Not sure if I’m just making excuses to buy something new!!! I’d probably have just as much fun fucking about on this old Z-Flex thing I bought for my daughter when she was born 
These Spits make a way better noise than Dragons. More clack, less thud. The slide maybe sounds a little closer to a screech than a hiss too. (Although the filmer could be riding 101s and that might be throwing me off a little).
I haven’t tried them but just from seeing this video I’d guess that they could feel more satisfying to skate and be much more like a proper skateboard wheel rather than having the dulled, cruiser kind of a feel like Dragons do. I’m getting more tempted to splash out on a set.
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The Boss is down with them, surely that’s enough reason to buy them and they’re not a Powell product so you can stay posting on here and not have to sign up for MAS
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There is always something off with these Powell super fans. Something Fritzel like going in in their brains
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Yeah, you don’t see much Powell shit being ridden by actual skaters…
There’s quite often a ‘greetings fellow skater’ moment when surfers find out I’m a skateboarder. They’ll be like, ‘I skate a bit too. I’ve got my board with me’, wander off to their camper and dig around in the back. They then mongo push back across the car park towards you to proudly show off their Powell or Santa Cruz reissue or to explain the virtues of longboards over ‘trick boards’. It’s so difficult not to kook them but I will have to see them in the line up when I’m out surfing , well that and I don’t like to be mean if I don’t have to be , so I’ll try my best to be nice about it.
Alternatively, they’ll dervish their way over, whilst gyrating madly, arms waving like a scarecrow caught in a gale, on one of those Carver surf skates and will always suggest that I have a go. ‘They’re really good, great surf training when it’s flat, it’s a whole scene in itself, you should get one ‘ etc. I don’t think I do a very good job of concealing my disdain when that happens. Nah, I’m good, you go ahead though, knock yourself out, haha.
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Sometimes it’s good to live in the midlands.
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I had a go. Bad move.
I was at a bowl and someone came with a surfskate and was weaving around without kickturning, and he said to me, have a go, mate. And I did. And went flat on my arse.
That’s what happens when your setup has its trucks on backwards. What these surf skate brahs don’t get is that it’s perfectly possible to carve around a bowl on a real skateboard without lifting your front wheels.
Boards without tails are just fucking dangerous!
My friend has one, he is a BMXer and surfs as well. He’s one of those people who when he does skate he surfs because that style that you get from being a surfer first skater second
I got a new board. It’s an 8.125 which i assumed was the same width as my old one but i put my trucks on and they feel way too narrow.
Bad photo to try and show the gap between the wheel and the edge of the board:
I think i need new ones (and new wheels).
I’ve found the size I need but they’re only the high versions.
Can you tell by eye if these are high or low?
Do hi or low trucks even make any difference?
I’ve probably only owned a few trucks in my life so never given it a second thought.
Just buy highs, you’ll get used to them soon enough.
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Sick. Thats what i wanted to hear.
I’ve ended up getting a new complete but paid for in two halves.
Skateboarding is an expensive hobby 
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Do you want to stick to Ventures?
I skate Indy 144s on my 8.125 and 149s on my 8.375. Not sure which ones I’d prefer if I set up a 8.25, which is what you probably got. Both would work, 144s making 360 flips easier, 149s being better for grinds on transitions and ledges.
Maybe go to your local SOS and see what they have there?
I always think it’s crazy that the truck companies have made it so hard for so long to work out the one thing you want to know: are these trucks the right size for my board?
Some of the newer companies have finally started doing that. Ace have changed their sizing to reflect the most common deck sizes, and they have the axle width etched on the axle now. And Slappy size their trucks by axle width, and have it embossed on the hanger. So you can buy 8.25 trucks for an 8.25 board.
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I have no real idea why but I’ve always had Ventures. The idea of having different trucks after 25 years just doesn’t sit right.
I have no idea why because I know it doesn’t really make any difference.
And don’t worry. Got everything from what may squeak in as one of the top 10 skate shops in the greater Cardiff area.
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I must’ve been skating just 8" boards non stop for years or just noticed my trucks dont look right now.
Looking into this was a minefield I somehow wasnt aware of.
Glad they’re sorting this out. Feels like pretty basic marketing.
What about companies using different systems of measurements for trucks, wheels and boards? Makes no sense.
And even measuring different things. Theeve trucks measure the hanger, not the axle. So a Theeve 5.85 truck is about the same, I think, as a Slappy 8.25, and an Indy 149 (or is it 159?) and an Ace 55. I think.
