Flatspot Lathe: Rad Disadvantage
The Rad Disadvantages are gonna get you last in a race heat, but be the MOST fun freeriding with your crew.
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The Rad Disadvantages are gonna get you last in a race heat, but be the MOST fun freeriding with your crew.
Quite possibly the beefiest and most gossipy board in longboarding at the moment, the sell out is a direct statement about loosing a sponsored rider to a competing board company. Juicy right?
The rad degenerates are a small sideset freeride wheel custom shaped in house with the same core and urethane you know and love from the Rad Advantage.
Tired of the swings? Big kids won’t let you on the slide? Be the Queen (or King — we’re not judging…) of your local park. The Orangatang Onsen park wheels continue to blend the boundaries of traditional skateboarding, park riding, and longboarding. Designed for park riding in particular, this proprietary new formula, core design, and shape were created to find that perfect balance between grip and slip. Grippy enough to hold high lines in the bowl, but slidey enough for predictable speed checks and recoveries from sketchy scenarios. The Onsens are poured in a new Orangatang formula: Perky Thane. Fast, smooth, grippy, and durable. Flat spot resistant. The color of the wheels is extracted from the bathwater of Japanese businessmen, making the Onsens ideal for park and pool skating. Strong yet compliant cores enhance wear characteristics and increase roll speed even further. The clean, rounded lips keep you safe from hangups on the coping, and our unique sanded finish means the Onsens are pre-broken in and ready to rip, right out of the box.
Ever watch Kings of the Mud? If you haven’t, do it now. If you have, you will know what I’m talking about. Which is that run at the end, that SUPER BURLY run. Well thats Cooper, a total and complete beast of a downhill skater who at one point road for Valhalla. Before his Valhalla pro-model was released he bounced for a new brand called Prism. Well Valhalla wasn’t about to not make his epic board, but to commemorate the events that have transpired, it is now called the Sellout. We’re not sure exactly what thats supposed to mean, probably something poetic about loss and impermanence. But that story aside, lets focus on the Valhalla Sellout Complete and not the gossip. Its a boat of a topmount with a mouth watering taper so you don’t have to be constantly shifting that back foot. With ALL of the mounting options. And like anything built for speed, its stiff as balls. Now go watch Kings of the Muddd again, its good for you.
Its not easy to get your own Pro-Model. Sho Ouellette had to sell his soul and his first born child to get this, and make an oath to only lead his life on a destructive downhill path. But its hard to blame him when you see this totally sick board. Symmetrical to suite his freeridy style, wide and long for that stability at speed, with all the rocker and concave to keep you on top of the board and not skidding across the pavement. And that graphic! Its too good. To honor Shos loss we completed the Valhalla Sho Stopper with Paris Savants and Orangatang Skiffs, because why not slide that extra 25 ft?
Precision ground, Skate Rated™ Racing bearings by Bones®
Removable high-speed Nylon™ ball retainers
Removable Non-Contact frictionless shield for easy cleaning
Integrated bearing spacer to provide perfect 0.400″ spacing
Extended race replaces need for spacers and washers
Extended race provides perfect alignment for greater speed and axle reinforcement
Fewer parts mean faster set up
The Madrid Yeti is a freeride machine that will have you sliding down hills like they are mountain slopes on a fresh pow day.
The Sector 9 Carbon Flight is an incredible light and stiff topmount board. Its an affordable testament to the wonders of building with carbon fibre!
There are only two words to describe the Sector 9 Carbon Flight: Light and Stiff. With a traditional S9 tub concave, this topmount gets great leverage and is more than rigid enough for downhill and freeride. Set up with Rad Feathers you wont have to worry about wheel bite without a riser (also means you get a free rad trucker hat!). If you are looking to get into longboarding this an amazing starting place. The simplicity of the deck’s designs means you can play around with adding gas pedals and w-concave wherever you want to really get a sense of what works for you.
This isn’t an ordinary Comet TakeOver. This one has been chopped/upgraded/modified by Max Capps to be thinner, with more mounting options and overall more rad.
The Comet TakeOver is an ideal board for modification and chopping. It has a lovely continuous tub concave combined with just the right amount of rocker. Its also great for mods because its huge. Its a big canvas to work with! You might ask yourself why this set up is so very red. Because red is fast. Why is red fast? No idea, it just is. But while we are on the topic of red – the Rad Feathers in this set up come with a free Rad Trucker hat!
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