2022 unpopular opinion thread

[manysnakes]

Thunders are really ugly

And Ace are the most attractive truck.

[Mean salto]

I actually like the look of thunders but will admit that I genuinely thought they were just a price point truck for years.

[BurgerCop]

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Thunders are really ugly

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Agree

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Not to mention the guaranteed slip axles.

Disagree and no, you won't slip the axle unless you're still rolling a set from the mid 90s'

[goldfishboot]

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Thunders are really ugly

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And Ace are the most attractive truck.

I really dislike how aces look actually. they look too clean from the get-go for something that you'd best be fucking up

I'm not gonna ride em but VENTURES look sexy as hell with those angles. number one sickest looking truck

[Lou Strux]

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Thunders are really ugly

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Agree

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Not to mention the guaranteed slip axles.

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Disagree and no, you won't slip the axle unless you're still rolling a set from the mid 90s'

Can 2nd the assertion made by @Thrashpop with this personal anecdote: I have a set of 149s that are ground so far down that the hollow axle is cut open in one spot, which led to bent axles, and even a cracked hanger. Still no axle slippage.
Agree they’re not very pretty, but that didn’t prevent them from being a delight to ride (wheelbite aside.)

[LebowskisRug]

They all look fine with the right wheel pairing and tricks being done on them.

[BartHarleyJarvis]

i think thunders look ok.

[gringo_viejo]

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Thunders are really ugly

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And Ace are the most attractive truck.

There should be a big hammerhead pool shape called the mon calamari cruiser. Set it up with thunders and slime balls Greedos.

[Dwyck]

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Thunders are really ugly

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And Ace are the most attractive truck.

I love em but I hate that whenever I take my 55s out im thinking about bending my axles. Thunders may be buttugly but they work out of the box (though running them loose on regular wheels seems like an undertaking.) I have a trend poisoned brain so I could watch a child mongo push on 44s and square wheels and get stoked

There are certain pros who have like, a Thunder style that works, like Ishod, or Kevin Bradley, but it just looks like waterlogged 2000s board sometimes. Ventures are sexy and I hated my 5.8s eventually

I don't care at all about truck brands and ride whatever someone bro flows me.  Indy, venture, whatever.  Doesn't matter after one session I'm used to it.

I have a friend like this and he doesn't understand that he's just inherently better at skating than me and our other buddy who are gear obsessed. He pays his own rent, works full time, a good friend from childhood owns and runs a skateshop but he only skates drop offs. I gave him some Ace AF1s and he digs them, but he'd be down for whatever

[SneakySecrets]

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Thunders are really ugly

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And Ace are the most attractive truck.

A close second to glow-in-the-dark Krepers.

[in love w/ fs shuvs]

i think thunders look ok.

[FuzzGNU]

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Thunders are really ugly

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And Ace are the most attractive truck.

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A close second to glow-in-the-dark Krepers.

When I was a kid was so jealous of everyone who had red Krepers. Looking back they are pretty damn ugly.

Glow in the dark though? 

[PatrickSkateman]

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Thunders are really ugly

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Agree

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Not to mention the guaranteed slip axles.

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Disagree and no, you won't slip the axle unless you're still rolling a set from the mid 90s'

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Can 2nd the assertion made by @Thrashpop with this personal anecdote: I have a set of 149s that are ground so far down that the hollow axle is cut open in one spot, which led to bent axles, and even a cracked hanger. Still no axle slippage.
Agree they’re not very pretty, but that didn’t prevent them from being a delight to ride (wheelbite aside.)

I slipped a pair of Ishod hollows. It’s just what Thunders do. Not a fan of the stretched out wheelbase either.

[Skeleton Pudding]

Big airs on mega ramps are boring, seeing a lip trick done on one is far more impressive.

[bob george]

Big airs on mega ramps are boring, seeing a lip trick done on one is far more impressive.

good call - has anyone ever done a tailslide or a smith on a megaramp? back or frontside? blunt fakie would be rad. bob gapped up to crook fakie on his weird euro to mega thing yeah? or am i just making shit up...

[Mean salto]

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Big airs on mega ramps are boring, seeing a lip trick done on one is far more impressive.

