This deck is super awesome. It gives you a bit of everything. A very slight drop platform gives you a surfy feel, and locks you in without taking away too much of your traction. The rear W and rails makes this deck super comfy for downhilling and also super easy to throw around for freeride. I highly recommend it, if you can afford it.

70mm 78a work with all applications. Not too icey, grip corners well, wear super well, last long, and they're cheap. Its not rocket science, these wheels are the shit for any type of riding.

Great downhill and freeride deck. The front of the platform tapers giving you the ability to choose what width best fits your style up front. It narrows giving you more leverage up front, helping you to tuck through turns, etc. The waist gives you a gas pedal which helps with landmarking, e.g. knowing where your feet are. The less you look around and move your feet, the less speed you will lose, so the gas pedals and sharp rails on this thing will help with that respect. I highly recommend it, if the price tag isn't too much for you.

Be careful reading reviews on these trucks. It is obvious from the majority of the reviews and the following for these trucks that the majority of people reviewing, and raving about them are first time precision owners, or are new to the sport.

That said, these aren't bad trucks. They actually perform pretty well.

The bushing seats are a little wacky, and take some tinkering with before you can get a setup to feel good. A little more time with bushing combos to get the right feel isn't really a bad thing, but the way these seats are makes most bushings feel different than they would in a traditional stepped seat.

The axle system does make changing wheels more difficult. Some people will argue to the death that it doesn't, but anything that takes more than a standard skate tool to swap wheels is just a pain in the ass. Especially when riding some stuff where you're coring wheels often, or need to change wheels quickly between heats at a race.

My biggest beef with these, it was near impossible to get a setup dialed in that I liked for downhilling, and people claim these are freeride trucks as well.

I personally think 50* Randals or Paris are a bunch more fun for freeriding, and only a fraction of the cost, so I just don't really see where these fit in for a certain niche, other than young kids that just "need" precision trucks because they are "precision trucks."

Something to consider when buying these.

The axles are much more precise. So you get better traction, and more controlled slides. Also, they are CNCd so they are more precise than traditional cast trucks giving you less slop, and better articulation.

ok....little grom comes over to me and goes..." hey mister is that a longboard?", "well...itsa little short for a longboard." 27" wb...can you say "twisted sister?". i reall dig the flex of the #2 along with the wheelbase...i dunno, could be the trucks/bushing combo, doubt it though, my set up resembles a wallmart board with plastic trucks and bushings. i got 2010 bears ( luv em ) with the lime DH boardside and a reflex big barrel streetside, not the best for carving...works great for me.[subject to bushing change at any given moment]. did i mention i luv the way this board carves?
...little grom comes over to me and goes.."hey mister, longboards are for cruzin around. not skate parks." "they failed to mention that to me when i bought this".....foiled again, i rolled into the snake pit, thrashed the cope outa the first corner, high centered the next outside corner for a speed pump, never missing a beat, came in low on the big wall, top side got a heelside speed check to bomb across the bisket for a double pump into the next wall. another heelside thrash for a quick turn across the face of the spine, pump, corner. pump...rollout, breath, insert winston, inhale, exhale. repeat. did i metion the similarities that stims and wall glue have?
...little grom comes over to me and goes "hey mister your killin it." " im old and i aint that good, but thanx little man." I started skatin again with my kids 2 years ago, ive been through a couple popsickle sticks,never feeling comfy or safe. bushings, trucks, bearings, redrilling, different shapes, widths, brands..nothin my style. longboards changed that, this deck got me back my stoke. STOKE. falling down has never been this fun.
... My kid comes over to me and goes " dad, dont. yer gonna get hurt." "just getting my skate on little man, its all good". so what is it with this deck that instills confidence and provides a fast comfortable ride? im geussin its the wicked grip job.
anyways, in a nutshell, this board is not a downhill demon, this board is not rodney mullins uber light, this board is not an earthwing,rayne, landyatchz or whatever the very bestest at whatever is today. However...wana ride some walls at speed? wanna surf ( NOT PUSH ) your local skatepark? wanna not eat it cuase of a crack or rock in the tarmac? want kicks front and rear ( they look sketchy, they work perfectly)? wanna slide with some cofidence? do you want to know why these boards were all the rage this year? Buy one, skate it.

first off....i am an average rider at best...i really only used to skate to spend time with my kids, but i really like it now...that said, i replaced my moose drop through with this deck, astetically its a work of art, the concave, wedged for my trucks, low, a kicktail for curbs and mauals, and the grafics were mad kewl. so i put my bear 2010 852's on it, some 3/8 risers, 75mm purp otangs, and hit the local park. Friggin wheel byte, got the 70 mm stims (purps, i like the color ) and hit the park again, and again.

longboards are fast and carvy, very condusive to bowls and snake runs IMHO.

my thoughts after a dozen or so sessions.... the wheelbase was too long for my tastes, my lines were wider than my moose causing my to think about my appraoch to every corner, hip, bisket and transition. that was ok though. the tail was an afterthought, rarely did i use it, but you can drop in with this deck. the flex was the shizzle, comfy, responsive, and a really surfer type of feel when pumpin. it never felt limp or too squishy. the built in wedge was overkill for me, i still wanna redrill this baby and throw the 75's back on. but hey, itsa feel thing right?

i couldnt keep this deck in my quiver...i wanted too, im down with bustin and earthwing, and the battle for NYC, but this deck wouldnt let me loose, "no, you cant do that, do this instead" is what she said.

i did have a chance to ride a sojourn, with those killer bustin blue wheels, in my local park and i luved it, low carvy....a bustin...you know...

but alas i replaced my complex with a tan ten (tien) which better suits my style..

not a bad deck...just my preferences are different

agressive carver...naw
natural to carve...naw
ultra responsive...naw
fits me like a glove....naw

These were my first precision trucks after riding cast trucks my entire life and I am sure glad I purchased a set. The perfect fit of all components makes for a superlative ride. Whatever my input I do to my deck it translates perfectly into the trucks. Hence the term precision. Not just in the milling but how it rides. I love the axle system since it locks the bearings , spacers and truck together. No more horrid noise and slop. I liked my 200's so much I bought some 150's and 176's.

I will never go back to cast.

I have enjoyed riding this my Loki drop thru. The concave is mellow and very comfortable. Ride wise there is a dampening flex which makes for a plush ride. This is one of my all around decks that I ride either dropped thru or top mounted. I would not hesitate to recommend this to any level of rider.

My only complaint is the horrible graphic. I have some spray paint which will cover up the hideous monster.

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.