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That would make sense. I only briefly compared my deck to his and laid it on top, but taking a measuring tape to someone else's setup would just further cement me as an old Kook. He had on the new T2s as well and I was a bit more interested in those since there is a tentative Summer release date and they look to solve everything I dislike about Thunders. I've been interested in certain twins. I tried an Ishod and it was fine, not amazing, but its kicks are sorta short. A true twin nose is too long unless I go with a Crail, which have 14" WB and the Quasi also look a bit too short overall. A twin "between a nose and tail" sounds perfect so 6 7/8" measured across could work, but 14.5 would stretch it out a lot.
At the end of the day I'd need to just fuckin try it.
Have you tried the Foy twin? His 8.5 twin shape is 32 long with a 14.28 WB and the tails are longish for tails or shortish for noses, I would consider them to be an in-between. They're 6 13/16" (1/16th shy of 6 7/8") measured across. Personally I quite like it apart from usually having terrible graphics (I can live with that) and being harder to find on a regular basis compared to the Ishod/DLX. There is also a 8.25 Foy twin but I never tried that one.
The 8.5 foy is my fav big twin and def a 'hybrid' kick. But it's a twin that doesn't look or feel like one (like the foy 8.25/SC shapes), much like the crail boards and the primitive 8.5 twin (shes a beauty, nice and square full, just heavy boards, like old South Central heavy).
The 8.25 foy twin is a similar hybrid feel, but different shape; it's almost identical to the SC 8.25 twin (both are my fav 8.25 twins). Very rounded nose, not pointy, but not just a shrunk down foy (didn't look or feel that way to me).
The Jacopo is very much a 'traditional' 8.3 baker shaped twin, just with the small tail kicks on both ends. Def closer to the DLX offerings at that size.
I'm going for some ACEs thanks to pair thanks day sales (was waiting for the IKPs but...), so can report back as I always ride long WB with tight truck WB (and vice versa).
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