Loose trucks improve terrain resistance?

[underknowledge]

kinda like suspension on cars do loose trucks help to ride smoother/ faster on rough terrain?
I would think so but brazilians ride tight as fuck on rough ground so might be bullshit.

[Xen]

kinda like suspension on cars do loose trucks help to ride smoother/ faster on rough terrain?
I would think so but brazilians ride tight as fuck on rough ground so might be bullshit.

While I think they do, to an extent, you'd have to pair them with soft wheels to achieve the desired effect.

[N.L.]

seems like this is one of the simpler wing nut theories to actually try out.

[perverted super otaku!]

Kind of a different sensation IMO more than a dampening effect, with play in your truck it feels like crazy magic carpet ride over cobble stone type ground, the hanger is going 100 different directions a second, one of the funkier skating sensations

[mattchew]

I think it has much more to do with wheel size/how hard (or soft) they are, as opposed to the tightness of one's trucks.
That being said, I would imagine that loose trucks are better for riding on something like uneven pavement as they have more flexibility, whereas a tighter truck would just be more prone to tipping to one side or the other on uneven surfaces.

[handsclapanin]

Loose trucks improve everything

[Xen]

Loose trucks improve everything

Truth.

[j....soy.....]

Sure riding loose trucks gives you some variance so you can absorb....but you can also get wheel bite and it's less stable.....guys on vert Ramos ride tight trucks because it's stable....

Ride trucks any way you want to.....

[Main]

If you aint ridin' loose you're doing it wrong.

[Xen]

Sure riding loose trucks gives you some variance so you can absorb....but you can also get wheel bite and it's less stable.....guys on vert Ramos ride tight trucks because it's stable....

Ride trucks any way you want to.....

Of course a lot of vert guys ride tight, they going crazy fast and need stability re-entry, they're not carving it up like the bowl skaters, where loose trucks are bread and butter (for those that massage the corners).

Look at Even smith, dude is all over the place, if he didn't have loose trucks he'd fall more than he does I'd wager; I've always ridden loose, I'm too sketchy not too pluse I grew up skating in a different street era.

Hell, one push on a board with tight trucks and I fall off, it's hilarious, totally foreign.

[j....soy.....]

You guys know there's always someone who rides trucks more loose than you right? 

[perverted super otaku!]

You guys know there's always someone who rides trucks more loose than you right? 

but NO ONE has looser mounting hardware 

[ChuckRamone]

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You guys know there's always someone who rides trucks more loose than you right?  

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but NO ONE has looser mounting hardware  

I ride my trucks with no bushings, washers or kingpin nuts. I just put the hangers in the pivot hole. no pivot cups either. every ride is like playing fucking russian roulette but it's worth it for the "rattle-loose" trucks and the danger. sometimes I try tricks but the hangers almost never stay on. I like to try bombing hills but I rarely make it 50 feet before I eat shit hard.

[rob]

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You guys know there's always someone who rides trucks more loose than you right?�

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but NO ONE has looser mounting hardware�

ahaha touche. yeah there are some maniacs out there, like one of my pals use to skate like right at the edge of wobbly but he could somehow still flip his board fine and get his flip tricks off stuff without wheelbite 90% of the time. i tried to ride his board and instantly wheel bite. i couldnt do anything on it. loose trucks are fun but i like my trucks where i can actually pop without effort

[j....soy.....]

My whole set up surrounds using office supplies....paper clips...staples....and elastics hold everything together....rarely do I land a trick without losing a wheel....

[Esquivel]

^yeah that mad bs 180 to fakie smith revert (or whatever the name) truck/board placement holds everything in place alright

[Wonderful Whizzplank]

I feel this works, but I've gone from no movement in my trucks to a medium tightness, so take that for what it's worth. Also, in sunny England, we have these ribbed/spotted paving slabs for the blind, and on occasion you can "tramline" through them and get your weight pushed to one side, which then darts your trucks into a turn. Shit scary at speed.
Irrelevant point, but I believe this is how slap works.

[Krooked antihero]

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Hell, one push on a board with tight trucks and I fall off, it's hilarious, totally foreign.
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Happens everytime when i try someones ventures, those things are not meant to turn...