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The evo is a sweet board for just tucking. lock your feet into the drops and let the 30* difference between the trucks leave wobbles as a thing of the past. I have mine paired with crails, running the front loose and the rear snug it's stable into the 40s, after snugging up the front I've come damn close to 60. I love my evo for gripping runs, and it's a pretty decent board to learn slides on also. I really liked this board, it got me going fast, and paired with a decent amount of shoes I could conquer some pretty serious roads.

when I lost control of my board coming in from a pass I flew off my board, landing on my shoulder and immediately felt my helmet smash into the road and SCRAPEEE across the pavement. I started tumbling, smashing the back, side, and front of the helmet against the road. I suffered no loss of consciousness, no concussion, no head trauma at all. While the rest of my body was fucked, my head was perfectly fine thanks to this sweet ass helmet!

I won a set of these at a race, and at first they were great, grippy as hell, fast, sexy lookin wheels. Then I started riding them on some rougher paved roads: the smooth predictable drift became loose and wild, with the rear darting out unexpectedly (grabbing rail ftw) and the wheels lost a lot of their grip.
I haven't gotten a set of the yellows yet but I expect them to solve that problem.

Great wheels, as long as the roads are smooth.

First thing you need to do is dump the stock bushings. You can squeeze a barrel bottom elim top on with the stock KP but it works better with a 3" kingpin in it's stead. 3" KP is required for double barrel setups. They feel even better with the pivot cup replaced with nylon tubing.

On topmounts I like a barrel bottom elim top, and on my dropthrough and evo I ran double barrel.

BV pucks are as good as they come! I've ridden darkspeeds, S9 pucks, and mudslides (greenhorns)

the slide is one of the quietest out there, and super smooth over all surfaces. Velcro is strong. 3x3 are good for smaller hands, and the new 4x3 monsters are great for bear paws like mine! The wear is retarded on these things, they last forever! Not as hard and icy as darkspeeds, and longer lasting than anything else out there!

read the review title.

the look savage, skate savager.

my favorite thing about them is the fact that they are precision trucks, but they aren't restricted to DH. many of the other precision brands are wonderful for DH, but aren't as good in other situations as they are in DH. a good investment

le roublard said it right: they can do anything with just a few adjustments.

great shape and concave (its mellow, but it still holds you for DH)

it is a DH deck, hence the loser carve cruise and push ratings

I didn't know if I was feeling the rocker on it before buying it, but now I am a fan.

a lot of people say comet doesn't have the best construction, but as of now I haven't had any problems.

I would recommend it for someones first top mount speed board, or just a new addition to the quiver.

great wheels to freeride/slopestyle on. they slide so nice. even then, they still have some nice grip in them. last for a decent amount of time, but the good news is that the are quite inexpensive. great for almost everything (dancing, sliding, carving, etc). looking for the best bang for your buck? look no further.

best wheels for slides I've ever had!

Venom has the best urathane in the industry. so when i heard that these wheels were coming out i had to smack them on my pagan. i can honestly say that these are my favorite wheels. i used to ride the orangtang 4 presidents in purple and these blow them out of the water. theyre the same price, but the venoms, grip better (reminds me of cults), look better, slide the same, and wear very very well. the price at 54 bucks is kinda steep, but there very much worth it. oh, and did i mention that once they break in the leave steezy lines just like the side winders? cause if not, the cannibals leave steezt lines like the sidewinders. i highly reccomend you pick up a set of these wheels. you wont be disappointed.

currently, this is my favorite downhill wheel for any style of downhill run!
they grip any turn absolutely fantastically, and they are REALLY fast!
also, thanks to abec 11s chemist people, the thane is super buttery when you need to throw a predrift, no chopyness whatsoever!

stiff badass board for high speed pursuits!

really not as good as everyone said they would be, they start out uber grippy and when they lose the shiny surface they go a bit wierd. Coned really fast compared to big zigs and orangatang freerides and sketch out on corners when you are trying to grip. Ok for colemans and frontside checks but Im really not that impressed with them.
Compared to these big zigs take a life time to wear down. Not great as an all round wheel but if you can afford a new set every few races before you lose the grippy skin then I guess they would be ok.

Performs best at speed, but not necessarily high speed. BHNC is a super downhill board, but it also carves great surf moves at moderate speed and performs well as a cruiser. Super steering at moderate speed thanks to the pronounced concave. BHNC should be in every skater's (and surfer's) quiver.

