Friday, November 13, 2009

Loaded Dancer Longboard Specs

Loaded Dancer Longboard

Length: 55 inches for flex
Width: 9 inches
Flex: Flex 1-2
Recommended Wheels: Orangatang 75 Durian in Yellow
Recommended Bearings: Bones Swiss
Recommended Trucks: Paris 180mm

The dancer is decent for carving smaller hills, but with the longer length not easy to learn to slide. The length makes for a good dancer. It is fast so makes commuting quick. The dancer is a stiffer board in both flexes.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Loaded Vanguard Longboard

Loaded Vanguard Longboard

Length: 42 inches for flex 1-2, 38 inches for flex 3 and up
Width: 8.5 inches
Flex: Flex 1-5
Recommended Wheels: Orangatang 75 Durian in Yellow
Recommended Bearings: Bones Swiss
Recommended Trucks: Gullwing Charger

The vanguard is great for carving smaller hills, but with the higher center of gravity not easy to learn to slide for beginners. The length makes for a good dancer. It is fast so makes commuting quick. The flex allows for a good pump and fun ride.

Loaded Dervish Longboard Specs

Loaded Dervish Longboard

Length: 41.5 inches
Width: 8.5 inches
Flex: Flex 1 or Flex 2
Recommended Wheels: Orangatang 75 Inheat in Orange or Purple
Recommended Bearings: Bones Swiss
Recommended Trucks: Randal 180mm

The dervish is good for a little down-hill riding, great for carving smaller hills, and it is super easy to slide on. It is fast so makes commuting quick. The flex allows for a good pump and fun ride.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Ceviche Longboard

Loaded Ceviche Longboard Complete

The loaded ceviche longboard is the newest member of the loaded family. It has taken place of the late models fish longboard that was similar size and had that foam kicktail for those of you who can remember. The ceviche is unique to the loaded line-up. It is the only longboard that comes in just 1 available flex as the others have different flex patterns based on riders weight or preference really. Not only that the ceviche also has a kicktail which gives you so much more control. It can be used to help maneuver in tight spots by lifting the nose of the board to allow for tighter turns or even ollies up curbs.

The loaded ceviche longboard truly is a hybrid style skate. You can hit the skate parks and carve them up or just cruise the streets at high speeds. The super short wheelbase of this longboard makes for insane turning abilities. Set it up with some orangatang free ride wheels for the ultimate speed and performance. I would also recommend paris 150mm to 180mm trucks as they are a solid light weight reverse kingpin truck. If you really want the ceviche to fly put some bones swiss bearings on it and your speed will be unmatched by all your friends!

Friday, June 26, 2009

Loaded Dervish Longboard Review

The loaded dervish longboard is very low to ground using the drop through top mounting system. What this does is make the loaded dervish extremely stable and really easy to push around the streets at high speeds with ease. It is made from vertically laminated bamboo wood and has an incredible amount of flex. You can literally jump up and down on this board and it will touch the ground without breaking. One of the best things about the loaded dervish longboard is that you can put gigantic wheels on it without the fear of wheel bite as they shaped it perfectly. It is the best loaded longboard for hill bombing and is also great for slides, it makes them very easy!!! The dervish can do just about anything you want it to do, it is a great all around longboard.

You can check out some really cool footage of what the loaded dervish is all about on youtube right here

The dervish is great for hills, commuting around town, you can do some cool tricks on it and it can even carve up bowls. It's one of the fastest longboards I've ridden. You can get 3-5 miles on this board in just about 10-15 minutes. It is a great way to go green and save some green at the same time.

Loaded Longboards

Beginning in early 1995, loaded longboards began trying to mimic the rush of snowboarding on pavement, our shortboards got less and less play time while we experimented with more stable wheelbases of longboards, any funky truck we could get our hands on, and pretty much any material we could put trucks on.  All sorts of shapes of Baltic birch plies, solid wood, modified shortboards, and various other objects became projectiles to careen down local hills with.   
 
Looking for a lively and precisely tuned and responsive ride, old snowboards soon found themselves reincarnated with trucks and wheels attached—awaiting more brutal methods of destruction.  We played (and continue to play) with almost every board and truck available and took courses in composite and material technologies, continuing on with our quest to build a lively board capable of skating bigger hills with enhanced control.  
 
September 2000 through June 2002 were dedicated to developing these boards.  It was challenging.  We enlisted and ended up frustrating many of the greatest minds in skate-boarding and snowboarding. Determining and testing the materials was a full time job for the crew at loaded longboards.  
 
Trying to get the wood and fiberglass to conform to compound contours was an affront to physics and we got sick of hearing that it couldn’t be done with curvatures as pronounced as we wanted. But done it was and the first ride made it clear that it
should be done.