I have a stock SuperCruiser which I love but today the speed wobble
faceplanted me down the hill at a pretty significant speed. It was a
truly horrible thing to watch. I think I'm off the board for a while.

Laters.

--- In longboardlounge@yahoogroups.com, "owenfreeman"
<OWENFREEMAN@h...> wrote:
> I've had similar problems with hills. I live in Olympia Washington,
> and my sector nine super cruiser (great for most cross country
> cruising and carving) hasn't really worked for me on the steeper
> hills.
> So I bought a Flowlab 36" complete. From everything I'd read it
> seemed exactly the board for fluid carving and downhill controll,
> which is something I didn't really have downhill on the sector nine.
>
> It's crazy fun. And after a couple weeks I finally ordered the 42"
> deck because I just wasn't doing many tricks on the 36" and it said
> it was a little more solid on flatlands.
> The one thing is that it's nothing really like skating traditional
> trucks. There's no resistance, so the feeling of just sliding back
> and forth accross the ground takes a little getting used to.
>
> But I've never had a skate that I could controll my speed so well
> on. I've tackled hills I used to break on with my foot nonstop, and
> I can carve the whole thing without touching the ground once with my
> foot.
>
> So just my thoughs. It's definitely not the cruising flat speed
> board my sector nine is, but for really cool turns and
> manuverability it's an incredible ride.
>
> -Owen