RipTide Sports Brackets designed to adapt Channel trucks (MBS, Trampa, Lacroix Hyper, Kaly) to various longboards

Tamatoa · January 10, 2020, 4:22am

Have you ever done any work on the MBS Matrix II trucks?

DavidF · January 10, 2020, 6:28am

Check your PM

DavidF · January 10, 2020, 7:40am

Update, with free-rotating hinge and Shock absorber
I kind of like the look of it now
Who will build it for me?

RipTideSports · January 10, 2020, 4:24pm

Yes I have!

Tamatoa · January 10, 2020, 4:58pm

I have read someone comparing the hypertrucks to matrix II with longer hangers and better bushing.
Are you planning on selling what you designed?

Venom121212 · January 10, 2020, 5:39pm

Who would dare do that

Tamatoa · January 10, 2020, 6:08pm

Lol was it you? Not going to doubt you

RipTideSports · January 10, 2020, 6:21pm

We are still negotiating that…

Tamatoa · January 10, 2020, 6:38pm

Fingers crossed everything goes well

kook · January 10, 2020, 9:13pm

Nice… Conceptually I like it… Except for the fact that you will get radically different truck angles when you preload the spring. That… And the spring… Design wise I’d prefer a bushing…

And… I’m not super stoked with the hinge. Conceptually I prefer no hinge and 1040 spring-steel construction…

I think I’ve finally overcome the preload/truck angle hurdle and will likey fab out a prototype in the next couple of weeks…

kook · January 10, 2020, 9:14pm

I’m all ears brother

RipTideSports · January 12, 2020, 1:53am

The good folks at Drang were nice enough to send me a couple of .stp files to see how the brackets would function on a deck not designed for them. We are working with G-Bomb to see if we can make this happen as a collaboration! Pictures with Lacroix Hyper trucks. Shown with 35/20 split

rusins · January 12, 2020, 2:03am

That is one long board. Might need to increase those angles to get the turning radius down…

jack.luis · January 12, 2020, 2:03am

G-bomb channel truck brackets! This is going on my next build for sure!

BluPenguin · January 12, 2020, 2:08am

Ohhhh. That’s what it looks like. I imagined something completely different… A senario where the base plate is replaced with an angled bracket.

Excuse the shitty phone drawing. I had an idea like this: Blue is baseplate, white is the hanger and red is springs, yellow is axle.

mmaner · January 12, 2020, 2:15am

That’s actually a really good idea.

rusins · January 12, 2020, 2:16am

Took me a while to understand what you drew but that is a very cool idea. Then again, the angle would decrease the amount the hanger can turn, so I think it would be no better than just using angled risers and a standard baseplate like we have now.

BluPenguin · January 12, 2020, 2:18am

I imagine it will be much lower than angled risers, and in my head, how much it turns would simply depend on the angle it was made, for flat drop through decks, should be similar in height to RPK trucks

Edit yeah im shit at drawing

jack.luis · January 12, 2020, 2:20am

I’m having trouble understanding it

BluPenguin · January 12, 2020, 2:22am

JK I thought I was original but its basically this I imagined, just slightly different. Should’ve just googled it

My version has another bracket on the outside so the pivot axle is supported both sides like channel trucks are, but otherwise that concept.