Very beautiful message! Thank you for this and thank you for your big contribution to the world of skateboarding! I still remember the early days on my first skateboard about 40 years ago, how stoked I was, how liberated I felt, and that exact same feeling showed up again five or so years ago, when I got my first Carver (with CX trucks). Man, that thing was zooming! Just by thinking about it I could get into every nook and cranny of the parking garage I used for my first session. It all felt so natural, and I'm not even a surfer. This liberated feeling is what skateboarding - at least to me - is all about.
Yessah Blessah, the surfskate community is the friendliest! No matter the carve no matter the ride if u surfskate u surfskate with everyone. So chill carver is proud and humble of ur affect! Thanks guys for being the mama to all surfskates!
Nice video. I have several Carver setups. I have 2 C7’s and a C5. I don’t ride the 7s at all anymore. The torsion/tension spring is garbage. If you let just one heavy front-footed person ride your board, it’s junk after that. No matter what you do, that spring can’t be adjusted once it’s over stretched/worn out. It’s a major major bummer. My 7s lasted maybe 6 weeks. Maybe. Never rode them again. Tried to adjust the tension with the Allen, nah, does nothing. And, the Allen adjustment just loosens on its own in under ten minutes. You need a better design. Same is true with SmoothStar, though they claim they’ve fixed it. But I won’t buy another spring mechanism that yanks side to side, it’s not worth the money when it goes flat in 6 weeks. YOW’s spring design is much better. Bottom line. The C5 is a bit better. I don’t SurfSkate it, I regular skate it, but it feels nice. You’re limited on doable tricks because of the reverse bushing layout, but it has a good feel. The big issue with the C5 is the bushings get soft over time and you can’t tighten the truck much. The back especially, because the hanger sits too upright and at a certain tightness a skate tool or socket won’t go over the nut. The nut eventually hits the hanger limiting how tight you can get it after the bushings get too soft. Anyways, that’s what I’d work on if I were you: RD. C7 needs a new design or stronger spring. Maybe put an o ring stopper on the allen adjustment so it can’t back itself out after you tighten it when the spring wears out? I’d dump the side to side spring mechanism for something that’s stronger. Springs aren’t meant to be yanked side to side. They’re meant to compress or be twisted into compression. Not yanked back and forth. If you use a spring in such a way that is was not design, of course it’s gonna wear out. As someone who rides it everyday, I think about this shit a lot.
