Who is running different types of trucks on the front and rear?

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I’m curious if folks are using different types of trucks on the front and rear and why.

Backstory: I was getting quite uneven tire wear on my right front tire and then found that the axle on my Matrix II was bent. As it happens, I was planning to replace these trucks anyway and have some Fatboy 320s on the way but they aren’t here yet and I do have some Apex Airs that are going into a mountainboard build so I grabbed one of those. So far it actually rides pretty damn nicely with that on the front and the Matrix II on the back.

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I think I have heard of pretty much every combo being tried.

DKP/RKP
TKP/RKP
DKP/TKP

and RKP/NKP

Surf adapters also are like different trucks front and rear.

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I’m currently running rkp rear dkp front.
It’s nice. I plan to run juma type 300 front rkp rear soon.

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Yeah I was looking at those and had an email exchange with them and was thinking about running the same at the front. Unfortunately the lead time on orders is currently super long.

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i ran
S/A:RKP
as well as
3Link:RKP

both no issues i can think of

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How long did they say?

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Says three months on the website and they confirmed that in email.

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Your question pretty much brought exactly these trucks into my mind because of their steering mechanism. Just wish they didn’t have that round profile so that we could run the typical gear drives on them.

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Yes it’s funny because I forgot that I had that conversation with them and indeed the conversation around just running their front truck since I need to stay with something on the rear that can take the gear drive. By the way, they also mentioned that the trucks work best with 15 degrees positive caster. They are apparently bringing out a 45 degree block before the end of the year, which sets things up correctly for boards with 30 degree ends.

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I’ve run tkp front/rkp rear and that was pretty good.

I also try keep my front track as narrow as possible because it responds quicker.

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What’s that like?

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I like RKP+RKP and for carvier boards DKP+RKP.

I don’t however like DKP on the rear. Not at all.

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I’d like to second this. It may look funny, but if you want it to work well, this is it.

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how did DKP/TKP compare to DKP/DKP? (I presume TKP was on rear)

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I didn’t try that but I imagine less turny in the rear more stabler.

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Not different truck types, but I do ride with a psuedo raked front truck and a normal back truck with both being rkp. That and only the front has a surfadapter while the back is just on two half inch risers.

If your front can turn more than the rear, then you end up able to turn the front with movement from your back leg only. You can still turn the front with the front leg, and the back will still turn too but usually after more force is used.

At least that is how it is on my board with an extra turny front and then just a normal rkp in the back.

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I feel like using the back foot to assist with turning is a crutch, and a rather detrimental crutch at that.

I generally try to minimise the turn from my rear truck and find that if i’m not concentrating, i tend to use the back foot to assist with turning.

What ends up happening is that i get a shitty turn and one of the back wheels will lift off the ground. This is mitigated if the turning force is more heavily focused on the front foot, with the turn being much better as well

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I can’t say if I use it often to be honest, but it is something I noticed pretty quickly after I got the new, non-defective, surf adapter. I rarely ever get a wheel coming off the ground in the back but when I do it is always in my turns where I was a stop sign, came to a complete stop and not a slow rolling stop and then have to accelerate through the turn. Probably has something to do with a changed stance while turning and accelerating vs turning normally.

I also have it happen sometimes at stop lights when I lean too far one way or the other but that is while completely still so not a problem at all. Just makes me look dumb if I have to step off the board due to almost loosing my balance while standing completely still :rofl:

If I’m messing around/ being lazy and turn with mostly my back foot the only issue is a wider turn radius :person_shrugging: sometimes I’ll do that in neighborhood areas since it doesn’t really matter if the turn is tight or not anyway.