A few months prior to buying these gloves, I had made my own slide gloves by taking heavy duty leather work gloves and gluing corian pucks on. Eventually, the pucks started to come off, and I grew tired of having to grapple with a puck coming off in the middle of a session. As such, I caved in and bought some legit, professionally made slide gloves: the Timeship Dipped Free Riders.

If you like gloves with no finger or thumb pucks, then you would love these gloves. They're super low profile and extremely comfortable, although the leather in the fingers isn't very durable, so if you put a finger down in a slide, then there will be damage.

Price: I wasn't too wild about paying $60 for a set of slide gloves as opposed to paying $10 on a pair of work gloves and nabbing some free corian samples from home depot. However, most other retail slide gloves are within $10 or so of the Timeships, so in the grand scheme of things, they aren't ridiculously expensive.

Performance: I love these gloves. I like a glove with no finger pucks because it gives my fingers a lot more mobility to not only perform basic tasks while skating, like tying shoes, buckling a helmet, carrying your board, adjusting your kingpin or hardware, or strapping your kneepads, but it makes it a lot easier to grab rail or early grab. My early grabs improved noticeably after getting these gloves, as opposed to my bulky homemades with finger pucks. The only complaint I have with these gloves is that the leather on the fingers is very thin, and the material they dip the fingers in does little against the pavement. If you accidentally put a finger down in a slide for more than a couple seconds, it would be easy to burn through the fingers. I put a couple wraps of duct tape around the fingers just below the blue material on the fingertips, and I haven't had any problems since. I recommend you do the same if this is your first pair of gloves without finger pucks.

Style: The design of these gloves, while it sacrifices a bit of durability, is amazing. The gloves are very breathable, and you can really feel the ventilation in the gloves while freeriding and going at higher speeds. As such, my hands rarely get sweaty anymore ever since I started using these gloves. They're very low profile and light, and the puck placement options are very practical and comfortable. It took me a couple slides to get used to the puck being closer to the wrist, as the pucks on my homemade gloves were positioned so that the top edge of the puck was almost in line with my first row of knuckles on my fingers, but once I got used to them, sliding with these gloves became very comfortable. The stretchy material over the knuckles and between the fingers does a very good job of conforming to your hand position, and I never feel like I'm straining against the glove, no matter what my hand positioning.

Fit: These gloves are sized based on the normal glove sizing you would use for a winter glove or the like. I wasn't sure what size I should use, considering my hands are pretty big for my size, so I just talked to my dad and I ended up getting a large. It fits me perfectly, and I have no complaints. In case if any of you guys are unsure about size, I measured from my wrist bone to the tip of my middle finger and it's about 8.25".

Puck Quality: The pucks seem to be holding up pretty well so far, I've had these for a few months and I haven't had to rotate the pucks yet. Timeship offers a puck upgrade to their "Pro Pucks" for $10 when you buy a set of gloves, or $25 if you aren't buying a set of gloves with the pucks, which are supposed to slide smoother and last longer than the stock pucks. I haven't tried a set of those, but the performance of my pucks so far is certainly above average, so I'd imagine the pro pucks would be slide very well. The puck size is perfect, and doesn't feel too small or overwhelm your palm.

Overall, I'd highly recommend these gloves. These are definitely more suited towards someone who knows they don't want finger pucks on their gloves, as they aren't very forgiving in terms of putting a finger down. Your hands are very mobile while wearing these gloves, which makes manual tasks as well as early grabs and grabbing rail a lot easier. They are very well ventilated and comfortable, which can be nice for long sessions. These are my favorite set of gloves to date out of all of the sets I have tried, so definitely take a look at them if you're looking for a new pair!

I ride these on my dervish and I am thinking about switching them to my DH board because I love how smooth they ride.

The Komodo is best described as a dancer that doesn't want to be a dancer. It's got plenty of real estate to throw down your best moves like nobody's business, but it's light enough to make many tech tricks often seen as impractical on dancers much easier - plus, the large nose and tail give you lots of leverage over the board to whip around in shovits or to pop up into your hand for a tiger claw or flat top. Its wheelbase isn't too terribly enormous to make freeriding impossible; standies are definitely doable, and rather easy with a couple minutes of practice. Now, onto a detailed overview:

Price: Going for $150 on the LBL site, the Komodo is by no means a cheap board, but it isn't as expensive as other dancers on the market, most notably the dreaded Loaded Dancer, considering the deck alone goes for as much as many completes. It's a slightly above average price for a significantly above average board, so it's by no means a ripoff.

