Im getting into big ass old school boards, and I have questions.
How do you guys select truck width for your boards?
Setup this 10” on Indy stage 4 166, and I can like see some wheel sticking out on the back truck.
Makes me want to try it with Indy 151.
I know some guys will just go: “That’s a 10”, it gets 215s, lol”
While Andrew Cannon on Santa Cruz YouTube will strap 149s on anything.
You match the front, back or widest point?
To give a different perspective, I don't go by how it looks, so much as how it feels, with any shaped board.
I used to also think I didn't want to see trucks sitting out anywhere, front or back, but looking at all the old board pics from the 80s, including boards I skated, we all had the wider trucks on them so the back naturally stuck out a little more and we didn't have issues with pushing or anything as that is what we were used to.
For this reason I had a lot of shaped boards come through my hands in recent years that I was thinking of setting up at some point, but just couldn't when I looked at where the trucks sat, especially the back trucks sticking out as they would on most of them.
Sure I can understand how some people don't like it - even seen someone get upset cause the fish shaped board caught their back truck with the pushing foot more than once in a session, but in general trucks that don't sit to the median width of a board usually feel way too small for me, so I need trucks that are approximately even with the middle profile, eg board might be around 10 at the widest point (give or take a half inch), whatever at the narrowest point, but 169s / 9" trucks usually feel the most comfortable for me. Putting 10" trucks on anything usually feels way too wide, but then putting 159s, 151s, 149s also makes the board feel weird and way too tippy for me.
That said, a lot of people prefer to have the trucks sit inside the board, so having more narrow trucks on anything might feel normal for you. Go with whatever option seems to feel the best.
At least having multiple sets of anything, I can put trucks on a board, then swap hangers to see what fits best for that setup, but as some people have also said, wheel options can make a setup too. I will often have wider wheels on more narrow trucks, just to offset the overall feel of the board more, without having very wide wheels on wide trucks, which usually gives too much overall width down below.
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