Here's my layperson's review from a first session in an indoor park which has many qps, flat areas and some boxes. Setup before: 8.38 Primitive 14.25x32, Indy 149 Titanium Forged (0.5 thread showing), 53 Conical Full. Only swapped the Indys for Lurpivs. The first thing I noticed was that the Lurpivs came very loose stock, the hanger was almost flopping around, you could move it with one finger. I didn't want to ruin the fun and crank them, so I tightened them maybe a turn or so until the hanger stopped dangling (difficult to tell how exactly with the reverse kingpin).
The 53.5mm Forged Indys are quite shallow and go into wheelbite before you get a nice carve out of them even with relatively small wheels. Lurpivs have a very deep and natural feeling turn in comparison. You can shoot out of a qp, do a quick 180 degree turn on top and go back in, just like the guy here that posted a video did on flat. Yes, you can wheelbite them easily even with 53mm wheels. There is no built-in resistance or metal touching before the wheelbite or anything silly like that. If you're heavy heeled or toed - straight to wheelbite. I found no faults with the pop at all. I magically made it out of some tricks like switch flip and nollie flip, which had been elusive for me for like 6 months. You wouldn't expect a higher looser truck to help one's flat game, but it did. There were some disgusting rocketed kickflips though, but there were also great ones, so it was a matter of technique. The approach to grinds felt twitchy sometimes, but stuff seemed to work out even better than with Indys somehow (my theory is that the looseness allowed more room for error when balancing on top of a grind). But I did feel like I lost some precision and stability compared to Indys. Approaching stuff in general felt more chaotic and eventful than with Indy, especially at high speeds. Going fakie and switch felt pretty crazy. I ran Ace 44 and Indy 149 Standard setups together at a time. With Aces I could sometimes make it out stuff that was beyond my skill level, whereas with Indys I couldn't, but I felt more in control. Anyone know that feeling? That's how I felt today.
So to sum it up these are a different beast than Indy Forged or Standard trucks even at a similar looseness level. They just behave differently. I do feel like I should tighten the Lurpivs up more, but where's the fun in that? I probably will though
. Right now Indys feel more like a competition truck to me, but these are more fun and you can make them do more. They look cooler and they have an infinitely better build quality than any other skateboard truck. I'm sure they rock in bowls and pools too. I hope other manufacturers feel threatened by the quality and the aesthetic and also start putting better alloys in their products. I would recommend them to someone that is already quite experienced and wants to spice it up. I wouldn't recommend them to Team China for Paris 2024. I'm looking forward to riding them more.