Bushings, Baby!

20Apr09

 This morning, I found myself still awake at around 7 o’clock. I was so bored that I decided to tweak the Fish a bit.
I run a pair of stock Randal R-II 125mm trucks which was pretty stable but I wanted to put more “life” to it; I wanted it to carve even easier. So with [...]

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Resuscitating This Blog

20Apr09

I haven’t posted anything here in ages so I decided, the other night, to sort of transform this into “Gabby’s Longboard Adventure Blog” or something like that.
I’m fairly new to longboarding and I just want to have something to “record” my progress in. Hopefully, a few months or years from now, I will be able [...]

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Tags: new direction

Can I Just Say. . .

14Apr09

The Fish tastes… err… feels awe-fcking-some!

I finally got to use it a bit earlier. I went to 9th street to try it out since the road there is not as bad as other roads here. It was fun spending an hour on it. Right now, all I can say is that it feels great! The [...]

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Tags: fish, loaded

I Caught a Fish!

13Apr09

After salivating for weeks and imagining how different the ride of the Loaded Fish will be from my Landyachtz Urban Assault… I finally got my hands on the Fish!
I went to Dasma after lunch to get the board, Khiro Big Bad Bushing Kit, and the Mckay 5-way skate tool from Paolo. I decided to get [...]

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Tags: khiro, landyachtz, loaded, mckay