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Comment by Daniel Hawkins on January 9, 2015 at 17:56

Hey Adam, that foam core looks awesome. Where'd you get your foam for the core from? and is that a wooden stringer running down the centre?

Comment by Mark Gorman on December 14, 2014 at 7:06

Wow dont see to many steel standup decks  ,, cool

Comment by Lloyd Jones on December 10, 2014 at 18:27

This place is a bit of a ghost town these days...

Anyway a few of you might remember the steel decks I knocked together a couple of years ago, well this is the next stage in the evolution. 

The truck mounts are steel which are riveted onto the alloy bearers. I was focusing on lightweight for this build since I tend to cop a lot of flak for the weight of the previous steel decks. For those of you playing at home the deck weighs in at about 1.2kg.

I did a bit of a rush job putting it together so I'm not happy with a couple of the welds, i'll probably strip it down and tidy them up before I really push it. I live like 2 minutes away from the G5 so I've taken it down that a couple of times and already I'm smitten. Its way smoother and accelerates way faster than the previous gen and the bigger platform makes such a difference.

Wheelbase is about 800mm and deck width about 240mm 

Heres a couple of snaps

Comment by John Newman on November 15, 2014 at 19:30

Brakeboard Pty Ltd, the Australian company that has invented and produced the Brakeboard foot-brake for longboards, now has stock of their latest models. These are available from their St Kilda HQ and also from the Twelve Board Store in Richmond.
They are based on the successful Kickstarter project with many other
small improvements.

For background history check out Brakeboard on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brakeboard

Comment by Mark Gorman on July 10, 2014 at 17:19

Comment by Mark Gorman on July 10, 2014 at 17:13

Some new Universal Code Spec Custom Boards going out to team riders Declan & Mic for the 2015 Luge season

Comment by Mark Gorman on July 10, 2014 at 17:04

Well done Adam

Premium Member Comment by Deeks63 on July 10, 2014 at 9:58

Nice result Adam.

Premium Member Comment by Adam on July 9, 2014 at 23:52

We I haven't been on here for ages. That foamcore looks awesome.

Comment by Adam Babic on July 9, 2014 at 22:08

I finished the build! Although there were a lot of mistakes (some were just plain stupidity from rushing like the uneven wheel wells) I am pretty stoked to have a carbon foamie that I can and will ride. The deck weighs in at just on 1kg and I have set it up with Rogue 43 degree precision trucks and some pink big zigs for now. Definitely learnt heaps with this build. I think my next one will be maple again but I will experiment with using less maple and more composites.

Anyway let me know what you all think!

Board specs again

Length: 37"
Width: 9.4" at front foot 9.25" at back foot.
Wheelbase: 27"
Concave: Deep tub

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