Vintage 1970s skateboard forum for discussion research and information of skateboards and skateboard items mainly from the 1970s era e.g Benjyboard,Sims,Alva etc.
Just messing about and thought I’d see what strokers looked like on a Benjyboard, really impressed with the strokers although a lot of money for what they are if you think they are twice the price of a decent set of gullwing sit doesn’t seem so bad , i quite like the rawness of the finish on these , massively over engineered really
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Handy bit of info the 2 versions of stroker trucks the first version circa 1976 had a flat piece of metal rather than a threaded bar cicrca 1977 to 1978 connecting the swing arm to the pinion see pics
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i never knew that, so the early ones werent as adjustable then,mind you i think you would need to be a pro slalom rider to be able to fine tune them to the ultimate ,and shave off a few thousands of a second looking at the early ads they were pictured like that so there must have been a fair few sets made before they upgraded the design but i cant ever recall seeing any for sale,only the later type
Yep just another bit of useless info I found , as you say you could adjust every bit on these trucks amazing really but probably useless , problem is probably what you found when you have these trucks you end up not using them as with the different mounting hole arrangement if you’ve got a deck pre drilled for normal trucks you’d have to drill an additional 2 holes for these or if you’ve got an undrilled deck and drill out for these if you ever take them off you’d have to drill another 2 holes to mount normal trucks so make a mess of either deck , I keep looking for a deck which has only had strokers on in the past so I can mount them
looking at the early ads they were pictured like that so there must have been a fair few sets made before they upgraded the design but i cant ever recall seeing any for sale,only the later type
, as you say you could adjust every bit on these trucks amazing really but probably useless , problem is probably what you found when you have these trucks you end up not using them as with the different mounting hole arrangement if you’ve got a deck pre drilled for normal trucks you’d have to drill an additional 2 holes for these or if you’ve got an undrilled deck and drill out for these if you ever take them off you’d have to drill another 2 holes to mount normal trucks so make a mess of either deck , I keep looking for a deck which has only had strokers on in the past so I can mount them
you can make a plate that sits in place of the orig truck,no idea why they have moved it that far forward