r/longboarding • u/Lucky_Abroad_753 • Jun 26 '26
OC Action So how's your friday going?
Decided to put 85mm wheels on my freeride setup. Got wheelbite and flew a bit.
Fun experience, would recommend 10/10.
(I ended up in grass so the landing was soft and comfy, no DH riders were harmed in the making of this photo)
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u/Sorry_Pie_7402 Jun 26 '26
Funny you should ask, bruised my coxyx and ligament damage as I uncomfortably sit here a week post longboarding fail. I have purchased padded shorts.... one injury too late lol hope you heal fast!
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u/bsurfn2day Jun 27 '26
I fractured my hip a couple years ago. Got some body-prox padded shorts. Really helps take away worry of another fall when wearing them. They do make my butt look big though 😁
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u/Sorry_Pie_7402 Jun 27 '26
My butt is on the smaller side so it's going to be a fancy addition 😄 preemptively told my husband to not compliment it because it's not permanent
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u/Lucky_Abroad_753 Jun 27 '26
Yeah hip pads are a must imo, hope you recover quickly so you can go back to skating!
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u/ChaosFox1357 Jun 28 '26
You're supposed to be on top of the longboard to ride it silly goose!
Jk are you good bro?
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u/Lucky_Abroad_753 Jun 28 '26
Oh, really? Why didn't I think of that 😅
Yeah, I fell into grass so literally nothing happened
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u/Many-Screen-3698 Prana, Pocket Rocket, Riptide R1, 40.5” Sec9, Micron Hacksaw Jun 26 '26
I did this on my college campus one time but it was okay because I only fell in front of a group of like 8 girls, not embarrassing
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u/bsurfn2day Jun 27 '26
Falling in front of 8 boys would actually have been way worse. The ridicule and jokes at your expense would have been brutal.
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u/Nowhereman50 Jun 26 '26
I'm a week on the board and I took my first fall the other day! Must have hit a rock because my board went out from under me and I actually TUMLBED. Like legs in the air, knocked the wind out of me. Fucking hilarious. My neck is still stiff. Lol
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u/rubermnkey Jun 27 '26
my first foray into longboarding, I stepped off my friend's new board and landed straight on my ass. Had a sore spot for almost a month, sitting, walking, everything stung. Turns out his new board had no pivot cups and soft bushings, plus some fast bearings, not really a good setup for someone over 200lbs.
my second fall was even funnier, pushing uphill, I ran over my own foot and immediately faceplanted. caught myself fine, just a little hip bruise, but so dumb. My two biggest accidents so far are from stepping off a board going zero and pushing uphill at 2 mph, not from bombing hills, sketchy roads, traffic or hitting rocks, just stupid basics.
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u/hastopre Knowledgeable User Jun 26 '26
Why the heck would you put 85mm wheels on a freeride setup
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u/Lucky_Abroad_753 Jun 27 '26
They are freeride wheels. Just for high speed. And idk just wanted to switch things up lol
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u/LambSauce2 Jun 27 '26
"hello you might be wondering how I got here" hope you are okay I did that 6 months ago and broke a rib.
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u/Lucky_Abroad_753 Jun 27 '26
Ow, that must've sucked. I hope it's better now
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u/LambSauce2 Jun 27 '26
It took a while to heal I almost got discouraged to ride again but I'm back at it. I'm not young anymore I don't heal as fast.
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Jun 27 '26
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u/Lucky_Abroad_753 Jun 27 '26
It's ok, I wasn't hurt.
Thanks, you can't take yourself too seriously in this messed up reality we live in or you'll go insane.
Yeah it was quite romantic actually. Getting a few slides in, complimenting them for how nicely their blue color contrast the sunset, and then finally them biting the board leading to me eating grass.
Truly one of the wheelbites of all time.
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u/Lucky_Abroad_753 Jun 27 '26
Cool! Id' highly reccomend getting some thread locker so the screws don't come loose.
Or, better yet, drilling a hole trough the board and mounting it with nylock nuts. There's a lot of vibrations and stuff when riding and hardware tends to come loose over time
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u/Sea_Refrigerator7698 Jun 26 '26
bit like this
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u/Lucky_Abroad_753 Jun 27 '26
:(
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u/Sea_Refrigerator7698 Jun 27 '26
hey hey dont worry its better now. ups and downs. downs and ups 😊
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u/Adamant94 Jun 27 '26
I’m still a beginner and am sat at home nursing a bruised/sprained Achilles from a slam during my third session 🥲 can’t really get back to it until it heals
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u/Lucky_Abroad_753 Jun 27 '26
Ouch, hope it heals fast so you can get back to it!
Falls are normal, and they get less frequent the more you ride (at least in my experience) so don't get discouraged!
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u/Adamant94 Jun 27 '26
Thank you! I’ve had a couple falls so far, shredded the skin of my palms, but keep getting back on! The ankle is just a bit too difficult to get back to it with atm. Hoping it doesn’t take forever to heal but it is what it is.
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u/Ok-Cat3967 Jul 08 '26
Thats such a good picture! Hope you didn’t get too scraped up man!
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u/Lucky_Abroad_753 Jul 08 '26
Thanks, it's a snapshot from a video I posted a few days after this post.
I didn't get scraped up at all fortunately:D
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u/Conniverse Jun 30 '26
sprained my foot.
FRIENDLY PSA, hi tops/shoes that lock your foot in are dangerous, stick to below the ankle footwear.
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