Chaput Truck Alert

**sk8r_betty** · 10-25-2006 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by ChrisChaput

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

Alright, I'm in.

**dden** · 10-25-2006 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

Enough about the trucks Steve...where is that perfect right you have pictured?
Ha Ha!

**stevie** · 10-25-2006 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by dden

Enough about the trucks Steve...where is that perfect right you have pictured?
Ha Ha!

I took that pic a few hundred miles down in Baja a few years back. It was mid-winter and and we were looking *around the corner* to get some relief from the relentless NW winds and, surprise!, found this perfect wave breaking on a freak south that managed to thread its way through. The relentless NW wind was a nice offshore there. Woo hoo!

**EBasil** · 10-25-2006 03:30 PM

Okay, a few people have been riding the v.3's, and several more were on the v.2's (the v.1's were ridden by about 30 skaters at a 'fish/LCB clinic), but there's been a general courtesy not to photog and publish the protos for the "Liquid Fyre" slalom trucks.

Anyway, here's a grainy look at the 3rd version protos, here by (anguished) permission...

**badger** · 10-25-2006 03:37 PM

I like them already.....

Thanks for permission to release the picture Chris, now I can sleep at night.

**ocian** · 10-25-2006 03:48 PM

so... boba fett is the sponsered rider of these right?

**Astronomical** · 10-25-2006 04:26 PM

or not...

Chaput are you sure you didn't use complex numbers to get the geometry for those things?

I understand them even less now... WHERE'S THE BASEPLATE??? D:

**revelation2** · 10-25-2006 04:34 PM

I don't get how they work.

Chaput, those must have been the result of a dream, because I am clueless....which is a good thing. Keep up the sick sick sick work, they look insane.

**pithaya** · 10-25-2006 05:20 PM

Are those good for grinding?? You know, like smiths and stuff??...

**HerBDerb** · 10-25-2006 05:56 PM

Although that pic looks kinda confusing, I think I understand how it works, and it seems quite simple really.

**ChrisChaput** · 10-25-2006 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by pithaya

Are those good for grinding?? You know, like smiths and stuff??...

They'd probably be about the worst truck on the planet to grind. They're a slalom truck, and made to turn with ease and precision above all else. Pumping, carving, cranking, driving - they work great. Grinding? Flipping? There are PLENTY of disposable trucks that are good for that, but horrible for slalom.

**stevie** · 10-25-2006 06:07 PM

How about fish grinds?

**pithaya** · 10-25-2006 06:09 PM

I know, Mr. Chaput, I was being sarcastic !

I hope you got a laugh from my comment...

**ocian** · 10-25-2006 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by pithaya

Are those good for grinding?? You know, like smiths and stuff??...

they are great for catching intergalactic bounties

**HerBDerb** · 10-25-2006 07:24 PM

Ok, I think I have these trucks worked out.
Those two kingpins on the ends have spherical bearing pivots (or whatever theyre called) on them, which are the obviously the pivots of the truck. And Chris said you dont need to wedge the trucks, so I'm assuming that the pivots are adjustable, and tightening/ loosening the nuts on the pivots adjusts the angles. And when he said you can use them without a top bushing or locknut, its because the pivots keep it fixed in place.

And if you flip that picture of the trucks upside down, it makes alot more sense.

**Astronomical** · 10-25-2006 08:17 PM

AHA! I found the basplate and now I get it, perspective was playing tricks on me.

**tasteofink8733** · 10-25-2006 08:23 PM

ill proly get those bad boys for some serios dh

**Slim** · 10-25-2006 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by tasteofink8733

ill proly get those bad boys for some serios dh

Be my guest, but they're about half the width that most people these days ride for "serious dh".

**Karl Floitgraf** · 10-25-2006 09:27 PM

I'm really excited to get my hands on some of those bushings. It's been a while since people who really knew about good urethane mixing and slalom skating produced bushings commercially. I've felt that it's hard to find a good bushing that rebounds well like the stimulators. I'm sure chaput's done excellent bushing work.