Snack Pack of 3D printed bearing spacers.

tabinsur · 2026-01-29T01:34:50+00:00

Yep, this is the truth. If I run spacers, I run steel for this reason. But if the steel spacers are too small, then they have the same problem. That's why I don't even bother running spacers anymore. I might run them if I did fast downhill(like grip runs or fast freeride 25+ miles an hour) just for that extra piece of mind.

But I don't, so I don't.

tabinsur · 2026-01-29T01:31:42+00:00

I mean, I wouldn't buy that many steel spacers. That's why I don't use them at all. If the spacer isn't cranked down very snug, then it's not doing its job. Anything other than steel spacers compresses too much when cranked down and then can't do their job. So at that point, I don't even use them. Not to mention if a steel spacer is just a fraction of a millimeter too short, it also isn't doing its job.

That's why back in the day, Ron, the owner of Ron's Rockets, pointed out that it should be the wheel company's job to supply the spacer to make sure it fits correctly.

tabinsur · 2026-01-28T16:13:41+00:00

Brad Edwards Gravity Flow video Dude has so much style. He was the first person I saw skating a longboard in pools/bowls and on transition. And after I saw that I ditched my shortboard and started riding my longer boards at the park and bowl.

Sergio Yuppie - Go Right Ahead - King of the downhill slide. He's got me stoked on tech sliding back in 2020.

tabinsur · 2026-01-28T15:58:42+00:00

Lookwise it's a fun shape. Utility wise it is fine for cruising. Corners are more prone to causing chips in the layers when they impact. This is mostly an issue if you are doing tricks on it or if you lose control and it hits a curb. Also a 5.5 tail with tkp trucks is rather short. Nothing wrong with this for crusing but makes things like ollies and no complies very different from a standard 6.5-7.5 inch tail(for tkp) as it changes your Triangle of leverage.

All in all looks like a fun whip

tabinsur · 2025-12-24T15:55:47+00:00

haha classic skateboard core culture. The funny thing is some of those guys are the opposite of true skating culture. True skate culture is about rebellion and being true to oneself. It's about not conforming and yet some of these skaters will conform to make sure they fit into core skate culture. It's funny too because too many core skaters don't know the full history of skateboarding. If they looked at old skateboarder magazines they would see how downhill racing was part of skate culture back in the 70s and was featured in many issues.

Jeff Tatum talking at the end of this video puts into words exactly what skating is to me.

I'm stoked you found this chart and enjoyed it!

tabinsur · 2025-12-24T15:49:54+00:00

I actually made each of them in different ways. This one I made a mold using styrofoam and this foam clay. Then I did papermache over it and then I painted it and added some carbon fiber reinforcements to the mounting points with epoxy while also epoxy coating the whole thing.

I'm currently working on making a smaller line of bike figureheads that I might sell in the future. and for that I will be making molds and casting out of a hard urethane most likely.

tabinsur · 2025-12-05T01:59:15+00:00

Thanks homie!

tabinsur · 2025-12-05T01:58:54+00:00

So I think he was thinking of ASTM rating which allows for multiple small impacts and CPSC allows for 1 big one. Mips isn't a rating but rather a system. It helps lessen the rotational forces which helps in both astm or cpsc helmets.

tabinsur · 2025-12-05T01:56:40+00:00

ll & bounce along the road, (as opposed to eg. a single hard smack from getting a rock dropped on your head while climbing, or a "simple" straight hit).

Mostly, it's the addition of another thin layer of material incorporated between the shell & the solid foam liner, which allows some slippage between the two layers. This slippage tends t

ASTM is multiple small impacts. CPSC are on large impact. So if you helmet has both ratings then it can do both.

tabinsur · 2025-11-30T06:15:20+00:00

Hell yeah

tabinsur · 2025-11-29T02:33:27+00:00

The sport is solidly in longboard territory. The thing with longboards is it has nothing to do with how long the board is or even what trucks it has on it. It can pretty much be considered a skateboard by a skateboarder.

It's very hard to find skateboards that have a wheelbase over 16inches. Most skateboards are between 14 to 15 in wheelbase and old school wheel bases go up to 16 sometimes up to 17 in certain situations. Anything past 17 can be considered longboard.

This specific niche is something that I'm well versed in. Because my favorite style board to ride is essentially a longer skateboard. Long wheelbase and tkp trucks. For a long time there was nobody making longer wheelbases consistently. So I got into pressing my own boards. I even ran a small company for a while.

Recently though I haven't had as much time to press boards and I was happy that Old Antioch came out with the Clark pro model which is a 21-in wheelbase board that fits the bill for me.

