After not skating for 10 years, I recently skated on a friend's skateboard. I really missed it, unfortunately our local skate shop is permanently closed, so I placed an order online. - Powell Flight Deck 8.25 -Tensor low maglite 5.5 - ace hollow hardware -bronson g3 bearings -grizzley grip - spitfire 99a 53mm classic - and set of powell dragon wheels 96a 52mm I'm a bit older so I hope that a light setup will help me, I can't wait until it arrives. thanks for the video
Ive been skating them for about a month, my Indy's are collecting dust right now, I love these things I actually grind very easily with them. They are very noisy but I think it's just mine because they are the glossy mullen
I'm not hating on Indy's, I've been skating my Indy's for like 3 years ( 144 forged hollow) and it's the perfect truck all around, but after trying these tensor lo mag light the game changed to Street, I've been skating street so easily and I even Ollie different , higher and more secure because it flies into my feet and I can feel the catch, i will say the first time i got them I couldn't skate them, they are so so so different from Indy's, I had to re learn my stuff but then after like the first week I noticed how easily I could grind, Ollie, control at high speed etc etc. I have to mention my set up is , a 8" bu 31.6" and a 14"WB
I also tried krux K5 , and I took them off the same day😂😂😂😂 those things are the extreme of over turn, my body said, left.... Krux said, forward.... And I flew out 😂
About 3 months with mine and I already got to the axle on my front truck 😅, but they are still good, when I first got them they had an awful click , but its gone now
I ride tensor mag lights and road lows for years, recently decided I wanted to try tensor mag light atg which are basically highs and I liked the highs and didn't like the highs. I change the bushings for soft bushings like usual tensor 90a bushings white. I like the highs because I could do everything higher and roll away more consistently not getting wheel bite, I didn't like how they turn and I had to change my timing on all my tricks. I went back to lows lol.
Thenks for adequate review! What can I say, the Minilogo trucks because how low they are (quick snap!) and how fun they are for cross locking beginner style (back truck barely hanging on) into 50-50s (even for ledges), even though I'm 36 and have skated for 24 seasons (that's 24 years in Estonia). If I have them with dragons V4 54, then I'd have to add 1/8'' raisers and grind the wheelwells to the board - never gets me wheelbitten on 54mm and still be able to ride them medium tight. Otherwise small 51mm slim hard wheels and no risers (but again with diy wheelwells)
I think wheel wells are a FANTASTIC idea and should be incorporated onto boards more often! Like I said in the video, I'm like you and prefer a LOW to the ground board with small 52 mm wheels, I would LOVE to have just a LITTLE bit of wheel well sanded into the deck so I could have the option to turn REALLY tight when I need to 🙂🙂🙂
I rode Tensors back in the early 00s, and the stickyness of the bushings during break-in has always been an issue. Still haven't tried the new All-Terrain Geometry Mag-Lights, but I've had zero issues with my older Mag-Light Highs since swapping the bushings, apart from the kingpin clearance (which you can hack by using Bones bushings w/o the top washer, threading the nut, then: marking the area past the nut with a Sharpie > removing hanger + bushings > lightly spinning die onto kingpin > removing marked kingpin area with angle grinder > chasing threads with the die as you remove it from the kingpin > reassembling truck. Obviously, that's a hassle, but it works. From what I've heard, the ATGs and newer Regulars don't have the clearance problem anymore, though, so I'm just as likely not to bother on my next pair. My conspiracy theory on the bent axles is that those folks were riding the old solid-axle "MAG"/"GEO-MAG" models that Zumiez still has deadstock for, and that those used cheaper steel on the axles, but I will say that the kingpin on mine is badly bored off-center. Same for the axles, but not as badly. If QC was particularly off one year, I could easily see hangers making it out of production where they'd drilled the axle so far off to the side that they'd bend/break. I seem to remember the first press release for Tensor "New Geometry All-Terrain" making some mention of improving manufacturing quality, though, and adding the "Guaranteed for Life" branding. For the ATG & Regulars, I believe that's when they moved away from the bubbly cast mag baseplate to the straight one that has the little anchor nubs on the bottom. Anyway, I love them, even though sizing is limited and they can be hard to find locally. Weight is a great offset for the gigantor wheels I ride to handle our chunky-ass Seattle/Tacoma concrete.
