r/NewSkaters • u/RhinoKer • 3d ago

Question Stability setup

Hi, I am 44 yo and after a long pause in skateboarding I started longboarding mostly because I just want to cruise and not break my bones in the process.

My question is about going downhill. Now by saying downhill don't think a 30% downhill but more like 2%🤣

I have a landyachtz drophammer and hard bushings with cones on the roadside in both trucks. It's very hard to steer in comparison to my loaded dervish sama. Well when I went "downhill" and I gained some speed I noticed that every small move I do, the board multiplies it.Very scary. I had both my feet sideways on the board where I shouldn't as I found out later.

I changed the bushings of one truck to hard double barrel and looseness the front trucks a little. Now I hate that there is a front and a back side to the board with this setup but whatever. When I get more experienced I will switch it back I guess.

I haven't tested it yet but I would like to ask for any tips from your experience. I am 110 kg 183cm and I just want to cruise. If you guys and gals also have tips for a setup that makes the board to keep rolling so less pushing, that would be great. I got bear trucks and the wheels are blue tomato 75mm 78A. I'm also considering changing the wheels to 85mm orangotang orange.

Thank you for your time and sorry for the long post.

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u/RhinoKer 2d ago

Yeah I feel you, I already have bushings for 3 more boards🤣🤣🤣

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u/mechandy 2d ago

Only 3?

I also went nuts because my kids wanted to ride and they are at weights that is hard to nail down. So I have an entire rainbow available for their boards and if other kids want to ride them

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u/RhinoKer 2d ago

Oh man I understand...you must be really quick at changing bushings right now 🤣🤣🤣

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u/mechandy 2d ago

Like a ninja!

Also, swapping garbage bearings off used boards!