The crew at King Lui dropped an edit from their recent Germany tour. Check out the video to see the team having a good time and hit the link to see what they’re riding!
Omen has been one of the most active companies in the longboarding scene. They offer great concaves at great prices, and it’s common knowledge that Omen boards are near indestructible. Tanks. It also turns out that Omen hates wasting perfectly good decks, which sounds pretty good to me because in this day and age, we could use some waste reduction. Global warming and all.
This month, Omen launched the Scrapyard Project, where they take B-grade decks from their scrap pile and birth new cruiser decks and unique, limited offerings. All of them have original Omen graphics and construction dating back to various years, but nonetheless, they’re better than your homemade chop jobs. The edges are sealed, rigorously quality tested and released to the public for substantially less than the retail price. A great deal all-around, and if you invest in a certain deck, it might make it to the regular line-up! An awesome initiative in my eyes. Here are the first batch of scrapyard decks.
The 23” classic is made of blanks with failed “accelerated rocker” pressings. Because of their short platform that’s cut right out from the center of the board, they’re plenty mellow but have enough concave to seriously be nimble. Great for a trip to the grocery store or the movies!
The 9” Barfight is a perfectly good Omen Barfight that’s been shaved an inch down the rails to give you a gnarly freeridable, downhillable, positively monkey toe-able beast of a board. And it’s at nearly half price!
Hit the link to view Omen’s scrapyard collection and pick up one of the limited run while you can!
Want more grip? Welcome to the Ray Setae from DTC. Established in 2006, DTC has steadily raised the bar with each of their new releases. Many of their products are ahead of the game by years. They’re revered for high-quality and their unflinching commitment to performance. Known as trailblazers of urethane and unique shapes, they definitely live up to the reputation.
The Ray Setae is a wheel built for grip. Over two years of development went into refining it towards that goal. They built on their already well known Victory concept of a big core with a wide contact patch and super-sized it. The result is a full 66mm of contact patch on a 71mm tall wheel. It doesn’t stop there though. These wheels incorporate other traction improvements as well.
4 fully supported lips provide extra surface area and keep you straight. The core is precision machined in house and designed to evenly support the entire wheel, ensuring even weight distribution and wear. The core is also offset. The Setae features DTCs speciality ‘thane, lasting 10-15x longer than others on the market. They’re not meant to be worn down like any other wheel; they’re meant to be kept skinned or scrubbed, used for Maryhill and long, winding grip courses.
Lastly, you may notice the ribs on the wheel. One of the most unique features of the Setae, they are designed to smooth out and keep you stable on the chunder. Novel idea.
The Ray Setae is 72mm in width and 71mm in diameter, and boasts a large contact patch of 66mm (split into two sections of 33mm). It also features 4 supported lips: 2 on the outside, and 2 on the inside. Hit the link to visit DTC and pick up a set!
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Pantheon just dropped a super limited run of their Sage deck featuring the Purple Trip Graphic. Only five of these are available!
The Sage features subtle refinements from a two year pursuit of the perfect downhill skate. Pantheon focused on changes to the drop, size and concave to give the rider freedom to move while maintaining that locked-in feeling. The updated drop increases rail concave while the center is raised in a crescent shape until it meets the rail. The result is a more substantial drop without wheelbite.
A subtle flushmount up front let’s you ride on top of the truck if you choose. The drop-flare-concave combo keep you aware of foot placement while on the standing platform and offer your feet something to push against.
It measures 39″ long by 9.8″ wide with a slight taper out the back. Multiple wheelbase options from 25-28″ let you choose a symmetrical ride or something that distributes the weight forward or aft depending on preference. 9 plys of Canadian Maple keep it stiff while a 1/4″ each of rocker and drop keep it stable.
Hit the link and choose “Purple Trip Graphic” from the dropdown to pick up one of these limited edition Sages!
Tonight, we dine in Valhalla!
Valhalla has been known to make some of the gnarliest looking boards ever. Their sleek designs and cnc’d wheel wells are some of the most notorious and dangerously mischievious things to come by in the longboard scene. With their unique but pragmatic shapes like the black dolphin and the master blaster, Valhalla sits under the feet of hundreds of incredible skaters. But of course, it’s Valhalla and Alex Ameen and he wanted more.
This time around, Valhalla releases two pro-models, both totally unique and guaranteed to be shapes that you have never seen before. One’s a downhill pintail shape, something that’s gone obsolete from today’s market, but was once a classic staple. Another’s an innovative cutout deck that rivals the most advanced cutout decks available on the market.
Introducing the Valhalla Sellout and Sho Stopper.
The Valhalla Sellout is one sexy board. It’s a chopped pintail shape, completely speed stiff and features Valhalla’s signature mellow concave featuring 0.666 inches of concave and rocker, with a good serving of W concave in the back for maximum grip. There’s a standard half-inch of taper and a set of some of Valhalla’s unique wheel wells to show off.
The Sho Stopper is Sho Oullette’s pro-model board. This has been in development for a while now, but now it’s out there for all of you to enjoy! This deck features Valhalla’s standard 0.666 concave. However, this board is unique in the Valhalla line because it’s symmetrical, and it’s Valhalla’s current premier cutout deck. So for those wanting to run huge wheels without risers, this is the one for you.
Check here for details at Valhalla and hit the to scoop one up while they’re still available!
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