Coming back from not skating for a while, I wanted to optimize my setup, so that I wouldn't have to think about. Couldn't blame it for anything, just skate. Try to make it kind of generic.
I came up with that 8.25" or 8.5" were my ideal deck sizes.
Figured 8.38" was the middle ground for trucks
and 54mm for wheels.
But to work with the deck widths, I wanted flush wheels/grind space, so 8.5" or 8.75" are my truck options. And to have the biggest wheels I can without too much wheelbite, the trucks and wheels I decided on are cast venture hi's, cast indy's, or aces, with 54-56mm 99a F4's depending on truck brand. Hollows if available.
I think the best setup for hill bombing is probably a cast venture Hi 6.1, on an 8.5 deck, with 54/55mm conical fulls
For pools and stuff, a cast Indy 159, on an 8.5, with 56mm conical fulls sounds right.
The one I ended up going with, that I'm skating right now is Ace AF1 55's, on an 8.25", with 54mm OG classics. This could be the one. Definitely the easiest to skate. Different wheels could make it easier maybe.
I think a shaped 9.25 with a shorter wb or the front truck drilled back, risers and 57-59mm wheels would be tight, on like 9" aces or 169s... And to fix pop angle I could slap a tail skid on there
Over the years I've skated everything from 7.25" to 10" for decks, 129's to 169's, and ~44 to 64mm wheels, venture lows, thunders of most heights and sizes, indys of many different stages and heights, and now some AF1's.
Honestly only really curious about venture hi 5.8's and 6.1's. Might set up two identical boards, one with venture highs and one with aces, and see which one I like better. I feel like indys are right in the middle of those two and I've skated all the indys but 109's and 215's.
Indy is definitely the most common truck I think, shame about stage 9 and 10, shame about the marketing.
Spitfire F4's are the most common/popular wheel, p sure
I think the AH eagles/Baker logo decks are the best generic looking decks
IDK what the hell I'm talking about, thanks for coming to my ted talk