grinding down to the axle

[formula420]

Just broke the seal for the first time.

[InkkeACAB]

[Jort250]

Little bit of axle peek before retirement

*for some reason, you have to click on the actual photo to see the proper image that dosent look like it was taken with a calculator

[Slave IV]

Some nice work in this thread! I haven’t been able to grind down to axel since back in the day like @bumpnrun mentioned near the beginning of this thread… used to just go as fast as I could at raw, unpainted or waxed curb in front of my house and learn to grind the whole thing. Took a while but grinded my Tracker UltraLites down to the axel.

Recently, learned crooks and been doing them non-stop whenever I skate a curb or ledge and finally hit axel again!

[hiljentaa]

Broke this board today and had to take a picture before I took it apart. PS Stix so was sooo flexy at the end, but such a fun shape.

First time hitting axle too.

[Too Frank To Fred]

Some nice work in this thread! I haven’t been able to grind down to axel since back in the day like @bumpnrun mentioned near the beginning of this thread… used to just go as fast as I could at raw, unpainted or waxed curb in front of my house and learn to grind the whole thing. Took a while but grinded my Tracker UltraLites down to the axel.

Recently, learned crooks and been doing them non-stop whenever I skate a curb or ledge and finally hit axel again!

Love it. Learn a new trick and do it to death. Your axled truck is your trophy for time well spent.

[back smith]

Some nice work in this thread! I haven’t been able to grind down to axel since back in the day like @bumpnrun mentioned near the beginning of this thread… used to just go as fast as I could at raw, unpainted or waxed curb in front of my house and learn to grind the whole thing. Took a while but grinded my Tracker UltraLites down to the axel.

Recently, learned crooks and been doing them non-stop whenever I skate a curb or ledge and finally hit axel again!

Ha! That's insane. Could have thrown in a couple of 50 50s or something.

Tracker Ultralites? Aren't those the plastic baseplate Trackers from the 80s?

[Slave IV]

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Some nice work in this thread! I haven’t been able to grind down to axel since back in the day like @bumpnrun mentioned near the beginning of this thread… used to just go as fast as I could at raw, unpainted or waxed curb in front of my house and learn to grind the whole thing. Took a while but grinded my Tracker UltraLites down to the axel.

Recently, learned crooks and been doing them non-stop whenever I skate a curb or ledge and finally hit axel again!

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Love it. Learn a new trick and do it to death. Your axled truck is your trophy for time well spent.

Haha, yeah... Definitely a trophy! Since the trucks are still pretty good, I'm going to flip them around and try to do the same with the back truck swapped to front.

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Some nice work in this thread! I haven’t been able to grind down to axel since back in the day like @bumpnrun mentioned near the beginning of this thread… used to just go as fast as I could at raw, unpainted or waxed curb in front of my house and learn to grind the whole thing. Took a while but grinded my Tracker UltraLites down to the axel.

Recently, learned crooks and been doing them non-stop whenever I skate a curb or ledge and finally hit axel again!

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Ha! That's insane. Could have thrown in a couple of 50 50s or something.

Tracker Ultralites? Aren't those the plastic baseplate Trackers from the 80s?

50 50 's are the only grind trick I've been able to do my whole life so I've been obsessed once I finally learned crooks. Still did a few here and there but yeah. I'm trying to do some little 5-0's and hopefully learn feebles next.

Yeah, those Tracker Ultralites were my favorite trucks back then. People say the baseplates broke easy but mine are still good to this day (although I haven't rode them since they were axeled decades ago). I really love light tech trucks, which is ironic since my current setups are on Ace AF1, probably the heaviest trucks I ever owned and Tracker 159 regs, which are also pretty heavy.

[botefdunn]

coming along nicely

[Slave IV]

coming along nicely

Wow, I don’t think I’ve seen such a perfectly symmetrical grind pattern curving down to the middle of the truck before. I can only imagine how good one has to be to be able to do all the grinds equally to achieve that.

[botefdunn]

ha! @Slave IV  that's a generous thought and id love to believe it, but I think its mostly just cause ive big skating derby a lot lately, and it has this big perfectly rounded concrete lip.

