Good bushings

[Spitfire4life]

Thunder rebuild kit in Indy's are surprisingly good.

[gaunting]

Super interested in trying the 92 or 94a Indy aftermarkets with the barrel bottoms.

Yea, them 92 a's look temping, but I don't think I could skate blue bushings, I know that sounds weird, but it would fuck with me, blue is like a bad luck color for me.

[janky858]

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bones mediums 4 lyfe

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If you skate everyday they wont last you 4 months

Lol I skate almost everyday and they last me as long as the trucks last usually. So about 8months to a year. I ride really loose trucks thou, I feel that plays a big part of it. Also I don't really huck down shit very much, tend to skate manuals, ledges & tranny mostly.

[SHARPSHOOTER]

Bones Bushings are hilariously shitty. Why the fuck do they come in with a tiny built in washer that doesn't work. So stupid.

[Hercules Rockefeller]

bones mediums, no bottom washer, screw the nut on with your bare hands, perfect. end of story.

[Spitfire4life]

bones mediums, no bottom washer, screw the nut on with your bare hands, perfect. end of story.

I tried that, and it was still tight as fuck. Indy Stock with top washer glued barely on is perfect.

[Bizarro Jerry]

I've been riding the soft conical red bushings from Indy for about a  year or so now. Best bushings I've ever had hands down. I ride my trucks "medium" tightness and they still can turn on a dime without feeling super wobbly and uncomfortable.

[Tracer]

So conicals collapse faster? What's the difference physics guys?

[fookya]

yeah I'm going to need someone to elaborate on the pros and cons of barrel and conical. Been riding bones mediums for a while and I'm ready to make a change the next time I buy trucks.

[givecigstosurfgroms]

if you want to know that, type in "difference between conical and cylynder bushings silverfish longboarding" and you'll get a bunch of wrongboarders in their 40s who are tech snobs and they will have 5 threads dedicated to that subject most likely.  (we as skateboarders are better off for having these wrongboard dudes cause we get trickle down effect making things like after market bushings  better wheel compounds and new bearing tech (the new siezmic bearings are a good example of that) a reality.

[Noble Experiment]

Not sure on all the technical mumbo jumbo differences between the two, but all I know is that barrel bottoms have always felt more stable to me. It gives the truck a more stable feeling looseness, while cone bottoms give a more squirrelly feeling looseness, that's just what I've noticed though. I definitely prefer a barrel bottom to a cone.

[j....soy.....]

Short boarders need direction too.....they should have weight classes or recommended tricks....