See, that's how I feel about them, the streets can require bigger wheels and their weight savings can offset the wheel girth 😀 I also changed the bushings, I have blue doh dohs on top and cylinder tac and supply bushings on bottom (that's my board, it's me Jeff 🤣😀). The stock tensor bushings were fine enough, but I LOVE the doh doh and tac and supply combo I have now for fast and responsive turning 😎😎
they definitely are awkward bushings to break in you have to ride them really lose til break in or else the shift and pop to one side causing you to drift , but once they break in they do feel really good
If you're going to go through that issue with the kingpin, the best thing you can do for a low truck is convert your trucks to an inverted kingpin. The difference is night and day. i am currently going through warranty with Tensor as my ATG's have bent axles. So i'll see how that goes. I have skated them to the axle on the back truck and put on a brand new pair of ATGs. They're honestly... the best truck i have ever rode. Thus far.
@@jake360flip yep, we had one person have that happen with his Magnesiums, too, the axels bent on him after doing big drops 😳😳 I agree though, I really do like the thought of an inverted axel so there's NO possibility of clearance problems 😀😀
@@jephfandingo1438 I don't skate big drops but I'm relatively weighty. 210lbs which I think doesn't help. I've currently got a grind king kingpin on my tensors and they sit lower than the actual axle. Real easy mod to do too. The hardest part of it is hammering out the old kingpin. I'm still working through a bit of bushing madness though as i can't get them to feel how i want them to.
like others I rode tensors in the prime days of the early 00s , when i got back into skating in 2020 the mag lites are the ones I ordered , I rode them for a year and wanted to try something else now im on ventures and dont think I can go back now , there was an adjustment I felt like my trick timing was off because the tensors were so low , I got the venture mids regular non hollow with orange doh dohs and its my perfect trucks now.
i have tensor lows as well 5.25 which is 7.8inch axle when i measured it. the only thing i dont like is the bushings and pivot cup. the stock bushings was literally cut off in slant and no wonder it always stay in one side. so i ended up replacing it with bones mediium bushings.
@@jephfandingo1438 because the stock bushings i got was defective (factory defect). and it is too soft. bones medium is the perfect match although it turns a little but i have solid pop due to stability of the board
How they don't grind well?! In many reviews people grinded bricks and unwaxed ledges and said that these grind exceptionally well 😂 I got these and i must say that there were issues with stock bushings because they would lock into place when turning, and kingpin shield would dig into the axle. Aside from that geometry is very similar to Indys but l trucks are much lighter and probably a bit weaker.
It's kinda like if you have formula 4 and one person likes how it slide and another gets flat spot ... tensor highs have very similar geometry to indy but lows are completely different.... it's more like venture lows...
It's sort of just my metallurgy preference is all, I skate a pair of aluminum tensors about 5 years ago and found they just were a LITTLE more consistent for me personally. But I still love these magnesiums, I just feel like I stick a TINY bit more but never enough to stop me from landing tricks or to distract me at all.
I have a few pairs of these and they've all been great. The lows are lower and have a longer wheelbase than the Venture lows i skated my whole life and somehow still turn better. The highs are basically Indy Stage 11s that weigh a whole lot less. Same height and wheelbase. The only issue I've had is with my pair of 5.0 lows and its a minor one, my rear truck has blown two pivot cups in as many months. I've never blown a cup in my life until this one particular truck.
You are on point on this one ... low have very flat base and angle of pivot points (pivot cup and middle of bushing) just slight more standing then venture... I don't thing venture lows intention is to turn better.... yeah tensor highs just like indy ...
Tensor lows have about 10mm shorter wheelbase than Venture lows. Measured yesterday, while you can reach front bolts with tool on tensor lows you can't reach on Venture lows.
Is catching the high kingpin why you think they don’t grind well? Because magnesium grinds freakishly well. If you want to see for yourself, go try to grind a raw unpainted curb with them. Then try with some standard aluminum trucks.
