airush geoff said...

Did you get the whole setup or can you just put the truck kit on any old deck ?

I got the whole setup (36). Because I only had a double kick deck. This size is just nice, not too snappy, but still carves loose. I also got a new set of larger longboard wheels for the long cruises. They are heaps faster but don't slide as well as the stock wheels.

But by the looks you have a fair few old school decks which would work ok with just the front truck, but the extra length on the deck would help heaps. The wheels sit about 100mm (guessing of the top of my head) back from the centreline of the front truck mounting. So if you put the truck on a standard length deck this might bring the wheel base in a little too far. All good if you have a smaller longboard deck though.

All in all if you like carving round town, or even tearing up and down your drive way tuning your roundhouse cutties and tail slides, go and get one.. You'll love it

Hope this helps ya out

One thing to consider mate (just thinking aloud) would be the flex on your sector 9. The decks on the smoothstars are like standard decks. If you have a super fexy springy sector 9 it might take some of the dynamics of the "thruster" away.
On the smae note it might be sweet as eggs. Let us know how you get on cos I was thinking bout getting a sector 9 to add to the collection and slapping one of those trucks on it. BTW what sector 9 is it you are planning on using?

Yeah the shorter the wheelbase, the tighter your turns will be. But you will not need that shortness with these things mate, they are loose as, but you can also adjust the swing on them. Personally I wouldn't go any shorter than the 36 I have (it rides like the old fibreglass bananna boards). Bushes will not make much difference at all to the performance on a smoothstar, I normally have my trucks super loose with soft bushes on a stock skatey, but on the smoothstar they are fairly tight (front tighter than back), and I have the swing set to about 1/2 tight. Dunno If you can see on the webpage, but see if you can get one of the blocks they use for the back trucks while your at it, they are cut in a wedge shape, to allow for the height of the front truck.

Sounds like you got plenty of spares to knock about with anyways