Tech tricks with Bonesy

[tbone16]

So I ain't posted anything in a while, and this will be a brief un, but its a trick I think is pretty clever and haven't seen in too many other places. You can skipp like the majority of it, cuz its a long winded back story, and get the super simple trick at the end, if yah please.

So two years ago, slide fest of 07, ALC Team girly man Josh "Sketch" Hutchison and myself were flying out to a still smoldering Southern California coast. The wildfires has stopped maybe a day or two before the contest and thankfully there was still just enough ash on the ground to make your wheels slide a little farther. As we are getting off the plane, I hear a high pitched Brazillian accent beconing us to slow down. Turns out the flight from Houston to SD was the second leg of the flight from Sao Paulo to SD, and Brazillian skate legend Arnoldo JR had been sitting only a few rows behind us. He saw the pro model graphic of his good friend Sergio Yuppie on the bottom of my skateboard and instantly knew what we were in town for.

Now that I have cleared the air of how I ran into a random Brazillian skate god, sit down on my knee and lemme' explain how this benefits you. And you thought I was just tooting my own horn on gettin to slide fest? So after a thirty minute car ride that had a Brazillian Hardcore Punk soundtrack, we arrive in Encinitas at our hotel and did some anoying parking lot skating while we waited for Arnoldo's ride. I let him use my deck so he didn't have to unpack and assemble one of his three. At the time, I was skating a SY33 on trackers (same as the one in the reviews), set up on bones softs and EW sliders. He was digging it, getting gnarly, finding every bit of speed the drive had to offer. All of a sudden, unexpectedly, Arnoldo eats a biggol bunch of black asphalt and I watch one of those nifty EW Slide wheels continue on into a flower bed.

Tracker hasn't always had the best QC. It has gotten a helluvalot better, but this was an old set of darts I had stolen from a buddies wrecked old park rig. What I had forget to tell Arnoldo is that for some reason, on my back toe wheel, I could never get a locknut to bite. I guess the threads were to sharp and would slice the nyloc or something, but I never really knew for sure why it did that, but it would just also loosen up after a couple runs and I could litterally tighten it back down with my hands. Even after employing new nuts. I felt like dueshe captain of the ss baggery. Made a legend eat black top cuz I was rolling a janky rig.

Turns out Arnoldo wasn't to bent out of shape about it. Maybe it was something to do with his ability to fall like a swan landing in a lake, but he just went and snagged the wheel. Now keep in mind, this dude knows maybe fifteen english words. I show him how the damn thing won't stay tight. He had just the solution.

Arnoldo went over to his bag and showed me his trucks. Now keep in mind, Brazil is not like the US where you can just run to walmart and just pick up a spiffy set of Muh-goons, or SMookies or Skennets or chindys, or whatever other exotic trucks we have access too on every street corner. You got a bad thread; you deal with it so you can skate. He had all his nylocs flipped in. Now being part of the engineering community tells me if the nyloc was designed to go outside out, then that is probally the best way to orient it. But being part of the engineering community also tells me the tollerances on these fairly tricky products. Since then, I have been using this method on all my traditional trucks and they hold up great. its tricky to get em threaded, but the tapered face of the nut kinda mates up the bearing face just a little better. Losing wheels sucks. Flip your nuts and be done with it.

[Lance]

super butt hurt you left me, but most importantly John "Thrilla" Davilla out of this re-enactment.

"You talk too much man." -Sergio Yuppie
"I KNOW! its like I just start talking and [...]" -Thrilla

[tbone16]

Where you there Lance? My memory aint what it used to be. Like, the way it was before that trip.

[Lance]

Where you there Lance? My memory aint what it used to be. Like, the way it was before that trip.

I hate you.

[tbone16]

Dude, I am just saying, a trip like that takes a toll on your old thought maker. For a couple reasons.

[Lance]

Dude, I am just saying, a trip like that takes a toll on your old thought maker. For a couple reasons.

*6 a.m.*
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNOLD!!!"

*6 p.m."
ZzZzZzZzZzZz

[Josh Hutchison]

Legit article boners! On the real. More articles, less masturbation.

Yes. Lance and John Sleppinegger was there as well. Cant wait till this year.

[TheChubs]

thats right, put his scrawny white ass in check

[GSKH4LIFE]

Josh Hutchison.....the JOSH HUTCHISON.....holy *shrimp*,did hell just freeze over...mother freakin JOSH THAMOFO HUTCHISON...love ya buddy...Cali's callin...

[TheChubs]

haha, wtf? i think you have a secret lover josh.