Here's my most recent setup. As I've said in some wheel threads I was curious about Mini Cubics so I got some. I already tried riding them inside out on some Aces, that was fun but the grinding area on my trucks was way too small as I kinda knew it would so I set this bad boy up. I had to do some math comparing Mini Cubics to wheels I'm already riding to determine how wide my trucks would need to be for a somewhat normal sized board (I didn't have any interest in making another Powell 80s setup, I have a Mountain with some Rat Bones that I like), and found that if I used trucks with a 7.625" axle, the wheels would jut out past a 9" deck just a little bit, so I dug around my garage for old trucks and found some Orion "SP1"s painted white from the early 2000s. I fucked up the grip job by underestimating how much grip I would need and since I was at the park (I noted to myself to not waste time setting up boards at the skatepark for a number of reasons, but in this particular instance I don't have my stash of skate shit to use when I need it) I had to improvise with the scraps that I had, and managed to get this rainbowish thing in the middle.
Anyways, I was kinda making this setup because I knew it would look and probably skate ridiculous and stupid and to my surprise the thing actually skates really well. It's about as heavy as my East Coast street setup inspired by mid 90s big wheel renaissance in Philadelphia, goes way faster, can crack higher ollies and has more room for error on manuals because of how high the wheels and risers make it. My biggest surprise is that flip tricks don't feel too bad on this thing, I can switch flip it just as good as any of my other boards. A couple of weak points to the setup are that either the trucks are too tight or I overestimated how big the risers needed to be, however I still need to break in the Bones mediums that I put on the Orions (they fit really well by the way, that took me by surprise) so I'll give myself a week or two to let the bushings break in before I decide to mess with that more. Additionally, I have to aim my trucks onto whatever I'm grinding or I will do an edger and potentially eat some major shit, which is turning out to be a bigger issue than I originally suspected it would be.
EDIT: image embed isn't showing the images for some reason and I don't have the time to resize the photos I took of my setup to what the fucking shitty ass attachment thing demands each file size to be so I'll provide photos later but you're just gonna have to use your imagination for now, I have a 9" Red Curbs shop deck with the firecracker company ripoff logo as the graphic. Board's honestly not meeting my expectations: the truck holes are not in the middle of the board and it's pretty easy to tell, it's very mellow (and I like mellow boards normally, but not this time) and it came with a small chip in the nose which I didn't notice at the shop when I picked it up
EDIT #2: so the image attachment thing gave an error, but when I looked at the post the attachment made it through, so idk wtf is going on anymore
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