REVIEW!
Loaded has been making some of the most innovative boards around for a couple of years now. The Dervish is the most recent addition to their line.
Like all their boards, the Dervish is built from Bamboo and Epoxy/Glass. Its a totally environmentally friendly board. The Bamboo/Glass construction gives it a really snappy flex. Not bouncy at all — but responsive.
As you can see, the trucks actually mount on the top of the board, dropping through. This lowers the board, making it more stable while carving and ripping your favorite hill, sidewalk, or parking lot. With the cutaway nose and tail, you can run pretty much any size wheel you want and have not worry at all about wheel bite.
The first thing you’d notice if you picked up my setup is how light it is. Even with big wheels, the sucker is light. That’s because the board itself if really light.
Like their other boards, the Dervish comes in a couple of different flexes. A softer flex (Flex 2) for you lightweights, and a harder flex (Flex 1) for bigger guys ( or gals ) :P
How does the Dervish do?
The Dervish is very low and fitted with drop through trucks, which makes it extremely stable and really easy to push. Made out of bamboo this board has wicked flex, which makes you feel at one with the board, and great for pumping. It turns wickedly well, you’ll have no fear of deck or wheel bite, it’s also great for sliding. It certainly gives me a confidence boost when bombing hills, carrying a stability and carve I’m not used to. The Dervish is really the swiss army knife of longboards, anything you want to do on a longboard, the Dervish will do for you.
The Dervish Downsides?
The deck is so low it gets scraped scratched, and clips gutters pretty easy. Also the design on it should be hand painted not printed that would be sick. I’ve honestly tried to think back and see if I could think of any problems or things I could think to make it better, there must have been some great minds behind the making of this board!
The Dervish 
can easily be used for hills, commuting, tricks and bowl. It’s a commuting extraordinaire, bus companies should not be in business with a board like this on the market. Smooth, stable, agile, all round sick.
can easily be used for hills, commuting, tricks and bowl. It’s a commuting extraordinaire, bus companies should not be in business with a board like this on the market. Smooth, stable, agile, all round sick.You can check out the two Adam’s cutting their stuff on the Dervish here .
If you are interested in buying the Loaded Dervish surprisingly Amazon.com sells it for the cheapest
Best set-ups :
If your going to be cruising and carving around your neighborhood the best set up will be :
if your going to be sliding and dancing you looking for this set-up :
But if your into downhill and going fast, hers the set-up:
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