Alright, so I’ve had a few sessions on my new ace 44s and the tensor all terrains. I skate very low impact shit, small bowls, curbs, flat ground, manny pads. Here’s my opinions so far.
Aces 44s Rally Green:
As far as me and BMC could tell, all the Rally Greens were the re-design with the new bushings so that’s why I got these. I didn’t try to inspect them or anything to try to figure it out either. I left them stock so I could break the bushings in, and at the start of the first session I felt like I would be getting wheelbite on every trick. After about 15 mins they started to bounce back a little already. The turn was nice and smooth, and they felt stable before I popped any tricks so that was cool. My front shoves popped high and I was catching them which showed me the lower height was better for me. Compared to the standard baseplate with titanium hangar experiment I was trying with indys since the beginning of the year. The grind was sticky at first, but I couldn’t tell if it was because of the painted trucks, or the dry curb I was skating. About an hour in they pretty close to perfect, rebound was already there, I could land all of my go to tricks and even landed a couple I don’t normally land that fast. Second time I skated them was at the Fremont park yesterday. Turn felt sharp and good (I may tighten them a tiny bit but I’m not sure yet) they grinded smooth on the metal edge. My manny tricks were landed in a couple tries (albeit I landed them on the tensors first). In the small bowl they felt good, I can barely scrape backside Smith grinds and I’m happy if my back truck touches frontside, and I was able to do those easy enough. Over all I like them a lot.
Tensor All Terrain Magnesium 8.5 width:
First session was at Fremont skatepark yesterday, they felt really weird straight out the gate. I left them stock again to break in the bushings. They felt like they hesitated to turn when you started to lean (when aces feel like they react immediately). They felt like they turned way more shallow and wide as opposed to a deeper turn like aces. At first the bushings felt a little hard, they loosened up pretty quickly tho and started to have some rebound, but the hesitation/delayed turn was still there. The added height made my front shoves pop slower and made me land towards the front of the board (same as indys with standard height). Ollies felt amazing because of the board being so light. When I ollied on a corner hip it felt super floaty. Manny tricks took a minute, just getting used to the pop probably. In the bowl they felt ok, a lot easier to carve than I thought they would. The only weird thing there was, after doing backside scrapes it felt like the wheels came down and touched, and THEN turned back into the tranny instead of it being one motion. The turn is pretty surfy tho and better than I thought. Today skating to the park for flat ground, i leaned hard to carve and got wheelbite and came to a stop. Almost ate shit, front shoves still popped weird for me because of height, and it felt hard to hit the tail on kickflips although I was able to land a couple pretty quick. Any questions just ask.