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Take a gander at these puppies that just fell from the sky. I'll tell you all about them, but I'll let you nerds have a little talk amongst yourselves first.
Looks like stage 8 159s/169s with Krux pins. Pretty cool. I love stage 11 but I would be lying if I said the hanger and yoke didn't look so much better on the older stages.
Nice spot on the stage 8. I must have baby hands, 'cause they're actually just 149. Wouldn't you say that's probably the most sought after size these days for people who actually want to skate them?
I'd say it's pretty rare to find pre stage 9 Indy's over 8" in such good condition, so I'm pretty stoked on them. Btw, does anybody remember this hanger decal design?
2020s: "Let's get rid of the iron cross"
1990s: Let's put like ten fucking iron crosses on this bitch, sick dude!"
I got them really cheap from someone who probably didn't quite know what they were selling. From the grind marks, it looks like they were only used for mellow transition skating, probably just metal coping. The baseplates have just enough marks to confirm that they've been used, but the mounting holes and the base are mint, leaving me to think that they were only ever used on one setup, and have been sitting ever since.
I've always heard that it's impossible to fit inverted kingpins in stage 8s, and indeed, the previous owner took great care to drill out the kingpin hole in the baseplate so the nut sits super snug in there with no epoxy. Has anyone else tried this, and is it really just stage 8s that have this narrow baseplate hole?