Were you on 7.75 before? I went back up to 8 about 13 years ago after various 7.5 - 7.75 boards. Settled on 8.125 a few years ago. Regret selling my 129’s but we all make mistakes…
Yes, it does feel decent and everything is well finished like a BBS. Looking forward to seeing how the shorter tail and wheelbase feel.
Shorter tail and almost identical tail/nose was a trip to begin with but it felt well 90s and I’ve quickly grown to love it
I like nollie tricks and the only bit I’ve found that I had to really adapt to was a shorter nose but seems okay now
Anyone use spacers? Was changing wheels for a mate’s kid and he had them. Forgot they existed. I’m about to bin them. Correct or…?
Most boring post ever
Bin them. Spacers are for nerds
Spacers add no weight to your board.
They allow you to tighten your wheel nuts down tight without causing your bearings to lock up. They mean no rattle or play, and no axle slip on your trucks. But they have to fit right. Standard spacers and Bronson bearings work well for me. But with the same spacers and Reds I can’t lock my wheel nuts tight without seizing up the bearings.
I like the rattling. Keeps pedestrians out the way
See.
Soz lol 
Point made.
But we’re all nerds here so 
Spacers no. Shields, also no. Grow up.
I always wondered about shieldless bearings. The plus side of shields is no dirt in your bearings and cuts the evaporation of lubricant when the bearings get hot with use. What’s the plus side of going shieldless?
I’m afraid I’m a shields on and spacers nerd. But the spacers that come with swiss are so fucking pointless in spit classics I might as well not bother. Axles slip but only when I mess up flip tricks and land primo - that is so bad now I just have my axle nuts flush with the ends of the axles and knock them back a few times per session.
No play in your wheels = more chance at flatspots.
Shields and spacers ftw
Love the sound of shieldless but the idea of grit getting in kills me
Yeah, same. At £40-60 per set I’m looking after them. I am about to retire my 12 year old Swiss once I’m done with this set of trucks though. They are fucked and really slow and rough now though, no amount of cleaning/dismantling will fix, I’ve tried.
Whatever happened to good old NSKs
No spacers, shields yes. Wheel graphic in. Only one exception when I got Christian Maloof wheels with a cool black cat graphic. They got mad flatspots though.
Bronson G3 are about £20 if you shop around. Great bearings and crazy value for money.
Got a new set of Swiss 6 ready to go thanks👍
I was until maybe 15/16 years ago, sized up to 7.875 and kept the same trucks. Then went up to 8’’ and sized my trucks up accordingly. I thought my last deck was an 8’’ but I got on it one day and it looked really, really small. I measured it and it was a 7.8. Even the previous 8.0 looked too small for some reason, so sized up to the current Carroll but had to get new trucks to fit. Always ridden Ventures since they came out, had a couple of unsuccessful blips trying other lesser trucks, went from OGs to Featherlites to 5.0s, to 5.2s which were all lows and now on standard height 5.6s.
I always liked a wheelbase no longer than 14’’ and not much shorter either. If I couldn’t find the deck width I wanted with the correct wheelbase then I’d drill my front truck holes back to give me the 14.
As for the bearing chat - Swiss, no shields, no spacers - expense and all the other stuff be damned. I like the noise.
