Pantheon Pranayama commuter longboard complete
Pantheon Pranayama commuter longboard complete
This perfect commuter longboard comes completely assembled. You choose the components and we assemble it so you can skate it immediately.
Meticulously Designed
The Pantheon Pranayama is a modern marvel of skateboard engineering. Everything is design to fit perfectly. If you want the best complete for pushing, this is it. Buy it and then just focus on your skate journey!
Either the Pantheon 92mm Karma or 102mm Hoku wheels will have you rolling over just about anything in your path. Pantheon 149mm Stylus trucks create an overall slim profile that allows riders to keep their push foot closer to their balance foot and center of gravity, resulting in greater balance and power.
The low standing platform allows for easier pushing and effortless foot braking. Beginners and experts alike will benefit from this greater efficiency. Riders will find themselves traveling further on a longboard than they originally thought possible.
Start with the stock set up
Because the Pranayama is designed specifically around street-style trucks, this complete commuter longboard will come alive on the streets in a way that you’ve never felt on a distance or commuter longboard. It may take a little getting used to, being so lively. Once you do, it’s a whole lot of fun, and you’ll find yourself outside riding further and longer than ever.
While this board makes for an excellent distance commuter/cruiser at low speeds, it was ridden fully stock to win the 2019 Beijing Skateboard Marathon–its debut skateboard distance race! It has continued to perform since then, and most recently, it even won the women’s class at the 2024 Broadway Bomb! Riders find that the Pranayama specifically maneuvers around foot traffic and road obstacles with greater speed and ease than most other longboards at high pushing speeds.
Although riders may find over time that they want to customize bushing setups, we recommend to most riders to ride it with stock bushings and give it a little bit of time to get used to it. Give your body the chance to build a little muscle memory and ankle strength. You will likely find yourself pushing faster and further than ever in just a couple weeks. Once you have skated the 92a stock bushings you will know if you need a softer or harder duro from there.
Pantheon TKP Trucks
The Pantheon Stylus 149mm trucks were specially designed for the Pranayama. Although it is a "skateboard street" truck, you can fit regular sized longboard bushings on this truck! It comes standard with double barrel bushings, and the board side bushing is a “plug barrel,” which fills the space in the hanger for the kingpin hole and reduces slop. Riptide has started making this Pantheon bushing! This makes the trucks extra reactive, but one of the great things about the Pantheon TKP is that it reacts very well to bushing adjustments when tightening down the kingpin nut. If it’s too much for you, simply turn the kingpin nut a half turn and see how you like it. Need more? Turn it another half turn. or you can start considering getting a softer duro bushing.
Wheel options
There are two recommended wheel setups with this board for most users. The first is the standard 92mm Karma wheels setup. Pantheon originally created these wheels for this board. For a tall and skinny wheel, the Karma is super grippy and a lot of fun. The Karmas are consistent and they also leave the most room for looser bushing setups.
The second option is the massive 102mm Hoku wheels. They’ll steam roll over just about anything in their path. The upside? Huge momentum, with a ton of roll speed, and you get two durometer options (74a green and 78a pink) to adapt to your conditions. For hotter climates like Queensland, go 78a. For cooler climates like Tasmania, go with the 74a. The downside to this setup? The only thing you’re really giving up here is weight. The wheels add about 500g to the entire setup, which you can feel during acceleration. If you’ve got rough roads and you’re doing a lot of straight riding, there’s nothing better than Hoku. If you’re going to do a ton of stop and go, and carving around pedestrians, consider the standard Karma wheels. The key to the Hoku setup is to add the drop-through risers. This lowers the board back down to “stock height” and just makes this board feel like an absolute cheater setup.
Bushings and Angles
Stock bushings are generally good for most people who don’t know what they want and just want to keep it simple, so long as you’re within a weight range of about 70-105kg. The stock 92a bushings are genuinely good quality, and they have done well for people since the released the Stylus trucks back in early 2024. Now there are Riptide bushings in the Pantheon bushing shape!
Now we can offer softer and harder bushings, for people under 70kg (maybe start around 87.5a?) and harder bushings for riders over 105kg (95a would be a great starting place).
And then there’s angles. Pantheon has added an angled riser setup. This setup is a little specialized in the sense that it increases the angle on the front truck and decreases the angle on the rear truck. This added drop though riser also lowers the board a little bit to the ground, so that’s something to keep in mind when choosing your wheels. The idea behind this setup is that you add stability in the back and increase turning in the front. This is similar to the Supersonic/Superdupersonic platform, and it can be used for mild pumping–kind of like a lowkey TKP version of the Supersonic.
If you choose the angled riser setup, there’s two things worth considering. You’ll want to soften the bushings in the front and harden the bushings in the back for the purpose of compensating for the leverage change that happens when you change the angle of the kingpin. When you increase the turning angle, you’re decreasing leverage (because the kingpin is more sideways) and when you decrease turning angle, you’re increasing leverage over the bushings, so you have to compensate by hardening up the rear. The other thing you’ll want to consider is ride height. Because you’re lowering the board with drop-through risers, you may want to consider bumping up to the maximum wheel size of the 102mm Hoku wheels, so that the board doesn’t bottom out when you’re pumping. This set up is for flat ground pumping, not a pump track set up.
Construction and Flex
Boards are constructed using a 6-ply maple core. Outside of the maple core, the deck is wrapped in triaxial fiberglass. This fiberglass makes the board much stronger and more weather resistant. Although not totally waterproof, the Pranayama will handle the elements all season long. Finally, outside of the fiberglass, there are two options: first, the classic wood veneer on our Gas Guzzler and Cosmic Turtle. This is an excellent “classic” construction and what is called the medium flex. The board will work great for a wide variety of riders, and Pantheon generally say the deck is good up to about 100kg, but once you’re getting over 100kg, the recommendation is the new construction. The Portal and Patanjali graphics feature the latest construction with a pre-preg fiberglass shell. This shell adds significant strength and changes the flex profile, that ends up being a “heavy flex,” and Pantheon slim it down to a 5-ply construction for a “light flex.” The recommendation is the light flex to anyone under 78kg, and it has been tested with skaters who weigh up to 85kg. For the heavy flex skaters should be anywhere from about 86kg to 250 lbs.
So how do you choose?
If you’re a middle weight rider who wants a flexy cruiser experience, choose the Portal or Patanjali light flex options. And if you’re a middle weight rider who wants aggressive control at top pushing speeds, choose the Portal or Patanjali Heavy flex options.
Specs (this is a complete set up from Pantheon)
- Trucks: Pantheon Stylus street trucks
- Wheels: Karma or Hoku
- Bearings: Pantheon Performance bearings
- Hardware: Pantheon stainless steel bolts
- Length (in): 31.5 inch (80cm)
- Width (in): 9 inch (23cm)
- Wheelbase: 26″ (66cm)
- Flex Level: Dependent on board chosen
- Plys: 6 Plys
- Construction: 6 Ply Maple, 2x Triaxial Fiberglass, encased in wood veneer
- Griptape: 80 grit laser cut black grip applied by Pantheon
- Concave Style: Mild Radial and rocker with 1.3" crescent drop