how often to you get new trucks?

[chingchu]

i like to get new trucks when i get a new deck.  i like my trucks fresh looking, and i try different trucks a lot. i love a fresh new setup.
haha

[munchbox]

depends on if you have type 1 or type 2 madness

[Weezil]

I hate new trucks so usually like once or twice a year at most. this year had a little bit of madness and copped a pair of ace 44s and venture 5.8s. usually I'm a buy a pair of Indys when they break type of dude but all this truck hype this year has had me trying (and enjoying) new shit.

[Paco Supreme]

When the last set is unusable, usually when they break is when the axle has said it’s peace

[Hefe43]

Usually after someone steals my shit. I’ve come close to grinding down to the axle a few times only to get my setup stolen. Fucking sucks

Haven’t bought a pair in a minute thankfully but I’ll probably never grind to the axle with all the setups I have on rotation

[botefdunn]

I stay at my dad's every second weekend and if he's late picking me up, which he always is, I know he'll feel guilty and I can get him to buy me a new complete. Jk my dad died in 2012 when the Mayan calendar flipped. I set up new trucks probably twice a year and always skate them to the axle.

[shingles]

I try to keep them for as long as possible.
I'm down to the axle on my aces now and piss everyone off at the local miniramp, cause it fucks up the coping, since they used some cheap bars that get scratched by the hard metal of the axle. Coping gets really sticky then and they then complain that they can't do their 3 foot smithgrinds anymore...

[TheBoognish]

When I get tired of the feeling, seeing as I don’t destroy trucks like I used to. It’s a feeling thing for me. I hate tinkering with my trucks so I just change ‘em when I’m over them, I don‘t mind breaking in new trucks, in fact, I enjoy it.

Could be a month (Krux), could be years (Indy).  I’ve got 2 and a half years on my Ventures right now and don’t feel the need to change them, I love the feeling and they’re perfect for me.

[HyenaChaser]

When they break.

Axel, hanger, baseplate. Then the next size I choose dictates my board for the following year or two.

I’ve measured my life in broken trucks.

[johnes]

I like new trucks. I usually get a new set 2 or 3 times a year. But I also sometimes get new bushings and pivot trucks to keep my trucks going longer.

[ClownOfTheDay]

I just got a set of new indy's this summer so I think next summer I'll be switching to aces, their not to badly worn, I have a grove on the, I need to do more slappies.

[Chatbot]

Usually once a year or so. Mainly when the base plate is completely worn down to the pivot cup from tailslides

[Lloyd Braun]

Once they’re on axel and I feel they’re done or until they break.

[Murge]

Usually only when madness happens or I drastically change board sizes. But right now I’m pretty content with 8.38 or 8.5 decks and I have 149 thunders chilling if I get a short WB board and I got some new Indy 149s now. I’ll prob buy ventures soon to try especially if I go back to 8.25 decks

[silhouette]

Whenever they break somehow, might take years.

[Frank]

unless they suck, when my old ones are worn down or crack. every one to two years usually. i'm old and fully employed so i don't skate 20 hours a week anymore, and barely in the winter. i bought new trucks in the summer and think they will easily get me through 2020 and probably into 2021. the pair before that lasted about two years as well.

i might buy a set of aces in 2020 when the new ones come out just to try them though.

[Esmith5488]

When I was on Indy it was once I hit the axle. When I sized down I got some tensors and broke a kingpin and decided to try thunder which I’ll probably run until I hit the axle.

[imuseless]

Whenever they break somehow, might take years.

This. Last Thunders I had like 3 years till the axel started to peek. Got Ace 44 last spring and I'm not going change them till I have to. I swap the front and back trucks each time I set up a new deck to make them last longer.

[TwisT]

Whenever I decide I want a Christmas complete. Which usually means I’m just tired of my current trucks. New trucks for me historically has meant a new truck brand altogether.

[weedgod94]

not nearly as often as i fuck with the bushings

[cosmicgypsies]

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Whenever they break somehow, might take years.

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This. Last Thunders I had like 3 years till the axel started to peek. Got Ace 44 last spring and I'm not going change them till I have to. I swap the front and back trucks each time I set up a new deck to make them last longer.

This also, usually skate them until I feel like they're inhibiting my skating which is normally around the point I've hit the axle/had to replace the bushings/the axle threads are too fucked to function. Previous set I got in 2016 and skated up until mid 2018 till they were down to the axle, replacement kingpin on the back and past the point of rethreading. Kinda funny was trying a front 5050 alley oop almost nollie front 180 out off this 3 stair ledge and just couldn't do it, kept fucking up the lock in and couldn't get close. Bought a new set of 149s, broke them in and had it in a few tries. Could be placebo but I feel once trucks are at that point no matter how homely they feel there's a point where they become detrimental to your skating.

Current set down to the axle, cracked and the threads have seen better days. Getting a good deal on some indy's soon so be interesting to finally skate those.

[Ziad]

either when i make a different setup or when the axle threading starts get fucked and the nuts goes loose

[backinaction]

Whenever some asshole in the Truck set up thread stirs my inner desires.

Waiting for the new ACE trucks.....

[texasplant]

Whenever some asshole in the Truck set up thread stirs my inner desires.

Waiting for the new ACE trucks.....

[palelight]

Whenever some asshole in the Truck set up thread stirs my inner desires.

Waiting for the new ACE trucks.....

When I was still lurking I'd pour over all of Rob's posts thinking I was accruing untold and vast knowledge (and wasting a decent amount of cash in the process)....then he started talking about mini-logos and the jig was up.

[chris.]

My very old Thunders (4 or 5 years old, skated for a couple) are still in great shape. Now that I have two sets of Aces and some Ventures I theoretically shouldn’t have to buy trucks for like 8 years.

[moonordie]

Pretty impressed about how many pals said that they like new trucks.

[backinaction]

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Whenever some asshole in the Truck set up thread stirs my inner desires.

Waiting for the new ACE trucks.....

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When I was still lurking I'd pour over all of Rob's posts thinking I was accruing untold and vast knowledge (and wasting a decent amount of cash in the process)....then he started talking about mini-logos and the jig was up.

I have been rocking Mini Logos various setups for 5 years. I have both 8 and 8.38, and they are what I use most often when I am skating those size boards.  Good stuff. 

[tzhangdox]

could have just gotten one set at most this year, but have gotten 3 due to too much time on the truck thread.

[Noble Experiment]

Never, if possible.
I had to put new bushings in the other night and that killed me enough as it is.