/fa/ - Fashion

>>6098011
just get a bicycle you cunt

>>6098011
Kill self.

There is nothing cooler than arriving somewhere on a skateboard. Go for it anon

>>6098016
There's so much fuss with bikes, you need to park them and lock them up and shit..

>>6098028
This isn't a fockin' skateboard, this is a fockin' toy.

Good luck on getting home

Get a real fucking cruiser and you'll be set

>>6098030
It's a fockin' cruiser yo

>>6098032
I'll just take the bus home as I usually do anyway.. This would be more like a morning joy ride?

>>6098030
>>6098037
A cruiser is fine to mate. I have both. You don't use a regular skateboard for transportation...

>>6098033
Actual cruisers are cool.

>>6098033
What's a real cruiser then? I'm considering a shitty one just to get a feel for it.. Right now I'd pretty much fall and die if I so much as look at a board.

>>6098011
do whatever the fuck you want dude, wtf is this

>>6098011

>>6098054
>>6098033
Sooo what's a real cruiser :( Come on, it just got interesting.
The one from my pic may be in the cheaper end but it's not from a toy store.

>>6098156
It's bigger than a regular skateboard and has larger trucks and larger wheels (don't know if that has to be that way but it is in my case). It is for the means of transport and not for tricks like a regular skateboard. Still a lot less efficient that a bike, but lots of fun.

>>6098011
penny boards are for fucking faggots.
Cop a skateboard.

>>6098156
sector 9 bords

>>6098173
uhm isn't that a longboard then? I don't want a big clunky thing.

only manlet flips ride these where I live

It's funny cause it looks like they are riding regular size skateboards with neon puke paint jobs

>>6098179
Nope, it's in between a longboard and a skateboard

Hey OP, get a Nickel. They're durable as fuck and great for cruising. Or if you want something smaller and more versatile, get a Penny. Only downside is that they cost $100-140.

>>6098288
i aint the type of hate on the boards just because they're plastic but you could get started on a decent cruiser for $140, penny's cost too damn much

>>6098296
Penny's are good imo. And they're only $100.

just get a legit longboard. go really fast to work. show up early. get promoted. profit

>>6098011
Fucking plastic piece of shit. I'd rather walk than be seen on a fucking penny.

>>6098011
Honestly op, a longboard or penny board would be great but if you're not already comfortable skating it'll take awhile to get used to it. Just get a bike off craigslist

>>6098746
I've always been shit at skateboarding, but I learned to longboard reasonably well in like ten minutes. Shit ain't hard.

>>6098011

>penny board
>not glorious longboard or skateboard

kill yourself you pleb

>>6098867
>spent ten minutes in parking lot or on slight incline
>lel I know how to longboard
>mfw you try to go down a hill and hit 45mph+ and the pavement takes a shit on you

Anyway, on to the actual discussion: I've been longboarding for over five years, and while I love it and think it's one of the most versatile ways to get around, it's really inefficient if your goal is to just get from one place to another. Unless you're planning on hopping fences or climbing roofs on your way to work, stick with a bike; it'll tire you less and be far more forgiving on downhills, because it actually has efficient brakes.

Also, decent longboard setups are ~$150-180. Obviously you can get something nicer (mine is over $400), but that's a good place to start.

Still, I'd never use a board to get to work.

>>6098947
freeriding master race reporting in

If you're a COOL Sk8ER boiii then go for it.
If you have to get from class to class and you want to look like a 90's cool kid it's perfect.

>>6098947
>tfw you don't know how to ride a bike

I'm a pussyboi

>2008+5
>Not using a pogo stick
Stay pleb

TFW WANT TO LEARN TO SKATE / CRUISE because it genuinely looks fun and I love taking up new hobbies

BUT

live in area where typical 'skater' kids are very concentrated, have a skate shop and a park both a block away from my house and too scared to practice cuz i'll embarass myself and i'm like 19 ;_;

>>6098176
skateboards are for doing tricks. penny boards are for transportation. why are you telling him to get something less convenient for his needs?

>>6099369
I meant just using it to get around and chill and ride on some smooth hills and stuff btw not too interested in trix

I made a thread about posers last night OP, now go kill yourself, poser.

>>6098903
but it fits in a backpack easily. carrying a longboard around is hell

>>6099366
this is the first thing that made me laugh in at least a week. feels good.