I just got some unreleased trucks still in testing. Hollow titanium axle & kingpin and made of magnesium. We're trying to break them. Not tensor though
@@jephfandingo1438 We can only hope. A lot has changed with DSM (Dwindle Distribution) over the last year. It's not the same company anymore after Bravo Sports bought them out for a measly mil. A lot of the OG team riders for Enjoi and Blind have left as well. Things were not great as of february-may so....
If I watched this whole video with my eyes closed, I would swear that Mikey Taylor was reviewing tensors. Edit: also about them, not grinding too well, on certain things like really hard, steel coping or boxes at a skate park the softer magnesium might grind like shit, but on something like a rough curb even without wax you can grind and with wax magnesiums don’t really grind they kind of glide.
They seem to bend easier than other trucks, mine are😢already curved after a few months of low impact skating. These on your thumbnail look bent as well. Lows are especially thin, much thiner than ATG version.
Surprisingly, somehow it hasn't been a problem with grinds for me, although I suspect it could be with smith grinds if I did them more. Thunders had the worst clearance I've seen, I went to 50-50 a round rail and when I jumped on, the kingpin dug into the rail and threw me forward making me do a front flip right next to a 10 foot deep bowl, luckily I somehow didn't get hurt at all 😂 In the past I've used a metal angle grinder to grind down kingpins to make sure I had better clearance.👍
After not skating for 10 years, I recently skated on a friend's skateboard. I really missed it, unfortunately our local skate shop is permanently closed, so I placed an order online. - Powell Flight Deck 8.25 -Tensor low maglite 5.5 - ace hollow hardware -bronson g3 bearings -grizzley grip - spitfire 99a 53mm classic - and set of powell dragon wheels 96a 52mm I'm a bit older so I hope that a light setup will help me, I can't wait until it arrives. thanks for the video
Nice setup, but it sounds super lightweight
flight decks are Ass i have one
Ive been skating them for about a month, my Indy's are collecting dust right now, I love these things I actually grind very easily with them. They are very noisy but I think it's just mine because they are the glossy mullen
I'm not hating on Indy's, I've been skating my Indy's for like 3 years ( 144 forged hollow) and it's the perfect truck all around, but after trying these tensor lo mag light the game changed to Street, I've been skating street so easily and I even Ollie different , higher and more secure because it flies into my feet and I can feel the catch, i will say the first time i got them I couldn't skate them, they are so so so different from Indy's, I had to re learn my stuff but then after like the first week I noticed how easily I could grind, Ollie, control at high speed etc etc. I have to mention my set up is , a 8" bu 31.6" and a 14"WB
I also tried krux K5 , and I took them off the same day😂😂😂😂 those things are the extreme of over turn, my body said, left.... Krux said, forward.... And I flew out 😂
About 3 months with mine and I already got to the axle on my front truck 😅, but they are still good, when I first got them they had an awful click , but its gone now
I ride tensor mag lights and road lows for years, recently decided I wanted to try tensor mag light atg which are basically highs and I liked the highs and didn't like the highs. I change the bushings for soft bushings like usual tensor 90a bushings white. I like the highs because I could do everything higher and roll away more consistently not getting wheel bite, I didn't like how they turn and I had to change my timing on all my tricks. I went back to lows lol.
I’ve been riding them for about 4 years. Love them.
Thenks for adequate review! What can I say, the Minilogo trucks because how low they are (quick snap!) and how fun they are for cross locking beginner style (back truck barely hanging on) into 50-50s (even for ledges), even though I'm 36 and have skated for 24 seasons (that's 24 years in Estonia). If I have them with dragons V4 54, then I'd have to add 1/8'' raisers and grind the wheelwells to the board - never gets me wheelbitten on 54mm and still be able to ride them medium tight. Otherwise small 51mm slim hard wheels and no risers (but again with diy wheelwells)
I think wheel wells are a FANTASTIC idea and should be incorporated onto boards more often! Like I said in the video, I'm like you and prefer a LOW to the ground board with small 52 mm wheels, I would LOVE to have just a LITTLE bit of wheel well sanded into the deck so I could have the option to turn REALLY tight when I need to 🙂🙂🙂
I rode Tensors back in the early 00s, and the stickyness of the bushings during break-in has always been an issue.
