Vandem Longboard Shop News

We've just taken delivery some more Hackbrett decks!

We now have:

Das Schnelle downhill/Freeride deck. This is a super-fun DH board with a kicktail, some real nice 3D concave, and loads of other features like flat truck seats and CNC details. The 2018 version is a little bit narrower than last year's which makes the deck a bit more nimble and the rails a bit easier to get your feet over.

The Krokodil symetrical freeride/slide deck - basically two Schnelle noses stuck together to create a perfect shorter twintip slide setup

The Balance Pintail in Walnut - one of the sexiest looking...

The "new" Santa Cruz boards are worth a special look.

The Cruz Missile II concave was developed in the eighties to hit vert and transition. We like both of those things, so we were stoked to see Santa Cruz bringing it back in their latest line of reissues!

There's a lot going on with these boards. Combining rocker, a spoon nose, and a two stage tail, this concave feels amazing and will change the way you think about your skateboard.

With a deep concave for your front foot, and a mellower section for your back foot, we think that...

We're now stocking the 2nd generation Orangatang Freeride wheels!

Click here to check them out.

Left to right is the Keanu 66mm, the Kilmer 69mm, and the Cage 73mm.

All these wheels feature a big core, stoneground running surface, rounded edges and narrow-ish contact patch, which gives an easy slide from new. (Check out our wheel guide for more info on all that...)

The Cage is pretty big for a longboard wheel these days, so watch out for wheelbite. On a drop-through or cutaway board it'll be a real nice cruising wheel with a bit more...

Vandem Longboard Shop has a new home!

We must be crazy moving this close to Christmas... but we've done it, and you can now visit us in our new premises at:

Arch 4, Berkeley Court Business Park
Bristol BS5 0BX

Click here for detailed directions by longboard, car or train.

We're still settling in, with a lot to do... there's more decks, trucks and wheels arriving over the next few days, we've still got to finish decking things out...

But we already have the essentials (ie a whole load of longboard stuff to choose from... and...

How much is a longboard?

The cheapest complete longboards in our shop start at under £50 - but if you called us with the challenge of building you the most expensive custom possible, you could end up spending upwards of £400.

Why the huge difference?

A question we are often asked is: "How can you possibly spend that much on a longboard when £50 will do the job?"

We've taken three different price points of drop-through boards off the shelf to try to explain where your money goes.

The three longboards we selected are also all basically aimed at the same user - they're cruising/pumping/pushing/commuting setups. They're all...

We've been stocking a small selection of old-school reissue decks, and wheels and trucks to go with them of late.

Popsicles have their place... but we're two old dudes in a shed with a ramp, and we want big, shapey skateboards that make us feel like it's 1987 again.

Like our longboard stuff, we're very picky about what we stock. We're only doing brands that we think are rad, and we're only doing things that we skate (or want to skate!) ourselves.

Basically we're like kids in a sweet shop.

Our stock is changing all the time, as we generally only get limited numbers...

Like all forms of longboarding, longboard dancing has been evolving steadily over the last few years. Inevitably, more complex tricks and combinations have increased the need for specialised decks to dance on.

There's now a huge selection of longboard dancing decks out there, but we've picked two of the classics to help you choose - the Loaded Bhangra and the Lush Legend.

Both of these decks have been around for a long time. They've evolved from tons of rider input over the years specifically for dancing and flatland tricks. They're both quite expensive, but then we're in...

We had our friend Ben Williams in with us a couple of weeks back.

Ben is a super-talented graphic artist, we've worked with him before to do our Skate Or Pie Tshirt. So when he asked to do some stuff in the shop we were stoked to just let him loose and see what happened...

We've since been finding his drawings all over the workshop, but his biggest creation is this floor-to-wall skull trail that ends in a pool session:

Check out more of Ben's work at Tempocide.com.

Watch this space for more...

We've just taken delivery of a load of Hackbrett Longboards decks! More pf the giant Wasser pintails and some of the new 2017 Das Schnelle freeride/speedboards.

We've always offered these boards as custom completes, but you had to call us to order one.

Hackbrett boards built up with hand-picked undercarriage options to suit each board. So now it's even easier to own one of these beauties than ever!

Check out our full Hackbrett lineup here.