>>6099384
how can you be a poser when you're using a board that is not meant for doing tricks. the entire purpose is riding around and that's all he'll be doing with it..

>>6099396
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H3Ko1WyxxI

>>6099384
TAKE OFF THAT BOX LOGO XDDDD

>>6098732
>cares what other people think

Get a load of this betamax

>>6098011
faggot buy a skateboard and grow a pair of balls, you're asking to get focused pumping around on that little chode.

if you skateboard then you're a faggot

I have yet to meet a skater who isn't a massive faggot, I just don't think they exist

>>6099423
i skateboard :o
or did before my deck got stolen

>>6099369
Just find an empty lot so you practice by yourself b. Also, I know how you feel, I want to learn how to skate.

>>6098947
So how much practice do you think would be needed? I was thinking of copping this for Uni next year since its close to my house and mostly downhill getting there. Should I buy it now and practice over the summer?

Fuck penny boards, they are literally shittier than longboarders. And that's saying something

>>6099455
why are so many skateboarders so insecure

>>6099423
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5klUbOvaBS4

that's because all the skaters you've met are total faggots. chris haslam, on the other hand, is one of the most genuinely nice and talented skateboarders out there

>>6099449
I started skating about 2 and a bit months ago for kinda the same reason as you but mostly for learning a new skill. it took me about 1.5 months to get used to it. I'll tell you this now, YOU WILL FALL OVER. I skate for about an hour a day. I skate loose so it's harder to stabalise but you get to weave around pleb walkers instead of ugly kick tailes

I recently started caveman in public without actually thinking I'll fall over. which is good because starting stationary is kind of shitty.

>>6099396
yw, spread the giggles anon

>>6099460
Have you even met a longboarder? They think they're the shit for rolling down a blood hill. And actually think it requires more skill than actually doing tricks. Penny boarders are hipster posers.

>>6099497
Do you think the difference between flipping a skateboard and sliding a skateboard is worth arguing over?

>>6099511
Yes

>>6099497
so the answer is to also be a huge douche?

>>6099497
i own a penny
it's convenient
i also ride an antihero
why does it matter so much

>>6099519
Do you think it's worth arguing over whether blue or yellow is superior?

>>6099539
blue and ill fight any yellow loving fuck who says otherwise

>>6099539
>comparing apples to oranges.

Fliping a skateboard is harder than sliding it. If you think they're equal you really are retarded

>>6099519
>this is why you fail.

>>6099557

Problem here is someone posted a pic of an apple and you went "fuck apples and the people that eat them, they are all fucking hipster assholes that don't understand that oranges are superior. They're even worse than kiwi-eaters!"

>>6099557
^

>>6099557
#swerv

>>6099557
You're comparing apples to oranges, yes.

Sliding and flipping or w/e each have their own merits. You don't need to quantify it.

>>6099581
No he said "i don't understand why apple eaters compare themselves to orange eaters when eating an orange takes much more skill".

>>6099485
Alright I'll prolly cop now and get started. Thanks based anon.

>>6099385
get a fucking kicktail longboard or something you'll kill yourself going downhill on a penny

>>6098011

>20min downhil to work
>First time boarder

enjoy ur slave scars.

>>6099721
i dont understand how a kicktail longboard would be any different in hill safety...

>>6099781
heh

>>6098011
get you a regular skate. you can ollie up and down sidewalks and over manholes

>>6099497
no they're not they're just for people who have want to fit in. Everyone at uni rides one, yeah its annoying but they're the most unhipster thing i've ever seen.

>longboards not being cool

i don't even own one, nor do i skateboard at all and im pretty sure longboards are cool if you're not a faggot about it.

cruising down a long empty slightly sloped street at night when there's no cars out sounds like a lot of fun.

>>6099343
i feel you,bro

>>6100201
every fratbro and his mother ride longboards around my campus, which is why I've come to associate them with being inherently annoying

fuckin bros in their striped tank tops and backwards tigers hats and cargo shorts always shouting gutterally at eachother as they board

their sorority girlfriends giggling cutely at how terrible they are at longboarding

they listen to macklemore

Just get a cruiser, independent trucks, spitfire wheels and some reds bearings.

5boros makes some good cheap cruisers but if you want to get fancy you can get a supreme one I guess.

tfw nowhere good to skate in my town

and if you wanna bitch about having to carry it around just get a bike so you can lock it up when you're done, it'll get you further anyways and put you in shape fuccboi

OP if you get a penny expect every skater/longboarder/person with half a brain to hate your shit. Penny's are overly expensive and are actually shitty.

