truck tightness

how tight do you have your trucks for - sliding, carving and bombing, and is there a tightness that does sorta all of them?

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ASRA AdminPermalink Reply by Bugs on March 3, 2010 at 20:23

My general rule for truck tightness is:

Slow speeds: loose trucks
Fast speeds: tight trucks

But "loose" and "tight" are different for every person. If I know I'm not going over about 50km/h I'm happy to have trucks super-loose. On Bomb Squad nights I ride looser than most others, but on downhill missions I ride tighter than most others (except Robbo), but that's probably my nervousness about speed. With more confidence I could probably ride loose trucks at speed.

I prefer to change bushings rather than simply tighten. It doesn't take long.

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Permalink Reply by Kam Kite on March 5, 2010 at 15:34

sliding, carving and bombing can all be done on super lose trucks. On your hussler you would want to stay under 50-60km/h depending on your level of Gnar, you can't carve on tight trucks and sliding is harder, as for bombing KNOW HOW TO SLOW DOWN and just bomb speed wobbles r in you head if you feel like your going to fast slow down.