh and about the bolt holes, just put the truck on there hammer some nails through the truck holes and out the otherside of the deck. pull the truck off and you got it in the bag

[mc99david]

i dont understand what you are saying... i think i will make fun of anyone answering questions in this that is not me.. the rules are set in the begining, this thread is made so noobs can have their questions answered by me, for better or worse. so thats how it goes.

[st3v13]

you said "you use jimz bushings so that randals can ride like jimz bushings" instead of jimz trucks.
I'm not answer a question so i'm not going to be made fun of right?
=D

[a_speck_of_dust]

if four F-35's and a Raptor went up against 7 Su-27's and two Su-47's in a cloudy battle with lightning conditions and no AWACS, who would win?

[mc99david]

maybe i missread the question, i thought they were asking for a cheap alternative to jimz bushings.. and i was being funny saying that jimz bushings are the cheap alternative ti jimz bushings.. just a failed attempt to be funny

[mc99david]

aspeckofdust: i would win

[st3v13]

OOOOO!!!! i get it now.

[DPerjar]

Speaking of JimZ bushings, how do you like them. I recently picked up a set, and I'm already thinking of jumping on the Venom bandwagon, the Jimz just feel too dead.

[Ogre]

Can I return this without a receipt? Or do I have to exchange it for the proper size?

[BUboarder]

maybe i missread the question, i thought they were asking for a cheap alternative to jimz bushings.. and i was being funny saying that jimz bushings are the cheap alternative ti jimz bushings.. just a failed attempt to be funny

i got it right away. i thought it was funneh