Still haven't tried the new All-Terrain Geometry Mag-Lights, but I've had zero issues with my older Mag-Light Highs since swapping the bushings, apart from the kingpin clearance (which you can hack by using Bones bushings w/o the top washer, threading the nut, then: marking the area past the nut with a Sharpie > removing hanger + bushings > lightly spinning die onto kingpin > removing marked kingpin area with angle grinder > chasing threads with the die as you remove it from the kingpin > reassembling truck.
Obviously, that's a hassle, but it works. From what I've heard, the ATGs and newer Regulars don't have the clearance problem anymore, though, so I'm just as likely not to bother on my next pair.
My conspiracy theory on the bent axles is that those folks were riding the old solid-axle "MAG"/"GEO-MAG" models that Zumiez still has deadstock for, and that those used cheaper steel on the axles, but I will say that the kingpin on mine is badly bored off-center. Same for the axles, but not as badly. If QC was particularly off one year, I could easily see hangers making it out of production where they'd drilled the axle so far off to the side that they'd bend/break.
I seem to remember the first press release for Tensor "New Geometry All-Terrain" making some mention of improving manufacturing quality, though, and adding the "Guaranteed for Life" branding. For the ATG & Regulars, I believe that's when they moved away from the bubbly cast mag baseplate to the straight one that has the little anchor nubs on the bottom.
Anyway, I love them, even though sizing is limited and they can be hard to find locally. Weight is a great offset for the gigantor wheels I ride to handle our chunky-ass Seattle/Tacoma concrete.
See, that's how I feel about them, the streets can require bigger wheels and their weight savings can offset the wheel girth 😀 I also changed the bushings, I have blue doh dohs on top and cylinder tac and supply bushings on bottom (that's my board, it's me Jeff 🤣😀). The stock tensor bushings were fine enough, but I LOVE the doh doh and tac and supply combo I have now for fast and responsive turning 😎😎
they definitely are awkward bushings to break in you have to ride them really lose til break in or else the shift and pop to one side causing you to drift , but once they break in they do feel really good
If you're going to go through that issue with the kingpin, the best thing you can do for a low truck is convert your trucks to an inverted kingpin. The difference is night and day.
i am currently going through warranty with Tensor as my ATG's have bent axles. So i'll see how that goes. I have skated them to the axle on the back truck and put on a brand new pair of ATGs. They're honestly... the best truck i have ever rode. Thus far.
@@jake360flip yep, we had one person have that happen with his Magnesiums, too, the axels bent on him after doing big drops 😳😳 I agree though, I really do like the thought of an inverted axel so there's NO possibility of clearance problems 😀😀
@@jephfandingo1438 I don't skate big drops but I'm relatively weighty. 210lbs which I think doesn't help.
I've currently got a grind king kingpin on my tensors and they sit lower than the actual axle. Real easy mod to do too. The hardest part of it is hammering out the old kingpin.
I'm still working through a bit of bushing madness though as i can't get them to feel how i want them to.
like others I rode tensors in the prime days of the early 00s , when i got back into skating in 2020 the mag lites are the ones I ordered , I rode them for a year and wanted to try something else now im on ventures and dont think I can go back now , there was an adjustment I felt like my trick timing was off because the tensors were so low , I got the venture mids regular non hollow with orange doh dohs and its my perfect trucks now.
i have tensor lows as well 5.25 which is 7.8inch axle when i measured it. the only thing i dont like is the bushings and pivot cup. the stock bushings was literally cut off in slant and no wonder it always stay in one side. so i ended up replacing it with bones mediium bushings.
It feels a lot better having a custom bushing you really like, huh? I feel the same way 🙂🙂
@@jephfandingo1438 because the stock bushings i got was defective (factory defect). and it is too soft.
bones medium is the perfect match although it turns a little but i have solid pop due to stability of the board
How they don't grind well?! In many reviews people grinded bricks and unwaxed ledges and said that these grind exceptionally well 😂
I got these and i must say that there were issues with stock bushings because they would lock into place when turning, and kingpin shield would dig into the axle. Aside from that geometry is very similar to Indys but l trucks are much lighter and probably a bit weaker.
