Borrowing these trucks to a friend and rode his board a bit today, I'm still baffled by the manual point. Didn't tell him about it and he also struggled with manuals.
Did anybody feel the same and got used to it in the end? I love learning new manual tricks since I've switched to ace, so that was a pretty big deal for me. On aces the manual works on every deck for me, no matter wb, kick length, steepness.
Still like everything else about the royals, amazing trucks.