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Thunders are all lower helps with the timing on flip tricks. That may be the issue. If I skate venture it’s the v - lights with forged plates, making them lower by 1 mm on a 14inch wheel base. Still interested to mess with the v8 maybe moving the front truck in and keeping then back standard or vice versa !

Venture 5.6 highs. 8.25 axel ❤🫡🙏👌😌😎💯🔥clear purple bushings are so good btw . FYI gonna shorted my wheel base soon actually this year

When you said „ let’s get to the more techy stuff“ I thought you would go crazy on the ledge :D

Venture was always that truck That know one had growing up😂 I had one pair and broke them at 80 pounds ahahahah

Great review as always thanks, i have a likewise experience after drilling holes and also having v-lights. And also back on thunder after a year venturefever. Often i change every couple sessoins as i really like both for their benefits or feel, love my Truck madness never bored again 😂

Main reason to leave Ventures was that you could not get the bolts off with a skate tool? Acting like helpless consumer? Be a kid for lifetime? This is not real reason for someone to leave their preferred trucks. Just say that your style of popping is too sleepy for Venture Hi-s and that's it.

Holes are drilled differently in the Forged baseplate (V-Light and V-Hollow) and the Cast Baseplate (the V8 or Raw ventures). Wheelbase is a bit longer with forged baseplate and could explains the tight clearance with the skate tool

"Venture lo-s are not ventures" is what you're saying in this video. Forced reviews ain't good reviews. You don't need to do a review because "everyone" is doing it or it's "hype".

Wow 1/2” + is crazy, I thought they were only 1/8” per truck. Fwiw I just check my old 6-hole thunder plates and the difference between holes is about 10mm(3/8”). So I guess the idea is to leave a thick enough wall between them

I have some old 6-hole ventures and thunder, maybe I’ll try to make some 😭 I drilled the ‘new’ holes into some old stage V indys, it turned out fine and was easy enough to do

The shorter wb setup should have a quicker snap and lighter pop-feel, I’d think. With the tail being longer behind the back truck, and the front truck being further back

I like ventures. This is a neat idea. Indys on 14.25” wb and ventures on 14”wb are basically identical axle to axle. My primary is ventures on 14.25” and I really like it. I also have a 14”wb with Indys, it’s squirrelly but fun, and good for rotational tricks. The difference between those two, axle-to-axle, is about 1/2”

Using the sticker backing to press the grip is genius thanks friend 😁

They beefed the pivot housing up a little they did the same with the inverted thunders

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on these as I was curious on the adjustable wheelbase. I’ve been liking thunders on a 14 inch wheelbase too. For reference though, what’s your height and shoe size?

Just when my truck madness started to slow🤪

I've drilled the holes on my Venture low v-hollows, now I can also change the wheelbase and they are a bit lighter. I guess the same will be with any other Ventures because they have a plenty of space on their baseplates.

I want to like ventures but I love loose trucks. I even took the top washer off my thunder trucks

Quasi and GX1000 boards = butter

Great video and review. The V8 have the cast baseplate that do not have the weird geometry as the Venture forged plates. This is true with any Venture cast baseplate.

THAT HOODIE IS FIRE 🔥🔥🔥

Thanks for this video, Im currently skating lurpivs and the kingpin sits high, I wanted to setup some of the inverted thunders but now I think ill stick with the lurpivs and just deal with the hangups.

I've heard good things about Titanium inverted kingpin's (hollows, I think)

Your not the only one it broke on it broke on a friend of mine too and he’s very light so I think it’s a manufacturing issue

Some people are always trying to ice skate uphill. They're called trucks for a reason. You don't buy a 1/2 ton to do real man work, you get a 3/4 ton to handle the extra load and abuse.

