Coming from various cast trucks and 140mm bear Kodiaks to Valk V3's has taken me a long time. I had the Kodiaks on 45/30, the Valks are 49/15. They are massively more sensitive to bump steer, and rider input even though they have a much larger turning radius. It has been a few months and I am only finally feeling like I am getting comfortable on the Valks. Going faster than before, comfortably pushing into faster pre-drifts, and slides. They are amazing, but it is a journey to get used to them. I found running a harder front bushing helped comfort wise in the beginning, now I have come back down to a more normal setup. I hope you get to review some Valks one day.
I hope I do to, that would rock. I tried the new ones once and they were promising, but it wasn’t my setup so I didn’t get a good foundation for comparison
Your riding on venoms I’m guessing? I ride MK3s (not slalom) but they both are coplanar bushing seat trucks. I struggled at first due to riding on HPF formula switch to riptide Kranks and your gonna love em. Much more reactive allowing some very nice steering characteristics and the slides are phenomenal. Ride kranks with valks broski and your gonna have a good time
hey Owen love the vids keep up the good content. would you please do a vid on the new bushings from cuei and seismic skate? I don't want to buy all the new stuff to try it myself hhaahaa
I’ll definitely review the Cuei bushings - they just sent me all of them! I don’t know if or when I’ll get around to buying and reviewing the Seismic bushings. I definitely want to try them, but I can’t quite justify buying them since Riptide and Cuei sent me more than enough bushings to keep me busy for a year.
Thanks to sharing your thoughts! I've got some agonies since I heard about rogue and ronin are coming soon. But you give me the light 😂 Could you plz tell me is there any differences between Rogue and Cybins when you ride?
Rogues are quicker to turn and react because of the extra rake. 8mm vs 5mm. They also lean deeper because there is no bushing seat. Cybins are more restrictive but changing bushings/inserts can fix this easily (video coming this week!). The Cybins are great because of the control you get with the angle adjustment. You can tune the angle your board likes to drift at. I personally would only want to skate Rogues on big hills, but my Cybins can be set up for small AND big hills with a quick angle adjustment and bushing change.
I hate concrete. It's unpredictably slippery but also eats wheels. For your DH-Cybin video, do you also talk about how to change the angles? Cuz I'm quite interested to know how to change angles on them.
@@owencampbell777 How would you predict the experience of someone in the reverse situation - has always been on Ronins but now have to move to a conventional DH-slalom style truck? You said it was easier to move to your DT from your Paris, but I was wondering if it would be the same ease for someone who's been on Ronins forever but now has to move to DT. I have never skated Ronins, but I have tried a friend's Slalocybins and found that they were pretty easy to adapt to - coming from a person who's only used Randal-geometry trucks.
That’s a really tough question. I have a friend that skated primarily Ronins and he recently started skating Slalom Rogues. He softened the bushings in the back truck to 93/95 instead of the stock 95/97. He always told me the rear was too dead on them, but once he made the rear softer he said they felt like cheat codes for glove down slides. I think Ronin skaters are used to having similar lean resistance in their front and rear trucks. Slalom style trucks usually have drastically different resistance, and I’m not even talking about the angle split.
@@owencampbell777 thats the oxen brown with gum sole right? Its my first time skating blazers since im a big vans guy and they might be my new go-tos theyre so sick. I also got em for $50 with a combination of sales and discount codes
All of them are pretty old and I don’t know anything about them. Yellow/red front, red/brown rear. The brown one has the insert in it that Powell claimed was patent infringement
Unfortunately didn’t have many bushings to try. These did the job okay, but we’re on the stiff side. Lean resistance was pretty balanced between front and rear, which is all I could really ask for
Basketball-inspired skate shoes are my preference for downhill. They provide the ankle support we need when cornering hard. Low-top skate shoes aren’t designed for lateral loads, so my feet often feel like they’re sliding and rolling around inside the shoe. It’s just one more unexpected place I can eliminate slop from my setup and guarantee reliable inputs to my trucks
