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nimbus trucks

ive been searching around for some precisions and i came across nimbus trucks

http://www.nimbustrucks.com/

can u please tell me wat u think

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by ben halls on May 8, 2011 at 11:55

how would they compare to  aera k1s

 

any one


Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Skittles on May 8, 2011 at 13:03

Anything that runs a baseplate of 50 degrees, then uses rake to sell it as a lower degree truck I would stay away from.

 

Compared to Areas, the new models are one of the best out there... but so are kahas and any other well known brands.

Get out there and try some for yourself, and if you are not racing with people who use them or have never ridden them before, you probably don't need them.

 

Precisions are something that is 'over-rated' from a perspective from a younger or newer skater.  I still, and there are others on the world circuit, that still ride cast trucks at high speed.  Get around and find which cast trucks you like, use lower base plates, get faster until you can feel every little movement and twitch.  Only then will you be able to really tell difference between the two.

 

Also, if you bend the axel, scratch the hangers, dethread a bolt, get your board run over or get anything at all damaged on a cast truck, it's only a cast truck, not a $500 piece of perfectly crafted goodness!


Premium MemberPermalink Reply by sean meaney on May 8, 2011 at 15:34
i took a look at their team page and considering dorian rosen designed them for his style of riding i would say they ride alright, i like the idea of the massive amounts of stock bushings, saves you having to add that to the cost of the trucks, pretty gangsta looking trucks. Probs best to hit up steve c for his perspective on them, dude is about as knowledgeable as it gets when it comes to trucks

Premium MemberPermalink Reply by ben halls on May 8, 2011 at 16:50

i ve already got k1s but they have very rescricted turning because the hanger always hits the base plate

yeh i free ride 50* randals which get wheel bite on on a isis i have thought about 42* but theres no point cause ive already got K1s

ill talk to steve c

Tim (Skittles) said:

Anything that runs a baseplate of 50 degrees, then uses rake to sell it as a lower degree truck I would stay away from.

 

Compared to Areas, the new models are one of the best out there... but so are kahas and any other well known brands.

Get out there and try some for yourself, and if you are not racing with people who use them or have never ridden them before, you probably don't need them.

 

Precisions are something that is 'over-rated' from a perspective from a younger or newer skater.  I still, and there are others on the world circuit, that still ride cast trucks at high speed.  Get around and find which cast trucks you like, use lower base plates, get faster until you can feel every little movement and twitch.  Only then will you be able to really tell difference between the two.

 

Also, if you bend the axel, scratch the hangers, dethread a bolt, get your board run over or get anything at all damaged on a cast truck, it's only a cast truck, not a $500 piece of perfectly crafted goodness!


Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Skittles on May 8, 2011 at 20:21

Ah, I see!

 

How do you manage to get wheel bite with randals?  Do you ride with them mega loose?


Premium MemberPermalink Reply by ben halls on May 10, 2011 at 20:42
haha yeh very and i take them up to about 50 but then they get to twitchy

Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Skittles on May 10, 2011 at 21:52
Try different bushing combos that feel like they lean more rather than having floppy hangers.  Have you tried elims yet?  They feel divey but a little more stable than mega loose trucks.

Premium MemberPermalink Reply by ben halls on May 11, 2011 at 21:34
i used barrels but they barely turned so i put in some more turny venoms and i was getting truck bite

Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jacko on May 11, 2011 at 21:53
Benny u already have a good set of trucks. This thread deserves a punching

Premium MemberPermalink Reply by ben halls on May 12, 2011 at 19:21

nah i worded the top wrong im just wondering why ive heard no one uses them australia

also jacko ur pretty knowledgeable person do you no wat i can do to my aeras to make them not get truck bite when i say truck bite  i mean the hanger hits the base plate

so they can be really turny like a cast truck

Permalink Reply by Robbo on May 12, 2011 at 20:00
I'll swap you a set of paris than they will be really turny like a cast truck

ben halls said:

nah i worded the top wrong im just wondering why ive heard no one uses them australia

also jacko ur pretty knowledgeable person do you no wat i can do to my aeras to make them not get truck bite when i say truck bite  i mean the hanger hits the base plate

so they can be really turny like a cast truck


Premium MemberPermalink Reply by ben halls on May 13, 2011 at 17:53

like a cast truck

do u reckon i could sand a bit of the hanger so it doesnt hit the base plate or do i just have to live with how they are

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