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Bigger, softer wheels. I've got 60mm 78a on my cruiser and I have little trouble with gravel. You could go even bigger I reckon, depending on whether the deck has wheel flares / arches you could add risers, but then you have further to bend down to push.
I've never used Shark wheels, but they seem like the skate equivalent of the "concept bikes" thread.
Drakien
cornelius_blackfoot
I am tempted to dig my old stick out for commuting.
Soon to be changing jobs and it will be pretty much a 3 mile, flat straight line from home to work, with about 90% on a cyclepath/footpath/park.
I have a couple of old decks, one is setup with longboard wheels and the other regular wheels.
Any tips on rolling over "shitty" surfaces? the roads adjacent to the cyclepaths are covered in that gravel crap which inevitably coats the other paths. I remember having stones send me flying before.
Different wheel compounds? Shark Wheels? HTFU?