Review on 🛹 High-Performance 42 Inch Maple Longboard Skateboard - Complete Cruiser Pintail Design for Optimal Cruising, Carving, Free-Style and Downhill Experience by Jonathan Reddick

TLDR: Wheels are too tight and bearings are junk, but otherwise ok for the price. - Freeroll tool included Cons: - needs to be disassembled to remove plastic - poorly packaged - wheels are too tight. Loosen the screw before driving! - Camp - complete nonsense. Fidget spinners can spin longer than they do. In my opinion, the wheels are too stiff for an entry-level cruiser board. Truck screws in bright gold. $56 back then, while similar length kicktail decks are $50 before shipping. However, before I took the board apart, I tested it right away for this review, as all reviews at the time were written by people with little or no longboard experience. The first obvious downside to this board is that the plastic wrap is under the trucks and all the gear. If you buy this board because you don't want to assemble it, either the plastic will stick or you'll still have to take it apart. Second, it's poorly packaged. So expect the circuit board to be pre-damaged. This isn't a big problem as you're likely to damage it a lot more if you're a beginner. As for the board itself, a big problem is that the wheels aren't adjusted properly. The nut holding her was tightened all the way down to prevent the wheels from spinning freely. I've used other boards for over 2 hours with no issues, but this board was a pain to push even down the street right out of the box. After loosening the nuts on the wheels, I found that the board was still extremely difficult to push. So I took another longboard to compare how long the wheels continued to spin after the initial handspin. The wheels and bearings on this board caused the rotation to stop 30-40 seconds earlier than on my other board. I agree. To make matters worse the bearings on the control board are 3 years old and have suffered a lot from the wet and mud. However, they are still significantly better than the ones that come with this board. The wheels are also too complex to be called true cruiser wheels, but if you live in an area with well-paved roads and sidewalks, they're fine. They are passable even on the worst surfaces, but not ideal for a real cruiser in my opinion. Trucks aren't amazing, but they're not terrible either. They rattle when they're loose enough for me to carve big turns, but the brushes aren't broken in yet and even my good board rattles a bit on rocky terrain. If you're over 120 pounds you probably don't need to loosen them that much, and if you're a beginner you'll still need to keep them tight first, so trucks are fine with me. The deck itself is a bit thinner than some of the others, but barely flexes when I stand on it and jump. it, it seems robust enough. The nose also held up fairly well when I tested it in curb and brick wall impacts. The first couple of collisions were worse on the bow causing some splinters but after that it just scraped the wood a bit. Although I didn't test it with curbing when I was on the board, which can happen when you're just learning and will likely do more damage than my testing. Overall I think this board is good for a beginner who may never use the board again in a month. If you're not sure how long you're going to use it but want to improve performance, you can buy better quality bearings for a pretty low price. However, I think it's still better as a gift for a child who might become disinterested after a month or two. If they change bearings as a set so as not to be absolute rubbish then I would say this is a 4 star board for its affordability. . As it stands now I haven't even been able to properly test how well the board rides downhill as I couldn't pick up enough speed on the included bearings.