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Freeride 38WC OWL
 
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Description Reviews
Sold As: Deck Only
Brand: Original
Product Type: Boards
Truck Mount: Dropthru
Discipline: Freeride
Deck Length: 38.0"
Deck Width: 9.75"
Wheel Base: 25.0"
Concave: Medium
Flex: Medium
Construction: Maple

Original Freeride 38WC Longboard Deck-Owl

The Freeride 38WC
  • Comes with standard full sheet grip tape.
  • Lazer Cut grip is available to order separately.

The Freeride 38 introduces W, comfortable W, to the short wheelbase freeride market. Starting our W far enough back to avoid impeding pushing but still far enough forward to feel it took more rounds of prototyping than we would like to recall. In the end we think we hit on something that adds a fun twist to your shorter urban freeride deck.

While not ideal for freestyle (WConcave detracts from freestyle durability by increasing stiffness in the center of the deck), the Freeride 38 WConcave will do it when asked. That said, the Freeride 38 WC really hits it's stride with shorter riders on steeper hills providing a pocket perfectly suited to a smaller stance. If you are a shorter rider hitting Freeride 80% of the time and freestyle 20% the Freeride 38 WConcave provides a unique opportunity to jump on a board perfectly styled for you. Taller riders looking to for a shorter freestyle deck should look to the Freeride 38 RockerConcave or to the Freeride 41 RockerConcave for a longer Freestyle option.

Recommended RideFocus
No board does it all, check your height vs the Freeride 38WC recommended ridefocus;
  • Rider Height >= 5ft9in): Freeride 80%; Freestyle 20%
  • Rider Height
Freeride 38 WC Stats.
The Devil is in the details. Here’s the Freeride 38 WConcave stacks up.
  • Length: 38in x Width: 9.75in x Wheelbase: 25in
  • Concave Depth @10.25in: (.620in)
  • WDepth: .20in
  • Effect Platform: 26in x 9.25in
  • Effective Concave @9.25in: (.575in)
  • Gas Pedals: 40 Degree / 45 Degree
  • Contruction: 9 Ply Notheastern Maple
  • KickSpecs: 5.0in wide x 3.5in long x 1.5in tall
  • KickRatio: (3.5 x2) 7 / 34 = 22.5%
  • Wedge or DeWedge Front / Back: 0 / 0
NOTE: Board will come fully gripped. Grip may either be die cut or full sheet depending on availability from Original.
 

While the Freeride 38 and Freeride 41 may look like longboards you have seen in the past. We assure you the differences are dramatic. Take a closer look. It is not the similarities that define us, our brand, or our boards. We are defined by fundamental differences. Regardless of the concave style or length you choose, you will feel those differences the first time you ride the Original Freeride, aka. the Beast.

Before settling on the .620in @ 10.25in base Concave Depth which is present in both the RockerConcave and WConcave Freeride styles we did a little prototyping. Eleven depths between .520in and .820in were drawn up, molded and tested. In the end .620in locked us in tight without cramping our feet on long runs.

 

 

Whether you are slanting more freestyle and want the durability, quickness and predicatable after slide hookup that RockerConcave adds to your ride, or the stability and undeniable board feel that WConcave grants you, there is an Original Freeride concave style right for you.

 

Freestyle and Freeride? Everyone wants both, but you can only ever come so close to doing everything. Since it?s a give and take, you may want to consider choosing two longboards, not just one. Be it a Freeride 41 WConcave for max stability and a Freeride 38 RockerConcave for a more agile hybrid ride, or a Carbon Apex 37 for freestyle and a Freeride 41 RC for agile Freeride. Two well paired, complimentary, boards offer access to terrain and longboarding performance any single board could never compete with.