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I wonder if Indy basically released the 144 and any new Indy’s after the 144 as secretly the stage 11.5
Cause I use to hate how tippy Indy’s height felt but I can’t get off how good my 144 are on this 8.1 lurkville
The 144 don’t feel 55mm at all, they feel definitely like 53mm a good medium, I can see why people like Indy’s now cause once you get the right size dialed in they are some good trucks
I’m running them bone stock, standard 144 cast solid with stock orange cushions and they feel great
Naaaah, don't go down that rabbit hole man. I will say they started to use better bushings in the last year or so. I just picked up a new set of forged hollow 149's, the stock orange cylinders are the same as the aftermarket ones now, better urethane with the lathed faces where they sit against the hanger. I compared them to an older set of 149 stock bushings (from USA stamped Indy's) and those bushings looked like molded shit in comparison.
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IMG_7331 by J J, on Flickr
From left to right, bushing from deadstock USA 149's (I'd say 2-3 years old, but unskated), bushing from new forged hollows, standard aftermarket bushing.
Haha idk man they keep coming out with stuff in this industry secretly cause they know there would be an uproar if they announced something new and months later found out they needed to revise the design and can’t announce it cause people would be upset and want an exchange or return
Like when they started putting cylinder bushings in the Indy lows instead of the og thunder style cone bushings they always had and the hangars got a better polish and shape that seemed to have a little more clearance
And I’m just a kook about this but how the thunder 147 kept getting better designed, I have the first set of thunder 147 II and 2 years later got another set and they were made a lot better and then a year ago got some hollow lights with the 147 engraved near the axle and they’re even better and the even newer sets look like they’re a tiny bit taller
Even my ace 44 classics, got them when they were just out and months later saw them in the shop and they looked way better made compared to first stock
But hey you could be right about it just being the bushings cause those red after markets are so good and I can see why they would just revise the classic orange stock to be that formula, so stable but free
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