Pantheon Trip Longboard Skateboard Deck
The Trip is the board everybody should have in their quiver. We designed this board as a healthy alternative to the plethora of tiny cheap tiny Penny-killers out there that are too small to ride comfortably. Hey if that's your thing, cool though. The Trip is 32.3" of 7 ply maple with a 1" dropped platform and drop through mounting. It has enough clearance to rock big wheels or you can combine a medium width wheel with 150mm trucks and run a super tiny, super streamline get-around setup that you don't have to ever worry about kicking the wheels with. We prototyped this deck with 150mm Paris trucks and Otang 73mm Cages. No bite, 9" wide full setup (including wheels) and a TON of carve that could grip or slip just as well.
We designed this deck around 2 things. The first was utility. The Trip is a deck you can stick in your trunk, your locker, under a desk, or in duffle bag and use it to get around whenever you have the chance. It's 32-inches long and 9 inches wide and takes up very little space, but almost the entire board is platform, so it doesn't even feel small.
The second is cost. We designed this board with cost in mind and are able to bring you a beautifully engineered, American made maple deck, small batch manufactured deck for $90. For us, it doesn't get much better than that, and we are super stoked to be able to offer this to the world.
Two more things of note:
This board is 7 ply maple. I'm 170 pounds and my primary testing ground for this board was the Miami Ultraskate, where I skated this board the majority of a 230-ish mile trek over 24 hours. The remaining testing ground was our local park paths. Over that period of time, I bottom the deck out about twice while pumping in the middle of the board. There is no significant flex when placing the feet at the drops, but you can get a nice comfy flex out of the middle if yo