Evolve Suggestion Suspension Trucks for Evolve Skateboards

Hi,

I normally post on Electric Skateboard Builders Forum | Learn How to Build your own E-board (best place for electric skateboard innovations) but this time I put a thread on here because it's more related to Evolve, hope that's fine.

A few months ago one guy tested the Avenue Suspension Truck on an electric skateboard, which was cool. I got a bit further and tested the Bangfish Suspension Truck and Avenue aswell and tried to make them work and the best way was to use the Avenue on my Evolve Gen 2.

I made a few video and covered a few impressions of the Avenue trucks in my videos #57 (installing) and #58 (riding)




I think they may be an alternative to the standard Evolve Trucks, some people don't like the double joint or for people who wants a softer ride ecspeacially in urban environment and don't wan't to use the ugly and heavy AT-setup.

First, I don't know if they do work with the GT, but maybe you guys can tell, is the GT using exactly the same truck as the Gen 2?
If yes, you can swap your trucks to Avenue Suspension trucks but note:
- mounting is "new school", you may drill some additional holes in your deck
- you'll need bigger ricer pads (and longer screws) otherwise you may get wheelbites and fly off the board
- your wheelbase get shorter by a few cm which will effect your ride (stabiliy, response, etc.) noticeably
- they feel stable, but I haven't tested them higher than 25 km/h, so be carefull and maybe wait until more people tested them
- steering and carving feels way different than with the standard Evolve Trucks but it feels good, more like a normal longboard truck
- ride is smoother and especially hard bumps get eaten by this truck, it feels great, I won't go back to normal trucks

The trucks are not cheap, 50 Eur (per piece) in Europe (cheaper in US) and I don't know if they are worth the money.
We only need the baseplate, the hanger is useless, donate them to some skate-kids or something, or buy only the baseplate from Avenue which should be cheaper that the whole truck.

have fun

 

I say there is a noticeable difference, 2 other people also said that the ride is smoother. Are they worth it, don't know, this is experimental, it may work out or may fail.
Note I'm using 97mm 75a Abecs in my videos, they make a huge difference too.

Riding on cobblestones sucks with every setup, but it sucks a bit less with those.

 

Interesting idea, just FYI you can't buy just the spring part of the truck, I asked

 

Also I just ordered some of these, should have them in a couple weeks. I used the promo code "ENDOFYEAR" ended up costing about $120 AUD shipped.

 

Ok, so I was able to make them fit my BGT but I would not recommend anyone else try it. Yes you can make it work but to do so I had to grind one of the trucks make a relocation plate and drill new mounting holes in my deck. After all that you end up with a deck that handles worse and does not carve as nice, but it is a little bit smoother. I swapped mine back to stock after riding it for 15 mins.

 

I like the AT tires for cushion. Just adjust air pressure...

 

thx for the pics, so the Evolve GT trucks do fit aswell.
You did the the relocation place, because otherwise your deck hit the motors? Why not use riser pads?

 

Yeah that's right, the motors were hitting the deck, I did try using riser pads, I had about 10mm in there and that still wasn't enough.

 

ah ok. I use 2cm on my Gen 2

 

The thing is, the stock truck holds the axel back about 5cm compared to a normal truck, that's what I was replicating with my relocation bracket.

 

Has anyone else done any test yet? I am looking to do the same with my avenue truck. Looking at the evolve website and they don't say the width of the hanger. Anyone know the sizes of GT and Gen2 truck widths?