NEW Independent MiD Trucks: First Look & Wear Test 

I’m happy with the kingpin clearance and hanger with standard indys but still excited about these.

I'm thinking I might have to try them in 144 on a 8.25" board. That way I can still keep the 149 titaniums for my park set up with the 8.5". Hay any one riding old school 215s on a fish board.

It's looks like the old stage 8 baseplates. Before they changed the kingpin in the stage 9 faster to knock out kingpin. I was hoping the kingpin was hollow. More then likely a Krux down low hollow would screw right in.

Does nobody else remember grind king Allen key kingpins from about thirty years ago? THIS ISN'T A NEW INNOVATION!

@@edwardbentley3512 my brother had them. And the bottom nut keeped moving around. He had the hollow base grind king's. Then years later I found a shop that did the invention kingpin. You had to hammer a nut into your trucks. I was lucky as I had a foot long bit of rail road track to use as a anvil. Then around 2005 all trucks change to the different kingpin. I'll say because people hat been going and buying parts from a hardware store. And not truck company.

Replace the crappy cheddar cheese bushings with Powell Hardcore bushings and there is an ultimate skateboard truck that won’t hang up as easily and the inverted kingpin won’t strip out.

Yeah man I had Grind Kings 20 years ago or more (I'm old lol) with the domed top and Allen key. But good to see with these you've got the option of Allen key and hex cause once ya ground the Allen hole a bit they were impossible to take out. And Allen keys on anything just kinda suck in general lol.

Stoked you enjoy them! I feel like half the people love em and half tell us we're kooks haha

@@ShredzShop Ignore the kooks y'all the greatest yt skate channel 🤝

I think it’s just big news cause it’s Indy doing it. Seems a little out of character for them, but hey if it works, no one will be complaining.

I'm not sure if this should be thought as or said as if it is the greatest invention even I'm not fan of some of independent both the kind of cross if it is ,free, mas , on, kind of logo or what ever strange or crusader remind me of some bad part of history while we in west are quick to see other religion as either less civilised or even see some as more violent when our own present and past politic .is full of violence and control economic control of less strong countries that we benefit alot from. Also attitude of punk rock kind of stuff not promote best good lifestyle for good future and thinking of good way of living while still skating and keep good and strong , pujm rock destroy all everything one self attitude all way like smoking l, drinking all, drugs end like punk rock alcoholic or coke weed head, wasted thing as is bad I dont agree and am not happy for which is too much part for some part of people in skate culture, ( even tho if course not all) all this said to independent turns good and I in general like how they skate just crooked grinds I think I remember and got impression that i like venture, for invention to say about this I dont think one can necessarely say it as biggest invention new things since 20 years have been different models (stages) of independent and new adding to trucks for different kinds here is examples : independent hollow kingpin and same also with hollow axles czme to be and now also more expensive but what I heard about as to sound like nice trucks with titanium axles also not to forget hollow trucks you can get normal model and forged (more light than normal) badeplate model. But yes I would have wished this inverted king pin would have come earlier but I remember I used to know one who had old grindking who I think had problems with keeping them hwo he wanted them I think they did loose them self I can't remember if it was grindking trucks them selves of grindking kingpins he had installed that was having issues like this,

@@s.ibnihenry.abdullah2165 maybe you need an inverted kingpin cuz u sound like a cracked nut

Yeah, i actually use inverted GK in mid 2000's, wth indy?

Destructo trucks had em too..

Yup, I remember grind king and they had this inverted kingpin.

I had so many pairs of the. Best invention ever. Wondered where they went.

Interesting, we'll see how these Independent ones last. I remeber the Grind King ones had some weird marketing thing they claimed made them stronger, they were forged or something...

GrindKing king pins are heat tempered and virtually unbreakable. I have been riding the same pair of king pins since 1989 now in my third set of Indy 169s... I still have my very first Indys from 1978 on a Pocket Pistols downhill slalom board!

Stoked you enjoyed!!

GK was fun back in the day. I have some of their newer trucks. Just ordered the Houston Skateboards coffin complete with the GK's on them too. :)

Ever try using harder durometer cushions? Should help from over tightening on ones that feel too soft for you 🤘

#normalizeinvertedkingpins

Glad you like them!

Story of my life...

Unbelievable, I really thought they would be a game changer.

The flight decks are the best thing to ever happen to me lol, I’m about 200lbs and I tend to stomp my landings , I was snapping decks in about a week just from flat ground kick flips, on the flight decks in no longer maters that I don’t land over the bolts, honestly makes me way more willing to try new stuff now

@@dentonramsey8726 I’m gonna order one, try it out, I too like to stomp my landings Mike Mo style, just catch a trick mid air over a hip and stomp it bolts!

It did in the 90s i would get grind king king pins and put them in any truck i wanted

it did, check out a dude named RadRat and his video about Grind King.

GrindKing

Calvin Kenney cheers dont even no how that happened lol auto correct

I hear rumours that Grind King is back!

You do know that Krux and Indy are manufactured by the same company. It’s a new feature for the Indy Brand. Not NBD

Stoked you're repping your local!

Yeah I am surprised that they haven't edited or out a note about a correction somewhere, I just read "that currently asked questions" blog on their site about it and it's still the wrong information, I guess in canada they measure things their own way maybe???? Don't they know this continent ain't big enough for two different size millimeters!?!?!?!?

Never tried Royals Mike mo?

Inverted kingpin one more time ;)

We're in Canada, so we're in the same boat haha! Maybe not as bad as Europe, but frustrating seeing it jump up 30% in price as soon as it drives over our border from the US.

@@ShredzShop sad to hear that you guys go through the same thing... Well, I still prefer to pay a tad more and support my local shop, keep shredding guys 🛹🔥

Canada or US?

Yeah I'm figuring that's what's happening too. Three options I can see. Drill deck to allow the point to go in further. Take the kingpin out and shorten it. Buy harder bushings. Oh maybe four options. Add washers.

There ones are pretty deep, unless you tightened them like a cm deep

These Indy Mids come in at 10g HEAVIER than their equally sized standard counterparts...all because of an in verted kingpin with arguably shitty clearance...

@@TimHesse yeah never been a huge fan of indys, even the hollows make no real difference

Let us know what you think!! 🤝

@@ShredzShop of course, gotta wait for the spring first xd

Yeah agree, was inverting king pins in the 90's stopped the Ni-lock nut from wearing down. Grind kings Allen key King pins are still the best. Sorry indy but nah

Grind Kings

Yep it's a rip off, they stole the idea of Grind King and did it worse. Way worse, they didn't really give you that much clearance, they bulked up the hanger so now you can't really lock a grind at all unless you're on a conical and worst of all they weigh a ton. No one is going to skate this garbage after they buy one set

Yea but they don't make grind kings anymore right?

Wall Mob check the inter web my friend.