Old school skateboard on the cheap

Posted on Sat 7th, March 2009

• #1

philjay

So I never really got into skateboarding but I'm going to greece this summer and the south of france where there are some crazy hills to be bombed. I originally thought "longboard!" then the size put me off in terms of carrying it around. So then I looked around, had a snoop in silck willies and saw this small board with really wide wheels. The type that are in that dogtown film? Anyways it looks mad fun, tried it and carving with it is nuts so now I fancy one of those. Thing is I have no idea what a cheap deck/trucks/wheels/bearings etc are. Any pointers? Do I need specific trucks to be able to carbe as much or do I just get standard ones and loosen them up like crazy?
• #2

DFP

dude, I did this thread already a week ago.

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