I remember getting a full set up for Christmas around about 2001 that was made up of an Icon Deck and Wheels and these bad boys…
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We definitely got the same setup!
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I had those exact tensors. I almost exclusively did nose slides for decades and I doubt the plastic slider ever actually touched
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My first “proper” deck was A Third Foot yellow numerals board but I wanted the “Can of Worms” deck they did but my friend got the last one while I was admiring the flameboy wax. All of this unfolding at DAI which was basically an air rifle shop. Memories.
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I was so buzzing to get a tensor skate tool because it looked a bit like an impact driver.
In my head I thought it’d be like a power tool but it did nothing. Fuck you Tensor
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I had the red and black versions of those. Then my mate had the all black with red slide plate
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DAI Leisure? I got a board via mail order from them around 91 or so, a Planet Earth Brian Lotti.
That’s the one. Not sure they officially stock any skate stuff these days however I wouldn’t be surprised if they still had pairs of Mike V’s pro Etnies shoe in the back somewhere.
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DAI - the only “skate shop” where you have to be over 18 to enter and buzzed in via a prison gate set up to get in 
Bet they’ve got some dead stock gold in there. Might revisit and buy a shotgun whilst I’m at it
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I’ve had a chance to skate the GK Locker trucks now that the weather has cleared a little.
First impressions: they’re slightly less responsive (or twitchy) than Ace or Lurpiv. More of a stable turn like Indy or Thunder.
There was a bit of play around the pivot cups - GK say that shouldn’t happen and they’re sending me some replacement cups. The oddest thing to get used to is the two grooves on the hanger - on coping you’re aware of them and you have to actively choose which one you want to lock into the grind on. But if you’re positive with them they lock in really well,
I’m going to try them out in a tight bowl to see if they’re turny enough.
One other thing I notice is the little lip on the baseplate by the bottom bushing, which, combined with the absence of protruding cup washers, should make the trucks less likely to hang up on square edges.
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the reviews of these i’ve seen online echo what you’ve said - the grooves take a fair bit of getting used to. not necessarily a negative just different. tbh i don’t see what they’re trying to achieve
i’m still super keen on that adjustable wheelbase thing. how did you decide which holes to use? (hilarious inuendo etc.etc.)
are you skating some kind of carbon deck? with rails screwed in?
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I went for the middle holes because that sort of matched the wheelbase of my previous trucks. But I’m thinking of moving them inwards to shorten the wheelbase to see if this sharpens the turn.
The deck is a plastic, foam and fibreglass composite. Those lines are the glass fibres. It’s probably really stupid to screw rails in, and I rode it without rails when I first bought it, but I missed the ability to do smooth, stable boardslides. I worried I might wreck the deck when I put them on, but it rides just the same - except it slides better.
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Those trucks look horrendous. I just couldn’t deal with it when I looked at my board. I’m sticking with Thunders. Hope the GKs work out for you though. I guess the design is to lock into grinds better, in theory.
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I think for me it’s the fact they look like a knackered old truck from new.
Do we know how much metal you have before you grind to the axle?
After enough grinds you get grooves anyway
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Have you seen the axles though, they are shaped like a mini ramp inside the hangar
Do they make sparks.
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So if you really grind them to the axle they’ll look mental. Good luck getting out of any grind
If they did they’d at least have one redeeming feature 
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I got these in the post this morning from California after emailing Grind King to say that there was play around one of my pivot cups.
To be fair to them they replied within an hour of me contacting them,saying they wanted me to be 100% happy with my trucks.
Compare this with Slappy. When the kingpins on my inverted kingpin Slappy Lights started working loose I contacted them twice and they never replied.
As for the locker trucks, I’m still undecided.
There are five or six different innovations involved and some are more useful than others.
The adjustable wheelbase is complete genius. And so obvious, in retrospect, that you wonder why all trucks didn’t do it years ago.
The pre-grooved hanger - well, the jury’s still out on that for me. Over the next week or two I’m going to decide whether I like it enough to make them my main trucks, or to switch back to my old ones.
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