Do you have to match?

enoryt · Do you have to match?

I have a quick question, I'm relatively new to LDPing and just bought a used roggs mistress with Bennet 5.0s in front and RTS 106mm in the back. I was wondering if there was a huge benefit in matching the sizes, ie B5.0's with RTS 129s. Also are there any problems running my current setup?? Let me know. Thanks.

stocago

There's nothing really wrong with that, but adding a bit of width would give you a bit more stability. You could flip your front wheels inside out and your track would be more equal, that's assuming your wheels are offset, not centerset. That would make it quicker turning and easier to climb hills as well.

What are your impressions when riding it? What wheels do you have? You might be able to mix and match. For example, centerset 77mm Hawgs in front and 76mm Superballs in back.

northcoast

the big thing here is to make sure the rear is wider, if you must have a wider truck. i've been told by slalom pros that it's okay to have a wider rear, because the rear will still hold a true line and track behind the front better...if the front was wider, it would be harder to turn, and the back would be more likely to slip out behind you

pavedwave

north, what you heard is a pretty common and agreed-upon understanding from the pros, even Gary Fluitt recommended that to me some odd years back running splits a little wider in the rear -- basically for stability, and I usually followed that for GS. slalomers are often thinking stability at speed, like in the 30-40mph range.

as counterintuitive as it might seem, for many of my LDP setups I had been running (slightly) narrower, but very responsive rear trucks, like a rear Seismic, or Splitfires, and now Virages, with any high grade bushing. if you mentally isolate the front as a tic-tacking, surfing back and forth function, and the rear truck focused on propelling and powering forward, and spend 90% of your time on basically flatland pumping, it actually starts to make sense, and I like the feel of it. and I found that one of my slalom bros Corey has been running his slalom rigs with a little more front width as well.

that said, my takeaway is that the majority of people will still run a same width or else slightly wider rear, basically for stability at speed.

LDPanda

I run my rear slighly narrower than my front. So does Corey Moy. After watching him do some slalom and talking to him about he convinced me to try out out and i like it. I guess his theory (or what i remember of it) is two-fold: one, when powering off the rear youre applying the force to a smaller contact area therefore increasing the pressure. Two, you want the rear to track inside the path of the front wheels, a small rear makes that easier. I know i wrote that terribly but thats what i remember. Anyway, its a pretty easy thing to experiment with and its always worth a try, you might find out you like it.

Edit: oops, didnt see you posted about corey too! ^^