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LANDYACHTZ EVO 40 SPECTRUM REVIEW

Every longboard lover must have heard of Landyachtz Evo somewhere. It is one of those longboards that have won more world championships than any other longboard. So I thought about writing down my hands on review of Evo Spectrum.

So I decided to get my hand on this longboard back in 2019, to try out what it hides. To my surprise, it turned out to be one of the best downhill longboards I have ever tried, and we’re going to see why – in this review.

But what makes this longboard so special that it has won world championship downhill races? Let us take a closer look – Here’s my hands on review of LANDYACHTZ EVO 40.

Why i chose Evo?

The Evo has been under the feet of three World Champions , as well as countless race winners for over a decade. 

This persuaded me to get my hands on this board. Its lowered platform and directional wedging give me a more comfortable yet stable ride. The front-loaded steering gives me better control while taking sudden turns.

After testing it in many long rides and down hilling along with my friends, I can say the Evo is a classic example of a downhill longboard . Due to its low ride height, it excels in both downhill and commuting. It is suitable for long-distance pushing, making it a great choice for riders of all abilities, from novice to the top riders. 

I loved the stability that it provides because of the 7 ply Canadian maple construction. Moreover this construction empowers unrivaled stability and a drifty ride as well as provides a sturdy platform for downhill performance. 

Riding Styles

With Evo 40 you can get various riding styles. You can travel downhill at a fast pace with this board. Moreover, its concave deck creates a pocket for your feet and a shorter wheelbase making you do some freestyling. Moreover, the double drop with concave keeps your feet locked.

Also, for that tried and true ride, it has trucks installed from the top to sit flat with the bottom of the board allowing you to have mountain riding.

The deck of this super longboard is 40 inches in length and 9.8 inches wide. It has a drop-down board bringing you closer to the road for a more suitable ride. 

I found this board ideal for not only easy cruising but for furious downhill , and that’s because the deck has a curved shape. The adjustable wheelbase allowed me to have more control over the board. It moves your axles in with more stability, improved agility, and lower swing weight. 

For robust stiffness and control, it is made up of 9 plies of Canadian maple. It is one of the most robust designs I have ever come across making it ideal for bigger riders.

GEN 6 Trucks:

181mm Bear Grizzly Trucks are installed in the Evo 40. It comes in an unusual shape. Instead of angling away from each other or being straight under the board, both the trucks on the Evo are facing forward. 

This truck layout really improved my stability at high speeds while allowing me for easy sliding. This smooth ride is complemented by a large bushing seat and an 8-hole hardware arrangement that ensures the right feel.

Wheels – Butter Smooth?

The Evo 40 comes with 70mm Hawgs Wheels. These unique wheels have the ability to transform any board into a flexible ripper. These soft 78A durometer wheels are suitable for cruising and are perfect for commuting in urban areas . 

With the adjustable wheelbase, any riding style can be accommodated. The options range from short and robust to long and stable.

ABEC-7 Bearings

Just like Backfire Discus Fish , Evo also comes with ABEC-7 bearings. With the Spaceballs ABEC 7 bearings, your wheels will always be in alignment and chatter-free all thanks to the included spacers. Moreover, You can confidently tighten your axle nuts and maintain your wheels moving straight, smooth, and quick.

Ride – Stable?

The stable ride is mostly achieved by lowering the foot platform which creates pockets for your feet to lock onto while skating. 

With Evo 40 stability is made easy all thanks to its drop-down deck. The board is easier to push and break with your feet. Furthermore, the concave shape adds responsiveness and control while locking your feet in.

Key Features

• Board Build Quality : High quality
• Board Flex : Very stiff
• Stability : Very stable
• Tires : Big tires – can bear weight of big man
• Deck : Double drop with concave – keeps your feet locked
• Grip Tape : Can wear after long/extreme rides
• Price : Expensive

Specifications

• Brand : Landyachtz
• Package weight : 4.51 kg
• Deck Length : 99 m
• Deck width : 9.8 inches
• Color : Black, white

Social Cause – Environment Friendly

The thing which sparks me about this board is its features that are also good for the environment. The Landyachtz has partnered up with TreeCanada to plant a tree for every board sold. If we do the maths at least 60 boards can be made from a single tree. As a result, one tree will result in the planting of more or less 60 new trees.

• Pros and Cons
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• The deck is entirely made up of Canadian Maple
• A concave shape gives maximum durability and stability 
• Adjustable wheelbase
• Has won many downhill championships
• Very stable – Feels same at 10mph as it does on 25 mph
• Heavyweight might make it difficult to travel around 
• Carving may be challenging for beginners

Landyachtz Evo 40 vs 36 – Which one to choose?

