BONES? WHEELS Hardcore Bushings

I have used both indy's, and bones hardcore. Independent bushings freaking suck, because I have already blown them out in a matter of a single 10 minute ride. But bones hardcores? I have had zero problem whatsoever. These are absolutely awesome.If you know nothing about bushings, and want to get these for your kid as a replacement to their old bushings? DO GET THESE! DO NOT BUY INDEPENDENT BUSHINGS! these are going to last longer, and not be total crap compared to them on the first ride. Even if your local doesn't sell them, bite the bullet, and buy these over independents. Trust me, you won't have to put up with blowing them out like you would independents.Tl;Dr, buy these bushings over independent bushings, so you don't have to replace them in barely a day of use.

In short, buy them if you're a bigger skater. Now, I'll get into it in detail. I skated a lot in my teens and early twenties, and then I quit for four years after having my first kid. A few months ago, I decided to hop on a board again, but I was 100 pounds heavier than I was the last time. My old bushings were still in good shape, but I got horrible wheel bite anytime I did anything besides cruising around and rolling over ramps I was chucked off a few times just from landing after playing around on a manny pad. I popped these bad boys into my trucks, and I'm back to doing tricks with ease.I bought the hard variant because I knew I needed the hardest bushings possible, and I can't begin to describe how smooth these feel despite my weight. They don't squeak, I don't get wheel bite unless I'm intentionally leaning too far, and they reset to center pretty much immediately after my wheels leave the ground. Also, despite being hard and fully tightened, they turn incredibly well. I didn't even have to spend any time breaking them in. They immediately felt comfortable.I can see how they'd be a bad choice for the average skater, though. Unless you have the weight to naturally compress them when turning, you'll have a hard time getting them to turn. The average 145 pound skater would probably feel like their skating on rocks. I can't tell you if the soft and medium varieties handle that better.One thing that did disappoint me is that they're colored differently depending on softness, and that wasn't made clear in the description. I thought I was getting white and yellow (Which would match my setup really well), but I got white with black cores since I bought the hard ones. That's not a big deal, but it was a little bit of a bummer.All in all, if you weigh more than 200 pounds, I can't recommend these enough. They're all I'll be skating on unless I miraculously get fit again, and even then, I'd still buy from Bones due to how great these are. Smaller skaters should try the softer bushings, or they should go with something else entirely, though.

4.8 out of 5 STARS!I grabbed these when my stock Indy bushings split - and I have NOT been disappointed! One of the greatest differences I've noticed is that, after a turn, these bushings rebound smoothly back to their original shape - no more of that old-school bushing issue of one's trucks staying "mushed" in their turning position. Also, when you initiate a turn, the compression is smooth and uniform. Think of these bushings as the same sort of upgrade in quality you gain by replacing your iPod's stock headphones: sure, you can hear your music with the stock phones, but you hear it BETTER when you upgrade!HERE'S WHY I DIDN'T GIVE A 5-STAR RATING: The one relatively small gripe I have is that, (at least with Independent Trucks) if you remove the big "foundation" cup-washer (as instructed by the enclosed manual) that your larger "base" bushing would normally sit in, when you install your new Bones bushings, once your trucks are all set up, fully tightening the kingpin nut with a skate tool or socket becomes tricky because the bushings are sitting "lower" on the kingpin. Your skate tool or socket is sort of blocked by the truck's hanger and has a difficult time reaching the kingpin nut. Kinda hard to explain, but... yeah. This COULD be a headache if you're a larger guy like me who needs to crank the trucks a bit tighter. So a wrench still works fine because it doesn't have to fit "over" the nut - but the convenience of being able to carry an all-in-one skate tool is almost negated because you could still need an actual wrench just for the kingpin nut.All that said: I recommend these highly!!

great bushings, stiff when i need them to be and turns on a dime when i want them too.

When I put both bushings in, my board had very little response for turning. You could lean as hard as you wanted but you’d barely turn. I came up with the idea of using my original bottom bushing and putting only the top hard bones bushing on top of that. I love it, I have a soft yet responsive turn with a hard/stiff undertone if that makes sense. Basically I have the softness and responsiveness of my bottom bushing, so when I turn really hard, my trucks don’t stay leaned. They snap right back to straight everytime.

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I definitely prefer loose trucks over tight trucks with these bushings as advertised on the box itself it literally takes no time to break in these bushings! As soon as you hop your board after install they have that perfect loose truck feel! would definitely buy again!