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I spent over 600 dollars on trucks last year.
If Ford Raptor: good.
If Tensor: bad.
Half was Tensor. 
That's pretty wild. Why would one pay 300 bucks to not turn?
The ATGs turn, they're like a cross between an Indy and a Thunder. Unfortunately, the axles bend.
That's actually good to know, I was mostly joking because I remember back when Tensor trucks first came out and still were a curiosity, I actually bought a pair then so did a lot of my friends, to try them out. The general consensus turned into this private joke as even the most enthusiastic of us realized that on those models, no matter how much you loosened them, you would indeed get more and more flex but still zero turning, because of the geometry - felt like you were locked onto train tracks. I assume exactly that happened to an entire generation worldwide at once really, and that's how the stigma stuck. I never skated Tensors ever since, but that was nearly two decades ago and so I wouldn't doubt they improved on the formula in the meantime. Maybe you shouldn't listen to me though as I really always felt the same about Thunders even though so many people on here praise them, the pair I had just wouldn't turn enough to my liking (in terms of radius) even when loosened to the max and I could never skate those; ended up just giving them away after three (ruined) sessions tops.
Hahaha, your story is really relatable, I made the misfortune of spending 70 dollars on a pair of maglite Tensor "AGTs" from a local shop. The shop owner swore they were the ATGs, they, were not, they were Tensor's old geometry. Slapped them bad boys on my board, and went out for a quick skate around the neighborhood. Kept eating shit repeatedly. Trucks did not turn one bit, just went straight to wheel bite. It wasn't like Thunder wheelbite that you can ride out of. They would fling you off abruptly. Ended up giving them to a ~10-year-old girl at the skatepark who asked me how to ollie. In retrospect she was probably better off with her Tony Hawk Walmart trucks.
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It's like they're trying to make the worst garbage possible...
They have a lifetime warranty though, I shipped my old bent ones in. Anyday a box of new shiny trucks is going to show up on my door. They're just taking their sweet old time, it's only been a year now.
I guess this kind of qualifies as a real confession but you know what the worst stuff I was ever stuck with was truck-wise, freaking Gullwings, back in 2000 or so for some reason in my country Decathlon (sporting goods chain store) was carrying a lot of U.S. skate products for cheap as if the main distribution company here had found an outlet for rejects and gear with defects, I remember being 13 or 14 in one of those stores looking at the skate aisle and they had a full rack of Gullwings for like 2 bucks a truck, as a little kid the price to value ratio seemed incredible and so I instantly bought like 10. I remember they felt sort of alright except none of them ever held up for more than a couple of sessions (and ironically the local spot we were always skating at the time was rough as fuck, that probably didn't help). What I thought was going to be my next three years worth of trucks I ended up burning through in a month.
That Decathlon store also had Girl decks with warped tails, Powell decks with absolutely zero concave (completely flat ones), and a bunch of Monkey Stix boards that must have been like size 7.0, all coming with griptape each and every ollie would eventually sand all the grain off of. Also, Royal trucks with kingpins so long you would actually hang up on grinds (and possibly destroy a ledge or two) for your first two weeks of skating them. No skateshop in the vicinity whatsoever at the time so we used to skate a lot of horrible stuff.
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