Florida. Personal preference; Bones Hard top bushings with Bones Medium bottom bushings, just the combo that I've come to like, just by playing around with trucks for 33 years. I'm 46, now. 🍻
I have been riding grind king king pins in my independent trucks for about 30+ years and Powell hard-core bushings in my Indies since they first came out about 15 or 20 years ago. I’ve been riding Independent trucks since they first came out in 1978, still have my first pair.
Thanks for the video. Growing up, I skated Independent and Venture trucks with stock bushings. Never thought about it. 20 years later I got back into skating first borrowing a board then getting one that had a non-stock bushing.
I've enjoyed the review, it was insightful, and I just installed some bones medium on my mini logo trucks (popsicle), and they feel better than the stock mini logo bushings already, just the double action aspect alone is a big improvement, I put the mini logo bushings on my other board on indy trucks without the base washer it's a 10" retro deck, makes sense to me, I never found the stock indy bush to be everything I ever wanted in a bushing it always needed some kind of tweak to work right for me, like a big flat washer on top in back, or a bottom on top
I never do stock bushings anymore & haven’t for years. I always put a hard in the bottom & soft at the top. Usually the shorties doh-doh bushings, but I juuuuust got some bones & already like how they feel.
If you're into flatground pumping Bones Hardcore are sweet. I'm 200-ish lbs and all I could find locally were medium, but they worked fine, a really nice snap back to center. Indy's with a comparable duro feel floppy AF to me. I'll qualify this by noting that I'm a cruiser, so I don't subject them to a ton of impact.
If you're on the fence, Bones are worth atleast trying. It's hard to explain, I went with Medium Bones in my 149's. It feels like they 'snap' back to center slightly, when you turn there's almost a kind of break-point between a very slight turn and hard turning. They definitely give a different feel which is worth trying at least once.
i just got some mini logo bushings, maybe too soon to say but i'm really digging them so far. normal shape, not goofy plastic washer bs like bones. remind me of doh-dohs from the '90s
Forgot to mention. With Thunder trucks I just kept it in house with their harder bushings. They're already a little more conical shaped board side vs Indy with the standard barrel bushing so I never felt the need to swap out. When I tried Ace trucks I swapped the stock bushings for Bones and the turnyness of it was close to out of control.
Recently i bought venture hi trucks and their stock bushings was different hardness((. I had old bones mediums lying around. I put it in my new ventures and it work's!) Ventures + bones bushings = very well truck's for me. And a long time ago, when I bought this bushings, I didn't like them at all.)
I bought a pair of independent mids hollows, and the bushing that goes below was getting out of the washer (because the bigger washer was a little smaller than what its comun) then i changed them for another indys 94a bushings, and new and bigger washers, and that problem got solved.
I live in northern nevada, we often get between 10-15 degree lows, and I skated all last winter, I skated a lot of late night/early sunrise sessions, because I was Skating with a buddy that was working nights, so I just seemed to be out during the coldest part of the night often, but I skated Bone's when I was just beginning, but when I learned how to break in my bushings I started hating Bones hardcore bushings, so yeah, to each his/her own, but I can definitely tell you from someone that skates in all four seasons I swear by stock, and that doesn't matter what temperature it is.....
Just purchased a pair last week. Waiting on them. I purchased my first board in 20years 2 weeks ago and they came with core trucks. The trucks are ok but the bushings are terrible..wayyy too soft with no rebound. One session and they were getting cut up. Had to crank down the nut way too much just for a little stability.
