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I wrangled w/ the urge to stick up on these in case they were a brief historic burp on the overall skate hardware timeline, but came to some peace after deciding that there is simply no way Indy would pay to have molds made up for these things if they weren’t planning on running them for at least a couple of production cycles.
Way I figure: this buys me a little time to decide if they are “the truck for me” before I stock up for the rest of ever.
What are the other SLAP user’s thoughts on stockpiling in the possible event your fave product has a short lived privation life span?
I wrestle with this hoarding ideology everytime I discover a product I love.
It happens to me w/ deck & wheel shapes on the regs.
Trucks are a lickle bit more “glacial” in the movement of their production timelines, but I find myself wondering sometimes: should I have picked up an extra set, or twelve, of these things while they’re still being made?!?
Your thoughts, please.
This is how you end up as one of the posters in 'gear madness' thread with stacks of shit you'll never skate. One extra pair, sure, but more than that is insane.
Ha yeah, been there, done that...
But really trucks last the longest, so in 2017 when I saw Standard 144s finally came out, I tried one set, thought they were great and got a few more after I had skated these ones for a while, but I didn't go out and get ten sets all at once at first. That came later.
Now I am on 149s and can't see that changing any time soon, so I have more than enough to never need trucks again.
It doesn't help I still have boards of all sizes set up and backups of all sizes of trucks too, but I am interested in seeing these Stage 4 when they come out, but not keen enough to change over everything and if I do end up with one set, it will be for a cruiser board more than anything.
After all I still have Stage 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 trucks on boards as well, almost all cruisers, given nothing performs for me as well as Stage 11 for everything and I have Ace trucks if I really want a lot of turn, so all bases are covered really.