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Indy axles don’t bend so bad that their own sponsored riders (currently, as seen in the wild) skate Thunders. Griffin is obviously on Thunders and in person can confirm he rides them a lot of the time.
I didn’t know he skated thunders, recently. The few times I’ve seen him in person, he was skating thunders, but this is long, long ago, before he was on Royal. Saw him on ventures, in footage, but couldn’t tell if they were 6.1s or 5.8s (I’m always surprised how hard it is for me to judge the width of setups in footage).
Anyways, you trying to sell me some indys or what?
I have a bias against indy, mostly irrational. The China indys are possibly better than the ermico ones were, but….I’d rather ride cast ventures made here. Indys are decent all around, but from a purely skate perspective I am always wanting something a little different, in several areas. From a company image standpoint….I mean fuck, no.
He skates 8.5 width decks and trucks, only puts on Royals if he has to shoot a photo. I’m not actually sure if he’s ridden the new ones. It would be weird that Jeron hasn’t if he has simply because Jeron is a Crail OG.
No worries on having preferences, I just found it amusing that people were so fervent about being anti-Indy then in this thread seemed to lose their Ermico devotion.
According to someone at NHS, Ermico had way more QC issues than people realize. A lot of the slipped axle issues, bad finishing, and kingpins that would come loose were a result of this and they often couldn’t actually produce at the scale Indy requested. Contrary to what people think Ermico isn’t just a bunch of skaters making trucks it’s a foundry. It didn’t make sense from a business perspective to keep using them.
Honestly I hope these Royals are better than those of old just because I’d rather see there be more high quality options for those that want them be it Royal, Tensor, Film, Indy, whatever.