this has probably been asked before, but i cant see it straight away, so i thought id set a poll to find out.
(i am of course talking about trucks by the way... before you all start voting for an entirely different poll)
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fairly loose. mine are looser than most people i know
Mine are loose, but Thats how I like them
Ye slack ba****ds! Just kidding...
I ride with reasonably right trucks but loose enough to turn.
I ride with reasonably right trucks but loose enough to turn.
Mine are looser than all my mates trucks. Everytime somebody has a go on min ethey come straight back off because they dont like the looseness!
Mine are loose as my trucks are nackerd so they turn to one side so i have to always steer the other.
Loose 
U just like min eloose, when im cruising round the streets in like to turn everywhere and ride in zigzags, and it also helps when tricks are landed sketchy, can turn out of them!
Mine are usually pretty tight, i like stability in my ride yo.
Front truck is always a bit looser than my back truck though, both for the stability and the ability to turn out of sketchy landings.
Front truck is always a bit looser than my back truck though, both for the stability and the ability to turn out of sketchy landings.
When you do tricks on a loose board for the first time, you might find it turns when you put your front foot in like a kickflip position, but you just have to learn to balance it out with your back foot, so your back foot keeps the board level and stops it from tilting. Once youve got that its easy to ride loose trucks!
But why do that when i can stand on my board now and do nothing different to do tricks
Yeah I s'pose, but I cant stand tight trucks. I cant turn out the way of people and im so used to loose now that im used to beina ble to turn, so I go to turn on tight trucks and just fall off the side lol!
Same for me with loose trucks really, i have absolutely no balance whatsoever on them. Yet i do on tight trucks... 
ive always ridden loose trucks, the trouble is i developed this habit of skating on the balls of my feet and toes in the centre of the board to stop turning when i land outside the sentre line (if you get me).
ive gradually tightend them up to stop this but bad habits die hard.
be warned my newbie friends...
ive gradually tightend them up to stop this but bad habits die hard.
be warned my newbie friends...
I remember when I skated tight trucks, you would never have got me riding loose trucks, I thought it was pointless and too hard, but now I wouldnt skate my trucks tight. Also I have only snapped 2 kingpins with loose trucks, and the kingpins were like 2 years old and when I skate I skate really hard, when I skated tight trucks I was snapping a couple of kingpins every month!
I've snapped baseplates before but never kingpins...
*touch wood*
*touch wood*
Ive snapped two baseplates, both when I had tight trucks lol!
QUOTE(Candie @ Dec 7 2005, 03:28 PM) 
Tight Or Loose, what do you prefer to ride?
hur hur hur
QUOTE(Candie @ Dec 7 2005, 03:28 PM)
(i am of course talking about trucks by the way... before you all start voting for an entirely different poll)
oh, rats!
hahaha, i always ride tight trucks
When I rid tight trucks I had them as tight s Ii could possibly get them, so tight they kept digging into the bushing and the nut ended up underneath the bushing so I couldnt tighten or loosen them, ended up having to saw my kingpin off my royal trucks!
How do i like my trucks?
As loose as a whore's vagina please
As loose as a whore's vagina please
Tight!! always have done alway will.
loose these days
i do loasds of strrt skating but i still skate tight trucks
fairly tight as it's difficult to land tricks when the trucks are loose!
My trucks aren't loose, but they're not tight...sort of in between.
I haven't touched them since I had my board about 3 or 4 weeks ago, but they have become looser than they were of course.
I haven't touched them since I had my board about 3 or 4 weeks ago, but they have become looser than they were of course.
were's the 'inbetween' option!!!!
Started to ride my trucks real loose over the last month or so. Just feels so much better.
They were tight but I haven't tightened them in a while so they are probably loose.
QUOTE(ROYALBUMBACLOD @ Jul 8 2008, 11:00 AM)
were's the 'inbetween' option!!!!
Yeh.! my mate skates as tight as they go and you just see him awkwardly turning all the time.
ahh, i love it when they're nice and tight....
mmm, what? ...oh! u mean trucks! ahh, i get you. well, in that case, i prefer them loose, like a hooker.
mmm, what? ...oh! u mean trucks! ahh, i get you. well, in that case, i prefer them loose, like a hooker.
painfully tight for me
mine are neither tight or loose there medium : ]
Loose all the way my friend!
More tight than loose but a bit looser than tight if you get my meaning but still fairly tight so only loose enough to carve a bowl 
I used to swear by tight, until i finally came to the realisation that i sucked whether the trucks were tight or loose, and that i had the co-ordination of a turnip.
So i like to ignore the invention of the ollie and ride bowls- Which loose trucks are a lot more fun for.
So i like to ignore the invention of the ollie and ride bowls- Which loose trucks are a lot more fun for.
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