[djoekr]

Thought these were gonna be cooked 2 new decks ago, but they're still holding on for dear life. The top bushing and pivot cup have completely disintegrated, and normally I'd switch trucks at this point. Even got a new set on ice, but I'm on a mission to finally break this mf'er. Trucks are getting squirelly loose, as the bushings are as good as absent, so one of us is gonna break something in this battle.

[Plan9Customs]

Thought these were gonna be cooked 2 new decks ago, but they're still holding on for dear life. The top bushing and pivot cup have completely disintegrated, and normally I'd switch trucks at this point. Even got a new set on ice, but I'm on a mission to finally break this mf'er. Trucks are getting squirelly loose, as the bushings are as good as absent, so one of us is gonna break something in this battle.

Nice.

[Rasmus]

Thought these were gonna be cooked 2 new decks ago, but they're still holding on for dear life. The top bushing and pivot cup have completely disintegrated, and normally I'd switch trucks at this point. Even got a new set on ice, but I'm on a mission to finally break this mf'er. Trucks are getting squirelly loose, as the bushings are as good as absent, so one of us is gonna break something in this battle.

I appreciate your attitude of having a standoff with your trucks <3

[botefdunn]

i just ground down to the rotor, less cool

[rawbertson.]

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Anyone get down to axle purely (or at least mostly) from ledge skating? I assume most of these are from curbs or coping. No shade, I was just wonder if it was possible since I think it would take next level patience to do that.

[rocklobster]

Anyone get down to axle purely (or at least mostly) from ledge skating? I assume most of these are from curbs or coping. No shade, I was just wonder if it was possible since I think it would take next level patience to do that.

Maybe a really chunky granite ledge, marble and skate park coped ledges aren't eating into a hanger this aggressively.

[roba]

Anyone get down to axle purely (or at least mostly) from ledge skating? I assume most of these are from curbs or coping. No shade, I was just wonder if it was possible since I think it would take next level patience to do that.

i only got the back truck with thunders. i used to be a thunder guy ages 14-18, every single pair would last me like a year, then i would hit axle on the back truck and almost immediately the hanger would crack around it, like the axle would be the only thing keeping the hanger together. at that point i would retire them.

if you count hitting axle from crooked grinds then i had it happen on all brands that i've skated since i learned them, so that would be silver, thunder, ace (classics) and venture. aces would take the longest.

i might have some the old hangers at my parents' home, i'll check the next time i go there

most of the grinding that counts for something was on angle iron ledges. the decent street ledges here that you can actually skate for longer than 2 minutes are made of this weird orange plastic that has a texture that resembles wood, but isn't. it grinds well but i feel like the trucks wear that away faster than the other way around. there's also one granite ledge and one marble ledge in my city. so yeah like 90% angle iron.

[rawbertson.]

Not really down to the axle, just close. Usually wears out a lot more evenly. I am gonna try to hit a switch Slappy for every regular one on this set of T2 I just set up. Normally the hangar would fail or baseplate would get too reamed out.

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Anyone get down to axle purely (or at least mostly) from ledge skating? I assume most of these are from curbs or coping. No shade, I was just wonder if it was possible since I think it would take next level patience to do that.

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i only got the back truck with thunders. i used to be a thunder guy ages 14-18, every single pair would last me like a year, then i would hit axle on the back truck and almost immediately the hanger would crack around it, like the axle would be the only thing keeping the hanger together. at that point i would retire them.

if you count hitting axle from crooked grinds then i had it happen on all brands that i've skated since i learned them, so that would be silver, thunder, ace (classics) and venture. aces would take the longest.

i might have some the old hangers at my parents' home, i'll check the next time i go there

most of the grinding that counts for something was on angle iron ledges. the decent street ledges here that you can actually skate for longer than 2 minutes are made of this weird orange plastic that has a texture that resembles wood, but isn't. it grinds well but i feel like the trucks wear that away faster than the other way around. there's also one granite ledge and one marble ledge in my city. so yeah like 90% angle iron.

