I Wanna See Your Wiggle Kit...

I had a request from Biffa a few weeks back for some details on my slalom set-up.
So here goes...

Deck is a Pavel "Paul Price Roadster" picked this up from a guy in NZ who got it from old mate and ex-pat Nat 'wafflesole' Halliday 

I have a variety of wheels of different durometers. 

Abec11 70mm Zig Zags in 83A (Lemon), 80A (Lime), 77A (Pink)

Also some 69mm Seismic 84A (Purple) 81A (Teal) which I bought second hand from Paul Price himself. 

These are the wheels that I currently have on the board. Cult Daredevils, Yellow 84.5A (yes really) on the front...

...and Red 79A on the rear. Softer wheels on the rear for more grip. 

Bearings are Mindless Hoodoo Freestyle with built in spacers and speed washers.

 This are the trucks - Don't Trip Slalocybins here they are before I fitted them and were all fresh looking. 

As you can see the track width is adjustable by use of the two smaller spacers, the larger is for the bearings. 

They have spherical bearings in both the hanger and pivot points.

Front is adjustable between 45° and 70° it saves having to mess around with wedged risers and means you can change angles easily.

70A RipTide APS bushings.

By loosening off the two Allen bolts the main body pivots between the two halves of the baseplate.

The rear is a fixed 15° with 90A RipTide APS bushings

Here you can see the wedge under the rear truck to take out the angle of the tail on the deck and return the truck to a flat mount. 

Here's the front, both of these picture show the flared arches of the deck  off well, allowing for a lot of turn with no wheelbite. 

Deck construction is 3 wood laminates with a glassfibre bottom with foam core in the centre.

PSD In-Side footstop to hold my front foot in the right place and give me soothing to push against when on a start ramp. 

MMM*

*Mike Maysey Makeover/under

I bought this Skaterbuilt Mike Maysey Hybrid slalom at Hogtoberfest from "The Bass Player"

Wasn't too keen on the sticker job albeit there were some cool ones on there so set about removing them, all came off without too much trouble and after a quick clean with some brake cleaner to remove the sticker residue it was looking a lot cleaner.

It looks as though Helen Keller has been let loose on it with an electric drill however, some of the stickers were strategically placed to hide holes.

I had planned to set this up as Mike Maysey recommended with a Tracker RT-S / RT-X combo but didn't have one to hand. 

I did however have the Bennett / Randal combo that I bought a couple of weeks ago.

The rearmost set of rear truck mounting holes were an extra set that had been added, I contemplated not using these but then realised that with a 'reverse kingpin' truck the wheelbase is effectively shorter so went with the longer option.

A bit of judicious bolt bending and riser stacking, about 20° of de-wedge under the 35° baseplate and taking the angle of the flattish tail into account the Randal looks to be suitably de-wedged. 

I slapped some 85A Riptide barrels in it and some Lime Green Zig Zags on Seismic Tektron bearings.

On the front the Bennett needed a bit of tweaking as the original press in kingpin had been removed and it had been supplied with an 'aircraft grade' longer kingpin, broke out the JB Weld and fixed it into place.

A 10° wedge and a couple of thinner risers, Reflex Bushings of an unknown duro, Yellow Zig Zags blah blah blah.

Didn't take it for a spin as I need to wait for the JB Weld to cure completely before cranking the nut down from finger tight. 

Wheelbase is 21.5" 

Bude Beer, Billet Block, Bow Waves and Bastards

Made the trip to Hogtoberfest today, was really looking forward to the slalom racing.

It was sunny but cold when I left home, a few spots of rain just before the Dartford Tunnel but arrived at a very grey and overcast Redbridge Cycle Centre.

Queued up to pay to race only to find that in the time it took to queue it had started raining, it stopped a few times and the sun came out and the bitterly cold wind blew. Didn't dry the track out though.

Still I had a really good time meeting up with old friends.

The lovely thoughtful Jo bought me beer for my birthday...

Here's my new 2014 Aluminium riser...

Work in progress...

What it is replicating...

Fitted

Got my board out of my bag only to find it had been vandalised by my so called friends, off centre and crooked sticker...

Bought some 2nd hand Seismic Hotspots from Paul Price...

And some Lush Slide Gloves from Jo & Steve size S but fit like a glove...

The wet weather didn't deter some people...