The 34 mm Joycult x Creature Setup, and What's Actually Confirmed About It

Straight from the video description, these are the parts:

• Deck: Joycult x Creature David Gravette, 34 mm wide
• Trucks: Joycult x Independent
• Wheels: the smaller Joycult wheels

That's the whole confirmed spec sheet, and I'm going to be blunt about the gaps rather than fill them in. Ply count, wood, mold, concave depth, wheelbase, and price are not stated in the material. Neither is the truck baseplate width or whether the Independent collaboration is a shaped baseplate or a standard Joycult truck with the Indy branding applied. Bushing durometer isn't given either. If you see any of those numbers quoted confidently elsewhere, check them against Joycult directly.

What the 34 mm figure does tell you: this sits toward the wide end of what most fingerboarders ride, trading a little flip speed for more room under the fingers.

The wheel situation

Joycult runs more than one wheel shape — Pager-One names the smaller wheels he's riding and mentions the Classics and "bigger shapes" as things he hasn't gotten to yet. His reason is the one everybody knows: "the ones I've looked for always seem to be sold out." So the practical advice on wheels is less about performance and more about availability. Decide which shape you want before you're in a cart, because the shape you get may end up being the shape that's in stock.

Honestly: not much yet, and I'd rather say that than dress it up. The video sat at 865 views with zero comments when I pulled the material, so there's no comment-thread consensus to report on wheel shapes, truck feel, or how the deck's concave compares to Joycult's non-collab boards.

What we have is Pager-One's own read, and he's the one who built it. On the small wheels he's been riding, his verdict is that they're "dope." On the appeal of the whole thing, his framing is about crossover rather than specs — the Gravette Creature graphic is one he says he'd want on a full-size board, and pairing it with Independent trucks is what makes the build register as a real skate setup shrunk down.

That's a taste argument, not a performance one, and it's fine that it is. It's also the honest reason most of these collaborations sell.

A branded truck collaboration can mean one of two things, and the difference matters when you're spending:

• A cosmetic license — existing truck, new logo, new colorway. You pay for the look.
• A tooled collaboration — geometry or castings changed to echo the full-size design.

Nothing in the source material says which of those the Joycult x Independent truck is. Until Joycult states it, treat it as the first one for budgeting purposes and be pleasantly surprised if it's the second. The same logic applies to the deck: the Creature license buys you the Gravette graphic, and whether the board underneath it differs from Joycult's standard 34 mm offering is not something a graphic can tell you.

Buy this if the Gravette graphic and the Indy logo are the point. That's not a backhanded compliment — a setup you want to pick up is a setup you skate, and the crossover here is genuinely well matched rather than a random logo slapped on a blank. Pager-One's clips exist, the build went together, and the small wheels get a thumbs-up from someone who has been riding them for a while.

Don't buy it expecting a documented performance upgrade over Joycult's standard line, because nobody has published one. And if you're specifically after a wheel shape, sort that out first: the wheels are the part of this setup with real variation between options, and they're also the part most likely to be out of stock when you finally decide.

The thing I'd actually like answered is Pager-One's own question — how the small wheels stack up against the Classics and the bigger shapes. If you've ridden two or more, that comparison is more useful to the next buyer than any of the branding.