Performance: This board can do most everything. Dancing is very easy and relaxed on this board, and shuvits, hand tricks and other freestyle moves can be executed cleanly and with little effort due to the beefy nose and tail and low weight (I have seen it kickflipped). Slides and freeriding are very doable, as is downhill, but they aren't the fortes of the Komodo, and can be executed on a subpar level compared to dedicated DH and freeride boards (not surprisingly). The longer wheelbase that comes standard with dancers makes it a little cumbersome, decreasing its agility for pumping and carving, but it isn't as enormous as other 60" dancers on the market.

Graphics/Style: The very simple, old-school pinstriped graphic looks very classy on the Komodo. Though the stock color options are rather limited, color customization is relatively easy with a quick email to Larry. Be warned, as responses from the LBL site are usually a week or 2 after the initial email is sent, if you receive one at all, but the results are always stunning.

Carve: There's only so agile a board with a 34" wheelbase can be, and some of your energy is lost in the flex of the board, so carves aren't as tight and responsive as on a shorter, stiffer board. That being said, the flex is very comfortable, with a slight sag during carves that feels more lively as you exert more force onto the deck.

Cruise: This is where dancers excel: cruising around the neighborhood and boardwalking. I weigh 140 lbs, and the flex has a slight but noticeable idle sag to it, that feels rather lazy and lethargic, which feels very comfortable while laying down cross steps and the like. However, whenever you exert more force onto the deck by pumping or in the middle of carves, you can feel a very lively flex start to set in, which is very pleasant. The flex of the board makes cruising and dancing extremely comfortable, and the dimensions of the deck don't exactly limit your foot room for dancing, making for a high quality dancer.

Downhill: This board seems rather stable heading down hills. I took it down the fastest hill in the neighborhood (low 40s - mph) and it felt rather stable, but due to the small amount of concave and long wheelbase I wouldn't feel comfortable throwing down predrifts and coleman checks coming into hairpins. After all, this board is intended to be a dancer...

Freeride/Slide: I'm grouping these 2 together because they mean the same thing to me in essence. Standup slides and the like are very doable on this deck, albeit rather cumbersome. Cole Kurtz made a video a while back of him freeriding his Komodo, rather impressive, yet it is significantly easier to freeride this deck than any other dancer I've ridden.

Push: This deck is very light for its size, which makes it relatively easy to push.

These. Wheels. ROCK! I picked up a set for my Clutch Lambchop and haven't been disappointed yet. Definitely my favorite freeride wheels I've ridden so far, and they're definitely worth it for the price.

Price: These things go for $39.95 on longboardskater.com, the only US online retailer for these wheels. These are the least expensive out of most freeride wheels on the market today that I could find (prices based on those advertised on longboardskater.com), such as Orangatang Freerides (up to $54, size dependent), Retro Freerides ($44.95), Pink Powerballs ($41.95), Abec 11 Classic Formula Freerides (up to $47, size dependent), EW Floaters (up to $49.95, size dependent), EW Road Rages, Smokers, and Obombers ($42.95, $44.95, and $48.95), and Venom Sidewinders ($40.95), to name a few. Needless to say, the price is competitive, and you are certainly getting a lot of bang for your buck.

Performance: As I've said before, my favorite freeride wheels I've ever ridden. They're sideset with a radiused outer lip, and come slightly "deconed" to allow for those extra few slides. I have never ridden a Krypto before, but I've heard the Cult Classic uses the same general Krypto shape with a few improvements.
The mysothane formula is a great formula for freeride. These wheels have a very predictable release and hookup, and once they're released, they slide like butter. Standup slides can be easily held out, and when you release the wheels for a big coleman or layback, you feel like you're positively gliding. Essentially, the slide on these wheels is genius.
They're pretty fast, definitely far faster than the urethane in Otang Freerides, but they don't feel as fast as my Lemon Zigzags. I have slid out a couple times on these, for instance, I didn't suck a frontside speedcheck all the way in when I was skating a narrow city road, and had to cut hard toeside to stay away from the curb; when I turned, my back wheels slipped out and I ended with a glorious superman, but that is going to happen with most dedicated freeride wheels.

