Once I rode my first set of Ace’s many years ago, they’ve successfully made every set of any other brand of trucks feel like shit. Once I got used to the snappy, deep, hair trigger turning and smooth grinds, no truck has been able to match it. They feel how a truck should feel, anything else is unnatural and weird. Quality control is undoubtedly still a problem but not like it used to be. Latest run of Indy standards at my local say made in China on the axle tags, so no real reason to have blind loyalty to an inferior geometry, since the USA made appeal is forever gone.