grinding down to the axle

[rawbertson.]

on the flip side, there is one curb i have put a stupid amount of hours on combined with a couple other people, it is so rounded it doesnt even hardly scratch your trucks at all anymore  its like a mini quarter pipe now its so fun

[djoekr]

Really trying my hardest, but these mf'ers just won't break. The pivot cup is non-existent at this point and the hanger's just going where it pleases. It's getting really hard to skate 'em, almost as hard as I'm fighting the urge to switch them out.

[PuffinMuffin]

Venture hangers with a local knock-off German Venture baseplates. I wanted to skate them until they broke but the axles were just too bent

[Made In China]

Been skating these Ventures for about two years now. My phone camera is kinda broken so the quality isn't great, but the back truck is fully to the axle and the front truck is almost there as well. Still going strong though!

[GashBandicoot]

My buddy's Venture 6.1 standards. He said the axle on his back truck was too bent otherwise he'd have kept riding this set.



I'm working on a set of 5.6 standards myself that I'll put up here when the time comes.

[Hqjdncm]

Every truck I axled within the last 6ish months

The aces axle bent too much to keep skating them
And I only hit back axle on my Indy’s rn so gonna keep skating them for a bit longer

But i keep ‘em all just incase I wanna skate them on another dick around board or if a homie really needs trucks

[Elijah Chandler]

Every truck I axled within the last 6ish months

The aces axle bent too much to keep skating them
And I only hit back axle on my Indy’s rn so gonna keep skating them for a bit longer

But i keep ‘em all just incase I wanna skate them on another dick around board or if a homie really needs trucks

first of all that's fuckin' gnar second of all how do you like the white eagle?

[Hqjdncm]

first of all that's fuckin' gnar second of all how do you like the white eagle?

Thanks and I like it a lot more than I expected. It definitely has a lot of taper which is noticeable but it feels like 8.75 but skates like an 8.6
Just hate when I do shove it tricks and my board ends up backwards but switch feels natural actually

[Jum Diggins]

[Alberteinstein]

Grinding to the axle on venture or thunder almost doesn’t count

Doing it on Indys is double the job

[Elijah Chandler]

Grinding to the axle on venture or thunder almost doesn’t count

Doing it on Indys is double the job

I'm all for indy's but what exactly do you mean? since I remember it being a bitch to get axled on emirco ventures

[Alberteinstein]

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Grinding to the axle on venture or thunder almost doesn’t count

Doing it on Indys is double the job

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Indy has double the metal


I'm all for indy's but what exactly do you mean? since I remember it being a bitch to get axled on emirco ventures

[SwitchFakie]

I cracked these indies the other day skating flatground of all things. Anyone experience getting a similar fracture in their trucks? I'll definitely be replacing them, but I was curious on how long I should expect them to hold for.

[Slave IV]

I cracked these indies the other day skating flatground of all things. Anyone experience getting a similar fracture in their trucks? I'll definitely be replacing them, but I was curious on how long I should expect them to hold for.

I got a similar fracture on a Tracker Ultralight that I ground down to the axel back in the day. It seemed to hold up for a while and never broke completely before I replaced it.

[Mbrimson88]

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I cracked these indies the other day skating flatground of all things. Anyone experience getting a similar fracture in their trucks? I'll definitely be replacing them, but I was curious on how long I should expect them to hold for.

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I got a similar fracture on a Tracker Ultralight that I ground down to the axel back in the day. It seemed to hold up for a while and never broke completely before I replaced it.

Yeah it could go either way.

Some have held up for a long time after a crack, while others have started to bend and end up with your wheel at an angle and things just don't feel so good, but either way if you are just skating flat, at least it is not as big a deal as someone skating a pool or something way bigger / faster.

If that crack is through the axle as well, they might not hold up half as long, but I can't quite see - almost looks like the axle is poking out there where the crack happened, but I am guessing that is more just the look and it is still just the hanger?


Also I think a lot of things are a build up to this point, so when someone says "I was barely doing anything at the time" I keep thinking I had seen a lot of other hits that board has taken before that point, but there is never a definite answer with things like this.

Some things just crack or break when I would not think there would have been enough cause for something like that.

How long has it taken you to get to that point on them?

[Plan9Customs]

I cracked these indies the other day skating flatground of all things. Anyone experience getting a similar fracture in their trucks? I'll definitely be replacing them, but I was curious on how long I should expect them to hold for.

Nope. Never.

To be fair those were from ~89.

[SwitchFakie]

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I cracked these indies the other day skating flatground of all things. Anyone experience getting a similar fracture in their trucks? I'll definitely be replacing them, but I was curious on how long I should expect them to hold for.

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I got a similar fracture on a Tracker Ultralight that I ground down to the axel back in the day. It seemed to hold up for a while and never broke completely before I replaced it.

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Yeah it could go either way.

Some have held up for a long time after a crack, while others have started to bend and end up with your wheel at an angle and things just don't feel so good, but either way if you are just skating flat, at least it is not as big a deal as someone skating a pool or something way bigger / faster.

If that crack is through the axle as well, they might not hold up half as long, but I can't quite see - almost looks like the axle is poking out there where the crack happened, but I am guessing that is more just the look and it is still just the hanger?


