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interesting observation for anyone considering 215s - the kingpin is 1/4 longer than the standard or hollow Indys and they come with a taller top bushing.
This is great for anyone that skates super loose but if you're like me and skate medium it was annoying to get them feeling right.
I swapped the baseplates with some standards off a pair of 169s and it's all good now
what bushings did you use? So 215 stock were too loose I’m guessing, as they’d be for me, and crazy wheelbite?
I was using the stock bushings with the stock baseplates. I tried to put Indy aftermarket bushings but the top bushing was so short you would need to have about 3 kingpin threads exposed just to prevent the Daewon rattle.
Now I’m using the regular baseplates with regular kingpins, aftermarket Indy bushings and the nut flush. Feels like a good medium.
Before it was definitely too lose and too much wheelbite.
That is quite interesting, but I guess when they remade the 215 to be more like the older stages, which all had such tall top and bottom bushings, they kept the bushings like that as well.
I haven't seen any stock since the change, as the guys that ride them all customise them right from go, but I know I have used an angle grinder on regular stage 11 kingpins once I got the bushings right, just to take the top three or four threads off, and that was on the 92 low head bushings, so there was way more thread than normal, but still nicely loose.