What's Chris Cole's Board Setup?!

[@TheRealWarez]

This is the best "Board Setup" video out of the whole playlist. Need more like this one. Thank you for the video!

[@beneflaco]

My first deck at 14 was a 7.5 zero/chris cole deck. The zero team was the reason I started skating.

[@militaryminedid2011]

Love watching a 25 minute video on a board setup. I run 8.5 decks usually with Indy TI 149's and Bones Hards, tight as well. What a trip. Crazy thing is my current setup is a 8.5" Cole Plan B P2 deck I had sitting and this video came out...I love it. Good to see him on here. Dude rips and is a legend!

[@TrevFlips]

Chris Cole set up; Deck- 8.5 Trucks- thunder high, 149 , with bones hard bushings Wheels- 52 wide Bearings- bones Swiss with no shields

[@macewbee]

Ok thank

[@larelare1]

No bearing spacers, triangle drawn on a spot a switch heel would cover up (back foot of regular stance).

[@TysonHook-22-]

Tight trucks! with a slightly looser front truck

[@mr.neqtan]

What about them 7/8 Allen though

[@Pompazo94]

What’s the wheelbase?

[@AlexNiedt]

Always good to hear from a pro who rides tight trucks. I tried loosening up recently, and it's just not for me.

[@neuralbliss]

Same with Andy Anderson, Jagger Eaton, both super tight trucks.

[@bryanprol2932]

@@neuralblissLMAO the 2 pioneers of good style huh?

[@talk-supersix-seven6021]

I think it’s true that loose trucks are important for good style. Look at the people with the best style super loose. It’s needed for that kind of carving and street surfing smooth movement.

[@djlovins3169]

Bones black bushings allowed me to loosen up by time they brake in they loosen up comfortably with still the tight flat ground feel

[@patrolofficer7839]

Why is Kelly only either seemingly confused with a legitimate look of terror on his face or laughing hysterically?

[@mohamedghareb5940]

Lmfaooooo

[@finnessejets4231]

Yeah, it always looks like trying to solve a calculus problem when he interviewing. Its like he’s brain dead or some shit.😂😂

[@6lu5ky86]

Best setup video yet. While Chris is obviously speaking only from his experience he expresses it in a way that's flexible and valuable for other skates. Kudos.

[@sk845ny2]

I'm a tight truck guy. Wheel bite a big reason.

[@Mystninja]

I hate it when you get called names for skating tight. So over the years I did skate loose.

[@TaylorPhase]

@@Mystninja for real. all my friends keep telling me to loosen them

[@Mystninja]

@@TaylorPhase tbh I change my truck tention. More then I change my socks. But Height and truck size have alot even board size have alot to do with how your trucks feel. Even temperature.

[@Mystninja]

@@TaylorPhase I'm 6'1 7 68kg and US10 shoe. I ride 7.75. Thunder 145 mainliners with hardcore bones mid bushing. Kingpin nut is just at the nylon. 52mm 101a wheels no riser. Then my crusier board is a 8.88 Indy titanium 149 with hardcore bones hards. Kingpin nut at the nylon give or take one turn up or down. And globe 60mm 80a Longboard wheels 3mm rubber riser. Too different rides for too different styles. Same rider.

[@TaylorPhase]

@@Mystninja 6'1'' and size 10 shoe? geex must be hard to balance

[@Twuntt]

The fact that he brought up Randy Rhoads got me so hyped.

[@Rand_al_Thor372]

Real Talk!!!

[@mr22turner]

Fully!

[@TRAVIESO_NA]

Facts

[@Rand_al_Thor372]

I sent the clip to Randy & gave him the time stamp. He still trips out when ppl bring his name up in 2020. How, you ask? Its a long ass story (ive written a book about all of it) but it starts here.. worlditc . org ITC- Instrumental Transdimensional Communication Its real & its AMAZING!

[@fullkomboz6492]

Lana rhoads brother ?

[@2saddads]

I love that thefes an explanation for every part of the skateboard thats so rad

[@vladimirpiroshki5718]

Chris: *explains where the triangle is on his board* