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Originally Posted by Doodler
Steering is accomplished by tilting the board left or right. The trucks have angled pivot joints which cause the wheels to move to a turning configuration when the skater tilts the board left or right.
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Cool. I thought that might be the case and was sure it could mechanically be done, and thought I'd seen people steering without any wheels coming up, but the assemblies I've seen just looked so simple...
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Originally Posted by Doodler
Rear skid breaking is done with the board on the ground, there's no break mechanism in the trucks, the wheels are completely free moving.
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So it's sure to wipe out whatever decoration you have back there pretty quickly, followed by the rest of the entire back end, even if you're mostly a gentle straight-line rider like I would be. So why, between that and the abuse you described in your #6, are the bottom surfaces decorated at all? Nobody would even see it while it was pristine, and it wouldn't stay that way, but I keep seeing pictures of the bottoms of boards online. (I can tell because of the wheels!) And why do the boards I see pictures of not seem to have at least a plate back there of any different material from the rest of the board, specialized for the purpose?
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Originally Posted by Doodler
The underside middle of a deck will see heinous abuse from power slides on rails, half-pipe edges and just about anything else a skater wants to hot dog off of.
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"Heinous" sounds like a skater word.
Well, I won't be doing any of that. I'm just thinking of making what could be a long walk go a bit quicker than walking, without having to resort to using the car every time. (It depends on how close I can live to where I'll be working & studying. Too close, and I might as well not bother with wheels at all; too far, and there's no point to anything less than a bicycle.)