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Giving ACE their 5th/6th chance. Bought them Saturday and tossed them on a board I was already riding.
Quasi Davis 8.25
ACE 44 Shelby
Spitfire Tablets 54mm 101d
RocknRon's Bearings (for science)
Diamond 7/8
MOB
What do you normally like/not like about ACE?
I’m going to go covid cruise the neighborhood on my 44s. I liked 33s, loved the way they look. 44s are the size where I start losing tricks. Because I’m a baby. But not a baby with their life ahead of them. I feel like o get less pop with ACE. Love the turn.
I absolutely love the way they look, I like the way they grind. I had a set years ago, probably 1st gen's, that I beat the shit out of and performed well for me until the axle bent. Had those replaced, but while I was waiting for the new set I was skating thunders, new set came and I had already adjusted to thunders and the ACE felt like too much of a learning curve to go back to so I stayed on thunder for years and then to Venture once they came out with the 5.8.
The dislikes with ACE - Ghost pop, the sound (makes my setup sound hollow, soggy, just not crispy), I don't think they work with the Quasi shape I enjoy and since I have about 9 in my stockpile to burn through I'm stuck in a cycle, I don't like how much attention/maintenance they require (base plate hole blow out, loose kingpins, still not confident they fixed the bending axles, bushings, pivot cups)
With thunder and venture I would toss in Bones medium bushings and skate them into the ground. The only thing I would have to do was re thread the axles every other set of wheels or so.
Figured I would give them another go since I haven't skated since the first week of March or so, not as much muscle memory focused on the trucks functioning.