Keep coming back to this thread. It’s a really interesting idea. I listened to that Rowley chat. It’s cool, and rad to hear someone so stoked. He says a lot of stuff, as we all kinda seem to do on this subject, and ends up sorta contradicting himself: best days when he was skating the craziest stuff/stuff he’s known for he said 8-8.125” board, and stage 7 146 (I think these are 8.25” no?), and concludes with saying he still skates those trucks with 8.5-9” boards. Which would wildly different. Serious overhang! That’s some Greco tippy level.
I’ve had 3 days that stick out over the years, that were memorably better. None on stuff I currently would ordinarily care to ride. For fucks sake, 1 day was using some small force lows, the other royals....and one thunders that I have no way of knowing if they were lows are not, and I’m assuming were 145s. There isn’t a congruent thread that runs thru, that I know of, because this is all way before I thought about anything other than width (7.5, 7.63, and maybe just under 8”). Maybe it’s wheels (the component with the smallest noticeable change to the way a setup pops imo), all 52 and down, but I don’t think so.
Anyways, total shit post here, so apologies.
Between this and the venture thread, maybe I’ll be able to remind myself to stick with 8” trucks, at the most, and boards 8.25” and down.
Probably not.