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I recommend breaking in your bushings at stock tightness.
Once the bottom bushings looks like a shaved nutsack your preforming truck at all tightnesseses
please listen to the good man. please.
as many others have mentioned: break in the stock bushings. it really is the easiest thing to do: do not tighten, do not buy something else, just cruise around. after a few days the bushings will settle in/firm up, and you can at that point, tighten them down (for best results do not tighten drastically, tighten, skate, tighten, skate....you get it). ace are not my forever truck, but they are the shit, and if you enjoy the simple act of skateboarding i do not see how someone would not get at least some enjoyment out of using ace: best turn.
I actually got pretty mad at the trucks the other day, after troubleshooting with them for an hour. I’ve never in my life have to do this with a truck. Could barely ride them at stock tightness, and tightened them when the bushing ripped a bit hanging off the washer. Called up Tactics, they will accept a used return. I’m not messing around with it, it should ride well stock, like every single other truck I’ve had in my entire life has.
Will stick with indys, thunders and ventures. They don’t have as nice of a turn, but I can actually ride them.
I like and ride other trucks too.
That being said, I do not fucking understand when people hop on a skateboard, hop off, and instantly crank the bushing down, and then are upset when the bushing break. That is how to break/rip/tear bushings. It’s weird as hell to expect a different result.
I like ventures, a lot, but it’s basically the opposite problem for me with stock bushings: need to loosen em up a lot before I can get enough turn, or swap out the top washer for a flat washer. I’ll still skate em for a few sessions stock first. That’s the breaking it in part. People that try and short cut this type of shit for sure buy pre ripped pants.
I didn’t tighten it down that much, maybe medium, and not all at once. Nothing I haven’t done before 50 times.
I do like how the geometry works, I do like the quality and detail, and I do like the turn, but they pivot too deep or something and had too much wheelbite even at medium tight, with 2.54mm risers and 53mm wheels. I’m well over 200lbs, if that matters, but always ride stock bushings without issues.
I feel like I would have to do a lot more experimenting to figure out how to keep their deep turn, without any bite. It might be worth it, and I feel bad and stupid for giving up on them, since they are high quality, but it just seems like work and $ that may not pay off.
I just want turn key trucks, like I get from Venture, Indy and Thunder. Thanks for the help though guys, I’m out.