Box Of Trucks

A recent ebay win (or lose, depends on your viewpoint), big box of various trucks and truck parts. 

A set of ACS 651's,  at one time the Gold version, now lacking most of the gold coating.

Four Indy baseplates, 2 with kingpins, 2 without and one Indy 109 hanger.

A pair of Randal DH hangers.

Two Tracker RT-S trucks

One has been cut down to slightly wider than Midtrack width

One Grind King Jay Adams with a stripped thread on one end of the axle and a bent axle and damaged thread on the other. 

Two pairs of shock pads, two sets of Grind King kingpins (one with big flat heads, other with smaller heads) one pair of unbranded Grind King type kingpins, a regular old type kingpin, four splined type with dodgy threads, one bearing (no shield), three kingpin nuts, a cup washer, a flat washer, a GK insert and a random locknut

A pair of cheap unbranded hangers and baseplates, a pair of Speed Demon baseplates (one with a kingpin) a hanger.  

This is the reason I decided to bid on this package, A Radikal Dragons Claw front slalom truck, sadly missing it spherical bearing from the hanger and the kingpin is snapped off in the thread insert in the baseplate. Three more pairs of interchangeable axles for width tweakage.

 

Stridey has offered to send me a free spherical for the hanger, cheers, I have emailed Keith Hollien regarding a kingpin and insert but no reply as yet.

Whilst I was photographing all the above I thought I'd have a swap around with the 8 wheeler hangers

A much more aesthetically pleasing result. 

Updates

I've been fiddling about with the Skaterbuilt Conekiller

Have removed the big aluminium block and gone down the traditional route for now.

3 x Surrey Skateboards wedged risers, 10º each, just about bring the kingpin up to vertical.

Front now running on a 10º wedge and a 5º wedge.

Also for last weeks session at Bowlworth I tried No Skoolz on the BDS 8.

Messing a bit with my OCD having 98a's on the outside and 92a's on the inside. Makes it a bit 'Carlos Fandango' and maybe makes it a bit difficult to turn due to the wheel hang. 

Guildford Easter Sunday Session

Finally got there to skate.

Fun little park.

Trev was getting the hang of carving on his 8 wheeler.

What's Got 32 Wheels?

A session at XC today that's what!

Decided to try and stick to the 8 all day, started off on the new Veteran Typhoon (left)

Wheelbase is shorter as is the tail, the combination of these counteract each other and it actually skates better than I expected for a short deck with a short wheelbase.

Had a few slams when I switched back to the 4 wheeler.

Shot some footage of Trev on hits BDS with my Pentax K30. Need to practice a bit and maybe switch to manual focus and play with other settings.



Missed the drop in at the start and no hand plants in this run…

Battery was nearly dead on my camera so no other pictures from today. 

Earley Snow Session

Well it's been a while, haven't skated since 7th December, been buying wheels like that are going out of fashion though…

So this morning we headed over to Earley, was snowing lightly and 1º C when I left home.
Trev was already there and had cleared the bowl with his leaf blower and dustpan and brush.

We had the two minty fresh BDS 8's with us so Trev snapped a quick pic before they got ridden...

It was bloody cold…

We soon warmed up a bit...

The 4's hardly got touched, I only had a few runs at the start on my new Pool King Stinger, didn't touch the Skaterbuilt at all..

Gra joined us making three 8 wheelers, possibly the largest gathering of 8 wheelers in the UK ever…

He was soon getting to grips with it… (most of the time)

Trev stepped it up a pace with axle stalls, inverts, roll-outs to tail and a couple of attempted rock 'n' rolls…

A few of Trevs pics of me, cheers mate…

A really good session, sorry I don't get any pics of Paul on his 4 who had joined us from his deathbed.

Wheels, Wheels, Wheels

Been having a bit of a splurge...

These...

Well the ones on the right, BDS DubCons 100a duro which have yellowed slightly, nothing a bit of Rit Dye won't improve.

The BDS Shogos on the left were bought on behalf of Gra.

Then today these turned up...

Rainskates Stingers 100a (that magic duro) Single Conical version.

Anthony gave them a blast with the sandblaster and removed the tatty graphics for me, ocd happy now.

Might dye these too.

If You Can't Skate...

...Buy A Big Hat.

Thanks Trev, great shot of me and a rare frontside moment, must be the new Skaterbuilt, felt right straight away (well 2nd run after I'd tightened the trucks a bit).

More of Trev's photo's of Tilehurst here

Skater-built Up

Spent the afternoon pottering about building this up.
Random stickers removed, polished up with a bit of Mr Sheen.

I originally thought about fitting the Z-Rollers but realised that had old school drilled baseplates so discounted then as the deck is drilled for new school trucks.

Indy 215's were way too wide, 169's were a good fit but still a bit wide with the BDS Dub Cons
I thought I'd get away with it though and started getting the Stage 5's ready only to realise that they had old school baseplates, DOH!

I had a set of Stage 8's but in the end decided to fit some Tracker B2's.
A bit of hammering and cursing later and they had Grind King kingpins fitted and black Bones Hardcore Mediums. Wedged risers slapped in between and it's ready to go.

Think the grip tape job was done by Stevie Wonder though so will have to be redone.

An A-Z of my iPod: Part20 - T

And so we get to T.

Not sure this technically counts as a T but my iPod thinks it is.

So here's Thee Fourgiven and the 20th Anniversary issue of their 1985 debut album 'It Ain't Pretty Down Here'

The bass player is Dog Town skateboard legend Ray Flores.

I nearly bought one of these decks when they came out in 2002. I reckon this must be the wildest design ever. Would be a shame to grip it I guess but I expect most of them never got ridden as they are BDS decks.

UK kOoK Meet

Met up with Uldis today at Saffron Walden.
He's one of the OG Kooks and a good guy.
Been on a road trip form Aberdeen that took in Edinburgh, Blackpool, Shoreham and Saffron Walden.

Riding a Gnardog-esque BDS Q-12 with 215's and Mini Dubs.
Nice guy and being an engineer had some interesting views on truck tweaking...

Latest Set-Up

Just set a board up for the Old Skool Dayz at Shoreham tomorrow.

Got the 80's blank deck off of evilbay for just over £6 + postage, slapped the Z-Rollers on, I was a bit stuffed for wheels as I've sold all my 80's / 90's wheels.
I did consider putting some turned down Powerflex 5's that I've got and that I was using in the late 80's but n the end went for the BDS Dub Cons as they looked good and were about the right size and width.

You need wheels...

Love the fact that someone commented "Fuckin Chaz & Dave in parkas" on YouTube.

Anyway, I got some new (to me) wheels.
BDS DubCon things. 65mm.








I like the way they've machine the tooling so that the name is embossed in the wheel rather than using printing which falls off.