Cruiser Skateboards

Cruiser boards are skateboards designed for transport, commuting and rolling about, rather than doing tricks like a regular skateboard. They are around the same size, or slightly smaller than, regular skateboards. They have soft wheels, turny trucks, and often feature retro deck shapes.

Cruiser boards are great for getting to work, college, learning the basics of skateboarding, or just cruising around for the fun of it! If spending years learning kickflips turns you off, and you don't like the idea of alongboard, then you need a cruiser board.

If your cruiser board with a kicktail, you can do pretty much anything. Tic-Tacs, ollies, flips, even ramp skating is possible, although harder tricks will be easier on a regular skateboard. Old-skool cruisersare better for learning basic tricks and bowl skating when compared to smaller mini-cruisers.

Cruiser boards are not designed for technical tricks like regular skateboards. They are often a little bit shorter, they have much softerwheels, and more turnytrucks. There's a wider variety of deck shapes available, too.

Cruiser boards are much shorter than longboards, which makes them easier to carry, and in most cases, much more turny. Longboards are more stable and forgiving, and have a lot more room for your feet - which makes them very suitable for beginners.

Definitely! You might need some risers to avoid wheelbite though. Check out our cruiser board setup kits for everything you need to convert your skateboard into a cruiser.

The real answer is - the one that fits your needs best! Go shorter if you can already skate and want a lighter setup, or go longer/wider for an easier ride and the ability to do some tricks.

We stock a wide range of cruisers, retro and oldschool boards and mini cruisers to suit every age and budget. If you're not sure what you want - get in touch!

Longboards are easier to skate if you're a total beginner, but we get a lot of skaters who are put off by the size. 

Whilst the larger size makes longboards easier to skate - there's more room for your feet and they're more forgiving over distance - they are a lot less convenient and not so easy to carry about, hide under your desk or sling under your seat on the bus.

We've found that skateboard shapes from the eighties on soft wheels with risers are the perfect board for most adult skaters looking for a cruising setup.

Before all this kickflip malarky came along, boards were a lot wider, with more variation in shape. We're super stoked that shapes like this have made a return - set up with bigger soft wheels and some risers, they are way more foot-friendly than mini-cruisers, without the size and weight of a longboard.

If you're from a street and ramp background, you'll love this kind of board. They're usually shaped with a real nice old-school concave and a fully-functional kicktail, so the streets become a playground as you get from A to B. 

These boards come from a time when there were no rules and skateboarding meant freedom to do anything - you'll feel that the moment you get on one!

If you're still a bit stuck, check out the Cruiser Skateboards section of our buyer's guide.

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If you've got an old skateboard deck kicking about and you want to turn it into a cruiser board, check out our cruiser board setup kit - everything you need to get rolling!