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Tough call. The DLX 8.62 is my favorite popsicle shape. So much so I do both 44s and 55s. One for tranny one for street. If I had to choose only one it would be 44s.
Why your fave shape? Why the 44s better?
Up until the last....7 years or so (making shit up, but sounds right in my head) I felt like it was common to see overhang, boards larger than the trucks by .25” ish. The 8.25 on 149s seems like the most common setup since then. I like the way wide trucks look, and if I was trying to lock into a bunch of rails or ledges I’d go that way. But sadly I just want to try and flip my board a little and go back inside. Narrower trucks seem to help that mission. I really have no clue what I’m talking about and had a set up with 159s on 8.25 and flipped that as easy as any board I’ve had. (Exception was 3flips. They’d go but it was a weird rotation).
If you flip that set up around a lot then 44s would be better (for most people). 55s would be better for transition, gaps, cruising, rails, ledges, etc (basically everything else).
The reason you see longer truck to board ratios these days is mainly due to the profession in handrails. People also probably do it because they know it’ll look cooler when they post a photo to Slap/IG sadly.
You also used to see a lot of trucks smaller than boards because most companies didn’t make an 8.25” truck and 8.25s were the most common shape up until recently so people would run 8” trucks with them.
I should mention that wheel choice has a lot to do with what size trucks you get. For example Radial Slims, Tablets, Bones V2s, and Bones V3s are pretty damn narrow so running that wheel on trucks smaller than your board would make it pretty damn magic carpet-like. My 8.0s with Thunder 147s and 52mm Radial Slims has a pretty decent sized gap from the edge of the deck to the outer side of my wheels while my brother’s 8.5 with Indy 147s and 54mm Ricta Clouds has the wheels and deck essentially flush.
If you ride a narrowish wheel and an 8.6-8.75 Aces are an awkward option. That’s why I’d lean more towards Indies if I liked a fairly flush truck. You can go Forged Hollow if you want a truck similar in height to Aces. They turn pretty damn close in my opinion and they are only half a millimeter taller. The biggest difference is the extra 1/4” in wheelbase but you could change your deck shape to fix that.
I feel like going above 8.5 with 44s is really pushing it unless you ride extra spacers and some wide ass wheels but that’s just my personal preference. 55s on an 8.6 also seems too much for me. If I’m running trucks smaller than the deck I try to keep it around a .125” difference or less. If I’m going bigger my max is .25” (unless it’s a cruiser). That’s why at 8.6 I’d go Indy 149s if I wanted to flip that setup around a lot. If I was set on Aces I feel like I’d step down to an 8.375 or an 8.5. I’m sure you could find a similar shape in 8.5 and that shouldn’t be that hard to switch to.
Once again this is obviously my personal mindset and everyone’s different. I mean look at magic carpet surfers like Reynolds. I just couldn’t do that shit.
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