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sometimes you gotta learn to love the taste of wheelbite
With my medium-loose Thunders 149s and 54mm conicals, I'm well acquainted with the taste lol. I usually have to wax my wheel wells every 20 minutes during a session. I've tried switching to harder bushings but it didn't make a difference.
Question for you Ace riders, would you recommend the Ace Classics for AF1s when switching from Thunders?
AF1's I believe also have a slightly wider wheelbase than classics. Still smaller wb than thunders but would be a slightly less jarring change.
Appreciate the feedback. I plan on picking them up soon, so I'll circle back and let you know how it works out. I've been riding Thunders for years and I'm excited to try something new
Aside from a few brief trysts w/ Indy during those dark times when Thunder wasn’t producing trucks of a certain width, I have been on Thunders since around 1986.
Great truck: I love them.
Looove them.
What I eventually grew to NOT love, however, was their propensity to wheelbite.
Tried Aces (both Classics AND the As Fuck-1s) and haven’t even bothered sending a “I miss you & hope you’re doing well” card, let alone even looking back since I switched.
Definitely took some adjusting to get used to the slight difference in pop timing that the (comparatively) inset wheelbase comes with, but once that hurdle was cleared, it’s been a real nice, mostly wheelbite free existence.
I think you’ll come to love the deep turn you can get without getting tossed from sloppy exits at lower speeds.
I still long for that Thunder pop, but it’s a trade-of I’m willing work with. And if you’re not hitting your tail all that much these days, you won’t miss a damn thing.
Thunder has the superior pinch as well, IMO, but again… a bargain I am happy to make in exchange for the deep turn & mega reduction in wheelbite.
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