On the topic of TB218’s I’ve had them only a couple months and they are warped to shit… like I have to replace them already and honestly doesn’t feel like I got much use out of them… I don’t do crazy anything with this deck it’s my daily commuter to get to and from work, I even upgraded the bushings, because the stocks were trash imo, and it was a solid setup for a good month (1st month or so i waa working bugs out) now i cant even keep a belt on without popping it or shooting it off… just my experience thus far
As for bushings I use riptides wfb 93a chubby’s and 95.5a Fat cones, super stable, no speed wobbles w/ 0 wedges and 1/2" risers @30mph steady cruising
Thanks for posting this! Nice. I have 4 LDP setups (how did that get so high…) Front trucks are Carver CX, Bennett Vector, and Airflow precision slalom. Loads of fun!
I got confused a bit, so I checked. Randall default baseplate is 50, just in case anyone else gets confused.
Flexy like Vanguard is not optimal because the flex dampens and delays response, but can kind of work. It’s good with Randall IIs, but it’s like a high gear pump. Kick it up to speed then start wiggling.
All setups can pump, but they just feel like different gears. Short wheelbase TKP can accelerate pretty well at low speed but it’s hard keep it going at high speed. Big wheelbase RKP is hard to accelerate at low speed but you get big efficient pumps at high speed.
@Alphamail a couple days ago I had no idea who you were, someone in the Reddit longboard discord chat told me to check out your IG and I loved it, however how do u get speed out of a 800kv motor when most of us don’t go over 250
That’s not @Alphamail that’s @MoeStooge 's build and it’s posted here in the forums… Alpha is the man behind Riptide bushings, Moe is a builder and innovator.
@squishy654 see that’s what I thought… but I wasn’t sure… do u know the name of the build on here? And @Alphamail I’m loving these WFB’s I’m 215lbs and the 93a/95.5a combo works amazingly
I agree with everything you said…in regards to analog and ek8 except this. RWD Esk8 have shimmys from the rear because of motor torque, whether single or dual, that ends up being amplified by the front.
So making the rear as dead as possible minimizes the effect of these shimmys on the front. The less energy transferred through the board due to stiffness, lower Baseplate angles, or even a higher duro bushings. The less likely these will be amplified by the front to a point that the rider cannot control.
I think you actually experienced this the other day? Or was it someone else? Edit: it was @skatardude10
This seems like the perfect place to ask this question. What do you guys think of my truck setup. The trucks are just HK trucks as I wanted square hangers to make custom mounts easier to install. Now the question is that I have made a slight mistake in the angle that the mounts sit at so they are a little too low to the ground and scrape on certain curbs, so to fix that I have wedged the rear truck up slightly which has fixed the scraping issue. But now I think the angle might be too high for a rear truck as I had to wedge it on the opposite side to what you normally would, so the angle is now something like ~60 degrees. Will this be to high of a degree and the board will be unstable? I have it geared for around 55km/h. If it is, would I be able to get stiffer bushings to fix the issue? Oh and I think the front truck is about 45 degrees.
That might be hard to understand so here is a picture for reference.
