I need some advice w/ truck setups to eliminate wheel bite.
My current setup is BN270 on BN adjustable angle baseplate set to 40 deg front and 30 deg back. The current deck is shaped so that I barely get away without wheel bites on the front using 105mm MAD wheels. I want to use pneumatics, so I need your help finding trucks that would move the axles further away from the board. I also want to keep the ride height low if possible, and generally dislike DKPs.
Some ideas I had:
Drilling additional holes on the deck further out is a no-go. The current holes are already as close to the edge of the nose and the tail as I would feel safe.
Mboards 3-link truck extensions move the trucks away but at the cost of adding 16mm of axle height.
Idea (eFreedom) brackets add length without adding axle height but too much length (103 mm for medium flat brackets).
Onsra’s TKP trucks seem to push axles out, but according to RB E-motion’s review, the stock axles are too short for AT wheels…
Would love your thoughts, and thanks a lot in advance.
The short rod version of the 3-links. Or see if someone have a set of tkp from the late Phychotiller they would be willing to pass on to you. That could be two options.
I used the waterborne extender in the past and it held up fine for me. I’m not sure if I’ve seen someone break one but I’m sure someone has at some point. It certainly looks insane though.
Another options is running the MBoards extenders on the top of the deck if it’ll work with your setup. @rafaelinmissouri hqs a setup like that right now, here’s a picture. This setup doesn’t add the height but gives you the extension.
@dskate Fantastic, I do have the Mboards extender handy. Smart, mounting the extender on the top. Gonna make some measurements to get appropriate bolts and spacers to make that work!
@Jbrk Yeah, I heard back from Fabian at Onsra, the axle height is almost 75mm. And I don’t have a drop through deck.
On a side note, I have a somewhat irrational preference of RKPs over TKPs. I’ve thought for a while that the acute angle between the hanger pivot axis and the kingpin in TKP design was odd. In RKP design, the pivot axis and the kingpin are perpendicular to each other, therefore fully utilizing the elasticity of the bushings. Those with engineering/mathematics background and smarter than I discuss this:
@dskate@rafaelinmissouri Wanted to close the loop and thank you both for the idea of running MBoards extenders on the top of the deck. I had mine anodized black locally.
The truck baseplates already had a couple of additional holes drilled to mount on the MBoards extenders. 3-link truck baseplates that this extender is designed for have a narrow waist so do not require drilling, but my rectangular BN baseplates did.
I reused those same holes but did not use 2 holes per side where the board-side holes are on the baseplate. I could if I drilled additional matched holes on the deck, but did not feel the need to as 1. the current config looks structurally sound and 2. additional bolts would not reinforce the weight-bearing area of the deck anyway.
This? drop riser and extension by one truck mounting pattern length (truck back holes line up with deck front holes. You might have clearance issues with the deck/hanger. I think it can improve the strength of drop through a little too.
