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.
Friday, June 26, 2009
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.
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.
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