*NEW* Official Guide To Riding Indys For Downhill

enemy combatant · 07-20-2008, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Slim

Being into skateboarding but not knowing what an indy is is kind of like being in to cars but not knowing what a Ford or Chevy is. After all, I wouldn't be surprised if more indys have been sold in the last 30 years than all other skateboard trucks combined.

He's a little green:

Quote:

Originally Posted by HesThatGuy

Hey everyone

I REALLY want to start longboarding, I have never skateboarded before.

I am 14 years old, and 130 pounds.

I want a board solely for the reason of commuting, fast. I don't care about tricks or anything.

What should I get?

My price range is 400$ or less.

(All help is GREATLY appreciated)

Oh, and what is cruising?

chutimnspitimout · 07-30-2008, 12:15 AM

hmm... i might try this out one day... looks like something fun to try out. If it fails, oh well i'll just put the trucks on a different board.

Petary791 · 07-30-2008, 01:39 PM

Instead of getting a new kingpin could you run double Khiro Cones? Complete stab in the dark...

poopants · 08-03-2008, 11:56 PM

man this helped me out a lot I am new to silverfish but have been skating a minute or two and I am glad to get info from an indy freak. I had been running old 169s stage 4 or 5 on increaingly large wheelbases and my #### broke up at 40 ish no matter what I did. I have tried most of the downhill trucks that are reasonable in price and hated them all (them shits dont turn). I prefer tail happy steering so I took 36 inch pps slalom deck, mounted front truck on bearing spacers to make pins more vertical and used slalom tail mounts and wedged rear truck flat to where it should be and new speed record is 48mph with 58 looking like no problem at all no trace of a wobble. sorry for the long post but kickass info.