What on earth are skateboarding trucks?
When I was growing up there was no such thing as a skateboard truck.
As a matter of fact, skateboarding and trucks didn't mix, it usually meant you were in trouble of being hurt.
Now though skateboards have become very sophisticated pieces of equipment and employ the use of a skateboard truck to connect the wooden deck to the wheels.
Let's take a look at the skateboard truck.
Photo credit: Flickr. AndYaDontStop
This is what a skateboard started with when I was young. It started with the old clamp on street skate.
To make the skateboard we would take a single skate apart in the middle separating the two wheel sections. this wasn't too difficult of process just a simple matter of unbolting them.
The toe clamp could also be disassembled.
The heal was a little more difficult. The heal rest at the very back of the skate at times had to cut off so you'd have a flat surface to bolt to piece of wood.
The picture below shows the finished product. Check out those metal wheels. They were noisy and didn't roll all that well.
Fast forward 60 years and I give you the modern skateboard trucks as presented in the above image.
These new trucks have built in dampers to cushion the shock of landings from airborne tricks and also to provide flexibility for turning the skateboard which was next to impossible on the 1950's version.
Skateboarding is now not only an extreme sport of aerobatics, jumps and tricks but for some people it is a mode of transportation as you can now buy a motorized board.
The following describes the parts of the typical skateboard truck.
1. The Baseplate - The baseplate is where the truck is attached to the skateboard deck. There are holes in the baseplate where bolts are inserted that go through corresponding holes in the deck. Some of the more specialized trucks have baseplates with a number of different holes that provide a variety of options on how the truck can be attached to the deck. Each different mounting position changes the feel of the skateboard to the rider.
2. Pivot Bushing - You will notice by looking at the photo that the hanger (#3) appears to be attached to the baseplate at the pivot bushing and through the kingpin. In actuality one part of the hanger is sitting in a hard rubber bushing called the pivot bushing. It is not physically attached at this point, but instead floats in this rubber bushing. This allows the deck to rotate from side to side.
3. Hanger - The hanger is the piece of metal that holds the axle and forms the leg that goes into the pivot bushing and attaches to the rear assembly with the kingpin. Most of the hangers and baseplates manufactured are molded metal. That is they are formed in molds with poured metal. There are another group of trucks which are called "precision trucks". These are formed out of a solid piece of metal kind of like being carved out of a single block of metal. The precision trucks are much more expensive than the molded trucks.
4. Axle - The axle is a metal rod that extends through the hanger. It will extend beyond the ends of the hanger, is threaded on the ends and has a nut attached. This is where the wheels are installed.
5. Kingpin - The kingpin is what connects the hanger to the baseplate . The kingpin is a bolt that extends up through the baseplate with a threaded nut on the end. Attached over the kingpin are two bushings (#6 & #7) with the hanger inserted between them and attached with the bolt and washers. These bushings and the tightness of the kingpin control the ease with which the skateboard turns. The tighter the kingpin and stiffer the bushings the harder it is to turn. The looser the kingpin and softer the bushings the easier to turn. However, if too soft or too loose the wheels will come in contact with the bottom of the deck in a situation called "wheel bite" and the skateboard will suddenly slow down possible causing the rider to fall.
6. & 7. Kingpin Bushings - as already discussed these bushing help determine the ease of turning the skateboard.
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Source: http://www.squidoo.com/skateboarding-trucks
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