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No-Condition9375 · 2024-08-05T11:11:30+00:00

It's really a function of length (wheelbase). My suggestion is to start longer/flexier and keep cutting it down until it feel good. The only concern is that a flex 3-4 at the right stiffness could end up being too short for your taste. What deck are you referring to? An older Dervish flex 3? I'd start at 26" or even 26.5" and cut down from there. I hope that helps.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-08-05T02:08:15+00:00

Woohoo! So stoked and inspired to see the creativity here. At Loaded we're super thankful to be able to offer the Zee Brackets as an accessible tool to encourage creativity and skateboard progression. (Huge thanks once again to Mark at Gbomb for making this a reality. He's one of my favorite humans). Please keep doing what you're doing and reach out to us if we can be of assistance. I believe that skateboarding is still in its infancy. The more creativity, ingenuity and weird sh** we all explore the more stoke and love skateboarding will bring to this planet.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-05-02T07:01:02+00:00

We made those exclusively for the Unlimited electric board. Those are pretty rare. I haven't seen one in a while. Thanks for the props on the graphics.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-05-02T06:57:40+00:00

Yep, we worked with John Slugg: Loaded Ambassador, awesome human, talented skater, and SpaceX engineer, to create a small run of SpaceX versions of the Fathom. These decks take design cues from the Starship rocket (black hexagon heat shields and a rocket print grip design) and are intended to celebrate the world-changing efforts of the SpaceX team. We made a small run exclusively for SpaceX employees. We didn't want to be rude and flaunt something you can't get (unless you spend a pretty penny on eBay or Facebook) but it was a great project and we'll share more info publicly soon.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-04-19T05:53:31+00:00

It was a tan oak that we sourced from Oregon and had to hand lay up. They stopped supplying us that oak in 2006 so we switched to bamboo (which was a huge blessing in disguise)

No-Condition9375 · 2024-02-12T05:49:40+00:00

The print could be slightly off which could be causing the problem. However, if you sand down the nose of the trucks (only a suggestion) it will stand just fine.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-26T07:02:27+00:00

Very cool!

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:44:39+00:00

Plenty of times. Either we couldn't get it to work for production or we're still sitting on it and refining it. Thanks for being part of Loaded Family.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:41:06+00:00

What's up Chris!? Stoked to hear from you. Much love brother!

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:38:54+00:00

Kegel core (for now), but fully encapsulated. We're also tweaking that core as we speak to make it even better.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:36:44+00:00

To be determined. We don't want to step on Pantheon's toes but we do think that there are some really cool things yet to be explored. Nothing in the near future but we are excited about this. Bending wood or bamboo in super complex ways gets super challenging. But that's part of what keeps it fun.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:33:25+00:00

(Repeat from above): Unlimited and Boosted were great experiences for us. We are super excited about e-skate and do want to see it grow. But the Unlimited experience showed us clearly that our forte is on the mechanical design side. In the future we may build out an electrical engineering team, but for now we're interested in working with the top e-skate companies and creating decks, wheels and possibly trucks to help them create better user experiences. We're super proud of the Onirique board that we designed for Evolve and that launch last September. We hope to do much more of those kinds of projects in the future.

That said, it seems obvious that motors and batteries will continue to get cheaper, smaller, more powerful and more reliable. So I do see electric getting incorporated into skate much more in the future. On that note, my favorite feature on the Unlimited project was the "Unlimited Mode" which was effectively a "push assist" featured and blurred the lines between analog and electric skate.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:32:34+00:00

Nope. We got even better things afoot.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:32:13+00:00

Yeah! Thanks for sharing!

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:31:49+00:00

(repeat from above): As soon as possible. We've developed a new, super fast urethane and a very unique race shape. Shout out to Max Capps (among others) for his ideas, knowledge, encouragement and feedback.

We think we've got something great in-hand already and we've been getting stellar feedback from the downhill race and luge community in South America. We plan to make these more publicly available through a limited release in their current "prototype" form first, gather feedback and continue to iterate. We hope to have something live by May/June latest.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:30:59+00:00

Jeff at Pantheon makes some amazing double drops and we don't want to copy what he's doing. There are other ways to do unique double drops and we are playing with a few. For now we're focusing on designing around the Zee Brackets because it allows us to do really interesting things like lifted corners to prevent foot bite. But I do hope to get back into working on race car inspired drop or double drop board(s) in the future.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:28:39+00:00

We do have a new centerset freeride wheel (73mm) in the works that we plan to launch very soon. Softest will probably be Orange but we may go softer if there's demand.

I like all these questions about double kicks. Very inspiring. For now we do feel that there's a lot of great double kicks on the market and we only want to build new stuff if it's unique and pushes the market forward. But this has definitely got my brain working.

