Carbon Series - Skate Wheels

The Carbon Series - Skate wheels

When I picked the box up from FedEx, I was surprised. The tape holding the lid down had come undone. I could see inside -- I could reach inside. It looked as though, if the box were mishandled, items could actually fall out of it. When I got it home and opened it fully, I was surprised to see no packing materials whatsoever. But to my amazement, everything was in the box and looking good.

Until the next day, when I got a small package from Evolve in the mail. It was a cover plate for the drive chain. So not everything was in the box, but nothing was lost in the shipment.

My first thoughts of the board was, it’s long. Really long. Long enough to make carrying it the way I carry my Snubnose impractical. But with its length came a certain sportyness. As though it were a race car. And the board is thin. Thin and sexy, and surprisingly, way thinner than Boosted’s Board. I’m not sure if that’s because the battery is thin, or possibly recessed into the carbon fiber.

After charging, we rode it that night. It rides a lot different from the Snubnose. Because of the spacing on the wheels, it can’t turn quite so nimbly. But what it lacks in turns, it makes up for in smoothness. And on that first run, the trucks were pretty tight.

After riding the board for that first time, I came to another sad realization. I couldn’t use the Carbon series as my board, and give my Snubnose to my gf, as I had originally planned. The Carbon series was simply easier to ride. And for that reason, I had to let my gf use it, while I remained using the harder to ride board. Poor me, right?

Later on, we would do just that. We had a blast, riding around the parking lot together.

That next day, for my commute to work, I found myself with a difficult choice. Take the Snubnose to work, or take the Carbon series. I had waited months to get my hands on the Carbon series. Why was I hesitate to ride it to work? Because it was big. Big enough to make taking on the bus a bit more of a hassle. But mostly, it was the turns. When I first learned to skateboard, I couldn’t take many of the campuses awkward ninety degree turns. It took me months to have the skill to loosen the trucks enough to be able to make those turns. And sometimes there are a lot of pedestrians walking on the sidewalk that I have to weave through. I wasn’t so confident doing that on the new board, either.

I had both of the remotes in a bag filled with all of my skating paraphernalia. I decided to reach in, blind, and whichever remote I grabbed would be the one I would take to work. I grabbed the Snubnose. That was Thursday.

Friday I took the Carbon series. I loosened the trucks a bit, and had no problem doing my usual skate run. The worst part about the run, was walking into the building where I work, with this skateboard from another universe tucked under my arm. I kept thinking of the Captain Obvious meme, “If you wanted me to park my car at work, you should’ve build an employee parking lot!”

But when I got to my desk, another surprise. My board was too long to fit nicely between the desk. I had to slant her in.