Gilbert Crockett on venture?

[Lenny the Fatface]

wait...gilby didn’t have his tattoos removed???

The homies up in Richmond told me he had them removed so Tyler Bledsoe could redo them all.

[ok boomer]

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wait...gilby didn’t have his tattoos removed???

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The homies up in Richmond told me he had them removed so Tyler Bledsoe could redo them all.

That would be sickkkkk

[Lloyd Braun]

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where can one get the bust crew ventures? also which ventures have which height? their trucks are very confusing.

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With standard (cast) baseplates; lows are 48mm, highs are 53.5mm. I think that's the same across all sizes, but I'm not 100% sure. Forged baseplates will be about 1mm lower, and will push your wheelbase out a little more (according to the truck setups thread). The Bust Crew ones come in 5.2, 5.6, and 5.8; high only. Size chart below for the widths:

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Can someone please elaborate why the measurements are taken on the axle and not on the hanger? Is it not the hanger that defines the truck width? This is not new to me but i have always been wondering and thought i would ask.

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The hanger is the area you have to grind on but the axle is what goes to the edge of your board, and what you have to make sure is the correct width

Also 5.0-6.1 is the width of the hanger

[slothflip]

when i first started skating in the mid to late 80s, venture trucks were not held in high regard for whatever reason. they were like the equivlent of mall trucks set to a nash deck I suppose. the cool kids were riding gullwing or tracker ultra-lights, the later being the gold standard. I fell out for a few years but when I got back into it in the early to mid 90s I was surprised to find gullwing and tracker long gone but venture still holding it down.

trucks are probably the least important piece of hardware for me. if im not digging the turning on a new set, I adjust until it feels right and then forget about it. Cant say in however many years ive been at it that one pair/brand has been any better or worse than the next. at the end of the day im gonna make those fuckers turn and do what I want regardless. wheels and deck are different story. 

I dont doubt ya'll that can pick up all that nuance amongst brands/styles and actually find it facinating. I just cant relate.

[ndsr]

when i first started skating in the mid to late 80s, venture trucks were not held in high regard for whatever reason. they were like the equivlent of mall trucks set to a nash deck I suppose. the cool kids were riding gullwing or tracker ultra-lights, the later being the gold standard. I fell out for a few years but when I got back into it in the early to mid 90s I was surprised to find gullwing and tracker long gone but venture still holding it down.

trucks are probably the least important piece of hardware for me. if im not digging the turning on a new set, I adjust until it feels right and then forget about it. Cant say in however many years ive been at it that one pair/brand has been any better or worse than the next. at the end of the day im gonna make those fuckers turn and do what I want regardless. wheels and deck are different story. 

I dont doubt ya'll that can pick up all that nuance amongst brands/styles and actually find it facinating. I just cant relate.

I understand, you Ride tight trucks and don’t understand turning by leaning.  Post a clip with no tac if you disagree or a clip carving in a pool

[Frank]

Cant say in however many years ive been at it that one pair/brand has been any better or worse than the next. at the end of the day im gonna make those fuckers turn and do what I want regardless. wheels and deck are different story.

i'm not part of the truck madness clique on here, but i noticed a lot of differences in different truck brands. in how well or smooth they grind, how long it takes with the same kind and amount of skating to wear them down, to break the kingpin, knock the axle loose, etc... i stopped skating thunders because my axle would always come loose and my kingpin would break often for some reason and always be a bitch to replace. i tried out indies for the first time, they rode different to the thunders, a bit sluggisher which made me loosen my trucks up a bunch until these were actually looser than my thunders before.

ventures were my first trucks back in the day and i traded them for  colored gullwings after about a year and felt so dumb because i hated these trucks. i was just learning stuff on these ventures and now those gullwings felt weird and grinded like shit and i would have to adapt and i got the next set of trucks like 2 years later(monster trucks, bro!).

now i'm back on ventures because of the 5.6 size and i like them very much. they make me skate more purposeful or deliberate for a lack of a better way to describe it, than indys. like they reward precision, but don't work as good if you're a lazy popper/tail scraper, at least in my experience. whereas indys for me thrive in the way that it feels i don't have to set up right for every trick, they pop easy enough so you can shove the board around with your feet and stuff. since i skate ventures i relearn my flips better since i kind of had to deconstruct them.

alright i guess i have some sort of track madness, but it's not about how many washers i need or how many mm i shave off what bushing to fit a special kingpin nut made out of titanium.

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0:47 crockett venture pro truck

Bump. First official acknowledgement of gilbert on venture as far as I know. Trucks are gross though.