stock bushings or alternatives?

[eight oh eight]

stick with what comes with your trucks or switch in stuff like powells or doh doh's?

[SLANGIN_ROCKS]

stock. usually if you take the time to break them in right, they should be fine

[mikefork]

stock, just got to cut them down a little to make the looser

[magnet]

Stock until they start falling apart then switch to Bones.  If you have to cut bushings you might as well get different trucks/bushings.  Boiling makes them looser too although the consistency is never perfect.  Might as well just get trucks that are loose right out the box.

Doh Dohs = cold garbage

[Mizzork]

Powells or Khiro if you can find them.  Stock is shitty shit.  Quality rides mean alot more when your time onboard seem numbered.

[warhead]

Another bushing question: Is there a big difference between soft, medium and hard bushings? Wich are best for what?

[roulette]

bones bushings   soft=loose hard=tight etc

[mikefork]

Stock until they start falling apart then switch to Bones.  If you have to cut bushings you might as well get different trucks/bushings.  Boiling makes them looser too although the consistency is never perfect.  Might as well just get trucks that are loose right out the box.

i boil my bushings as well as cut them, no truck comes loose enough. i cut them down a little and cut the front one vertically and put it so the cut is right in the back

[Mizzork]

I prefer the powell mid (yellow caps).  They're soft enough to maneuver without being too wiggly for my ass.  I'm a wheelbiter.  I can't ride the jiggly ride.

[ween]

Powell yellows, son...makes brand new indys feel like 2 year old indys right off the bat! I'm never going back yo

[kaufmaner]

depends on the truck.... mostly bones bushings

[magnet]

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Stock until they start falling apart then switch to Bones.  If you have to cut bushings you might as well get different trucks/bushings.  Boiling makes them looser too although the consistency is never perfect.  Might as well just get trucks that are loose right out the box.

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i boil my bushings as well as cut them, no truck comes loose enough. i cut them down a little and cut the front one vertically and put it so the cut is right in the back

Just out of curiosity what trucks are those that you have to do so much to them before you skate them?  Understandably lots of times new trucks are a bitch to break in but that sounds like a lot of work which is why I posted my last comment.  How do you cut the bushings anyway?  Not trying to hate...just sounds like a very unusual habit.

[ween]

what's boiling the bushings supposed to do?

[kaufmaner]

soften them up... dont really know

[fuckingvegan]

Blue bones front
yellow bones back

[mikefork]

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Stock until they start falling apart then switch to Bones.  If you have to cut bushings you might as well get different trucks/bushings.  Boiling makes them looser too although the consistency is never perfect.  Might as well just get trucks that are loose right out the box.

[close]

i boil my bushings as well as cut them, no truck comes loose enough. i cut them down a little and cut the front one vertically and put it so the cut is right in the back

[close]

Just out of curiosity what trucks are those that you have to do so much to them before you skate them?  Understandably lots of times new trucks are a bitch to break in but that sounds like a lot of work which is why I posted my last comment.  How do you cut the bushings anyway?  Not trying to hate...just sounds like a very unusual habit.

any trucks idnys, ventures, krux, or thunders
if you cut them it makes them smaller so the kingpin isn't pushing down on it as much making them looser. i cut the front ones vertically because i i was talking to tony vitello one day and he said that was another way to make them looser. i always boil them before i cut them and heat up the knife/razor so it cuts easier. i used to ride extremely tight trucks but wanted to loosen them to the point they are now because i thought it would make tricks feel that much more exciting/gnarlier and for me tre flips are a lot easier with looser trucks

[magnet]

Oh ok.  Is it like super Matt Rodriguez-type looseness where the board wobbles when it rolls by itself?  Must be a good way to strengthen your ankles.  Might have to try that sometime. 

[mikefork]

Oh ok.  Is it like super Matt Rodriguez-type looseness where the board wobbles when it rolls by itself?  Must be a good way to strengthen your ankles.  Might have to try that sometime. 

haha yeah except i have a board where i tried to microwave the bushings for 30 seconds or something and its even crazier so i screw around with tricks on that, i think they are even looser than matt rodriguezes because you get speed wobbles while pushing but tre flips on it are perfect

[sleeeping]

I like the bones bushings.
anything else would be uncivilized

[supermoonunit]

I always rip up stock bushings but i got some doh dohs and put them in and now im used to themthey arent breaking im just going to switchem over to next set of new trucks good idea?