I have learned the following since last updateā¦
The weather have been pretty nice so I have had some time on the street where I could dail in the trucks. I needed more turning so I increased the wedge in the front from 57 to 65 and still had the cone bushings flipped. But this made the front truck do a āclonkā movement where the it all of a sudden shifted quickly when leaning. So I flipped the bushings back to normal.
This took away the āclockā movement. The 65 front truck felt pretty good and I was eager to try it on the track.
But there is still something thatās not dialed in. It felt a lot better than last week, but I was still far from being fast. My gut feeling tells me itās the turning because of the longer deck. It feels like the changed turning from the longer deck canāt be compensated so it feels good. I could try to wedge even further but something tells me thats not going to solved the problem.
I simply donāt feel that the longer deck I have tried the last two times is ideal for the track I am on. There are different things that makes me say this.
First the turning has changes as I describe above and I feel that I canāt compensate through dialing the trucks and bushings.
Second it seems that I do not use the full length of the board. I naturally have my feet closer than the full plantform. If I dont use the full platform, I canāt see why I should have the longer platform as it changes the turning as I described.
Third, when I force my self to use the full platform it ads to the impaired turning.
Fourth, It feels like the deck is too wide. I need to have the the edge under my feet when turning in order to get the lean I need. Therefore I have to move my feet. I now many of you say that I should not move my feet but I have to. If I dont get the edges under my feet the turning sucks. I want to try a board that is narrow enough that I have both edged under my feet so I dont have to move them. At least where I have my feet. When the rest of the board can be wider - I donāt know. I am in the proces of learning to press decks so I will prototype my way through it in the time to come.
Or I should see what bindings might do.
On the positive side the longer deck did give me more stability and a better platform for accelerating and braking.
I will change back to the shorter deck and see if I get back to being fast again. If I do I know that this deck was not ideal for me. And then I am eager to set up the Xapham for the street with the sixshooters
But on the shorter deck, I did feel that I needed a longer one. So maybe a deck in between. Time will tell.