Here to do my civic duty and report on these new Ace 55's. As others have said, these are definitely not Indy's even if it's supposedly true they extended the wheelbase. I didn't need to break out measuring tools, neither do you. You'll be alright. These turn like Ace's, which is why you skate them, or why you're curious to skate them and reading this. Because you wanna feel that fucking turn baby.
I'm heavier so Ace stocks give me pretty bad wheelbite at first until they firm up. The bushings look and feel identical to the ones that have been coming stock on the classics. Seems like they just swapped the washers for ones that don't make the bushings peel or pop out when you lean. The casting isn't that grainy soft feel like the AF1'S which is pretty clear to the naked eye. Much more shiny polished look and harder feel when you drag your fingernail across it. The grind felt slightly stickier.
Kingpins are goldish colored and look more "precision" machined. Axles look better machined l guess, too. Laser engraved to indicate the size...ok but who really fucking cares at the end of the day. Axle nuts are cool, blah blah blah. So overall, in terms of all the metal parts of this truck, the quality control has been stepped up...is it worth the hype?
Let's get on to these pivot cups. Or perhaps even the actual pivot cavity itself. Before I even rolled on these and left the trucks stock tightness, I could wiggle the pivot point of the hanger back and forth with significant space inside of the pivot cup. After skating for literally less than an hour, I noticed the tops of these pivot cups are like melting and it looks like a gunky layer of wax and it's attracted quite a few granules from the ground to stick to it. It's like 48⁰F here. Not hot.
Due to the play inside of the pivot cavity, it's creating a dead sound when my board rolls and pops. This is what frustrates me the most with Ace's, as I've had a lot of sets in my lifetime and there's been some that no matter what they sounded dead, and others that were proper and crisp sounding. Never had this issue with any other trucks out there, and I've skated em all.
Let's go back to that question....are these worth the hype?
No. 100% no.
I overpaid for a truck that's .12" wider than my 44's (which have been working fine), sound dead, have melting pivot cups, stickier grind and aesthetically look a little prettier (I love this V2 type hanger more than the ugly V3 "classics"). Is the aluminum and everything stronger? Sure, yeah. But I'm not naive enough to believe these are some INDESTRUCTIBLE trucks that are being marketed like GAME CHANGING quality and strength.
Some will say I'm being negative or whatever, but I'm just being real here, folks. Until another truck company can surpass Ace's geometry, I'll always ride em. But next time I'm gonna go skate I'll be putting my V2 44 classics on that are nice and grooved in and sound crisp. I'll either sell these or just keep them and see if I can find a pivot cup that will fit the fuckin hanger into it properly like these marketed 96a boutique hand poured ones should have done in the first place
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