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What non Indy trucks were pros riding in the late 90s-early/mid 00s when they rode bigger boards?
I'm guessing it's pretty common knowledge that in the whole shop wall was 7.5/7.75 years that many pros actually rode much bigger boards but if that pro was on ventures on thunders how were they getting trucks to match? Old stock, getting specially made shit just for them?
Or same question the other way when some pros were riding like 7.25-7.4 what's the point of the axle was sticking way out
Maybe Fury's, they had a stacked team with people who strike me as wide board guys (Hawk, Burnquist, Rowley, Saari, etc.)
Rowley always skated the 146 trucks from Stage 8 or similar and made them last years. Still did last time someone asked which was a while ago now.
Hawk rode 8.25 boards for a long time, only went up to 8.5 when Riley had a wider board than him.
Trying to remember what Bob rode, but I think when he was out here for X Games, he was on about an 8 like everyone else, only riding those big rigs on the super vert / mega ramp type things a lot later in the timeline.
Not sure what a lot of others skated, but I know people like Dan Drehobl had a struggle with 8.5 Ventures, then went to Indy, but that was way later anyway.
It is a bit of an interesting one, because even most of the "wide board" guys were still only on 8 or at absolute max 8.25 more than anything else, from what people were saying.
Maybe there was a fair bit of the Reynolds type action going on too - wider board, narrow trucks?