Low Trucks vs High Trucks Debate

[skateboarder4life]

You need venture v8s. And I know what you’re thinking. I don’t like venture trucks.  I’m telling you right now. It’s a totally different ball game from the nineties. Lifers step on my board and are mind blown by the stability but while still having an excellent turn at all tightnesses. They go THIS IS A VENTURE?!?
Now with the changeable wheelbase you can get all the benefits and chill your pop feel on both ends with a slight adjustment.

Venture don't make anything wide enough

[back smith]

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You need venture v8s. And I know what you’re thinking. I don’t like venture trucks.  I’m telling you right now. It’s a totally different ball game from the nineties. Lifers step on my board and are mind blown by the stability but while still having an excellent turn at all tightnesses. They go THIS IS A VENTURE?!?
Now with the changeable wheelbase you can get all the benefits and chill your pop feel on both ends with a slight adjustment.

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Venture don't make anything wide enough

6.1 High is 8.75 wide, that's pretty good.

[munchbox]

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my center of gravity is where most skaters heads are
lower trucks are a necessity for me

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but if you were going to scale a skateboard size up in proportion to your size then the trucks would get higher

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i really can only speak from my experience here
but scaling up has always worked backwards for me
the boards got bigger and the trucks got lower

skating 8.38s with 54 spits and standard indys
was akin to houdini walking a tightrope
my head is already meters off the ground
and being closer to it feels right to me

as i said before
i dont care to put on a lab coat
and engrave that into a stone tablet
because if indy was paying me well
i probably would just skate those
probably

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how tall are you? just curious

i agree feels better for stability being lower to the ground. but i've always had to go higher on bigger boards to avoid wheelbite because otherwise the same wheel size on wider trucks will bite just due to the physics of having wider trucks

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6’6 no shoes

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impressive! 6'4 here. usually ride a 9" deck with indys and a 1/8 riser but when i rode a 10" with the same size wheels i have to use a 1/4" riser to avoid wheelbite. felt high at first but got used to it pretty quickly and then it ended up making the board look proportionally normal. i'd love to be lower even on the 9 but i'd have to keep the trucks too tight or deal with massive wheelbite

can i ask what your normal set up is?

9.0 deck, currently a polar
double drilled forged venture 6.1s (just under 52mm)
worn down 56mm radial fulls, around 52mm

been on ventures for about 5 years
completely used to this board height
and know exactly where the wheelbite point is
i do run harder bushings and turning is a non issue

[Sedition]

This really all comes down to how steep the deck angle is when the tail pops.

Having the correct pairing of tail steepness/length with truck height/wheelbase will dictate if the angle is too high=heavy, ghost pop, or too low=feels dead.

Standard indys are really tall, the relatively shorter indy WB will help a bit, but you need a longer tail to avoid a steep pop angle which creates ghost pop/heavy feeling.  Forged thunders or venture lows have extended WBs but are so low that you can get away with a 6.5 tail.

As was mentioned above, im a big fan of 52-53 mm trucks, i feel like they can usually go with most tail lengths(6.5-6.8").
 OP might want to try hollow forged indys or team thunders

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