Also I think a lot of things are a build up to this point, so when someone says "I was barely doing anything at the time" I keep thinking I had seen a lot of other hits that board has taken before that point, but there is never a definite answer with things like this.

Some things just crack or break when I would not think there would have been enough cause for something like that.

How long has it taken you to get to that point on them?

I've been riding them for a while, I think since 2021/22. These still had the iron cross on the baseplates when I bought them, I'm not too sure when they removed that. I mainly skate parks, I guess metal edges will grind it down much slower. But it was definitely about time, I'm just bummed that I have to change my trucks.

[Garfiled L. Asagna LLC]

I like when u can tell this person loves a nice back crook. Feel like you can always tell though when it is back crooks exclusively down to the axel.

[Slave IV]

I like when u can tell this person loves a nice back crook. Feel like you can always tell though when it is back crooks exclusively down to the axel.

I have no idea what you are talking about

[BartHarleyJarvis]

I cracked these indies the other day skating flatground of all things. Anyone experience getting a similar fracture in their trucks? I'll definitely be replacing them, but I was curious on how long I should expect them to hold for.

That's how mine cracked too but obviously I was a lot deeper into the truck than you are. I think you'll probably be dealing with a bent axle pretty soon if you keep trying to skate them.

[Noble Experiment]

I cracked these indies the other day skating flatground of all things. Anyone experience getting a similar fracture in their trucks? I'll definitely be replacing them, but I was curious on how long I should expect them to hold for.

Damn dawg, switch it out. Best to do it now as opposed to later when it's breaking in two mid grind or mid hill bomb and catching a dead stop straight to the hip.

[The Huffer]

Respect.

[pop idiot]

Here's my box of trash. Always wanted to grind thru an axel completely but my bushings always blow out first and there's no hope getting the nut back on the kingpin. Some day

[Mbrimson88]

Here's my box of trash. Always wanted to grind thru an axel completely but my bushings always blow out first and there's no hope getting the nut back on the kingpin. Some day

Nice!!!

I find it quite the challenge to fix very old and worn parts like that, maybe not the cracked hangers, but any hanger, even to axle can usually be put on a board used as a cruiser, or for kids to have a go on, as well as the baseplates being fixed, mainly angle grinding the kingpin a little right on the end if it is really mashed, then using a rethreader to make sure a nut will go on it easily enough and then see what fits.

I do have trimmed down bushings that can fit, as well as machined down kingpin nuts too, all of which help to get a hanger on to a very well worn down kingpin, but more often than not, things still fit well enough on a number of trucks that looked like that over the years.


In some ways though, it is pretty cool to be able to look back over some parts that were skated to death (or near death) and just admire the effort that has gone into them.

What sort of timeframe would a set of trucks last like that?

[rawbertson.]

Skating for a long time was all about consumption. Wizard Staffs, Breakin Boards, Closets full of Kicks, Hammers. A lot of people not doing jack shit besides skate, not really contributing anything useful. It was all you did 1000%. The world has changed, people are starting to realize you gotta chip in. Companies aren't handing out free jobs anymore, and that's trickled down to pro skaters. Can't JUST SKATE anymore

[pop idiot]

What sort of timeframe would a set of trucks last like that?

I've hit the axle in a month of weekend sessions skating chunky curbs and parking blocks... but that's like barely a peek of axle and a lot of trick repetition breaking em in to get the grooves. I felt like a sick boy hitting it that quick tho! I try to ride trucks until they break, so prolly like 6 months of grinding concrete or thereabouts.

Been doing a bunch of feebles lately and had to give up on my last pair before they broke broke cuz the bushings were toast. Stock washers have curved edges and seem to eat chunks out of my bushings with pinched tricks so I put flat washers on my new set hoping to remedy that.

I don't mess with refurbishing old trucks and it is a weirdly prideful/hoarderish of me to keep em.

[Mbrimson88]

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What sort of timeframe would a set of trucks last like that?

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I've hit the axle in a month of weekend sessions skating chunky curbs and parking blocks... but that's like barely a peek of axle and a lot of trick repetition breaking em in to get the grooves. I felt like a sick boy hitting it that quick tho! I try to ride trucks until they break, so prolly like 6 months of grinding concrete or thereabouts.

Been doing a bunch of feebles lately and had to give up on my last pair before they broke broke cuz the bushings were toast. Stock washers have curved edges and seem to eat chunks out of my bushings with pinched tricks so I put flat washers on my new set hoping to remedy that.

I don't mess with refurbishing old trucks and it is a weirdly prideful/hoarderish of me to keep em.

Some could say it would be worse hoarding a whole lot of new stock if it never really gets used, so I think you have the better end of it there, with so many parts that are used almost to extinction, but also to be fair, trying to fix really old or really broken stuff is just not worth it either.

I have a lot of really old stuff, much of it from others, that is used more for show and tell, or decoration than anything else - broken hangers and baseplates, flatspotted wheels that could never be fixed, etc.

That shoe box of old trucks is worth the memories alone, so never think that is a bad thing.

[radcunt]

Grinding Down to the Axle is the name of my teenage romance biography

[moshandwallies]

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Respect.

This is wild.