Let’s start with the deck. As its obvious from the name – Evo 40 has a 40 inches deck while 36 has 36 inches deck. The Evo 36 is 9.5 inches wide while the other is 9.8 inches.

Both the boards are made up of Canadian Maple and provide a sturdy platform for downhill performance. Evo 40 has 70mm Hawgs Wheels while 36 has 73mm tall Biggie Hawgs wheels and 30A SpaceBall bearings. 

The standing platform on the 36-inch version is not overly long as compared to 40 inches. This might not be the issue if you are short heighted person or have a height of less than 5 feet 9 inches.

On the other hand, if you have a taller height then it might get awkward for you to ride Evo 36. I would suggest, Evo 40 would be the preferable version for you if you are a tall person . Big boys in our team are quite happy with Evo40.

FINAL WORDS

After testing this board for more than a year with different team members, I could say the board is suitable for following:

• Downhilling
• High speeding
• Moving around the city
• Big/tall boys

The board due to its weight will quickly start to pick up speed on downhilling . If you’re a beginner or someone looking to try out new tricks, then its a great choice as the double drop and concave will keep you locked. For big boys , the board can hold your wait pretty good due to its strong build and strong wheels.

For heavy riders , the strong construction of the board and stiff flex will make you feel comfortable at high speed. Similarly, for beginners looking for downhill board the Evo is the way to go.

I do think its a little costly board, however, Its still worth it due to the overall quality you’re getting in return.

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The Landyachtz Evo Spectrum 40 Longboard Complete has been a pillar of the Landyachtz DH line for over a decade, the Evo has been under the feet of 3 World Champions as well as countless race winners and podium contenders. The Evo 40 offers a drifty and stable ride that will fill any day in the hills with casually fast runs.

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A pillar of the Landyachtz DH line for over a decade, the Evo has been under the feet of 3 World Champions as well as countless race winners and podium contenders. The Evo 40 offers a drifty and stable ride that will fill any day in the hills with casually fast runs.

The Evo is a classic example of downhill board design and the concept continues to be effective to this day. A lowered platform and directional wedging work to give you a super stable ride and front-loaded steering that gives you a ton of control while cornering hard. The Evo 40 is the larger of our two Evo shapes and offers unparalleled stability and a super controllable, drifty ride. Pressed with 10 plies of Canadian maple, the Evo 40 offers a stiff platform for downhill performance.

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If you've never ridden or owned one of these things you're slacking. The Landyachtz Evo is quite possibly the most famous and renowned longboard of all time. It is FRIGGIN' stable yo. If all you want to do is go stupidly fast and make your friends uncomfortable watching you skate, this is YOUR board.

With a 2 inch dropped platform, a 9° wedge in the front and 9° de-wedge in the back, 11 plies of maple and radial concave in the center, you can rest assured that you won't get speed wobbles.

That sweet, sweet low center of gravity gives you deliciously predictable drifts. There really isn't another longboard deck like the Evo.

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For your comfort , this board has every feature you need for super duper fast runs.

Designed for: Downhill | Faster Downhill | Impressing Girls | Fast Fast Freeride | Nothing Involving 180s (Contrary to what Mr. Hepworth thinks)

Complete 36" With:

• Bear Grizzly Gen 6 8mm 52 ° Trucks | 155mm | Black
• Hawg Plow King Wheels, Black, 72mm/78a
• Landyachtz Space Balls Bearings

Complete 40" With:

Specifications:.

• Evo Spectrum 36
• Dropped Platform
• Length - 39" | 99 cm
• Width - 9.8" | 25 cm
• Wheelbase - 31.7" - 32.2" | 80.5 cm - 82 cm
• Evo Spectrum 40
• Length -   36" | 91.4 cm
• Width -   9.5" | 24.1 cm
• Wheelbase -   27.75" | 70.5 cm

Construction : 11 Plies of that X-Tra Thicc Canadian Maple

Concave : RADIAL, RADIAL, MORE RADIAL, and a two inch dropped platform.

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Should i buy the landyachtz evo or switchblade.

The Evo is more downhill oriented while the Switchblade is more freeride oriented. What does this mean? Well, it means if you have hot nasty bada$$ speed, you should get the Evo. If you want to do sick carves and slides, you should get the Switchblade.

Is the Landyachtz Evo good for downhill?

Um hello, duh. The Evo came out of Landyachtz womb going downhill. It's exceptionally good at going fast and staying stable.

Words we have heard to describe the Evo include, but not limited to: Tank, Beast, DH Shred Sled, Speed Machine, and Widow Maker.

