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Pretty wild axle slippage on both of my 159s. Anybody ever run 149s on a Dane 1 or similar? Seen it in the wild and and I'm gonna do it either way, but I'm curious to know if anyone here as does it before.
Damn! 159s have been my favorite larger truck (I also like 139s, the rest of indy…no). My USA made stage 11s didn’t slip, despite me setting them up on 8.25s and missing every 3flip I tried.
None of the above is even remotely relevant.
On shaped boards, I like to match the truck size to the deck width, in the rear of the board. I can’t remember what the Dane1 is back there (8.75 probably). 149s (5.8s) with extra washers would probably be my preference. Front will be real tucked, but extra leverage for the turning.
What was the average truck size in the 80s? I was young and didn’t know. I’m talking like bones brigade era boom.
Ive been wanting a dane1 but don't have any trucks bigger than 149 didn't think they would work
I have 149's sitting in front of me
have some f4 Radials and plenty of washers maybe this could work
The Dane 1 from the second hand lot I just tried out still felt like I needed wider trucks than the Venture 6.1 (159 / 8.75 size) that I just had on it, but for how wide the board is at the front half compared to the width at the back trucks, people might ride them and be happy.
I think 149s on it is a stretch though, as I would really feel very tippy, but that is just me.
Those other Blind reissues were 9" at the widest but tapered a lot so didn't feel bad on the smaller trucks on the one I had a skate of from someone else, but I think I would still have 159s on it, if that is any indication of my preference.
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I thought I would go get it and measure it, so the Dane 1 is 9.25 at the front axle and 8.75 on the back axle of these Ventures, which have normal wheels, so even the back sits under a bit still.
The funny thing is another board with the 8.5 size trucks and wider offset cruiser wheels actually sit out wider and would work better on it, when I sat that over the top of the Dane 1 complete, but if you were more used to not so wide trucks, you probably could run them on it with normal wheels and still be happy enough.
Having the short wheelbase I think was what was causing me more issues than the trucks, even though I put Ventures on it for that reason.