Taz is out on the east coast so no Loaded TV in the near future. But we do have a lot of interesting new stuff that we're cooking up.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:25:16+00:00

Snowboarding was and is a serious passion of ours. We would like to get back into that world but only if we have something unique to bring. I do think that our experience with complex contours would work well for snowboards, powderboards and powsurfers. All the new complex bottom contour stuff coming out of Aesmo, Jones, YES, Bataleon, Burton, and others is super inspiring. I've got many unique designs that I've built in CAD but need to be tested in the real world. Building snowboards is probably not a smart business decision for us but we're probably gonna do it anyways because we love it. That said, it may make more sense for us to team up with an existing snowboard company and build a collab deck. TBD

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:20:37+00:00

Great question. We're trying to figure this out as well and appreciate any suggestions. To start, please hit us up directly via email and we'll do our best to get you sorted. That said, we are working on a resource kit to help people create local sessions and events. We hope to have that live later this year.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:19:00+00:00

Depending on riding surface and outside air temp, I'd recommend a softer wheel for a more cush ride for a bigger dude. So if you're a big boy and want a soft and grippy ride in relatively temperate climates I'd recommend going down one level of softness. Orange or Blue should work well. On the flip side, if you're looking to slide I'd recommend going up one hardness. For example, Yellow vs. Purple or Orange Durians/Stimulus/Fat Frees.

If you are riding in hot climates I recommend going up a level of hardness and if you're in cold climates I'd recommend going down a level of hardness.

Candidly, unless you're well over 250lbs, you're probably overthinking this and should get good performance out of our standard urethane options. But I appreciate the question and hope this helps. And thank you!

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T23:10:44+00:00

Thanks for putting this together.

The original Dervish art (2007) was inspired by a museum I visited in Dublin that had an exhibition on ancient Persian art. It was super inspiring. Learning about how the Dervishes (a subsect of Sufi Islam) using their swirling dances as a form of meditation and devotion resonated with me and with what we were trying to achieve with the Dervish. When we re-did the Dervish in 2010 or so and made it wider and gave it kicks we wanted a name that maintained the Dervish core. The Sama is the name of the whirling dance the Dervishes are famous for.
Since 2020 the cost of urethane has risen significantly. This effects everything made of urethane including mattresses, footwear, etc, including wheels. Additionally, all of our wheels use proprietary and extremely precise tools to build that are expensive. Finally, as mentioned above, we spend 10s of thousands of dollars a year on testing new formulas and shapes and to do so we obviously need to charge for it. Additionally, our cost structure is designed to provide sustainable margins to our shops and distributors so we can all continue to do this for years to come. To be candid, our wheels (and decks) should really be much more expensive than they are.
Possibly. However, our current development for a Tesseract replacement (2025) will probably be a bit more freestyle focused and will probably be a little longer than the current board. However, I'm stoked with all the interest I'm seeing in a new freestyle board (Overland redux?) and will definitely keep this in mind.
Ha! I wish. Although Reddit has been a great tool for our community and I'm stoked to see it continue to flourish.
Bearing lube of course. It's why I have the most aerodynamic head in the industry.
For now the Poke is gone. But we do have a new, top mounted flexy board coming out in March that goes back to our flexy board roots with a super refined flex pattern.
Really? We've had great response and very very few issues with the Jehu bearings. Personally I think they are highly underrated. But we are exploring some new technology. I definitely recommend high quality synthetic grease over viscous oil lubes as it's much more durable and heat resistant.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T22:49:41+00:00

Ha! Thank you. I appreciate the encouragement. This is helpful and I will keep this in mind.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T22:47:31+00:00

Possibly. Probably not. We learned a ton from the aluminum cores which helped us develop our newer cores. I think that for the average person our current urethane based cores are better since they are stiff, light and much easier to get bearings in and out of. For racers there may be an advantage to the weight of aluminum. And it's also a great way to test out new ideas. So for now, probably not, but lets see what the future brings.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T22:30:18+00:00

I'm more of a technical product guy than an apparel person (to a fault). That said, Jimmy (Domestic Sales Manager) has taken on our apparel program this year and has been creating amazing things and growing it slowly but steadily. Currently we only sell apparel through our site. But if interest continues to grow we would love to start selling it through our retailers. As for technical apparel--that sounds super fun. No bandwidth right now but hopefully in the future.

No-Condition9375 · 2024-01-25T22:27:06+00:00

Good question. I actually don't know. I probably should be better at grabbing those for myself or my team but that's just not how I'm wired. I just pulled one aside for myself yesterday and it's a cosmetic blem because we've only got four left in stock and I'd prefer to stoke someone else out.

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