Got the v8s. Set them up on my april 8.5 which already has pretty long kicks (good for normal ventures lol).
They shrink your wb by a smidge more than 0.25 each truck, feels more like 0.3 or something. The visual difference is crazy.
Popping my board to pick it up feels really different. Feels really light, you just tap the tail, but the nose doesn't come up nearly as much. Normal ventures feel really explosive in comparison.
Can't skate right now so can't actually test it out. Not sure if its for me but will find out. Mostly worried the pop is going to feel too anemic but I don't mind the pop on aces so maybe it'll be fine. I feel like if they shrunk in the wb by maybe just 1/8 per truck (not possible I know), would be so perfect.
I can see this being really good for long ish wheelbase boards with short kicks.
Those two things you just said really hit home for me.
1. If they brought out a truck that was a single hole option that was more in the Thunder hole pattern, eg middle of the baseplate, I think it would work way better on some other boards, compared to the almost too far out and maybe too far in with the existing double drilled V8 baseplates. That said, I know this is actually what some people like the most about their Ventures, compared to other trucks, so although it might be cool, I don't know how much interest there would be, maybe not enough to have two different baseplate options out there, or should I say THREE now with the regular baseplate, the V8 and if they did a middle drilled baseplate too.
2. It is all down to which deck any trucks go on and the V8 trucks are no different there, so something that had a longer wheelbase, I think would work much more comfortably with the V8 double drilled holes, as I tested it on a few options, or as per me being extra special right now, I have the 8.38 board with 14.5 wb with the back truck in and the front in normal position and I seem to find that works well, even though both kicks are now quite different.
At least having two options per truck do make things way more versatile, as I did find when I double drilled a number of baseplates which were good to swap in or out on different boards, just to see, especially seeing as they were boards I might not have skated unless I drilled the deck in as they just didn't work on existing trucks before I tried drilling baseplates.
Everyone can test and see what they come up with, if there are any "game changing" moments with certain boards, or as per the April boards, they work well enough with existing baseplates and don't need changing.
One board I have my eye on to test is the Real Jimmy Wilkins 8.86 with 15 wb, which should come down nicely, but that is probably not at all common in the scheme of things, at least for most people who don't ride boards anywhere near that big anyway.
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