Unless I’m mistaken aren’t they just saying you can order the board as per usual and then do this special shipping option that other way? That’s what it sounded like to me. If not I would just ask them if that was possible because I agree with you that it makes sense only for the one special thing to be that way (the China to wherever you live 50lb FedEx route)
Spent a full day trying to get used to it, ADT was definitely more of a hindrance than any help and I found the best setting to be the lowest possible, any higher and it basically stops responding to your feet. At the low ADT settings, the trucks are sub-par to begin with using a spring system (which has a history of providing shoddy rebound characteristics) and feeling very floaty at any speed over 20. Then turning ADT higher is borderline un-rideable.
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How much does this vehicle weigh?
How could it be a vehicle if it doesn’t have 83 mm wheels, is not single drive, and doesn’t have a kicktail
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17kg
Tighten down your rebound bushings if you haven’t yet. I had a lack of rebound myself before adjusting. Once you get it dialed in, you’ll enjoy it as much as I am !
My first day riding ruckus, I had the adt set super low also. My go-to setting now (after a week) is 4 front and 5 rear. On the grey bushings. I can still out maneuver everyone else while remaining stable at high and low speeds. Carving at 45kmph + I bump the settings up to 6 front and 7 rear. And so on.
Drew Elia is a very underrated reviewer. Explains a lot.
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Spent the day riding with Daniel Kwan, was curious to see if the ADT system actually worked or not.
Interesting, I found that springs tended to rebound too much, on lower ADT settings there felt like there was too much rebound and on higher ADT settings the board just wouldn’t respond to my riding so never found a medium.
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Propel moved from grey stock to black and black stock. They also released a new red firm bushing. Kami Juins showed this in his latest video. If Kwan had the grey setup he had duro as soft as 70a. Which is super soft. Even for someone lightweight.
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It’s a challenging system to tune.
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The fact that different reviewers seem to have different setups they themselves prefer that are different from each other I think highlights how different we all are as riders in terms of our true preferences.
I actually liked how Kami Juins put in his his last video. Rather than him having to learn the characteristics of a new board and decide if he likes those characteristics or not he was able to adapt the Ruckus to behave more like what he prefers in his own builds.
Every adult rider is different. Different weights. Different stances. Different foot placements. Different turning techniques. Different carve styles. Different high speed weight distributions. Different carving weight distributions. Different opinions on bushings. Different preferences for how much dead zone they like or don’t before something turns. Different opinions on the ideal return to center. These are probably some of the biggest differences that exist in the sport.
When you look at video game controller customization options for first person shooters it’s similarly robust but the esports crowd all has very specific ways they like their joysticks to behave in terms of sensitivity, inverting axis and some even have damping settings now. Lol. It’s the same thing with mouse sensitivity control for those who design.
Considering the fact that it’s a motorized vehicle aimed at adults like us who would presumably own it for a while if interested it doesn’t seem unreasonable to me to take some time to get acquainted, play around with various setups, and eventually bend it to our will.
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Review. TLDR: He hates it.
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Hey does anyone know if the Ruckus TKP trucks can be mounted to a Kaly NYC Carbon deck?
i don’t see why they wouldn’t. you may need some small wedges to get the angles right but those are easy to 3d print.
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