I’m thinking about sizing down to venture Hi 5.2’s and bones v5’s…..I have some 8.125’s and I’m getting annoyed at feeling like my set up is too big and clunky and complaining about wheelbase…
Broken record here: I’ve got a lot of skate shit. Too much. On smaller setups, and 8” trucks, it almost doesn’t matter, stuff more or less works.
Now I have one setup that works really well for me, and it’s 8.5 board and trucks, but that was one in about 7-8 years of trying that shit (ok 2: the griffin Gass shape with thunders, and then there was a Carlos young magenta that was 8.5, but short, and awesome. I tried so many combinations. All bad).
Any fucking ways, 8” trucks work really well for me. 8.125s and 8” trucks are also the same amount of magic carpet as 7.75 on 5.0s, which was basically my teenage years. I get a little bit of extra leverage on switchflips, and for me, a little magic carpet means less wheelbite.
***Age is not all the same, some old people* look young and spry, not me. I think you are a little younger than I. Relevant in that bigger setups are tiring for me. If I was in shape, or trained, or stretched, or skated as often as I post, then maybe it wouldn’t be an issue. But it is. All of the little easily inflamed connective tissues start acting up, quicker, on the heavier shit. But I’m a baby. An old/not cute baby.