Hi, guys!
As some of you know last year i released my mountainboard deck. And what needs a mountainboard deck? Correct - trucks!
So here they are - VOLOKNO DMT - double parallel kingpin mountainboard trucks
Price:
One truck without bushings - 170$ (~150€, ~125£)
Pair without bushings - 340$
I guess a many of us have longboard trucks / bushings from other esk8 or previous boards laying around, so you can take this bushings test them on this trucks and then if they are to soft/hard for you - order a kit from RipTide.
One truck with bushings - 175$
Pair with bushings - 350$
Motormount - 115$ kit (2pcs)
Shipping: 39-45$ depending on the country
Trucks:
Materials: machined from a block of 6061 aluminium
Dimensions: 464mm wide (324mm hanger)
Bushings seat: standard 24.7mm
Motormount placement area: 22x22x30mm
Weight: 1150gr
Motormount:
Materials: machined from a block of 6061 aluminium
Center to center distance: 106-110mm
Hanger placement area: 22x22mm
Thickness: 14mm base, 10mm body, 6mm motor placement area
My initial idea was to make a one set with a design that i like, but one set costs quite expensive, so i ordered small batch (5 sets) and now i can share this trucks with you. Why i used “share” instead of “sale”? Because this batch is nonprofit for me. The price consists of materials, production, cargo insurance and PayPal fee.
So if you also like this design - feel free to order a truck / set
If you decide to order a set with a MBD deck/kit here is a 20$ discount code you can apply on checkout (because shipping will be cheaper) - 2020202
P.S. because of bad lighting and shitty phone camera - trucks look a bit purple-ish on photos, but don’t worry irl they are black with smooth matte finish
That’s an interesting design, did you come to it after FEA or just for looks? Only bringing this up because it looks the thinnest in the center circled in red and thicker where I circled in blue.
good idea, but if you need - i can send you a spare kingpin + nut for 3$, and i am not sure that a design and production of an additional kingpin cap will cost less than 3$
yes, i made the the first model just for looks (by eye) (blue model), but then i made a lot of simulations to make this trucks reliable and remove all weak points. grey is material that was added in the version that was produced.
i am not a fan of high speed so i can not tell anything about pkp tucks higher stability on high speeds, but after several rounds around my workshop i can confirm that this trucks have what i looked for - better “steering” on low speed (compared to regular trucks with springs)
I like that they’re not entirely symmetrical. I’d like to see what the difference feels like, with the hanger one way vs the other. 2 questions; do you know off hand if the distance between the kingpins? I wonder if your hangers and baseplates would be swappable with apex’s. Also, any chances of you ever working on a 35-45° baseplate to run these on street boards without complicated risers or brackets?
It was more of a safety concern, although this is purely hypothetical, pkp trucks are a relatively new concept and so far I haven’t heard of anyone becoming superman because the kingpin got caught.
Plus covered kingpins add style points imo. Its also something your competitors aren’t doing, so it would make you more unique.
