Thank you for that, the pics you put up really helped me decide my next board and truck purchases.
I like hoarding skate gear as much as the next Slap Pal, but I'm a working adult and cant be dropping 40-60 bucks every time couple of weeks to try stuff out. Swapping gear between setups is really time consuming and I got a damn blister on my hand from trying to remove bearing yesterday so I'm feeling pissy.
Then again we could be living in our own bubble where board, truck, WB and gear madness only exists on this tiny online space. The regular guy at the skatepark doesn't care about what his trucks are going to do to this WB or how many fingers of flat his board has. The only thing he cares about is width, which is probably why most brands or sites don't bother listing down every dimensions of their board. I sometimes yearn for the days of blissful ignorance.
Glad to help. I know when I was kicking around swapping trucks a few years ago I had a hell of a time finding any real info on things, and when I would ask around online or someone at the shop the info was always secondhand or 'common knowledge' stuff that's usually inaccurate.
In my experience, this. Every time I get into measurements of stuff I get looked at like a kook.
I wish I didn’t care so much but here I am on the truck thread yet again
Well, my goal if you want to call it that, is to just throw the info up there and let anyone who needs it help their decisions/madness. In my probably naive way I hope it takes guess work out of the equation, or takes any mystery out of the equation.
As for the kookery, obviously to some people it's whack, and I get it. I don't let it get under my skin, so long as you're not out preaching Lenny Kirk style to people about wheelbases. I've always liked knowing how stuff works, knowing how to fix and mod things, whether it's my bike or an instrument or whatever. It doesn't make me do any of those things better, just a different kind of satisfaction.
For what it's worth, I don't have much madness myself. Rode Indy's forever, had a brief fling with Aces (no real adjustment necessary) and have recently started flirting with Ventures. If the Ventures are still on my setup in the spring, I'll sell the Indy's to kill the temptation to switch back. Have to go cold turkey with that shit.