Rocket Longboards has launched three new fashions up to now couple months and we’re touchdown them in Canada now! Come aboard and take a look at the Excalibur Bumpy Hales Pro, Antoine Carlotti Leon V2 Pro and the Simplex.
Are you able to even consider it! Rocket Longboards put one of many thickest, baddest line ups into orbit for his or her tenth Anniversary and have simply come again at it with stellar new ships so as to add to their fleet. The Don particularly was an unimaginable evolution with predrilled holes for weights and one of many smallest manufacturing platforms we’ve ever seen. Then they expanded on the Rhino to supply the “Race tail” with a in-built torque block, one other business first, and added a tail to the Rhino for a Rhino “Kicktail”. Properly, right here we’re peaking on summer season and Rocket has delivered on the brand new.
Antoine Carlotti Leon V2 Pro
The Antoine Carlotti Leon V2 Pro in the end incorporates the very best of the Leon V1 and a few issues discovered with the Rhino Kicktail. The brand new Leon has been refined to be smaller, stiffer and naturally, sooner. Right here’s what Rocket needed to say:
The Leon V2 is the pure transformation of the Leon, elaborated with our group rider Antoine Carlotti. Just like the chameleon itself, it adjustments and adapts higher to its setting. It’s now smaller, stiffer, and made to go sooner. It strikes away from its former freeride/freestyle self and turns into now a contemporary race board. With its tail the Leon nonetheless retains a few of its previous genes and stays extraordinarily versatile.
Enjoyable reality: Only a few individuals know that the Rhino was initially developed from one of many first Leon prototypes. The brand new Leon V2 combines the very best of each boards: an ultra-comfortable concave that you simply instantly really feel at residence on, pace stiffness, a tail, and all the pieces in a dimension that matches completely with slender race vehicles. Due to the rocker and really mellow wheel flares on the entrance and a micro drop on the again, the board locks you in completely.
The form is designed in an effort to stand precisely on the entrance truck. The built-in footstop holes show you how to not should drill any extra holes your self. You possibly can shred the board immediately and even mess around with totally different positions.
SPECIFICATIONS:
LENGTH – 36.5″ / 93 cm
WIDTH – 9″ / 23 cm
WHEELBASE – 20.5″ – 22.5″ / 52 – 57 cm
CONCAVE – Elliptical / 0.43’’ / 11 mm
MICRO DROP – 0.3’’ / 8 mm
MATERIAL – SFI-certified Canadian maple, Carbon fiber, Glass fiber, Embossed ABS topsheet
Rider: @carlosteez
Videographer: @adrienvuvan9433
Bumpy Hales Excalibur Pro
What within the heck is happening right here?! when the Don dropped we knew Rocket was severe about producing distinctive pro mannequin skateboards that had been really designed across the wants of their riders. That’s to not say their different fashions weren’t customized and authentic, however they match a extra typical equation with limits for a deck. The Don, and now the Excalibur sit exterior these limits and are really pushing limitless design round particular person rider ergonomics… which can or might not pan out properly for Rocket economics… what do you suppose? Have you ever tried these decks? Would you? Learn on to listen to what Rocket has to say in regards to the Excalibur….
Camber? Sure, camber. Bumpy Hales thinks exterior the field and this exhibits in his pro mannequin. This board is totally different, however not for the sake of being totally different. When it really works and feels so good, you simply have to interrupt the boundaries of conventionality.
The Excalibur has a mellow elliptical concave general and a light-weight and broad W on the again. We’ve seen one thing like this earlier than. The revolutionary innovation is beneath the entrance foot. A really gentle camber between the ball of the foot and the heel tilts the foot barely ahead. The concave on the heel is saved very minimal and rises beneath the toe. Along with the marginally deeper entrance flushcut, it helps to shift the rider’s weight ahead and will increase management and stability within the tuck and slides. On the similar time, it offers the foot a slight stress into the foot cease and ensures excellent contact. So easy and but so efficient.
Bumpy himself has at all times lower his earlier boards asymmetrically. Since we all know that not everybody likes asymmetrical boards, we determined so as to add lower traces to the underside on the entrance. Which means that everybody, whether or not goofy or common, can tailor their board to Bumpy’s instance.
This board rides even higher with a weight. That’s why two mounting choices for our Gravity Plate or different weights are already drilled in.
In the long run, the result’s a board that is rather like Bumpy: fully distinctive and completely game-changing.
SPECIFICATIONS:
LENGTH – 30″ / 76.2 cm
WIDTH – Entrance: 8.2’’ / 20.8 cm; Again: 8.5’’ / 21.6 cm
WHEELBASE – 19”- 20.5” / 48 – 52 cm
CAMBER – 0.1″ / 2.5 mm
CONCAVE – Elliptical, 0.24 – 0.39″ / 6 – 9 mm
MATERIAL – SFI-certified Canadian maple, Carbon fiber, Glass fiber, Embossed ABS topsheet
Rider: @Bumpy_
Videographer: @SlidePerfect
Producer: Pellz
Editor: Bodhi
Spotter: Sion & Max
Simplex
Other than the boundaries of urgent and shaping, Rocket Longboards can also be attempting to push the boundaries of building. Whereas the earlier two fashions have been much like the present tried and true Rocket layup, the Simplex is once more occurring a tangent (wait, no, thats loadeds new board possibly?! ha ha) and comes with a brand new building and really particularly thought out form and ending. The Simplex CAN NOT be chopped or redrilled. So Verify the specs and simply know there isn’t a adjusting. Learn on to search out out what Rocket is as much as with this deck:
A board so easy however but so complicated. LAF (gentle as f**okay) building is again: water and bomb proof and solely 2.65 lbs / 1.2 kg gentle. With a quite simple however efficient concave that leaves all choices open to the rider.
Once we designed the Simplex, we had a imaginative and prescient: A quite simple board with no distracting options that also feels extremely good and intuitive. All of this paired with a building that’s fully waterproof and intensely impact-resistant. Due to the complete urethane edges and inserts in truck holes and footstop holes, nothing can hurt this board. However as a result of it’s also not choppable or redrillable, much more thought went into the form and the place of the holes. The result’s a board that doesn’t require any modification of the scale. On the similar time, nevertheless, all choices are open to adapt the concave fully to the rider’s needs. The Simplex is provided with our signature mellow elliptical concave. This combines the board really feel of a radial concave with the locked-in feeling of a bathtub concave. Added to this can be a mellow W on the again, very minimal flairs on the entrance, and a mellow rocker. Nothing that bothers you, however all the pieces you want.
SPECIFICATIONS:
LENGTH – 30.7” / 78 cm
WIDTH – Center: 8.8″ / 22.4 cm; Interior entrance bolts: 8.35″ / 21.2 cm; Interior again bolts: 8.5″ / 21.6 cm
WHEELBASE – 19” – 21.5” / 48 – 54.5 cm
ROCKER – 0.15″ / 4 mm
CONCAVE – Elliptical, 0.39″ / 9 mm
WEIGHT – 2.65 lbs / 1.2 kg
MATERIAL – Poplar, Carbon fiber, Glass fiber, Urethane, Embossed ABS topsheet
To correctly current this new board, we despatched our youngest group rider Andréas Bouclier along with Barthélemy Rigaud to the French Alps to shoot a video for it. The result’s a 7-minute masterpiece that premiered on the Downhill Skate Worldwide Movie Pageant (DOSIF) in Lyon finish of June 2024.
Rider: Andréas Bouclier
Video: @barthelemy_r
Security: @Gautierlux, @Guillaume_Humbert123
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