Loaded Dervish Review
Loaded Dervish Longboard
Last week Adam Colton sent me a Loaded Dervish
g turn longboard
How does the Dervish do?
The Dervish is very low and fitted with drop through trucks, which makes it extremely stable and really easy to push. Made out of bamboo this board has wicked flex, which makes you feel at one with the board, and great for pumping. It turns wickedly well, you’ll have no fear of deck or wheel bite, it’s also great for sliding. It certainly gives me a confidence boost when bombing hills, carrying a stability and carve I’m not used to. The Dervish is really the swiss army knife of longboards, anything you want to do on a longboard, the Dervish will do for you.
The Dervish Downsides?
The deck is so low it gets scraped scratched, and clips gutters pretty easy. Also the design on it should be hand painted not printed that would be sick. I’ve honestly tried to think back and see if I could think of any problems or things I could think to make it better, there must have been some great minds behind the making of this board!
Cross Step Longboard
The Final Say:
The Dervish
You can check out the two Adam’s cutting their stuff on the Dervish here .
If you are interested in buying the Loaded Dervish surprisingly Amazon.com sells it for the cheapest
Nice review. What trucks are you using?
Hey Sam,
I have Gullwing Charger Trucks, 10″. They are great for stability when bombing hills. But also sick for carving, pretty sweet looking too.
Cool. Its awesome some NZ longboarding
I got a Vanguard, just ordered a Dervish, if it’s better than the Vanguard, WOW!!
You’ll be suprised! It’s christmas come early!
I have the dervish and it is supreme. I’m coming back from skating in the eighties to longboarding now and it is a dream. Do yourself a favour and get one of these! Also check our the site below for a clip of me skating one. It also tells you about my skating fundraiser for MS. Thanx and may your concrete waves be high and pleasant! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0UMr4XIAQ0
Elias send me some info about your skate on the 20th, ill write an article about. Great idea dude!
i want one! ive been looking at loads of longboard vids and i rlly need to get a board but evry review suggests that u should rlly geht the dervish but i cant afford it
soooooooooo pleeeeeeeeease send me one:)
so im in the market for drop throughs… main choices for me are this and an insect mosquito custom..
main question… how is the nose of the dervish?
being a drop through, how stable is the nose in that it wont crack/delam when it hits a curb with a bit of force?
Hey nice review…I was wondering if you knew what trucks, bearings, and wheels come with that complete set for sale on Amazon??
The Amazon deal comes with ABEC 11 76mm Gumballz, and 180mm Randall Trucks
Yo Martin I’ve got a dervish and just the other day I was bombing down a parking structure pretty fast and had to jump off my board to dodge a car. The dervish went shooting down the hill slammed nose first into a cement wall and…. its perfectly ok. Not even a crack or anything its real strong. Awesome board.
The dervish is absolutly amazing and more i sterted snowboarding this year and wanted to followthrough with longboarding just to stay conditiond.needless to say i bought a dervish flex 2 set up w/gullwings chargers abec biltin bearings and retro 75mm big zigs i cant get over the stability and carving preformance this board has. im very impressed its everything and more i could have wanted out of a board.the only otherthing im doing is putting some risers on it and some decent bushings..
thanks loaded for doing what you do and dominating over the compitition..
matt
DERVISH!
hey, i’ve been making my own boards for a few years and i just can’t seem to get the right feel out of them. Also, i dont really have access to bamboo. I’m very interested in the loaded boards but i can’t decide on the vanguard or the dervish, but my setback is that i can’t afford the complete dervish and i dont have drop throughs. Any tips or donations? lol
Hey, i want to buy a dervish or a vanguard i am about 230 pounds and i am a high school football player so i will gain weight i don’t know witch board to buy which do you recommend and how much does the dervish scape and i want this board to do just about anything from transportion to tricks.
hello is the dervish stable in downhill
hey i have bought one dervish flex 2 and its very nice but i have not tried in hills so far is it good in hills too?