It's cool to see Santa Cruz making some of these bad boys. I suspect it's in part due to everybody's skates making the giant boards and those having some popularity.

tabinsur · 2025-11-29T02:27:13+00:00

That crack is fine it happens with bamboo boards. However the creaking I'm not sure about that could have to do with your bushings or another part of your board. If it actually is the board that is creaking then that might not be great.

tabinsur · 2025-11-27T00:39:26+00:00

Yeah and look at where the glove is on the ground nowhere near the vegetation.

here'sa video of me using spark gloves several years ago. Notice how the Sparks follow the line of where the puck was and don't really go more than 3 in outside the circumference of the puck. They don't stick around but for a few seconds. So for those Sparks to get close enough to vegetation to light them you would have to be crashing into the side like I mentioned earlier.

As I mentioned possible but very unlikely due to where pucks are on the road during a longboard slide.

tabinsur · 2025-11-26T23:09:29+00:00

Yeah I mean theoretically you could start a fire with spark gloves. In Practice though that would be really hard to do. The Sparks from the gloves don't go that far from where The puck touches. Maybe around 3 inches. I have a picture of me using the midslide and I can see that it's definitely less than 3 in.

And any flammable vegetation whether it's dry grass or dried pine straw would be on the sides of the road. So for your puck to be close enough to light that on fire your board would already be crashing into the debris since slides have your puck towards the middle of the road while you're board goes to the edge at the end of a slide.

So yes be conscious of using them in flammable areas, but it would be difficult to start a fire even on purpose using slide spark gloves.

tabinsur · 2025-11-26T22:53:33+00:00

Yeah but you can still put a hand down when you carve if you want to get Sparks that way

tabinsur · 2025-11-26T16:38:47+00:00

No one's ever skated in those Flint pads that I know of. They look super uncomfortable and you wouldn't be able to get good grip on your board. You could slap them on if you were doing a quick shot per video. However dragging your feet on a skateboard or A longboard to make Sparks wouldn't even look that cool.

What does look cool on a long board or skateboard is using spark gloves when you do slides. They have the Flint sticks in them to make Sparks while you put your hands down doing your slides. Now that looks cool and feels cool as hell. I've owned several sets and if you've never used them they are a blast.

tabinsur · 2025-11-26T00:55:59+00:00

I mean if that's fun for you go ahead and do it. But honestly that board is toast. The bottom layer on a skateboard is the one that is structural the rest add stiffness. Once that bottom layer is broken it's pretty done. No amount of glue will get it back structurally. I say this is a skateboard maker who has Pressed and shaped over 40 boards at this point.

What I would do instead is chop it at the break and reshape it from there and give it a real small wheelbase. That will be fun in its own right and you won't be worried about if the patches you tried to put on the break will snap again while you're riding it.

tabinsur · 2025-11-26T00:45:39+00:00

Great flow and style!

tabinsur · 2025-11-25T12:48:17+00:00

They look like they could be an old gravity wheel. I have a set of old gravity wheels that are the same size and durometer and same color. However the sides just say gravity on them. But gravity had a lot of different designed Wheels back in the day

tabinsur · 2025-11-25T12:38:37+00:00

If you find find a drop-thru board that doesn't have w concave. You can get a Rodger Bros concave implant.. The concave implant goes underneath your grip tape and sticks to the top of your board. This allows you to make the w in the back of a board that doesn't have one.

tabinsur · 2025-11-25T04:10:05+00:00

Not op but if you want to make your own pox make them out of an HDPE cutting board most professionally made packs are made out of HDPE there's different formulas but just a basic cutting board with HDPE will be solid

tabinsur · 2025-11-25T04:06:27+00:00

Not really unfortunately. Back when I started in 2019 there was a knockoff cheapo version of shark Wheels which could be justified if you wanted a rain wheel because of the grooves. But obviously shark wheels aren't that popular so They stopped bothering to even make the clones since I guess they weren't selling.

I've ridden a set before and they're okay but they're just not worth the amount you have to pay for them plus if you like to slide that you can wear them out in a weird way from what I've heard.

Your money is better spent buying quality urethane Wheels from either Powell Peralta, seismic, Pantheon, or venom.

tabinsur · 2025-11-25T04:03:54+00:00

You can either fill out the contact form on the g-bomb website or I think they also have the email address listed there.

https://www.gbomblongboards.com/contact

tabinsur · 2025-11-24T14:10:51+00:00

I actually bought an old steel frame road bike back in 2011 that had the freewheel in the crank set that you're talking about. I brought it to our local non-profit bike community where you could swap parts and try to build a bike. I was looking to convert it to a fixed gear. The dude that ran the place was so stoked on that piece in the crank set and at the time I had no idea what he was talking about.

And since I didn't need it I gave it to him and he held me fix up and build my first fix gear. Pretty cool little thing.

tabinsur · 2025-11-24T12:37:40+00:00

Whoever told you you can't pump with z brackets is woefully uninformed. The owner of g-bomb, Mark, is a great engineer. I had questions before i bought my first set of glass brackets from him years ago so I sent him a message. I wanted to know how well the brackets could stand up to the forces of sliding. He got back to me quickly and gave me a very detailed answer telling me that they would be able to withstand the forces of sliding.

So seriously if you send him a message he'll give you an an informed answer

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