Cocrete Wave Buyers Guide; How do you set up YOUR slide deck?

[Jat.]

Deck
Earthwing Bifoot. An excellent deck that keep your feet locked in with its 10inches (harrharr) and deep concave. 36inches of length gives you enough legroom but still a small enough wheelsbase (17.125'') for multiple rotations. Last but not least it features a beefy nose and tail for manual slides and the likes.

Wheels

The Brits did some delicious work on the Lush Canonballs 65mm 97a. These wheels are of the kind that are a more likely to live to see 54mm than flatspot (mild exaggeration). With a 23mm contact patch they keep the slides feeling nice and predictable.

Bearings

I myself was suprised how much bearings mattered, but as soon as I tried Bones Swiss with a bearing spacer I felt a whole new world of comfort while sliding running the wheels as tight as any sexual inuend would have it. I later upgraded to Biltins which have served me well ever since.

Risers
Some KHIRO angeled hard risers to keep that possible wheelbite at bay.

Trucks

The Bigfoot is a wide board that needs wide trucks so the Independent 215mm (don't bee fooled, we're talking 180ish mm) are the obvious choice. I swapped out the bushings in some harder bushings (Tracker Superballs 90a) that are soft enough to turn with and that keep the wheels leveled thus less likely to flatspot. But in all honesty I haven't really noticed any big difference from indy 149, tracker sixtracks and what not other than that standard skateboard trucks opose to reverse kinpin ones (randal, paris, gullwing) are more stable and lower to the ground.

Gloves

My beat up Lush Slide Gloves V2 have served me well, but are as holey a hobos sock. The palm puck is where the Lush gloves really shine with an tough material that slide with close to no friction. The finger pucks are very thing though, so if you want to treat yourself to something good the Black Velvet slide pucks will be your best bet. But if you want a set of gloves that work right out of the box you want the tripple 8 ones which take an incredible beatin and come with two sets of finger pucks, plus the puck material is pretty impressive too.

Slide Pads

The Pro Tec Street Pads are what still keeps me standing leaving me supprised of how painless that intense slam to the pavement was on my knees. I will however upgrade to the Pro Tec Drop-in pads when my current puppies are too beaten for my sewing skills. And a worthy mention to all you tech sliders out there; get some velcro on the outside of your backfoots kneepad. It makes those layback manuals easier and keeps your pads from getting totalled.

Helmet

I bougth an Etto from a major sport supplier. It's an XXL children skate helmet that stays on my head. I have not yet been able to test ou the true strenght of the helmet, knock on wood, which I'm really happy about.

[transitioned]

• Deck: Earthwing Corchia
• Riser: 1/8 Shock Pad
• Trucks: Indys 169
• Bearings: Biltins Abec7
• Bushings: Stock Orange Indys
• Grip: Jessup
• Wheels: Earthwing Slide A's 62mm
• Gloves; Homemade with BlackVelvet slide pucks
• Slide Pads: Pro-Tec Park Knee and Elbow pads
• Helmet: Bell Faction

[Justin Metcalf]

Deck: Old Earthwing deck (can't remember the model anymore)

Risers: 1/8 inch soft riser

Trucks: Indy 169s

Wheels: Slide a

Gloves: Bear paws

Helmet: Protec

Bearings: Bone Reds

Grip: Whatever grip the deck came with

Bushings: Khiro

[cuna123456]

Deck: Earthwing bigfoot drifter 38". I love this deck cause the concave locks me in and it is very wide. I never worry about my feet slipping off.

Trucks: Tracker 149's. All I know is these trucks turn responsively and ride best loosy goosy.

Risers: I was getting wheel bite so I through on my 1/2' risers and it does the trick.

Wheels: EW slide A's, they slide like butter and are very controllable.

Helmet: Protec, comfortable, safe and does it's job.

Kneepads: Bullet kneepads, keeps me safe and are very comfy.

Gloves: Work gloves and a melted on palm puck. I don't really like finger pucks.

[MJKam11]

Deck:
Earthwing 35" drifter
EW Superballs
No riser
Blue Doh Doh's and if not that something between 85a to 90a (harder isn't bad) and i'm 140LBS
Tight trucks most of the time
Don't care about trucks much so I run 149mm indy's front, 149mm tracker RTS back
Mini-logo bearings b/c I don't run anything on there that I don't mind thrashing and trashing.
Equipment:
Loaded Gloves w/BV slide pucks (probably gonna switch over to delrin for tech because i melt out my BV's really easily)
Helmet: Some standard Triple 8 helmet
Kneepads: Standard Triple 8 kneepads (probably gonna upgrade to Pro 187's and outfit them with kneesliders one day
Grip: Mini-logo

[LOST]

Deck
Landyachtz Slip-36" x 9.6 Has a perfect double kick with enough angle on the kicks that it doubles as a park. This deck has excellent foot placement for me. I kinda have a big foot (size 12), so I like the width. The only thing it is missing is routered wheel wells.

Wheels
I started with Retro Vertz (65mm 96a). Nice park and slide wheel, but I wanted to get a smaller mm wheel so I could minimize the riser pad. Ended up with Earthwing Superball (62mm Slide A). I haven't had the chance to break in the Superballs because I recently injured myself.

Bearings
I used to use any generic bearing. I recently bought Biltins. I like the fact I can tighten down my wheels and not have to worry about any rattles.

Risers
I use a Khiro shock pad. I need just a little lift to avoid wheelbite.

Trucks
Independent 169s. I grew up riding Indys. For a slider/park board, the ride predictably. I use bones hard bushings.

Gloves
I have a homemade set of gloves involving a pair of Mechanix style glove, and a UHMV round palm puck, and corrian fingers. I love the feel of the gloves, and will probably never buy a pre-made slide glove. It is cheaper and more customizable to make your own.

Pads
187 Knee Pads. Love them. Big surface to fall/slide on, and generally stay put. Generic elbow pads.

Helmet
I used to use a S-One Damager. I fell while sliding a few weeks ago, gave myself a concussion (while wearing the helmet) and dislocated my shoulder. I have not been on a board since (going though rehab). I am very displeased with that helmet. Their motto is "Preventing Concussions since 1999". While I know that it is still skate at your own risk, I wish the helmet would have done its job better. I recently purchased a Bern Watts. It looks 1000 times better quality. Hopefully I will never get the chance to use it.