They would look great on display, not sure if it has any inner beauty.
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The adjustable baseplates, are defiantly a nice to have for the price. Presumming that they are stable, vs the T design of most trucks this design prevents bending. The only downside ive noticed were bushings are 11-13mm.
Had these been compatble with Tall bushinngs 19-22mm would have been perfect. Still though 9/10 and they look great
22.5-67.6 Adjustable angles
Those are too short of axles, there’s nowhere good to mount a motor or gear drive that I can see, and I bet they only have 8mm axles. I also fail to see how the kingpin is accessed or adjusted.
Please back this up with some evidence.
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Bruh, I said “Hubs” 
for motor mounts of course not. (kingpin otherside acceesable)
8mm Works fine for hubs. 10mm possible as the axles are replaceable)
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Hey friends
Looking for alternatives/similar trucks to Luna 350s… had a miscommunication with moon and didn’t get a pair from his last batch.
Figured it’s worth looking into something similar that would fill my need…
BN270s aren’t wide enough, I get wheel bite. Are there any other super wide RKPs or am I basically stuck going to channels? Any advice is appreciated
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Doesn’t look like there’s a RKP option that’s wider than the lunas. Wonder if Etoxx might be able to make something custom for ya.
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It looks like this system has very little slop.
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I’ve been working on this project for long enough that i finally feel like it’s polished enough to show off, here’s my prototype trucks capable of active baseplate angle adjustment. Not just an active damper system, or variable bushing stiffness, but an actual variable steering ratio as the design goal. Current spec has an adjustment range of 30 degrees, built for a front caliber 2 RKP truck at an angle range of 30-60 degrees. Designed to fit onto an IDEA drop deck with it’s own custom drop bracket, and using a linear servo for actuation. I’m hoping to finally have a truck that doesn’t sacrifice low speed maneuverability or high speed stability with this system, and as far as i can tell, this hasn’t been done before.
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Will forces from the road through the truck be experienced by the servo? Would a servo handle that kind of back drive force for a long period of time?
I really like this concept
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Looks like the axle is the center of rotation, so there shouldn’t be weight loads torqueing the actuator, right? I love this concept, it’s so cool.
Any plans to make the adjustment automatic based on speed? Like you could fit an encoder or an alternator disc to the front wheels to pick up the rotation rate.
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They actually have a more affordable version coming out soon. These are the best longboard trucks out right now, very little slop. Tried them on an esk8 and it was amazing, some day we’ll be able to have 140 mm trucks on esk8 besides hub motor
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I’m not sure if the lever arm effect is 100% eliminated by this
It totally is. The only way for the wheel to put load on the actuator is to torque the hanger around the axle, which would be the drive system.
Hopefully not, the setup is concentric to the axle so there shouldnt be too much load there, and im going to be adding some TPU mounts to reduce vibration to the servo.
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Automatic adjustment based on speed is indeed one of the goals i have, just need to figure out how lol. Right now the plan is to run a small external raspberry pi or arduino to read the telemetry data off of uart to get speed and compute the required servo output.
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Well either way I’m super hyped to see this project through!
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Assuming you don’t crash it into something and smash the servo in it looks solid.
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