Harvard Hills - MA Downhill Longboarding

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Two locals hit a few of their favorite hometown hills on a Fullbag Elise and Earthwing Mystery Model longboards. Top speeds are in the upper 40 mph range, coming close to 50mph - these fastest speeds come later in the video, in roughly the second half.

Rider / Setup:
Mike Girard / Earthwing Mystery Model, Paris 195s, Orangatang 83a 4Presidents, Venom SHR Bushings, MHS Biltins, Vicious grip. (Black Pro-Tec & Red Bell Drop helmets)
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Russ Phelan / Fullbag Elise P-Swiss Pro Edition, Randal 180mm trucks (50*/35*), Orangatang 86a Stimulus Wheels, Venom DH bushings, Vicious grip
(white half-shell helmet)
Channel: www.youtube.com/savesilence
Filming: Laura Nocka, Russ, Mike
Editing: Russ

Song: Massive Attack: Girl I Love You

Filmed 6/12 while Russell was back home visiting from NYC

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Downhill
• Longboarding
• 50
• mph
• Fullbag
• Elise
• Patrick
• Switzer
• Earthwing
• Mystery
• Model
• Orangatang
• Stimulus
• 86a
• 4President
• 83a
• Wheels
• Venom
• Bushings
• Paris
• 195
• mm
• trucks
• 180s
• Biltin
• bearings

[turtleman220]

How would you slow down if there was a deer in the street or something? What can you do at those speeds? I havent touched a longboard but I really wanna do downhill, but I also wanna know that I can stop when a deer jumps out :p Any recommendations for the cheapest board I can get?

[emgeemann]

@turtleman220 Sliding and footbraking my friend! Earthwing makes really high quality affordable boards (usually $100 or less), that's what I'm riding in this video. You can find decent wheels for about $25 on skateboards[dot]com, decent trucks will run you $40-50 and you can just get cheap bearings, I run cheap house bearings in all my trucks. No need to waste money on fancy bearings. For great deals, you can check silverfishlongboarding[dot]com Classifieds, usually good used decks for sale!

[longboarding1992]

@emgeemann honestly the only thing you should spend good money on is bearings. you will notice a difference in speed. i was wondering why you guys were going pretty slow on those hills.

[emgeemann]

@longboarding1992 I strongly disagree. These are mellow hills, their max speeds aren't very high. Our tucks weren't ideal, so we could have gone faster with improvements in tucking, but bearing would make an extremely minute difference, especially at these speeds. Patrick Switzer, top downhiller in the world, runs cheap shop bearings.

[kingbadass2]

@emgeemann you can get really good bearings called bones reds for like 10 bucks

[emgeemann]

@kingbadass2 Yeah reds are nice. Reds are usually more like $15 though. Fanciest bearings I'm willing to buy.

[emgeemann]

@Aa1133Cc Going fast and skitching are two entirely different things. Namely, you should regularly do the former, and never the latter. Skitching is dangerous and lots of people get rocked while doing it, including yourself.

[Mysterylabel]

Where ever you live man you got some good streets to ride.

[cgully11]

Where is this in mass?

[wmalongboarding]

what are some shred spots in western mass?

[ConnerHD]

Check out my longboarding montages <3

[naptownlongboarding]

@turtleman220 earthwing supermodel caliber trucks soft riptide bushings abec 11 flashbacks

[naptownlongboarding]

@longboarding1992 lol

[HappyDaysIsMe]

im scared that a car will come around the corner

[alexh1080]

longboarding is sick just got a new board

[tylerjm973]

what camera did you use?

[theelephanttaco]

@emgeemann Nah you gotta get the bones reds swiss ceramics only like $104 no biggy :)

[wowcantfindaname12]

Hey I'm looking for dh board I'm going to be going around 30mhp but I also want to be able to use it for transportation and around low 300 dollars could you recommend trucks and wheels. And I can't slide but I'm going to learn. Thank you