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LOADED - BHANGRA LONGBOARD 

The Dancer is dead...... long live the Bhangra! "Bhangrā - We picked this name while Adam Colton was off the grid in Morocco in order to twist his Nipples into creating Bollywood style skate films. Yes, the names for our boards are a bit weird and hard to pronounce, but we were all attacked by zombies last year and are missing half our brains. Purpose: We wanted to create a more compact dancing/freestyle board that you could basically do everything on. A board that has plenty of room to get your dancing groove on and is smaller, lighter, and easier to throw around. Something that is not overly huge, can bust out steezy slides, and can be carried and fit into a trunk easier. Can you downhill on this board? Probably, but it is not a DH board"

Rocker:

The original prototype had camber and felt good, but Loaded decided to put some rocker in it and bam a ram, it instantly felt so much better. The rocker just sinks you into the board and gives you that extra cushy, locked in feel. Feels great for dancing, makes sliding a lot easier and more comfortable, and puts the board lower to the ground, making pushing a tad bit easier.

Concave:

Loaded added a mellow "U" concave to give you more confidence when sliding. The concave also helps lock your feet in when landing big spins and such. The concave is mellow and does not feel uncomfortable for footwork moves.

Nose and Tail Kicks:

More nose and tail curvatures allow for easier catching of the nose and tail. If you get your timing down, yes you can ollie the Bhangra. Not easy, but it can be done. Both the nose and tail will lock your feet in nicely for manuals, but the different lengths result in distinct feelings of balance and pop. You may find riding the board in a certain direction better for some tricks; for example, the tail is really good for catching shuvits-to-manuals, while the nose feels better for hang ten manuals.

Functional Griptape Design:

To Date Loaded's most thought out grip design to date featuring a functional, shoe saving design and two different types of grip tape, oh yes. For the main standing platform, Loaded used a mellower grip with a functional pattern to save your shoes. As you all know, when you do pivot motions on grip tape you slowly wear out the balls of your shoes; you are basically grinding away your soles on sandpaper. Loaded cut out this grip design so that when you do your spinning moves, most of your shoe will move freely on the bamboo, not the grip tape. They also designed it so you still have plenty of grip tape on the rails of the board for confidence when sliding. Loaded used a gnarlier, gripper grip tape on the nose and tail to help give you that extra locked in feeling when holding out steezy manuals for the ladies and/or gentlemen. Plus the extra grip makes it easier to catch the nose and tail for quick shuvit-to-manual moves.

Graphic:

Loaded took a collage of Adam Colton's scary monster faces meshed together and screaming with joy and burned/branded them into the bottom of the board. If you feed them, they will stay happy. The top graphic is sick and simple. It is a monster's eye surrounded by a swirling line. If you spin on the swirling lines, you will get more speed... hahaha.

Construction:

This is Loaded's most organic board to date. The board is constructed from bamboo, cork and epoxy bio-resin. There is no fiberglass in this board, the strength and flex characteristics come from Loaded's use of two vertical cores of vert-lam bamboo with cork in the middle for weight reduction and dampening. The top of the board is a cross-ply of bamboo vert-lam to strengthen the board across the width and a similar ply in the center (next to the cork) to stiffen up the flex. Many of the boards have small holes in the nose and or tail. These are caused by grooves in the bottom core that allow the board to bend into a deeper concave. They will not affect the performance or durability of the board and are a great place to store soup.

Epoxy Bio-Resin:

Not sure if you knew this, but resin plays a big part in how a board feels. We tried out a variety of resins, each having their own energy return properties and flex characteristics. For a board like this, we really dug a more mellow, damp feeling resin. Something that just kind of sinks nicely under your feet and does not have so much energy return that it wants to buck you off. We classify the flex as soft, damp, almost "dead" flex. In contrast a Dervish has a more lively, springy flex to it. So we found the perfect resin for this board and are even more stoked because it is a bio-resin and tastes good in cereal, hahaha.

Wheel Wells:

We designed functional wheel wells to accommodate several brands of 180mm trucks and 70mm wheels without risers. They will prevent wheelbite in most circumstances; however, you may encounter bite if you run super loose trucks with soft bushings.

Setup Recommendations:

Trucks: We recommend 180mm reverse-kingpin trucks: Paris, Randal, Bears, etc. Wheels: This board is intended to ride with 70mm or smaller wheels. 75mm wheels are too big, and you will have to use a bunch of risers to avoid the risk of getting wheel bite. Plus, 70mm is such a nice, lightweight size to throw around, do tricks on, and slide. Adam Stokowski, Dane Webber and Adam Colton like this board set up with 86a Stimulus wheel for sliding and shuvit spin moves. The 86a is a good all round wheel for their style and provides extra leeway: when landing a shuvit wrong, the wheels will slide the extra bit around instead of gripping and bucking you off. A softer wheel will be more comfortable for cruising long distances, cross-stepping, manuals and such.

SPEC

• Length: 55"/ 1.4m
• Width: 9"/ 23cm
• Wheelbase: 40"/ 1.01m
• Weight Deck Only: 5kg
• Weight Complete: 6.9kg
• Construction: Epoxy and flax/linen sandwich 2 vert-lam Bamboo cores, creating a natural fiber composite construction, pressed into a small camber with nose and tail curvatures and functional wheel wells.
  

DECK

Currently Available in two flexes:

Flex 1: 160-230+lbs / 72.5-105+kg
Flex 2: 100-170+lbs / 45-77.5+kg

The dancer does not have a trampoline like flex like the Vanguard or Dervish. It has a damp flex that enables you to have a very comfortable ride while still being able to board-walk and do manual moves with ease and comfort.

With heavy use, the dancer will become slightly softer over time. However, it will not be a dramatic change. The board is pressed with a small amount of camber to help prevent dramatic sagging and for dampening.

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