A few notes:
-I designed this one to be an entry level track-racer, but I also like zipping around the local neighborhoods with it wherever I can find smooth asphalt.
-I really like the buttery articulation of Mad-links. Very nice. Hopefully, they’ll hold up. All of the parts on 3-links make me a little nervous. I used a lot of blue thread-locker.
-This deck rides fairly low, but it still has clearance at full lean. I’ve got to be careful when I ride over speed bumps, but otherwise clearance isn’t an issue.
-The wheel pulley is 45T and I have 14T,16T and 18T motor pulleys to play with to dial in the performance.
-Heat has been a little bit of an issue, but It’s nearly 100F outside and I ride mostly on blacktop. I might try putting a fan on my ESC box. Additionally, I might try bigger wheels at some point.
-Lastly, the deck is pretty dope
Looks great Thom. Do you have any undercarriage pics of the enclosure? I thought I had seen you reworked your enclosures to be wider and accommodate bigger packs etc and I’d love to see it.
From what i’ve heard, you’d be better off with red loctite than blue… But I have no direct experience with linkage trucks so
Slick build! A single stack 16s5p is a super nice config. I’m planning a single stack 16s4p Bro/Duality build, which I may get around to sometime this decade
I love the low rider look! I’m thinking about doing a drop through duality build on this deck
could you take measurements of the height from the ground to the top of the deck, the thickness of the deck, and approximately how much ground clearance you have when level and at full lean? I’d really appreciate it!
I recently made a drop-cut deck and thought it would be perfect for duality trucks.
To answer your questions, this is an 8-ply deck and it’s 19mm thick. The thickness is fully customizable depending on what the customer needs. There’s about 4.25” from the ground to the top of the deck. I used 10mm risers on this build and I have about 10mm clearance at full lean.
4.5” at the highest point. The top of the deck is a little below the top of the wheels. The bottom of the deck sits on top of the axle. This makes the deck auto-center pretty well.
my question was ambiguous, I wanted to ask the height to the top of the deck at the baseplates so I can get an idea of truck height and whether the baseplates of dualities would be tall enough to drop through without causing the enclosure to scrape. sorry about that!
dropped through on Dualities with 150mm tires (Supernovas, BRPs) it looks like I’d stand just 8mm above the axle, but have -5mm of ground clearance
with Linnpower slicks or other 160mm-165mm tires, I think it would be ok.
the deck could be made thinner, have pockets routed out for the baseplates like I did on my hummie, or have slightly taller baseplates I think any of these would alleviate not only ground clearance issues, but also issues where the hanger could contact the deck before 25° of lean. I’d stand closer to 15mm above the axle though…
either way, very promising! this deck is definitely making it towards the top of my wants list
