Longboards: an Enquiry-First Category

A longboard enquiry should state, in the brief, the wheel size and softness direction, deck length and flex direction, and finish requirements the buyer is asking about, rather than assuming any of them from the skateboard range. One point must be stated plainly before anything else: longboards are not listed in the confirmed catalogue of Zhejiang Jinbang Sports Equipment Co., Ltd. The company's confirmed board line is its skateboards and accessories catalogue. The company also operates its own PU wheel line covering diameters from 20 mm to 250 mm; whether wheels from that line are supplied with any board programme is confirmed model by model in writing at quotation. Whether longboard supply can be arranged for a specific programme is a question the company answers in writing at enquiry; this page does not present longboards as an existing product line, and no longboard reference, specification or term should be assumed from the skateboard range.

The wheel question is where an enquiry should start. On a longboard, the wheel is not an accessory; it is half the ride. The company operates a PU wheel line for the products it does supply; whether that line can supply wheels for a longboard programme is part of the same written enquiry, not an assumption to carry over from the skateboard range. A buyer framing a longboard enquiry should state the wheel diameter and hardness direction for each position in the brief — as directions to be answered against samples, not as effects to be assumed in advance — and ask, in writing, which parts of that specification the company can confirm and which it cannot.

Framing a longboard enquiry

Range planning starts from the buyer's own market, not from a board-shape list on this page: this page does not assign deck shapes or lengths to uses, because the catalogue does not record longboard formats. State the positions you want to cover in your own terms — the deck shapes, lengths and formats you are asking about, and the use each position is aimed at in your market — and ask which, if any, the company can cover, and on what deck construction. Each position you name should be stated with its own deck dimensions and wheel specifications, so put both in the enquiry alongside the position. Graphics deserve the same clarity: if supply is confirmed, artwork planning across the full deck — with the application method and protection chosen with abrasion and grip placement in mind — belongs in the same written exchange, not in an assumption carried over from the skateboard programme.

Buyers planning a longboard wall can also raise confirmed lines alongside it in the same enquiry. The confirmed parts of that wall here are standard completes from the skateboard range and replacement PU wheels in the larger diameters. Longboard completes themselves would join an order only if the company confirms them in writing for your programme.

Ordering information

Start with an availability enquiry, not an order. Send your positions, wheel thinking and branding requirements to [email protected] and ask for written confirmation of whether longboards can be supplied for your programme and, if so, on what specification, MOQ and lead time. Until that confirmation exists, treat every longboard term as open. For documentation supporting your market, the same rule applies to any confirmed supply: Certificates available upon request.

Cruisers, commuters and the campus run

If your longboard enquiry is aimed at everyday riders — campus riders, station-to-office commuters and leisure cruisers — rather than at specialists, say so in the brief. That positioning argues for spelling the specification out — wheel diameter and hardness direction, deck geometry, and finish expectations for daily weather and daily knocks — as directions to put in the enquiry and have confirmed in writing before any sampling is discussed. It changes what the company will be asked to confirm, and it changes the graphics conversation from race imagery to the colours and finishes of a product people carry into their working day.

And a practical closing note: if longboard supply is confirmed in writing for a programme, agree a wheel spares ratio at the first order, because wheels are a consumable on any board programme; which diameters can be supplied as spares for the programme is confirmed in writing at quotation.

If you photograph the range, record the photographic approach you choose — for example outdoors, in daylight, at rider height, or in a studio — in your own programme file, and judge the results against your own channel's requirements on the images themselves, rather than from a general claim about either approach.