Too late for that I’m afraid…but this should help.
They look like someone designed them on illustrator without bothering to learn how to draw curves
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Def interested in a review(looks like gifted hater is getting some) but I’m not sure I can get past that ridiculous name.
Ah, just confirmes they are more indy than thunder that’s all. Cheers.
The look pixelated
They’re different to both in certain ways. Thunder trucks have the axle right over the pivot cup like these do, but sit lower. Indy and Ace both have the axle further back but sit high like these.
If I had to guess without having ridden them I would say these are going to be very tippy and tight turning.
Set up a small egg (Magenta Jameel Douglas guest board, 8.25) and it’s pretty fun to skate. Definitely not the board I’d take on a week long trip to places I don’t know but it’s super fun for fucking about on low impact stuff (this is gonna sound like I go to KOTR every year. Well, I don’t).
Happy to join you.
This is my skate bag. It has an Indy cross logo on it, which they’ve now ditched because some people think it looks like a nazi symbol.
There’s three ways of looking at this: they were right to do that, or they were wrong to do it. Or they were some way between the two.
If they were right to stop using the cross because makes them look like racists, then they ought to be communicating that to all those people who have Indy tattoos and the sweatshirts they used to promote and telling them to do something about it.
If they were wrong, and no one thinks you’re a racist for wearing an Indy cross logo, then they’ve fucked up big time. They’ve just lost the most famous logo in skating.
And if the truth was somewhere between the two, and there’s disagreement over whether it makes you look like a nazi or not, then by withdrawing it they’ve just undermined all those loyal customers who just think it’s a cool truck logo, and sided with the people who think it’s racist. It makes me feel different about my bag.
Whichever way you look at it they’ve made a mistake.
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It’s just re branding. I wouldn’t worry about it.
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Strong entrance
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Were the king pins facing the nose and tail before?
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It’s a Real Huf board 
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Do it every time I set up a new board
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Listening to Kris Kross?
Read this re what people do to clean their bearings, some of the responses are ridiculous
‘pour coke into them and bomb a hill’
‘clean with spit’
I don’t know why just a bit of communication isn’t enough to explain.
If you make a statement of intention all should be fine. If something is done and used in good faith then surely the intention overides the loose connotations of the use.
I don’t like the logo, never have, it screams biker gang more than nazi to me but if Indy made a statement saying it’s just an old logo, no thought or links with any ill connotations then I think people are big enough to let it slide. But on the other hand, has the damage been done by the link being suggested in the first place? I don’t blame them for moving away from it, it shows them to have grown and not be surely stick in the muds over a logo that they might have to keep explaining.
Just cleaned my super six swiss with acetone and used the speed cream but some seemed to be a bit crunchy even after that. Having said that, they do seem to be rolling fine though. I don’t think I should have left it 13 months after buying them to clean them for the first time. Maybe another round with the acetone and bearing cleaning unit might do the trick. I’m loathe to fork out for another set. Lesson learnt anyway, will clean them every month or two from now on. It doesn’t take much time.
Edit: did another 2 rounds cleaning them and they’re less crunchy now
I’ve got two crunchy Swiss bearings after a recent clean. Might try and do a full disassemble next time but getting the bearing back together is a ballache and not a guaranteed success. The set is 10 years old and I’ve probably had 5-6 years active skating on them so had my moneys worth.
