All the trucks have benefits.
Ain’t that the truth, too.
Wishing I could marry the turn of an Ace to the pop feel/timing of a Thunder, and stir in a lickle bit of the Indy grind & I would have my all-porpoise utili-truck.
Those Stage IVs came close, but I want that “infinite turning” capacity of the Ace & the Indy bushings never broke in quite as soft, or generous of turn. Maybe shaving a mm of the top bush would help, but I haven’t quite been able to replicate the Ace turn outside of Joey’s trucks & frankly, they’re neither my favorite grind, nor pop (though I DID finally figure out how to get my snap back on Ace by being stingy with my rear foot placement.)
Maybe these speculative T2s will be a step towards one or more of these nerdy unfulfilled truck desires.
A lickle taller? A more horizontal sweep for a deeper turn before hitting wheelbite? (Wheelbite is the thing that dragged me away from a lifelong love affair with Thunders.) Perhaps a bit more meat on the baseplate’s pivot housing, as some folks have been begging for for years?
Would gladly put my aluminum budget back into DLX trucks if they could get me closer to my dream truck.
Seems that enough people love the current geo: would be a shame to dump it w/ the bath water, but it ain’t for me at this stage of my riding life.
Seperate, 2nd model seems crazy though.
One thing’s for certain though, those cats are monitoring the market: they’ve got their finger on the proverbial pulse (SLAP included) & when it makes fiscal sense to launch something new, they for sure gonna do it.