Hardware

Shockpads

A riser that lies in between truckone and the board

The stresses that arise between the board and yours truckcan easily damage your longboard. Therefore, we always recommend that you between the board and truckThey use shock pads. It is a rubber plate that dampens against vibrations and shocks. They are not much thicker than a firm piece of ham but not made of meat. The shock pads are important because they prevent cracks in your board. Also the screws truckThey tend to screw up if you do not remove these vibrations.

Risers

If you have problems with wheelbite, you can prevent this by using risers. There are different thick plates of plastic that are placed between the board and truckto increase the distance between the board and the wheels and thus reduce the risk of wheelbite. Angled risers can in turn change the angle of your truck and thus the turning ability and stability of your longboard. Risers can thus affect truckeven turning ability a lot.

Grip

Griptape, grip, grip, grip. Dear child has many names. As the name suggests, it's about grip, enough grip to stay stable with your feet on the longboard. How much grip you need of course depends on the type of riding you practice. To describe how coarse a gripping tape is, you talk about whether it is fine-grained or coarse-grained. It simply means how big the grains are on the grip tape.

A regular grip tape for skateboarding is very fine-grained and does not give a lot of grip, but still just as much grip you want to do ollies and flip-tricks.

It can be said that there are a number of different types

• Standard coarse grip
• Medium coarse grip
• Heavy coarse grip
• Transparent grip
• Spray-Grip

Cruising actually also requires quite a bit of grip, and there it works great with a fine-grained grip tape or with grip tape on a spray can, so-called spray-grip. Fine-grained gripping tape also works great for dancing where you move your feet a lot, and also for freestyle where you often throw around the board with your hands. When it comes to freeride and downhill, on the other hand, you want maximum grip at all times, regardless of whether you are standing on a cross in a slide or wind up at 90km / h. Good grip holds you to the board and helps you control it better. Therefore, we always recommend coarse-grained gripping tape for freeride and downhill.

Popular brands of grip tape are RDVX , Seismic, Vicious, Jessup, Heartwood and Blood Orange.

Tools / Tools

Having good tools is important if you want to keep the condition of your screws and nuts well. If you do not have the right size of tools, there is a risk that you will slip and destroy the hardware. One thing that all boarders should own is a Tool. Ie. a Tool that contains all the tools you may need to mech with the board. In addition, you do not have to carry a lot of heavy tools with you when you are out and about. The most common type is called the T-Tool and has been named for the look it has. But there are also other types of shapes and variations. Some tools have more features where you can, among other things, re-thread yours truckaxle if it were destroyed. Sometimes you also get tools to remove and put the ball bearings in the wheels.

Well, if you do not already have this Swiss Army knife for snowboarders, it's time to get one now.

Screws & Nuts

Screws and nuts come in many lengths and sometimes colors. By default, two different types of screws are actually used; flat or rounded skull. Why not always drive the same ?! Well we will explain…

Top mount screw

The most common type of assembly of trucks is top mount. That is, truckse attached to the underside of the plank. In these cases you use a Top mount screw which is easy to remember. A screw for top mount has a flat top and a slightly conical bottom. This means that when you screw it down, the screw shell will disappear down so that it is in line with your grip tape and thus not interfere with your grip you have on the board.

Dropthrough screw

The second type is then screws adapted for mounting trucks on a dropthrough board. Why then would you not be able to drive the same ?! Well it simply depends on when to screw truckone on a dropthrough so lies truckone on the top and it is thus towards this that you unscrew the screw. Truckeven the top is completely flat and if you want good stability, you also want a screw that is completely flat on the underside (but with a curved top). On a dropthrough, it is no problem that the screw head is arched upwards because you very rarely stand on truckon this type of board.

Screw length

How then to know the length of the screw? It can differ somewhat between the thickness of different boards, but it has the greatest impact if you intend to use risers on the load or not.

A classic skateboard that does not use risers does well on top mounts that are 1 ″ in length. If you have a thicker board or intend to combine it with a thinner shockpad, you can go for 1.125 ″.
If you plan to run riser pads up to 1/4 ″, you may need to focus on a screw that is 1.25 ″. If you have thicker risers or boards, you can therefore increase the length of the screw further.

There is no major danger in driving on long screws, except that it is difficult for them to get in the way when you have to pull or carry it.