It's kinda like if you have formula 4 and one person likes how it slide and another gets flat spot ... tensor highs have very similar geometry to indy but lows are completely different.... it's more like venture lows...
It's sort of just my metallurgy preference is all, I skate a pair of aluminum tensors about 5 years ago and found they just were a LITTLE more consistent for me personally. But I still love these magnesiums, I just feel like I stick a TINY bit more but never enough to stop me from landing tricks or to distract me at all.
I have a few pairs of these and they've all been great. The lows are lower and have a longer wheelbase than the Venture lows i skated my whole life and somehow still turn better. The highs are basically Indy Stage 11s that weigh a whole lot less. Same height and wheelbase. The only issue I've had is with my pair of 5.0 lows and its a minor one, my rear truck has blown two pivot cups in as many months. I've never blown a cup in my life until this one particular truck.
You are on point on this one ... low have very flat base and angle of pivot points (pivot cup and middle of bushing) just slight more standing then venture... I don't thing venture lows intention is to turn better.... yeah tensor highs just like indy ...
Tensor lows have about 10mm shorter wheelbase than Venture lows. Measured yesterday, while you can reach front bolts with tool on tensor lows you can't reach on Venture lows.
@@tride.design you're right. I meant shorter and never fixed the mistake
Is catching the high kingpin why you think they don’t grind well? Because magnesium grinds freakishly well. If you want to see for yourself, go try to grind a raw unpainted curb with them. Then try with some standard aluminum trucks.
I really need to get up to your shop and meet you guys. Im way down by Longview, but ill make it happen
Plus there's other cool shops and skate spots here! 😀😀😀😀
Does your shop carry the vision psycho stick
What bushings are ya using in your Tensor trucks?
Jeff has doh doh bottom n deluxe bushings top
Shortys blue doh doh bushing mixed with clear Tac and Supply bushings. I love them 😍😍😍
@@2FTSK8 may i know what durometer of the bushings you put in?
I just got some unreleased trucks still in testing. Hollow titanium axle & kingpin and made of magnesium. We're trying to break them. Not tensor though
That's interesting... I think I saw newer company made one with magnesium... But had really long wheelbase
those are the old version of new mag lites tensor atg
I'm sure they're just gonna keep getting better and better! 😀😀❤❤
@@jephfandingo1438 We can only hope. A lot has changed with DSM (Dwindle Distribution) over the last year. It's not the same company anymore after Bravo Sports bought them out for a measly mil. A lot of the OG team riders for Enjoi and Blind have left as well. Things were not great as of february-may so....
pls can you tell me wich board are you riding and the specs like witdh and wheelbase_ ty
what size will fit 8.4 deck?
I can tell you the heaviest truck I’ve ever ridden. Avenue Gen 1 Trucks. I think I may get these from my local.
If I watched this whole video with my eyes closed, I would swear that Mikey Taylor was reviewing tensors.
Edit: also about them, not grinding too well, on certain things like really hard, steel coping or boxes at a skate park the softer magnesium might grind like shit, but on something like a rough curb even without wax you can grind and with wax magnesiums don’t really grind they kind of glide.
Or if he had southern accent Joel Osteen
They seem to bend easier than other trucks, mine are😢already curved after a few months of low impact skating. These on your thumbnail look bent as well. Lows are especially thin, much thiner than ATG version.
Ace lows. Great kingpin clearance, great turn, great grind
Kingpin clearance is horrible
Surprisingly, somehow it hasn't been a problem with grinds for me, although I suspect it could be with smith grinds if I did them more. Thunders had the worst clearance I've seen, I went to 50-50 a round rail and when I jumped on, the kingpin dug into the rail and threw me forward making me do a front flip right next to a 10 foot deep bowl, luckily I somehow didn't get hurt at all 😂 In the past I've used a metal angle grinder to grind down kingpins to make sure I had better clearance.👍
Only on the lows perhaps