DINGHY FENDER
Our best selling cruiser
of all time gets even better
We’ve been making mini cruisers since 1999. This year the Dinghy Classic Fender’s could be our best ever.
Compact momentum machine for the people
The Dinghy Classic Fender is our smallest cruiser board, paired with out biggest wheels. The clean and simple shape is ideal for compact cruising, so hasn’t seen any updates since it’s release in 2013. If it’s not broken don’t fix it.
Molded fenders allow for big fast 74mm plow kings. Ripping through the neighborhood or along the beach on a tiny board with fast wheels that roll over anything is one of the best feelings any skater can have.
To have ultimate board control on a tiny board with giant wheels you need the right trucks. Our Polar Bear 105’s were specifically designed for this board, to carve hard and turn tight, while maintaining stability when that path turns downhill.
The dinghy really revolutionized the cruiser board, making compact cruisers completely functional for every skater. First timers to Pros know where it’s at. We’ve made and sold over 300,000 dinghies since 2013.
History: keep reading to achieve Jeopardy level knowledge
100 years ago, our first mini cruiser was the Lil Gaffer. This tiny football shaped deck had no concave and was paired with wide ass 180mm trucks. It was designed for campus life and was a blast.
Image: Lil Gaffer (not actually the identical shape to version 1)
Second came the first Dinghy, (then known as the Dingy due to really not knowing about that silent H). Even tinier than the Lil gaffer, no concave, paired with 85mm trucks mounted as far out as you can get, put it in your pocket and go everywhere
Image: Dingy 1.0
Around the same time as the Dingy, came the All-Star, more of an evolution of the Lil Gaffer. Flexy, sidewalk slalom focused, was also ideal for student life. Wicked directional shape, bit of camber, no concave. The directional shape was short lived because we wanted more foot space, it evolved into more of a classic slalom shape
Image: All Star 1.0 and 2.0
Time for a tail on the dinghy – we took the dingy shape and made it work for more than turning! Concave, little longer wheel base, kick tail. Fun everywhere, we were using tracker trucks at the time, didn’t really carve very well. This is 2006-ish, same time we figured out that we’d been missing the “h” in dinghy.
Image: Dinghy 2.0
Revolution time 2013 – Our longboards are rad and feel great with Bear trucks and Hawgs wheels, why not do the same thing with cruisers? Enter putting an engineer on the task. Our man Aaron Brown took his life-long knowledge of trucks & wheels, and applied it to desiging compact TKP trucks that carve hard, but stay stable as speed, and cruiser wheels that were bigger, smoother and better than everything else on compact cruiser boards before. The Polar Bear trucks, and Fatty Hawgs were born, hand-in-hand with the updated dinghy shape to be street ready and with fenders to maximize wheel size and minimize wheel bite
Image: original Dinghy Line Up
Dozens (hundreds?) of graphics and shape variations later, the Dinghy Fender is still the ultimate compact cruiser board, not a bad word has ever been said about it.
LINKS:
→ The new Dinghy
→ Pebble this
→ Best Cruiser Board Ever
→ Reese shows you how to get creative with the dinghy
→ Dinghies in Texas
→ Pebble this
→ Best Cruiser Board Ever
→ Reese shows you how to get creative with the dinghy
→ Dinghies in Texas