Electric Avenue - surfing the streets.

Bushings are, I think, the thing most people probably spend the least time worrying about let alone pondering over. I had the high performance kit lying around from a while back and hadn't really done anything with it. To be honest I had put softer ones in my bamboo GTR with the all terrain tyres and with the trucks in the narrowest position and had managed to get wheel rub so had sort of canned the idea for a while. But then I wondered if it would make a difference to the Stoke, I'd already replaced the black stock 95a ones with the blue ones out of the kit, mainly because I wanted to colour co-ordinate with the wheels. However, I noticed they did feel different, the premium bushings, although the same durometer, felt way better. So, I started playing around. Now, the feeling I am after with the Stoke is quite specific - I want: A surf feel - so very loose and carvey. Soft carve and rebound, so needs to be smooth both in and out of the carve.  Stable at about 19

Lockdown continues but let's not dwell on that as I suspect it is a very, very different prospect depending on one's situation. For me, well I am getting more real exercise in, getting back into martial arts (have gone almost full circle as I am practicing a lot of kali/escrima at the moment, something I did in the depths of Liverpool's China town in 1980). Also socialising online by playing a lot of Dungeons & Dragons which is a bit like being a teenager again! Riding wise I am restricting myself to doing a one a day ride just around my local, mainly deserted, streets which is both weird and great both at the same time. Now, the board of choice for these rides is the Stoke. Reasons for this are two fold, one I love the board, two the smaller travel battery is easy to run down to the 50% mark where it is best to store it at if not in use. Something that I couldn't be assured of doing with either of the GTRs. I am missing the grass riding and the pump track on