So the madness has struck again and I’ve switched from some Venture 5.8 V-Lights w/ bones mediums back to my old Thunder 149 Ti’s w/ their aftermarket 97d Heavy bushings, cast plate, and Krux Downlow kingpin. I’m just a sucker for that slim hanger shape & the lighter weight I guess
Flip tricks feel like easy mode after the switch. Not that I had any issues with fliptricks on ventures, they just flip faster with thunders. but even with the krux pin, thunders don’t lock into grinds as well as ventures (smiths/feebles on rails specifically) because the hangers so much skinnier and doesn’t have as much “lip” around the sides of the kingpin that the ventures do. There’s defintely moments where you get pitched from wheelbite w/ thunders whereas ventures are much more forgiving and will at least let you get away with a sloppy rollaway.
I’m gonna try to stick it out with the thunders for a while since they’re my oldest set of trucks, but I’ll probably be back on ventures after a day of bad wheelbite or whenever they finally remake the 5.8 hollow axels.