pavedwave longboarding

mooney

Got the trucks for my new board. Installed them and love cruising down the street. I had to crank down on the bennets 5.0 so I didn't get wheel bite (I need to get some spacers since the Khiro kit only came with wedges). My issue is with the rear Seismics. They came with the sky blue (extra light) but I weigh 220lbs. I tried to crank down on them per the instructions but they still seem looser then the front bennets with my weight. Did they send the wrong springs or is sky blue the stock spring? I was thinking I was getting something stiffer by getting the stable turns. I didn't think to ask what color spring I was getting.

Thoughts?

I guess I need to but the heavy or extra heavy because of my weight and needing a stiffer rear truck, but will I be able to learn with the current light blue or will it give me trouble since it's so loose?

Mooney

stocago · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 227

Definitely get some risers ASAP to take care of the wheelbite issue in front, because you really want to be able to take some deep turns and it needs to be loose. Then you can play around with different bushing combos to dial it in. In the meantime, you can use some of the small wedges (even backwards) to get some clearance.

As far as the Seismic, those springs are standard for the 130mm ST. They used to be yellow, but are now sky blue. You need to jump up to at least the green springs (medium), but purple (heavy) might be a safer bet. Just like bushings, springs are a personal thing. Everyone needs to experiment to see what they like best. I started out with super-light, then went to extra-light, then light, then medium, and now I'm using heavy on one setup. I weigh 155 pounds.

The Stable-Turn has built-in dewedging (baseplate), but I still add an additional 4-8 degrees, depending on the setup. If you were to dewedge yours you would limit the turning, but gain leverage over the springs, defeating the purpose. You could experiment with some wedges until you get the stiffer springs.

I'm guessing that if you jumped all the way up to the extra-heavy springs that it might be too big of a jump right off. You might end up graduating up to those, but maybe try something in the middle first.