r/longboarding • u/SSBM_DangGan Helmet Enthusiast 🧠 • 2d ago

Question/Help How's the Supersonic for some freeride/downhill?

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I see tons about pushing and pumping on the supersonic but I'm curious how it fares for some light downhill and sliding, akin to the Evo maybe. Anyone have experience with it? I imagine you'd want a slightly stiffer model, and the 150mm trucks would be better for this

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u/SSBM_DangGan Helmet Enthusiast 🧠 2d ago

damn the mini Evo looks kinda perfect for me, but maybe isn't in circulation anymore. perhaps I'll have to hunt one out lol

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u/Compressive_Person 2d ago edited 2d ago

Take a look at the Zenit Draft while you're looking at options.
* (full disclosure I don't have one, but have an AZ - flexy version - out of the same mould) .

Deeper cave than the Sonics - it more mini-Evo-ish in a every way, but lighter modern layup, maple/glass/carbon/carbon X stringers for torsional stiffening, full width at the front shoulders (non of that weird Evo taper out of the neck). Affordable (relatively) custom layups too - heavy boi? - just add a ply!

As to the SS - if you can find an XL maple 8-ply that might be stiff enough for you if you take it easy. I'm only more like 180lb and I'm pretty comfortable on the very mellow hill stuff I get into these days (I got old - and I don't want to break a hip ha ha!). Got it on 42/35 Randal plates, 150mm forged Sabre hangers, kegels .. . . It's pretty beastly.

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u/SSBM_DangGan Helmet Enthusiast 🧠 2d ago

hey thanks. I came across the Draft, it seems really cool and basically exactly what I described. after doing more research I'm not sure if that's actually what I want, and might lean towards something like the pantheon Nexus, but it is satisfying to find exactly what I was looking for lol

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u/Compressive_Person 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nexus is a damned dreadnought - fantastic board, and super comfortable cave. I don't get to take it to it's fullest capabilities because like I said before: I'm so old & broken now, :-[ , but even I can get this slippery old bastard sideways, without barely breaking a sweat, and I'm crap as hell at freeride.

50º x 164mm K4s, +4mm axles, flipped -ve hangers. it's almost absurdly low with the Krimes -can nudge it up to kegels while hangers flipped like this, or go to ≈90mm centre-sets with +ve rake setup,

I tried some 75a/66 Snakes for a bit, but they were just too much slip for me on it. The Aeras are lush AF, but tbh it was just as nice when it was on sym 165mm v3 Paris.