Loaded BHANGRA FLEX 2 longboard deck

A more compact dancing/freestyle deck, the Bhangra offers plenty of foot space to get your dancing groove on yet is compact and lightweight enough to facilitate steezy slides and advanced flatland tricks. Upturned nose and tail kicks, purposeful griptape patterns, rocker, mellow concave and damp flex (created in part by the use of epoxy bio-resin & cork) result in comfortable and functional ergonomics that inspire confidence on both the dance floor and the hills.

Rocker
The rocker (slight "U" bend when viewed from the side) really 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 slightly easier.

Concave
We 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 but is still mellow and comfortable enough for footwork moves.

Nose and Tail Kicks
More nose and tail curvatures allow for easier catching of the nose and tail. With good timing, 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
This is our most thought out grip design to date featuring a functional, shoe saving design and two different types of griptape.

For the main standing platform, we 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. We 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. We also designed it so you still have plenty of grip tape on the rails of the board for confidence when sliding.

We used a gnarlier, gripper griptape on the nose and tail to help give you that extra locked in feeling when holding out manuals. The extra grip also makes it easier to catch the nose and tail for quick shuvit-to-manual moves.

Construction
We are stoked to say this is our most organic board to date. We have created a durable beast from bamboo, cork and epoxy bio-resin. We used no fiberglass in this board but were able to get the strength and flex characteristics we wanted by using two 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 we use a similar ply in the center (next to the cork) to stiffen up the flex 1 version. 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
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 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.

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.

• Flex 1: 150-250+ lbs
• Flex 2: 90-190+ lbs

Trucks
We recommend 180mm reverse-kingpin trucks: Paris, Caliber, Bears, etc. Paris with standard bushings offer the most wheel clearance and best fit with the wheel wells. If you choose Randals or Bears, we recommend the use of a riser pad to ensure full wheel clearance.

Wheels
This board is designed to ride with 70mm or smaller wheels. 75mm wheels are too big and require risers to avoid the risk of wheel bite. Plus, 70mm is the perfect, lightweight size to throw around, do tricks on, and slide.

For this graphic we decided to try something new. We 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.