Chaput Truck Alert

[badger]

Maybe a cigarette. It's more of a lower case T pivoting in a E/U on Lifesavers.

I like red and white and green lifesavers.....

Not cigarettes.

I have to agree with Isabelle too. Affordable excellence is where it's at.

[SpookTheHamster]

Oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man.

Affordable, eh? Looks like I picked the right time to get into slalom.

[pavedwave]

its all about the oter oil. It used to be baby seal but thats so not PC anymore.

now I'm not pretending to know anythoing about truck design but I've always thought more parts means more parts that could fail no?

sure he's not using extract of whale blubber? that would be efficient and non-PC.

radikals are a really simple design but they fail (kingpin snaps) so while I think in general that 'more parts means more failures' is true, there's also a sweet spot where to achieve a perfect motion for such a complex movement (like trucks designed for pumping) -- the majority of the parts will undergo almost no undue stress, and one or two parts will remain the "weakest link" in the system.

[broken only once]

How wide are we talking? 150mm? 120? This might cause me to hold off on some trucks I'm about to be buying..

[skatardude10]

AAhhh I can't take this! Ive got to see these trucks!

[worldwide]

How wide are we talking? 150mm? 120? This might cause me to hold off on some trucks I'm about to be buying..

id guess between 95mm and 110mm

[ChrisChaput]

id guess between 95mm and 110mm

Close. The first set of hangers are 90mm wide and can be spaced to 100mm and 110mm. If their is a demand for more width, we could make a 110/120/130 or a 120/130/140 version.

[bpz]

Strong, straight, precision axles?

[stevie]

Strong, straight, precision axles?

My guess is that the axles will be made out of lead or tin. That way they'll bend immediately and you'll have to keep buying more and more and more and Chaput will become rich selling replacement axles to his truck addicts. It's sort of like the cheap photo printers that cost $75 to re-ink. Come to think of it, he'll probably just make the axles out of wood, or soft plastic, or cheese. At least then you could put them in a sandwich.

[ChrisChaput]

Strong, straight, through axles, without overthreading the ends. The ends of the hangers are true, precision spacers - everything you'd expect from a precision truck. Of course I recommend Biltin Bearings, because when you tight them down, the whole system (hanger, axle, inner rings of the bearings, and lock-nuts) is like having an 11mm solid steel rod with balls spinning in the shallow grooves with otter oil. Very strong, very precise, very fast.

[mellowkat]

I like through axles! When are these going TBA?

[xrayvzn]

Chris,

Great trucks! Thanks for the sneak preview and skate lesson today.

[Longbourder]

Chris,

Great trucks! Thanks for the sneak preview and skate lesson today.

Dear God! You got to skate on them and NO PIX. I can't understand this madness of a truck. I need a Picture!

[ChrisChaput]

Dear God! You got to skate on them and NO PIX. I can't understand this madness of a truck. I need a Picture!

He's not just another skater. He's also my radiologist. If he took a picture it would be all grayscale and you'd need the x-ray vision of a doctor to read it.

When pumping these trucks, it feels like you're always going downhill and downwind...

[ej25goddess]

doesn't mean you can't say it anyway you like. A LOT of americans have french last names without realizing it (Laporte, Paquin, Leblanc...).

I miss The Screen Savers, Leo Laporte rules. He was the sort of dude that you wish was your dad, such a fricken sweetheart. I got to meet him once very breifly at a live TWiT taping in San Francisco.

[pavedwave]

When pumping these trucks, it feels like you're always going downhill and downwind...

[phidauex]

I suppose Chris should take this thread as a big compliment. We don't even know what it is, and we already want to buy it.

"Hey guys, I've got this... Thing! Its great! You'll love it! I'm warning you, it'll be expensive at first, but I'll try to make it affordable. Its really... Cool! Yeah, thats what it is! And crazy too!"

ORLY??? CHAP-IT has some.. THING?? When can I buy it??!?

I guess we've just come to trust you, and for good reason, so far. Until the day you go insane and make your next 'exciting product' some sort of magnet with life-extending properties that you wear on your forehead while skating to channel the magnetic forces of the Earth. We'd all buy them and post good reviews, and then, slowly, we'd realize you'd gone completely insane. After which we'd still let you post from your hospital bed, and whenever you posted about your next new 'invention' that you made from old IV needles, rubber tubes, and your bed pan, we'd all pretend we were excited and that we were gonna buy it, just for, you know, old times sake.

peace,
sam

[worldwide]

leave it to chaps to make a product and hype it as the only product that will be able to compete in the future.

phiadeux thats one of the funniest things ive read in a while

[stevie]

I think a short run of these trucks, machined one-by-one, will be made available pretty soon. I know that sets are already in top racers' hands for testing. I think the cost of such a run should be pretty high, but not outside the established range for machined trucks.

[wiki]

And here we all thought Mr Bennett was the master of hype and mystery. At least he showed up at ASR with protos of his new 'RK'series. come on with the pics yet.