Gravity Spoon Nose Set Up Help

**Gs-boards** · 11-03-2009 11:48 AM

sorry for threadjack, but i've got a question:
i'm riding my hypercarve with tracker 149's now for a while, switched from randalls and with retro bertz, no risers and orange khiro bottom, blue top im just 1mm away from wheelbite and i almost can't steer (like to ride my trucks very loose) should i put some risers between it or are there any other opinions?
thx

**WillJ** · 11-03-2009 11:56 AM

get some trucks that turn (indy/ace/ect..), add an 8th inch riser and you're golden

**Gs-boards** · 11-03-2009 12:00 PM

any other opinions? i can't pay new trucks

. Maybe i just put them back on my carve 39 and mount the randalls back on it so it steers alot more.

**WillJ** · 11-03-2009 12:27 PM

seriously... it's an easy fix

risers + softer bushings = more turn without wheelbite

**Gs-boards** · 11-03-2009 01:14 PM

nvm, already fixed it

changed bushings from blue khiro's to orange khiro's. but i hear alot bad things about trackers, like you said they dont turn and they break faster than indy's?

**WillJ** · 11-03-2009 01:42 PM

to clarify

they just turn differently than Indy's and they're just as durable as any other truck (if not more so)

**xrayvzn** · 11-03-2009 01:44 PM

How does the bamboo spoon nose compare with the original? Anyone have a chance to compare them for flex etc.

**Army** · 11-03-2009 03:04 PM

I might be a tad late on the discussion but...

If I can't hear my hangers rattle the trucks are too tight, and I gotta ride low as I can get. There's nothing worse than risers and riding high. Right now I'm riding a Gravity Mini-Carve on ridiculoose ACE 22, with 66mm Gravity Burners, no risers. And like almost every set-up I have to work around wheel-bite. But I've found a couple ways to cheat it some:

1. Burn through it. Just let wheel bite happen a few times and the wheels will burn-in their own little wheel wells which will greatly reduce all-out type stoppage.

2. Help it along. Go out and get some good wheel bite marks on your deck, then get yourself a scrap of grip tape, put the grip tape on a small cylinder shape like a broom stick or old wheel and use it to deepen the wheel marks. It doesn't take much to clear the wheels completely in most cases.

And if all else fails you can just go with the flow. I've found there's a neat kind of joy and skill you can develop in riding trucks loose enough that they might bite back if you push just that much too hard. It's an extreme example, but I was inspired towards more looseitude when I saw Roger Mihalko ride a contest in the Kona Kidney bowl a Gravity Mini-Classic, 62mm Gravity Snaps, no risers, and old Indy Trucks with NO-ZERO-NADA top bushings, just washers. The deck literally sat on the wheels when he wasn't riding it. (Roger got 1st or 2nd in that contest if I remember correctly). He just knew where the wheel-bite was and rode accordingly.

Hope that helps?

**Mynusss** · 11-03-2009 03:25 PM

Edit: OOOppsies

**SLAB City Jake** · 11-13-2009 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by xrayvzn

How does the bamboo spoon nose compare with the original? Anyone have a chance to compare them for flex etc.

anybody? This board looks rad. Anyone know how the flex would be for ~225plds?
I saw a video with a 45" spoon nose and it seemed like a slightly shorter (i.e. 42") board would be perfect.

wanna set it up with some indy 149's and retro bertz' (thinking about the hybrid 149's).

peace