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good call - has anyone ever done a tailslide or a smith on a megaramp? back or frontside? blunt fakie would be rad. bob gapped up to crook fakie on his weird euro to mega thing yeah? or am i just making shit up...

I think bobs done like switch back tail bigspin level tricks so I'm guessing many people have done more basic stuff. I think Bob did a blunt to fakie on a soccer goal on-top of the mega quarter too. The one cool thing Jason Ellis ever did was pivot to fakie the og one when it had no platform so it was just coping with three storey drop behind it.

[pizzafliptofakie]

Thunder is honestly my favorite looking truck just because of how basic it looks. The standard ones, anyway.

Ventures look like tinker toys to me

[roba]

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Thunders are really ugly

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And Ace are the most attractive truck.

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I really dislike how aces look actually. they look too clean from the get-go for something that you'd best be fucking up

I'm not gonna ride em but VENTURES look sexy as hell with those angles. number one sickest looking truck

i really liked how aces looked but i got tired of them after skating them for 4 years straight. i switched to ventures because of the design and i'm feeling them. before aces i skated thunders but i never liked how they looked, i just got a pair of them from a friend and ended up liking them a lot, so for 4 years before i got aces i was on thunders all the time. they look like shitty sport store complete trucks imo, too basic. oddly enough i've recently noticed that the trucks they put on current decathlon skateboards (big sporting goods stores chain in europe) are copies of ventures, but my first board was from there and i still have the trucks from it and they're thunders basically. 

[warmonke]

sky brown is a dumb name, the sky is actually blue

[SneakySecrets]

sky brown is a dumb name, the sky is actually blue

They were planning ahead for our post-apocalyptic future.

[warmonke]

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sky brown is a dumb name, the sky is actually blue

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They were planning ahead for our post-apocalyptic future.

galaxy brain thinking

[EXTRA SPICY]

Ace’s look like Tech Deck trucks.

[LordManHammer]

Ace’s look like Tech Deck trucks.

I back this, they’re smooth but definitely get that at a glance tech deck toyish appearance.

[manysnakes]

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Thunders are really ugly

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And Ace are the most attractive truck.

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I love em but I hate that whenever I take my 55s out im thinking about bending my axles. Thunders may be buttugly but they work out of the box (though running them loose on regular wheels seems like an undertaking.) I have a trend poisoned brain so I could watch a child mongo push on 44s and square wheels and get stoked

There are certain pros who have like, a Thunder style that works, like Ishod, or Kevin Bradley, but it just looks like waterlogged 2000s board sometimes. Ventures are sexy and I hated my 5.8s eventually

Thunders are definitely the least aesthetic of the major truck brands. An ugly thing. Agreed about Venture, the sharp angles are beautiful. A great looking truck.

[EdLawndale]

BMXers doing 180s look terrible.

There's no natural way to do it on a bike. They then have to do another 180 to get back in to normal. Totally takes me out of the whole thing.

[LebowskisRug]

I like the way Thunders look a lot actually. I started skating them when they had the old style baseplate with the rounded pivot cup and they looked a lot more sleek To me Ace are actually pretty ugly. Something about the proportion of the barrel and hanger yoke but I've never liked them. It's like someone forcing me to like a truck style I never skated.

[BartHarleyJarvis]

I didn’t realize “thunders are ugly” was even a thing. They’re so simple.

[dakotalofton]

BMXers doing 180s look terrible.

There's no natural way to do it on a bike. They then have to do another 180 to get back in to normal. Totally takes me out of the whole thing.

do BMXers even get down anymore?? I feel like late 2000's theres was gnarly shit happening in BMX now i see nothing really but park clips.

[Mean salto]

I didn’t realize “thunders are ugly” was even a thing. They’re so simple.

Thunders are the grey sweatpants of trucks

BMXers doing 180s look terrible.

There's no natural way to do it on a bike. They then have to do another 180 to get back in to normal. Totally takes me out of the whole thing.

Most bmx tricks look pretty bad. Tailwhips yuck. Barspins why bother. Bmx should just be going fucking fast and jumping shit and doing wallrides, wheelies and maybe feeble grinds

[Knee Pain]

Thunders are really ugly

My main issue with Thunders is they look so thin and plain compared to all the other brands.

Venture are the best looking imo, then Indy.