YocaherAluminum Drop Through Complete Longboard - Gold and Black - 36 inch Boards (Gold)

Plain Jane under the decals? No: Elegant, functional design.I have firsthand experience with some 20 boards in all shapes/sizes including three different aluminum boards. While this is no longer my favorite board, it is the best aluminum board I know of for dangerous work: downhill, freestyle, and anything involving ankle-rail contact. A review follows, but first, a word to the wise...CAVEAT EMPTOR: while Yocaher pairs great-to-amazing decks with good wheels, I cannot recommend this A+ board in good conscience unless you IMMEDIATELY replace factory bushings on arrival. I've dealt with three sets of Yocaher black factory bushings and all were extremely hard, encouraging UNSAFE riding: you either loosen the trucks so much for a "normal" feel that you are unstable on the gentlest slope or you have no control at all. I've played with ~80-95a stock, Khiro, Venom, and Blood Orange bushings. The "90a" bushings feel more like 100a+ in my book. Yocaher's customer service is A+, but their bushings suck as of 2018. It hurts to see a great brand shoot itself in the foot.Well... that hurt. Literally. Thank God for helmet(s). Now, where were we...I live in Minnesota, where all the people are nice, the coastal elites "fly over", and the weather don' look too good for longboarding: the roads are awful, the sidewalks worse, and the water won't go away (frozen, falling, or fumes). We stay sane by channeling our desperation and getting outside, rain or shine. Wanna be happy? Get out there with good gear and get on with it.I bought my first aluminum complete from Yocaher and it hasn't let me down. I'll never forget how beautiful it was when I first cut through it's thick plastic cocoon finding a gorgeous golden beetle beneath. The finish is great and tough, standing up very well after a year of hard use and some stupid scrape-ups. I always get compliments on the board whether stopping by indie skateshops or cruising past sidewalk cafes. I kid you not: random people from kids to cops to suits downtown feel compelled to comment when I come up to intersections... it's almost a safety hazard.Unfortunately, there were some real bugs to work out. First, it's a Yocaher, and the factory hangar-protectors were immediately replaced with a pair of Blood Orange wedges on a longer kingpin. Second, the trucks aren't the best quality with hangars that cut up the pivot cup and grind into the truck plate, but they work fine with a little grease if you're in a bind. Third, the wheel bearings are steel-shield uncleanable cheapies, lasting two weeks before the MN road grime halved my max speed. Finally, someone had a really bad day on the assembly line: 2/8 speed rings were missing, bushing cups were installed upside down, and the shock pads were put in wrong, but Yocaher got me parts and spares STAT with no complaints.HOWEVER, Once I got this hammered out I had a true five-star board. Its construction is like an aluminum high-school bleacher with smooth rounded lip and moderate concave, the only Aluminum deck I've handled that treats hand and ankle like a maple longboard. The nose/tail guards are well designed, although you may have to zip-tie the rear to the deck if you have the nasty habit of kicking it after every push (wide stance, big feet...). The aluminum is extremely rigid, much stiffer than the Beercan Boards I've used, but the road vibration pays off in an extrememly responsive, nimble platform. It's like riding in a sports car... slow commutes churn the stomach, but lay on the speed and life is good.That said, my "beetle" wound up being an ideal multipurpose board with the right sets of wheels. For commuting & cruising, 83mm flywheels just barely clear the wheelwell, speeding things up while eating most the cracks and gravel. For downhill & freeride, choose your poison; mine is a set of 70mm Abec11 flashbacks in amber, perfectly matched to the board and great for sliding the night away. After a year of hard use the grip tape is wearing out but everything else is in ship shape: no bending in the board, no broken parts, no regrets.CONCLUSION: This is an ideal board for those who like a "sports suspension", a sports car of boards. If you want a hot rod, buy this and budget for mission-driven components. If you just want a four-season cruiser, look into a Beercan Boards Ginger Ale or Hard Cider

This Yocaher Aluminum Long board is well made and light.The Gold color looks the best.Con:The bearings need new set they don't turn freely so I ordered new bearings from another manufacturer when I got the board.I've road skateboards for years and built my own when I first road on a skateboard so this board is not the first one I rodeThis one rides very good except of the bad bearings.I also read the negative reviews on this item but don't agree with some posters here.

When I first unboxed this board and stood on it in my living room, I realized that the bushings were so stiff that the board would not turn. Like not at all. And I weight 192 pounds. I figured I would just put on some better ones and that would fix it. I tried that and realized why it had such horribly stiff bushings. The cutouts in the board are shaped wrong. If you soften the bushings to the point where the trucks turn this board ends up with terrible wheelbite to the extent that any turn will toss you off the board. And that is with the stock, 62mm wheels, which are way too small for a longboard to begin with. Normal 70mm wheels would make it even worse.The picture shows this board next to one of my other boards with proper cutouts. The difference in shape means one board can't turn or use normal size longbaord wheels, and the other can run wedged Randal trucks with 85mm wheels. Just for fun I attempted mounting some different trucks to see if it helped. Calibers mount fine, but still give you wheelbite. Randals won't mount because the drop through ports are too narrow. Gullwing Sidewinders mount fine and are the only trucks that avoid wheelbite because they lengthen the wheelbase so much. The trucks that came on this deck have kingpins that are not pressed in and wiggle so much that I was scared to ride them, so don't expect precise handling either. The bearings claim to be Abec 7s, but roll worse than the Abec 5's that came on one of my other boards.Now here is the good about this board, or at least the not-so-bad. The price is low enough to be on par with other aluminum decks, not complete boards, just decks. So if you want to buy the deck, throw away the trucks and wheels, and put on some Sidewinders for a dedicated carving or LDP board, this would work for you. I decided to buy a deck from Beercan Boards, which can be had for about the same price, and have a deck with much more versatility. You could probably make some brands of truck fit if you are willing to take a Dremel to the board, but I wasn't. This board is getting returned. The sad thing is that I really wanted to like it, I just can't.

Really go longboard for the price! I got it because yocaher has a amazing reputation for durability. I was a beginner at first and this bored was really easy to learn on! If you are looking in to downhill, carving or just cruising around, this board is great!

AMAZING Longboard. Worth the money i just got this as a beginner just cuz it looked cool, been 3 days and i feel like a pro.Its extremely smooth fast and easy to use the gold looks AMAZING sweet design its just worth it.