Get a Landyachtz
http://www.landyachtz.com/D25.cfm?PID=538
http://www.landyachtz.com/D25.cfm?PID=528
Better and cheaper than penny's. If you're starting off get a cruiser with a single kick atleast so you can ollie. A longboard might be big.

>>6100201
>cruising down a long empty slightly sloped street at night
You have no idea man, my friend and i, head out at like 11 at night, and cruise down the 1k long smooth downhill, no car, just the boards. Feels so serene.

>>6100466
Fuck i hate these cunts, no need for a longboard around campus. I take my shitkicker.

>>6100529
>independent trucks
>$40 each
>spitfire wheel
>$40
>red bearings
>$30~
Great setup, but will op actually spend $200>

>>6098016
bikes are for girls.

>>6100632

Dill stylin' on you. Slap pal? I thought I was the only one who lurked here.

>>6100466
>tfw been longboarding for 9 years and now everyone I meet who skates normally thinks I'm some sort of chromosome deficient freak and promptly advises me to kill myself
I h8 how much of a trend this shit has become, and the worst part is all these newbies push mongo

>>6100632
>Great setup, but will op actually spend $200>
He should, otherwise he'll just be a fuccboi with a shit board that might fall apart
This investment isn't for a trend, this is for fucking life.

Where does op work anyways that people won't laugh at him for have a penny??

>>6100640
See, and this is why all skaters are considered faggots.

>>6100640
>tfw u push mongo reg and reg on switch
i am a freak :(

Unless you are <100 pounds, you shouldn't get a penny board. They're flexible as fuck. Get a cruiser with wide trucks and big wheels. Look at pickle boards, bro.

>>6100711
post a fit namefag bitch

>>6100718
theyre rated for use by people of any weight and theyre designed to flex

Get a Krooked Zip Zinger.

Now that's a real cruiser.

>>6100744
yup and they're also for fuccbois

>>6100751
THENN WERE'S YOU'RES????

>>6100813
#REKT

>>6100638
y-you too

>>6100640
>tfw bombing down a hill just as you slide out the back

>>6100666
yeah i dont think he's looking for a life investment

>>6100632
>OP if you get a penny expect every skater/longboarder/person with half a brain to hate your shit.
Well fuck, I'm trying to get to work, not break into some retard community. Let 'em hate.

>>6100666
Opera Software

>>6099497
But longboards are so much nicer to ride on

>>6098011
Get a real board, only little bitches ride these

i have a road bike
basic 105 components

i REALLY want a Di2 setup for the electronic shifting (road bike, shifts itself)

but i don't want to drop $2500+ on a bike just yet

>>6102538
>Girl
Lmao u corporate fuccboi.

>>6102549
It was as an example. "fuccbitch"
I personally use shuv-its or blanks

>>6102568
>2013
>not having a local shop who makes their own decks that you can support

>>6102568
Chocolate.

>>6102573
Never said that there isn't local shops near me with their own boards LOL

>>6099449
yes

tbh for transport i'd forget about hills and just get something that turns well

>>6099369
imho yep

I'm 20 and want to learn how to skate but I don't want to look like a fucking loser who can't even ollie next to some 13 year old doing kickflips railings and shit

Loaded Dervish Carver Gullwing usually what I'm riding.

>twenty thirteen
>not riding a bicycle


and op have fun rolling back home uphill.

>>6098011
Convince me skating in any form is more difficult than BMX.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ePwGbUCcbJM#t=18s

>>6102926
I fell off my bike when I was younger and smashed my face, having to get stitches above my lip, and on my chin. I'm scared of bikes now.
>tfw by younger i mean earlier this year
>tfw you develop a phobia at age 18

>>6102942
>develop a phobia
Is that what being a pussy is call these days?

>>6102942


i feel bad for you.
riding bikes is the shit

>>6102941
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MZxCMvElxKk#t=80s

>>6102942

nig people fall off bikes all the goddamn time, i have scars all over me from bike riding and i still love it.

My point is, if you're doing anything worth doing you're going to have some scars when you get hurt doing it, get back on the fucking bike nig. It's not the end of the world.

>>6102942


PAIN IS TEMPORARY
GLORY IS ETERNAL

>>6098011

I hope yopu smash your face. I really do.

>>6102586
lol that is girl