A 48 mm deck is a graphic. A 40 mm truck is a tooling decision. My bet: a second source for 40 mm-plus trucks appears within a year, or extra-wide stays a stunt.
Mina Seo4 min readIndustry FB's 40 mm trucks went from coming soon to on sale at Maple Lab on October 1. Eight days later, a five-ply Stinkefingaz x Heroin Skateboards batch landed at ASI Berlin with widths running from 33.5 mm all the way to 48 mm, three decks at the top end.
Those two items sat a week apart in our own coverage, and read together they say something the deck on its own doesn't. Wide decks have been made before as one-offs and jokes. Wide trucks are a different kind of decision.
The pattern
Most of what crossed this desk in the last stretch was wheels and plies: Maple Wheels putting its CLASSIC Radial Ribbon in pink for October, Piro's Tablet Mini on a locked single bearing, DGFB's 70D Formula Two aimed at indoor surfaces, Lauta printing a pro graphic on a split-ply blank three times over, FlatFace's hand-cut 32.7 mm prototype and the December Decks return with three days' notice.
All of that is the normal business of the scene: durometer, urethane, veneer, graphics. Width barely moves in it. FlatFace's prototype is 32.7 mm. Lauta's special edition is a standard birch five-ply at 96.5 mm long. The center of gravity in fingerboarding is still 32–34 mm and shows no sign of leaving.
Which is exactly why the two outliers are worth separating from the noise.
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Anyone with a press and a jig can make a 48 mm deck. You cut the veneer wider, you press it, you print on it. The Stinkefingaz x Heroin batch did it across fourteen boards with a width ladder from 33.5 mm up, and the shop calls the stock limited. That is a batch decision, reversible next week.
A truck is not. Industry FB's 40 mm truck is handmade in Ukraine and, by the listing's own account, took over a year of development, built around a heavier alloy and aimed squarely at extra-wide decks. Baseplates, hangers, axle length, bushing seats: none of that scales by stretching a photocopy. You commit metal and time to a width before you know anyone will ride it.
That asymmetry is my whole argument. Deck makers can flirt with 40-plus for the photo. A truck maker spending a year on it has made a bet that there will be boards to bolt them to, and a shop stocking them has made a smaller version of the same bet.
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A width becomes a category when the parts around it exist. Right now, as far as our coverage goes, extra-wide has decks and it has one truck.
What it does not have, or at least what nobody has published:
The gap is not a criticism. It is the thing to watch, because it is where the next move has to come from if there is one.
The call
By October 14, 2027, I expect at least one additional maker or specialist shop — somebody other than Industry FB and Maple Lab — to release or stock a fingerboard truck 40 mm or wider.
That is the whole bet, and it is deliberately cheap to falsify. Not "wide is the future." Not a sales figure I have no way of knowing. One more source for one part. If twelve months pass and the only 40 mm-plus trucks you can buy are still the ones Maple Lab listed on October 1, then the Stinkefingaz batch and the Industry FB run were isolated drops that happened to land in the same fortnight, and I read a coincidence as a trend.
The smart money, I think, is on the second source arriving from a maker already comfortable with small metal work rather than from a deck brand. Trucks are the hard part; whoever solves them decides how wide the scene can go. But I'd also treat a shop stocking somebody else's wide truck as proof — distribution is a bet too, and it is the cheaper one to place.
None of those has happened in what we've published. If one does, the twelve-month window starts looking generous.
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There is a version of this where extra-wide behaves like every other novelty width: a handful of decks that photograph beautifully, a truck that finds a few devoted riders, and a quiet return to 32–34 mm because that is what the obstacles, the tape and the muscle memory are built around.
I don't think that's the likelier outcome, mostly because of the year Industry FB's listing claims it spent getting there. People don't spend a year on a part they intend to make once. But it is the outcome I'll be checking against next October, and it is the one that makes this piece wrong.
Reference links used for this piece. Confidence labels show how firmly each source is established.
Kingpin MagazineOfficial
Core of the hardware half of the argument; listing claims over a year of development, on sale October 1.
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Width ladder from 33.5 mm to 48 mm, landed at ASI Berlin October 9.
Kingpin MagazineOfficial
Used as part of the wheel-side pattern only.
Kingpin MagazineOfficial
7 mm straight-cut urethane, locked single bearing.
Kingpin MagazineOfficial
8.4 x 5.3 mm Bowl shape, 70D, $45.
Kingpin MagazineOfficial
Cited for the 32.7 mm width as the scene's center of gravity.
Kingpin MagazineOfficial
5-ply birch, 96.5 mm long; standard-width reference point.
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Part of the eight-piece coverage window.
Brand Histories
A reissue of the brand's first mark, printed transparent so a randomly chosen colored bottom ply shows through. It is a small deck carrying a large part of the scene's origin story.
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Brand Histories
Founded in Berlin in 2003 as one of the first fingerboard teams, ASI Berlin opened a concept store with Blackriver-Ramps in 2010 and has run independently since 2017. A history from the brand's own pages, with the gaps named.
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Product Spotlights
FBS says its Extra Smooth grip has a new formula for the first time since 2008, tuned to feel worn in from the first session. Here is what the listing confirms, and what it leaves out.
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