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Has anyone run the blue 92a aftermarket bushings on forged baseplates? Curious if they’re the same height as the stock ones, I like the kingpin nut flush. I tried running Krux in mine, but the bottom bushing was taller and it threw off the geo, although they felt good. I’m coming back to Indy’s after a few years on thunders, they just feel like home to me. I’m craving a little more stability setting up for tricks after being used to thunders, but overall super hyped to be back on Indy’s. I pop my tricks higher, turn better, grind father. Only things I prefer about thunders is the crisp pop feel and the stability while still having a decent turn (definitely don’t turn as nice as Indy’s though).
Just a heads up im 6 ft 175lbs and I just tried the 92a blue barrel indy bushings today and it was wheelbite city. I cranked them down to the point my kingpin nut was showing 2 threads and I still got wheelbite. Will try the black 94a next.
Good to know! I just ordered a set, we’ll see how I do on them. I’m 5’9” and down to 140lbs after a recent surfing trip (was eating pretty healthy, but not a lot, and surfing burns mad calories)
I love the black Indy bushings. They are stable but you still get a good turn/carve without having to tighten the nut past 1 thread showing. I'm 5'11'' and 185lbs though so idk how you will like it.
How do that black ones break in? They feel stable yet turn (when I lean with all my weight) but low key scared that they’ll stiffen up. I’m about same weight as you and normally like to ride mid average tightness
A generalisation, if I may...
The stock bushings are very squishy and then firm up some as they break in.
The aftermarket bushings in the softer duros feel like they start off a bit stiff for a second, then soften right up a lot more as they age. Then the aftermarket bushings in the harder duros sometimes feel like they are way too stiff right from go, or then flex out at the sides a whole lot if they are pushed too much before breaking in, but as they break in and soften up but also firm up, it is not so much that they get a lot harder, but more so they get more consistent in the feel of them, or even once really well worn in they are actually not that hard at all, but they have a little bit more stiffness when pushed down hard on either side, if that makes sense?
I have some black and even yellow bushings that have been very well used and those things feel so good with the nut flush on standard trucks with 56mm wheels, being able to turn and still get a little wheelbite, but hold up a lot better than the softer / stock bushings do, by comparison.
Not everyone feels that way though, as some people I know have bought them, said they could not turn at all on either black 94 or yellow 96 duro bushings and pretty much discarded them, or swapped them with me for some blue 92 or even the red 88 (which were way stiffer before). The aftermarket orange at 90 duro are very soft feeling and don't even ask about the white 78s if you want any kind of stiffness or stability - those things are for people with feather weight bodies or ankles of steel (and who can control a board that feels like it has almost no bushings at all) but we are not talking about those ones, so back to the black ones.
The conical shape give a bit more than the cylinder as well, so if you want a little more turn / less stiffness, try those ones if available. They usually come in both, but the cylinder seem to be way more common in some areas.
Hopefully that helps, but with any bushings, please allow a few sessions to break in and become "normal" and even doing some side to side movements just standing on the board in front of tv or standing on carpet or where ever can help to go from new weird feeling bushings to a bit more comfortable normal feeling bushings.