Yeah I figured the back truck on 5-0s or front on crooks would be the most likely scenarios. I think for me it would be difficult because old trucks tend to start feeling shitty to pop off on for ledges while they would be still decent for transition and slappies. It would be more that I would be over it before completely eating through the hangers evenly.

[tom]

Anyone get down to axle purely (or at least mostly) from ledge skating? I assume most of these are from curbs or coping. No shade, I was just wonder if it was possible since I think it would take next level patience to do that.

I purposely tried to do it in a week when I was a teenager. It took me almost 3 weeks to hit the axle. I was breaking in and skating some smaller granite ledges. I probably could've done it sooner if I only focused on grinds and didn't do any slides or flip tricks in that time

[Unkle Fleak]

Me last axled pair

[whale]

Anyone get down to axle purely (or at least mostly) from ledge skating? I assume most of these are from curbs or coping. No shade, I was just wonder if it was possible since I think it would take next level patience to do that.

No pics, but a lot of crooked grinds as a kid got through plenty of hangers

[Filip]

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Anyone get down to axle purely (or at least mostly) from ledge skating? I assume most of these are from curbs or coping. No shade, I was just wonder if it was possible since I think it would take next level patience to do that.

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No pics, but a lot of crooked grinds as a kid got through plenty of hangers

I have a set of Thunders 151 and Ventures 6.1 both down to axle, and I never slappied in my life until recently. So yeah, its possible, it just took about a year or so with each set. And of course, a lot of crooked grinds.

[rawbertson.]

lol Destructo's came out like 15 years too early

[Unkle Fleak]

Anyone get down to axle purely (or at least mostly) from ledge skating? I assume most of these are from curbs or coping. No shade, I was just wonder if it was possible since I think it would take next level patience to do that.

Tons of times but I do admit that well maintained ledges are less destructive on trucks than curbs.

I think it’s because of the popping element and the height of the obstacle has us with less weight over the obstacle. Also that people as a collective put more work into making ledges go nice where with curbs I’m doing it largely alone.

[Mbrimson88]

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Some of the DIY ledges with angle iron just eat trucks almost more than anything else, at least the ones we had made / friends had made.  I don't know what materials were used on one ledge in particular but that thing was notorious for chewing through hangers on grinds, as well as biting into baseplates on nose and tail slides more than anything else I had ever seen.

The wear is definitely quite different from curb skating or transition skating when looking at some well used / destroyed hangers from those guys and I wish I had kept or taken pics of a few of the front hangers I had seen with crooked grinds through the axle, from back in the day at skate shops I worked in, but they were something else.

I think a few guys on here had taken their front truck to axle before the back too, but I hadn't gone looking for them.

[somethingmustbreaknow]

I think a few guys on here had taken their front truck to axle before the back too, but I hadn't gone looking for them.

front truck. down to the axle. but i retired them after this winter to  start with all new setup in spring. still have sum life left. ill probably  ive them away to a girly friend, who wants to start skateboarding.

mine always look like this - no wonder, these were my old trucks too. comes from heavy crookeds/nollie crookeds on steel-angled ledges. i've found that the grooves come faster/get deeper when doing nollie crooks, may have something to do with the distribution of weight.

[Mbrimson88]

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I think a few guys on here had taken their front truck to axle before the back too, but I hadn't gone looking for them.

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front truck. down to the axle. but i retired them after this winter to  start with all new setup in spring. still have sum life left. ill probably  ive them away to a girly friend, who wants to start skateboarding.

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mine always look like this - no wonder, these were my old trucks too. comes from heavy crookeds/nollie crookeds on steel-angled ledges. i've found that the grooves come faster/get deeper when doing nollie crooks, may have something to do with the distribution of weight.

Ha yeah!!  So good to see.

Also the bite on that ledge really shows too, both the crook grind marks and the "L" point where the truck meets the wheel and it is just flat edge from there out towards the middle of the hanger. 

When people do crook combinations on curbs, it is more often the middle of the truck right in front of the kingpin that usually wears through for the most part, at least from what I have seen of some other trucks.