LOL awesome thread starter mate
I havn't had a longboard "moped". I come from a shortboard background & still ride shortboards probably 60% of the time provided we have a good year.
But!...I bought a Sunover SUP 10'6 x about 4.5 x about 1 million billion. Idea was to get the missus out for some tandem surfing. She enjoyed flatwater, but got upset with me pushing her to come out in 1/4 foot conditions. Combination of not liking waves & distance from shore, although she'd be fine snorkling k's offshore minus the waves. So anyway that board was my moped, it was so wide & so slow to turn I started switch footing just to keep it interesting. Sold it after a couple of years for a Starboard 8'10 x 32 x something which also has the training wheels width, so is also basically a moped also. Funny thing now is, I feel weird not surfing SUP switchfoot, I find it so much easier paddling into waves facing the wave goofy (locals a left) & have been riding Sups goofy for about 4 years now.
I've had 4 longboards, 1st a custom King surfboard made by a bloke in Albany, performance shape that I traded for a CW Whalebone performance shape still going strong after rolling with some heavy punches. A Modern 10" "retro" almost on training wheels, but great log for tiny conditions & now my main boards a Tolhurst Tuflight which is farking awesome, really low rails & thin Hyper performace LB.
Then again I guess this old 6'4 x 2.75 x 22.75 has training wheels in the right conditions, but no rocker makes it tricky in non fat waves.
Sometimes its all about the right board for the day & I really regret selling the modern retro. Would of been very handy over the last 5 months of substandard swell frequency. More glide than just about anything...cheers
supposedly all boards were or are things of beauty once in their life.
