# Equipment Thread
**URL:** https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295
**Category:** Equipment and Reviews
**Created:** [April 3, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295 "2019-04-03T08:01:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 166
### Author:  [@notactuallyhere](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/notactuallyhere)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3409 "2025-03-14T13:38:55Z")
Sounds like it could be from Bob Sanderson’s mouth in a Brum or Andy Evans vid
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### Author:  [@Scurbrampwoody](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Scurbrampwoody)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3410 "2025-03-14T13:38:59Z")
Good bit of digging but 2008 is way too late and Monkey Say was New Zealand based. Who knows? 🤷♂️
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### Author:  [@TerryTibbs](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/TerryTibbs)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3411 "2025-03-14T13:48:49Z")
Could explain how my lot in the Midlands became aware of the evil creatures that lurk in the cold shadows
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### Author:  [@BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/BvS)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3412 "2025-03-14T13:53:08Z")
On the topic on skate lingo, when I was 13/14, if we got a delam on the nose, we would say it’d been ‘bell-ended’.
Was this just local lingo or did anyone else use this phrase?
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### Author:  [@notactuallyhere](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/notactuallyhere)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3413 "2025-03-14T14:04:58Z")
Bell ended must mean the same as dicking someones board surely?
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### Author:  [@Scurbrampwoody](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Scurbrampwoody)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3414 "2025-03-14T14:15:12Z")
Dicking someone’s board is, I’m assuming, the same as nobbing someone’s board. Unattended board gets defaced using two well placed lines drawn with a stone, a coin or keys or whatever’s to hand to make said board look like a cock. That practice somehow has transcended multiple generations without it ever knowingly being passed on, yet somehow it keeps rearing its ugly head, (pun intended).I’ve not seen it for a while but I suppose it still goes on to this day.
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### Author:  [@voodoo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/voodoo)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3415 "2025-03-14T15:12:28Z")
You can do a quick attack by just using your board, scrape the point of your nose along their grip…
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### Author:  [@Mark](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mark)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3416 "2025-03-14T17:38:04Z")
Best one I’ve ever seen was one of the crew that was already out in a session asked someone else to bring him fresh grip as theirs was peeling.
And they pre-dicked the grip. Genius.
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### Author:  [@Mark](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mark)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3417 "2025-03-15T01:54:07Z")
[https://www.instagram.com/p/DHMQCrUSntH/?igsh=dzdlcTlhMzgyNGE4](https://www.instagram.com/p/DHMQCrUSntH/?igsh=dzdlcTlhMzgyNGE4)
Looks like real are announcing a new deck construction technology “DBX”
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### Author:  [@doowyrag](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/doowyrag)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3418 "2025-03-15T09:06:00Z")
> [@TerryTibbs](#):
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> The Pop Goblins come out at night and will steal your pop if you leave your board in the car.
Pop Goblins! 😃
After struggling to hoof my carcass on to a little ledge yesterday I think some live under my bed and interfere with my legs when I sleep.
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### Author:  [@Haven\_Hamilton\_Official](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Haven_Hamilton_Official)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3419 "2025-03-16T13:30:22Z")
Need some advice on new trucks. Been skating Indys for as long as I can remember but wondering if I should stick with what I know or are Aces better these days? I skate my trucks relatively tight for what its worth so am thinking maybe Ace’s with the hard bushing but not sure if I’m just switching things up for the sake of it
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### Author:  [@judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/judithpriest)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3420 "2025-03-16T13:38:21Z")
Duh, grind king.
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### Author:  [@Mark](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mark)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3421 "2025-03-16T13:43:57Z")
> [@Haven\_Hamilton\_Official](#):
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> not sure if I’m just switching things up for the sake of it
You are switching things up for the sake of things and that’s fine
That’s how I crossed from Indy to Venture, was pretty painless, only took like 1 session
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### Author:  [@Sleipnir](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Sleipnir)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3422 "2025-03-16T14:07:01Z")
Ace are designed to be ridden loose, so the turn is responsive. The stock bushings are softer than Indy stock bushings. They feel unstable and wrong when you first ride them, but if you stick with them they improve your balance and control. If you’re going to buy them and then change the bushings so they ride more like the trucks you prefer, why not just stick with Independent?
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### Author:  [@notactuallyhere](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/notactuallyhere)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3423 "2025-03-16T14:17:18Z")
I’d say indy are the worst to ride tight.
whenever I saw people riding them like that they were all cramped up and would run off in random directions.
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### Author:  [@BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/BvS)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3424 "2025-03-16T14:54:49Z")
> [@Haven\_Hamilton\_Official](#):
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> I skate my trucks relativelyy tight
This is why I struggled with Aces. I’ve bought the harder bushings as recommended on here, but haven’t had a chance to try them yet.
As Sleipnir said, they do feel weird at first if you’re used to tight trucks. They’re fun though, especially if you’re just cruising round. But you seem like you still have tricks, whereas I do not
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### Author:  [@deegwaad](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/deegwaad)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3425 "2025-03-16T14:55:45Z")
I ride aces. You can have them quite tight and still get a very good turn.
Any one tried Slappys (the truck)? Like the look of the increased grind clearance, and quite intrigued by the anti-wheel bite geometry (while still supposedly turning well).
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### Author:  [@nazoreth](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/nazoreth)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3426 "2025-03-16T15:14:36Z")
i have Aces with the hard bushing and they’re still looser than say, Thunders with normal bushings whilst being slightly more tightened down. to make them tight you’d end up with like a centimetre of thread showing above the bolt
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### Author:  [@tbk11](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/tbk11)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3427 "2025-03-16T19:16:03Z")
Pop goblin was from a kingpin mag around 2005 I wanna say, got it in my parents garage somewhere. Can’t remember who said it!
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### Author:  [@TerryTibbs](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/TerryTibbs)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/equipment-thread/295/3428 "2025-03-16T19:31:04Z")
Grind King, Tensor, or Gullwing
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