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Me in the corner still pissed off at my 169's leaning to the right for a month now
did you skate them loose for a few sessions to break in the bushings and are they exceptionally tight now? One thing you can do is loosen the trucks, turn the bushings 90 degrees (1/4 turn around) and then skate them. This will help set the rebound.
That being said, if you have them cranked down nothing will help
Was going to say something similar, but I like the sound the sound of the turning ye bushings to change the position! Haven’t heard that one.
All of the other stuff is bang on: loose as possible for a few days, gradually tighten. If you like Tony Hawk tight, make sure to get bushings that are super hard. And I’d still break em in for a little before cranking them down. I used to do this ALL the time when getting a new setup. And then just be bummed (just crank the bushings down), always break bushings, or push them over the edge of the washers. After getting older and way worse I got into just riding around more, so I’ll go out and just push around not really try much, helps everything get settled.
I want to NOT tight truck shame here. I think the loose loose loose trucks thing is fun/funny, but can be very wack. I could Ollie way better with tight trucks. Some folks with tight trucks look awesome (Andrew Reynolds), and some folks look less cool when they loosen they shit up (Chris Joslin is by no means my favorite skater, but his footage on venture lows, which I’m assuming had to be pretty tight, looks way better to me than when he switched to Indy)