Z-Flex Cruiser Metal Flake Complete 7.5″ X 29.5″ Blue

Name: Z-Flex Cruiser Metal Flake Complete 7.5" X 29.5" Blue
Brand: Z-Flex Longboard Completes
SKU: CALSTS-Z-FLEX-CRUISER-METAL-FLAKE-COMPLETE-7.5X29.5-BLUE
Availability: InStock

Original price was: $179.95.Current price is: $165.95. (ends 15 Sep)

The Z-Flex Metal Flake cruiser is a certified fast board that will serve you right! Whether you are on a speedy commute, or a lazy evening ride, this Jay Adams model is going to handle it and shine with its iconic styling representing the brand history. Now with with blue wheels!

This complete comes with 7-ply maple deck, 63mm cruiser wheels, Z-Speed bearings, Z-Flex trucks, double stacked 0.25″ riser pads, and griptape with Jay Adams graphic.

In stock

SKU: CALSTS-Z-FLEX-CRUISER-METAL-FLAKE-COMPLETE-7.5X29.5-BLUE Categories: SKATEBOARD COMPLETES, SKATEBOARD RE-ISSUE Tag: Z-Flex Longboard Completes

This Z-Flex Metal Flake cruiser can’t wait to rip around the city with its iconic styling and quality components!

The Metal Flake is retro-inspired little board that’s fast and smooth, proudly rocking Jay Adams name on it. With a combination of big 63mm wheels and 15.75″ wheelbase you can by all means bomb hills with confidence. Add some fast Z-Speed bearings coupled with risers for more clearance, and you got an ultimate road rider that can drop into a bowl at any point!

Z-Flex METAL FLAKE CRUISER:

L: 29.5″ W: 7.5″ WB: 15.75″
Now with trans Blue Wheels
Metal Flake Jay Adams model
7-ply maple deck, 63mm wheels
Z-Speed bearings, Z-Flex trucks
Double stacked 0.25″ riser pads

In 2020 Z-Flex is paying homage to our heritage whilst setting a new direction for the future of the brand. Now generations strong, Z-Flex continues its path of determination and dedication to skateboarding. The future is as bright for Z-Flex as it’s past. Introducing this 4-part series, BORN IN VENICE. RADICAL SINCE 76, will be taking you on a journey of the Z-Flex and its roots to Venice Beach and the P.O.P. Our second instalment ‘The P.O.P’ we talk about the youth wonderland that was the Pacific Ocean Park (P.O.P) and how the rides (Mystery Island & Serpent Roller Coaster) shaped the ranges for 2020.

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History

1975 saw the Zephyr skate team from Santa Monica (better known as the specific area of Dogtown), California competing in the Del Mar national Skateboarding competition.

The “Zephyr surfboard production” surf shop was an integral part of the local surf culture, and had branched out into skateboard production, coinciding with the invention of urethane wheels. Kent Sherwood (Jay Adam’s step-father) who owned a fiberglass shop, was approached by Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom and Craig Stecyk of Zephyr Surf Shop to create a Zephyr skateboard.

Riding low, fast and hard, the Zephyr team took the existing version of gymnastic, handstand based skateboarding, fuelled it with the aggression of the streets, and things would never be the same again.

At first an alternative to surfing when the waves were flat, skateboarding soon took priority for a group of skate/surfers eager to prove themselves. Hitting the local schools in an attempt to mimic the big wave surf styles of their idols, the Zephyr team, or Z-Boyz as they came to be known, quickly developed into a phenomenon in their own right.

The phenomenon continued as California found itself in the grip of record droughts, causing many residents to empty their swimming pools. The Z-Boyz saw opportunity, and dove right in to these newly exposed playgrounds, sneaking into people’s back yards, skating as long as they could, and then running to avoid the inevitable police presence. The embodiment of an opportunistic, anti-establishment sentiment that remains evident in skateboarding to this day.

The finest example of this being Jay Adams, not only a 1st generation Z-Boy, but regarded as one of the best skateboarders ever, due in large part to his carefree aggressive style of attacking pools and streets. The nature of skateboarding eventually took it`s toll on some of the Zephyr team- and in 1976 Kent Sherwood, Jay Adams’ step-dad, broke away from Zephyr and started EZ-RYDER with half of the original Zephyr skaters including Jay Adams, Tony Alva and Jim Muir. 6 months later EZ-RYDER changed it’s name to Z-Flex

Product Innovation

Z Flex has long been responsible for product innovation, being a pioneer in development and testing urethane wheel designs. The standard clay wheels from the roller skating industry did not provide a smooth, fast ride, since they lacked retaining and grip qualities. Z-Flex developed the abrasion resistant Z. Smooth wheel specifically for boardwalk skating, followed closely by Z Grooves, a one-of-a-kind, faster, smoother wheel with a formula which most of today’s wheels are based upon.

Z-Flex 2nd Generation riders and product innovations continued to think outside the box, maintaining Z-Flex as an industry leader. Z-Flex is responsible for the first skateboard in history to utilize a concave on the board’s top-side. This revolutionized the direction of board design. You will find “concave” on almost every skateboard on the market today.