It’s true and risers are probably the best answer…..it just seems counter intuitive when most people buy thunders because they are lower….
I forget who said it, but I recall someone (pro or industry dude maybe) who said something like "You can't make a tall truck lower, but you can always put a riser under a low truck to make it work better for you" which still rings true today.
Some people are so against risers and I totally understand how their board works for them, but if all I had to skate was Thunder team editions on normal size 54 to 56 mm wheels as I did for a while back in the early 00s when I had access to get them cheap through a local distributor, I definitely needed risers on them to be able to skate them how I wanted, even just 2mm made a huge difference to me.
Most risers do feel a bit chunky or just don't work so well, but getting something that will fit perfectly under the trucks, as was the case with those thin rubber risers, which I had on most trucks back then, it was easy to cut them to size and also match up the baseplate holes.
The couple of setups I have Thunders on now have the same type of rubber risers at about 2mm tall that fit perfectly under the baseplates and everything works well for me, but even just standing on a board without risers, if it has Thunders and stock bushings and I am putting the deck to every wheel a little too often, I feel like I need that small difference to be comfortable.
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