Color/Style: This has never been a key piece of criteria for me when choosing wheels, but they're good looking nonetheless. The graphic stays on fairly well, certainly better than a zigzag or bigzig, and they're available in yellow thane with a pink graphic and core, and pink thane with a yellow graphic and core. The difference is purely cosmetic as far as I gather, as my friend's pink classics slide similar to my yellows.

Quality: I weigh about 140 lbs, and I'd say I've put close to 24 hours or so on these wheels, mostly freeriding and heelside predrifts from the local hills. They seem to be wearing pretty evenly, the outer lip's at about 68mm now and the inner lip looks to be a millimeter or 2 less. I haven't rotated them yet, and if they continue to stay at about this level of the coning, I don't expect that I'll need to flip them throughout their wear. I'm getting good impressions about their durability in the couple weeks I've owned them, and I've heard that they wear really nicely, so I have high hopes!

In summary, I would definitely recommend these wheels to both a serious freerider and someone just learning the ropes. Very easy to slide, and the slide is something more pleasant than most other wheels I've ridden. They're relatively fast, but I would by no means downhill on them due to their lack of grip, despite how pleasant their slide/drift is. They are very easy on the wallet, and are worth every penny unlike other wheels that I have owned.

Hope this review helps some to those of you on the fence! Now get up from your computer and go slashin' with some cult classics!

awesome Wheels for any garage, really, grippy, big and fast

If you want a solid downhill board thats also great for freeriding and sliding get it. If your looking for a board thats more carve oriented i would recommend you look at other boards.

This was my first deck and its what truly got me into longboarding. Its a great board and I recommend it for beginners. Get new trucks though!!! Gullwings suck!!!

I bought this wheel looking for a soft wheel that would give me more slide than my 86a stims. I had heard people say things like, "It's like riding in the rain", or, "I can bust out 30 foot colemans at 20mph".

This hasn't been my experience. First ride, I expected these to slide like mad, so I got topsided and bailed over the front of my board. As I rode the wheels for a few days, I realized what I didn't like about them. The slide is great, and you can pull it out pretty far, but nothing like riding in the rain. The problem is the hookup. These guys hook up SHARP. If you put on ounce of your weight on the downhill wheels, you're in trouble. As you shift your weight back over the board after you slide, it really snaps back under you. At high speeds, this snap can bring you down.

The stims don't do this. More importantly, you don't get any significant amount of slide out of these that you don't get from stims. The stim shape just gives you a more predictable hookup, which I guess I should've expected from this wheel shape.

Bottom line, if you like a really abrupt hookup, you could really like these wheels. Personally, I like the stims because I can ease out of my slides better, and high speed predrifts don't topside me. On the up side, these wheels taught me a lot about weight distribution, and I can now manipulate my stims more freely.

For reference, these were ridden at speeds from pushing speed to 45mph.

Also for reference, the hookup on 80a 4prez is more predictable. I don't know what it is, but when you put any pressure on the downhill wheels, these things CHOP.

great freeride board
flex 2 is nice 4 pumping
like big cabs? well then this is the board 4 u
had it 4 a long time did a bunch of sick gabs with it
WITH OUT IT BREAKING :3
gets a lill flexy when the fiber get off on the bottem if u go down stairs alott
great 4 sliding check slides slide suvzz ect

to topp it off i highly recomend u this board get it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(don't get the tan tien it's small and gay)

love it
nice 4 bombing hills watch out 4 speedwobbbeeellls when drafting people at high speedzz
good 4 cruzing .easy to push just keep an eye out on how high the side walk is cuzz it's really easy to scrach! but when u scrach it the virgin is broken and you don't really give a fuck so you go and slide down stairs :3

and don't put fly wheelzz on them stay @ 75mm alot lower

I have had a 10 inch and 9inch set.

PROS-

Stock bushings are very lively.
Very fun carving trucks
Slightly wider than Randal 180´s.
Slide decently.

CONS-

Pivot cups dont last long at all. Very sloppy.
Stripped 2 kingpins, and 1 is about 2 go, not strong enough.


In all I´d say these are perfectly good entry level trucks. The stock bushings are far better than Randals. They dont last long if skated hard, but then most people dont.