Is the Landyachtz Evo good for long distance skateboarding?

It can be, but it is pretty heavy. Just be ready for it. However, it's super low to the ground, making pushing easy peazy lemon squeezy.

Where can I see some reviews of the Landyachtz Evo?

You can check out reviews right on Stoked Ride Shop or you can also check out this rad video going through all the features:

Should I get the Evo Spectrum 36 or Evo Spectrum 40?

Both Spectrum longboards are really rad boards, but they do have some key differences.

Landyachtz Evo 36

• ✅ Maximum Manuverability
• ✅ Quickest Turn
• ✅ Lighter Weight
• ❌ Less Stable

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• ✅ Maximum Stability
• ✅ Smoothest Ride
• ✅ Classic Length
• ❌ Slower Turning

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LANDYACHTZ Evo 40" Spectrum - Longboard

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Landyachtz – Evo Spectrum 40 – Deck

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Details Length: 39.0in Width: 9.8in Wheelbase: 31.7in, 32.2in

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A pillar of the Landyachtz DH line for over a decade, the Evo has been under the feet of 3 World Champions as well as countless race winners and podium contenders. The Evo 36 offers tighter packaging and more grip to bring it more in line with the demanding nature of modern DH racing without sacrificing its championship winning DNA or legendary stability.

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The apartment has everything for a comfortable stay: a bar counter with high chairs, an armchair, a double bed, a spacious wardrobe, an ironing board with an iron, a large TV panel, air conditioning, free Wi-Fi, a multi-channel telephone line, an individual safe and a mini-bar.

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Spend some time in one of Moscow’s finest museums.

Subterranean commuting might not be anyone’s idea of a good time, but even in a city packing the war-games treasures and priceless bejeweled eggs of the Kremlin Armoury and the colossal Soviet pavilions of the VDNKh , the Metro holds up as one of Moscow’s finest museums. Just avoid rush hour.

The Metro is stunning and provides an unrivaled insight into the city’s psyche, past and present, but it also happens to be the best way to get around. Moscow has Uber, and the Russian version called Yandex Taxi , but also some nasty traffic. Metro trains come around every 90 seconds or so, at a more than 99 percent on-time rate. It’s also reasonably priced, with a single ride at 55 cents (and cheaper in bulk). From history to tickets to rules — official and not — here’s what you need to know to get started.

A Brief Introduction Buying Tickets Know Before You Go (Down) Rules An Easy Tour

A Brief Introduction

Moscow’s Metro was a long time coming. Plans for rapid transit to relieve the city’s beleaguered tram system date back to the Imperial era, but a couple of wars and a revolution held up its development. Stalin revived it as part of his grand plan to modernize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The first lines and tunnels were constructed with help from engineers from the London Underground, although Stalin’s secret police decided that they had learned too much about Moscow’s layout and had them arrested on espionage charges and deported.

The beauty of its stations (if not its trains) is well-documented, and certainly no accident. In its illustrious first phases and particularly after the Second World War, the greatest architects of Soviet era were recruited to create gleaming temples celebrating the Revolution, the USSR, and the war triumph. No two stations are exactly alike, and each of the classic showpieces has a theme. There are world-famous shrines to Futurist architecture, a celebration of electricity, tributes to individuals and regions of the former Soviet Union. Each marble slab, mosaic tile, or light fixture was placed with intent, all in service to a station’s aesthetic; each element, f rom the smallest brass ear of corn to a large blood-spattered sword on a World War II mural, is an essential part of the whole.

The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

It may be a museum, but it’s no relic. U p to nine million people use it daily, more than the London Underground and New York Subway combined. (Along with, at one time, about 20 stray dogs that learned to commute on the Metro.)

In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

For all its achievements, the Metro lags behind Moscow’s above-ground growth, as Russia’s capital sprawls ever outwards, generating some of the world’s worst traffic jams . But since 2011, the Metro has been in the middle of an ambitious and long-overdue enlargement; 60 new stations are opening by 2020. If all goes to plan, the 2011-2020 period will have brought 125 miles of new tracks and over 100 new stations — a 40 percent increase — the fastest and largest expansion phase in any period in the Metro’s history.

Facts: 14 lines Opening hours: 5 a.m-1 a.m. Rush hour(s): 8-10 a.m, 4-8 p.m. Single ride: 55₽ (about 85 cents) Wi-Fi network-wide

Buying Tickets

• Ticket machines have a button to switch to English.
• You can buy specific numbers of rides: 1, 2, 5, 11, 20, or 60. Hold up fingers to show how many rides you want to buy.
• There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
• Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
• If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
• You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
• You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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