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(More customer reviews)In my misspent youth (this was long before Ritalin), my skate-rat friends I would scavenge sheets of half-inch and ¾-inch plywood, pen 12- and 15-inch wide boards thereon, and get dead arms sawing them to life. The door-on-roller-skates ride, off-center truck holes, and bolted/nailed-on kicktails were no treat, but the Dogtown graphics we added were the point of the whole exercise.
Decades later, I had to buy a legit Dogtown wideboard, just to see what less incompetence might have wrought.
The circa-1978 Wes Humpston graphic gives a nod to the screaming chicken hood decal adorning Pontiac Trans Am hoods starting in 1973. On a board almost as big as a Trans Am hood, it works. Oh, and the artwork is better in person, and not just subtly.
The fluorescing fowl is flanked by big -- nay, huge -- wheel wells that go four plies deep. These reduce the odds of wheel bite (urethane-to-wood contact sometimes followed by face-to-concrete contact) and dial in a bit of what car designers call "surface excitement."
I've seen at least one claim that this board has a very slight concave, and maybe some examples do. Mine, however, is old-school flat from snubbed nose to the start of the squared-off tail.
The fairly standard 15.5-inch wheelbase offers a familiar balance between quickness and stability, making this slab o' maple maneuverable enough for street and park use, though you might find it a little wide for pools.
Ride quality is where all that wood underfoot becomes an unqualified advantage, damping bumps and vibrations better than those countless millions of identical popsicle stick decks. Set up with wide trucks (I use 215 mm Indies), risers, and tall, soft wheels (76 mm Kryptos; not for everyone), the ride is more Cadillac than Trans Am.
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