Ryoken's 89 Crew Cab Tubebed build... aka Mutt....

[ryoken]

thanks...

hopefully it'll really get fun when i start bending tube.. nothing groundbreaking or innovative to this point, but the rig is coming around..

for as stoked as I am to get some tube going in the back, my next main priority is the lift and x-over.. I'm sooooooo chomping at the bit to get to that stuff... all the stars are aligning for the 3rd week this month for that...

 

[Deuling]

Since you were talkin bout skateboards. Heres a longboard I just finished making for my little brother. Hes heading away to college in a week and I cleaned up my old gullwing trucks, cleaned and oiled bearings, and built a fresh deck. Thought it would be a good way for him to save some gas $$ so he can buy more beers...

26" from center to center of the wheels.

 

[ryoken]

hehe, downhill bomber!

reminiscent of 50 mph high speed tucks at night in the watchung mt's coming home from pool sessions.. deadly



oh, and just cuz Chris is my hero.. style for miles and just still kiils it at freakin 50! still hitting fs thruster's at 10:30 in the pipe..





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[Deuling]

Thats badass paul! Wish I woulda gotten into it when I was younger. So i took the easy way out and got into the ones you just go straight on

This ones more of a mix between a shorty city one that makes tight turns, and a down hill bomber. I think it works perfect. Good for decent turns, but still can go decent speed without getting death wobbles.

Ive made some pretty long ones before that were fun as hell, one was almost 4 feet long, with 12" wide trucks for my youngest brother. That was a downhill

 

[ryoken]

going 50 on a board ain't no joke.. you eat sh*t at that speed, your getting hurt.... no safety gear, tennies, balls to the wall down some curvy mt road at night.. good times!

skating, more than any activity I've ever seen, is one where, if you want to be decent, have fun bustin cool tricks, etc, YOU ARE GONNA GET HURT.. plain and simple..

most normal people get hurt a time or 2, and stop like a sane person.. that's why skaters are so passionate about what they do... It is a serious committment to pain!

 

[pblaze725]

Check out these trucks my dad made me when I was a kid. I thought you might like 'em.

I kept breaking them and he told me he was going to build me a set that I could never break. They are stainless steel and heavy as hell.

I took a fall on a downhill once going about 40. I lost my front tooth, broke a wrist, and had road rash all the way around my back,shoulders, and face. I hate speed wobbles!

 

[ryoken]

wow, is all I can say.. not far off from an independent... way cool dad!

I was once following my next door neighbor down a monster hill and he wobbled, ate sh*t right in front of me... shorts, tennies, no shirt.... freakin hamburger....


speaking of weight, here's an old skate story.... I have a certain segment of my broken cue pile dedicate to a time when Cherry Hill skatepark opened up and we where taking routers to the bottom of our boards to lighten em up as much as possible.. make certain sections super thin... get every inch of air you could in the pools, just skate more bio...

manny's where already doing it from the factory for handgrabs and wells, but we went to the extreme... I once had a Brad Bowman model that was stupid light, running Tracker magnesiums, yada.... it exploded on the coping doing about a 3' pogo rock n' roll during a contest run... broke in 2...

I'm talking kindling in the bottom of the deep end... I caught sh*t for that one...


here's a Bowman..

and here's that kidney

 

[pblaze725]

wow, is all I can say.. not far off from an independent... way cool dad!

Thanks. He actually modeled them from a set of G&S trucks. They were super light.

 

[ryoken]

ah, I remember those.. was never a fan of plastic baseplates on any of the trucks... I dig light, but I've seen too many of the non-metal bases crack..


here's a few "trucks" for ya...

and my former sponsor....

 

[TheBeast_88K5]

Dammit Paul.... I LOVE that thing!

< Is jealous.

 

[ryoken]

tank ya sir... I think when the tube bed is done, it's really gonna be a pretty original rig..





today's projects.. did the front brakes....

and got the cowl stripped and in orange...

I was gonna go for the roof tomorrow, but i think I'm out of masking paper, of all things...

 

[y5mgisi]

I really like that color.

 

[ryoken]

yeah, I've gotta have my guy write down the formula next time I'm in the store.. curious what tint is in it...

it's covering very well, I'll give it that... I've used a 1/2 gallon so far..

 

[TheBeast_88K5]

I was gonna ask what color that was,, but remembered it was Ryoken Red....


Fawesome.

I need a Beastly Black.

 

[ryoken]

wow, it's amazing what a bit of angle does to the color... look how dark, and red, it looks in this shot with the screen in..

compared to..

 

[Babaganoosh]

Looking great, I can't wait until it's time to paint my truck. This just motivated me to get my butt out but I'm much much much slower then you at this.

 

[ryoken]

doing it to a DD definitely add's some twists to it, when ya like to strip to raw steel and start from scratch.. thus the panel painting... but I always have to watch out for "biting off more than i can chew" in a weekend...


I'm actually gonna hold off on the back doors for a bit, till I can buy ALL the felt's, weatherstripping, etc for the doors, front and rear.. so when I strip em, blast em, trim em, like I did the fronts, I'll at least have some new parts to get em back together and on the truck quickly..

as opposed to what I did/am doing with the fronts, do em with no new parts, than put em back together with the old sh*te parts...

 

[Babaganoosh]

Lucky for me mine isn't a DD it's a toy, but with my skill level at times I'm biting off more then I can handle. With the help of others I can pull off my projects.

 

[ryoken]

and unfortunately a major portion of it, above and beyond my experience, are the tools, equipment and materials I have, and keep somewhat stocked...

DA papers, paint stuff, big compressor, sanders, guns, blasters, yada, yada.... i'm pretty well set up, other than the Dungeon being a bit of a clusterf*ck from time to time..

but, I haven't always had what I have now, good results can be achieved with modest steps... a panel at a time.. and there are often work-arounds with tools and materials with a bit of hard work, etc...

 

[ryoken]

good, now I don't have to look out the windshield at that peeling nightmare of a cowl anymore... was driving me batty..

I think tomorrow is gonna be a Dungeon clean out.. I haven't cleaned up at all really since Mutt got here, it's trashed... get organized for the suspension/steering work coming up...