Box Of Trucks

A recent ebay win (or lose, depends on your viewpoint), big box of various trucks and truck parts. 

A set of ACS 651's,  at one time the Gold version, now lacking most of the gold coating.

Four Indy baseplates, 2 with kingpins, 2 without and one Indy 109 hanger.

A pair of Randal DH hangers.

Two Tracker RT-S trucks

One has been cut down to slightly wider than Midtrack width

One Grind King Jay Adams with a stripped thread on one end of the axle and a bent axle and damaged thread on the other. 

Two pairs of shock pads, two sets of Grind King kingpins (one with big flat heads, other with smaller heads) one pair of unbranded Grind King type kingpins, a regular old type kingpin, four splined type with dodgy threads, one bearing (no shield), three kingpin nuts, a cup washer, a flat washer, a GK insert and a random locknut

A pair of cheap unbranded hangers and baseplates, a pair of Speed Demon baseplates (one with a kingpin) a hanger.  

This is the reason I decided to bid on this package, A Radikal Dragons Claw front slalom truck, sadly missing it spherical bearing from the hanger and the kingpin is snapped off in the thread insert in the baseplate. Three more pairs of interchangeable axles for width tweakage.

 

Stridey has offered to send me a free spherical for the hanger, cheers, I have emailed Keith Hollien regarding a kingpin and insert but no reply as yet.

Whilst I was photographing all the above I thought I'd have a swap around with the 8 wheeler hangers

A much more aesthetically pleasing result. 

Updates

I've been fiddling about with the Skaterbuilt Conekiller

Have removed the big aluminium block and gone down the traditional route for now.

3 x Surrey Skateboards wedged risers, 10º each, just about bring the kingpin up to vertical.

Front now running on a 10º wedge and a 5º wedge.

Also for last weeks session at Bowlworth I tried No Skoolz on the BDS 8.

Messing a bit with my OCD having 98a's on the outside and 92a's on the inside. Makes it a bit 'Carlos Fandango' and maybe makes it a bit difficult to turn due to the wheel hang. 

Bowlworth

Well it's been a while, been busy skating, 6 skateable weekends in a row and today we went to Bowlworth to Ricardos bowl.

A beautiful sunny morning. I arrived as Trev and Paul were walking from the car park and wee were soon joined by Ric to unlock and let us in..

There has been a bit of resurfacing done since the last time I was there, namely the cockpocket, for some reason there is a big lump on the flat where the two bits of the bowl join that needs an angle grinder taking to it to flatten it out.

Didn't seem to bother Trev.

Or Ric…

who left for Shoreham shortly after Gra arrived.

Trev had a new board with him…

Guildford Easter Sunday Session

Finally got there to skate.

Fun little park.

Trev was getting the hang of carving on his 8 wheeler.

What's Got 32 Wheels?

A session at XC today that's what!

Decided to try and stick to the 8 all day, started off on the new Veteran Typhoon (left)

Wheelbase is shorter as is the tail, the combination of these counteract each other and it actually skates better than I expected for a short deck with a short wheelbase.

Had a few slams when I switched back to the 4 wheeler.

Shot some footage of Trev on hits BDS with my Pentax K30. Need to practice a bit and maybe switch to manual focus and play with other settings.



Missed the drop in at the start and no hand plants in this run…

Battery was nearly dead on my camera so no other pictures from today. 

Bag of Trucks

Gavin at Surrey Skateboards came up trumps.

Ordered yesterday, arrived today…

Six Tracker Mids, 4 for me for Project "Free, The Danish 8", the other 2 for Gra for something or other he's got up his sleeve. 

Got the blue 'soft' Superball bushings in, might swap them for orange Khiros which are a bit softer. 

Trackersteins

Arrived today, 184 hangers on RT-S baseplates.
Don't think that was ever a factory option.

Looks like new bushings required, been cranked down a bit.

Free The Danish 8!

This arrived today from Denmark.

Veteran Typhoon, was advertised as free to a good home so I adopted it. Paid the shipping from Denmark. Cheers Gilles.
29 1/2" x 13 1/2", 14 1/2" wb, 5 1/2" between inner truck holes, drilled old school, 6" tail, 4" nose.

I won't mention the stickers...

8 Footage

A little bit of video from Sundays session.

Here's Trev showing that just when you think you know what you are doing the 8 wheeler will tell you who's in charge…

Earley Snow Session

Well it's been a while, haven't skated since 7th December, been buying wheels like that are going out of fashion though…

So this morning we headed over to Earley, was snowing lightly and 1º C when I left home.
Trev was already there and had cleared the bowl with his leaf blower and dustpan and brush.

We had the two minty fresh BDS 8's with us so Trev snapped a quick pic before they got ridden...

It was bloody cold…

We soon warmed up a bit...

The 4's hardly got touched, I only had a few runs at the start on my new Pool King Stinger, didn't touch the Skaterbuilt at all..

Gra joined us making three 8 wheelers, possibly the largest gathering of 8 wheelers in the UK ever…

He was soon getting to grips with it… (most of the time)

Trev stepped it up a pace with axle stalls, inverts, roll-outs to tail and a couple of attempted rock 'n' rolls…

A few of Trevs pics of me, cheers mate…

A really good session, sorry I don't get any pics of Paul on his 4 who had joined us from his deathbed.