I rode Venture for many years in my teens, now I used the ACE Af1, Indy Stage 11 and now I'm using the Thunder Tyshaw Hollow and I really liked it! Congratulations on the explanations 🛹❤️🇧🇷👏🏽👏🏽

Look up Krux Inverted kingpins.

i would really like to see replacement hangers be available. i think most people tend to hit the axle before the base plates are too worn out. i like the idea of replacement kingpins too. if both were available, id probably replace kingpins whenever i wore out a hangar, just for the case that a crack might be developing from normal use (and could be dangerous to leave on the truck that long). i like the inverted thunders a lot, my only issue is they do tend to loosen very gradually as i ride them. if anyone at thunder happens to read this, you guys should totally make a forged baseplate model of the inverted kingpin truck. that would be the ultimate truck in my mind

You can definitely buy Slappy inverted kingpins both solid and hollow.

Why I don’t skate Thunders. Never have liked them, and I bent an axle really easily on the standard ones. Ollied off a curb going down hill and got murdered, hit my head all because of those Trucks. Indy for life! Or Ventures at least. With the solid kingpins. Indy’s the Hollow Inverted Kingpin trucks came out a while back, but no one is reviewing them. Or testing them! They’re crome the Forged Baseplate Hollows IVK trucks. They also released a standard pair with solid IVK. Before only trucks Indy made were IVK “mids” which are short like 50-52mm the hollow mids are 50mm “Reynolds “ Version and standard ones and the Tiago Version is 52mm high

For bushings I really love venom street bushings they rebound like bones, but don’t hemorrhage like bones

I really love the slappy hollow lights inverted kingpins, super solid truck and nice wheelbase for nose/tail slides with minimal wheel contact

I skated the hell out of my thunders for over 15 years never broke anything on the trucks with the exception of bending axles from high impact tricks. Inverted kingpins are a gimmick

After breaking both king pins in a set of grind king trucks a long time ago I avoid inverted king pins

Destruco inverted kingpin grinds sooo good

Thunder inverted have design flaw, as many other inverted brands do…kingpins tend to wiggle, strip and break… regular kingpin trucks are best, best hollows would be the Indy hollows!

The same happend to my Thunder inverted kingpin. I got a new One from Switzerland. I really hope it does not brake again.

Have you noticed that thunders are more prone to axle slip?

Was hoping my view was the 10k

I’m riding thunder inverted kingpins now. I swear I haven’t been trusting the kingpin for some reason. When I turn the trucks with my hands I can see a lot of movement in the kingpin. I think the thunder IKP are flawed if I’m honest.

Venture Lows need the inverted kingpin the most.

I had the same issue using the inverted thunders broken kingpin few weeks in already having to switch out stock cracked bushings for higher durometer might have to try different truck company next time

I’ve had my Inverted Thunders 148’s for about 6-7weeks now. And I’m loving them. It took forever for the stock bushings to break in but im loving them 😂. Been mostly skating ledges and flat ground flip tricks. I’m really hoping you get a new set that are more durable bro.

Acer makes a titanium inverted kingpin, stupid low light and strong

I just got a set of Indy mids and I love them. They are as tall as Thunder standards but the wheelbase being set in a makes my nollie flips work again

i stopped skating thunders because my bushings would never last longer than 2 months i liked the way the trucks skated but that bugged me so much i couldn't bring myself to keep skating them they be perfect but as soon as that first cracked appeared i was just done with them and I'm not a very heavy person what so ever underweight for my age tbh xD nor did i skate tight truck because i don't weigh enough to make that work especially with thunders being less turny/surfy than indys which i love and they also the bushing never failed

I also with these were available in solid kingpins. I've snapped two or three thunder hollow kingpins, I'm about 180lbs but never skate drops or big stuff, I think each have snapped on small ledge grinds. Each time thunder sent me two spare team baseplates. 10/10 customer service, and I appreciate the extra plate to keep in the car in case another snaps (have yet to snapped a solid kingpin). So now I use hollow axles and team baseplates, but if I had to start from scratch I would just skip hollows entirely.

I have a bin with 30 years of skate parts, old trucks, wheels, misc hardware

Thunders just feel so dainty and fragile compared to Indy and venture. They do skate well and manual so good though

Mini logo bushings are my favorite aftermarket replacement, but the hard(red) are a bit too stiff with both top and bottom installed so I’ve been using Indy bottom bushings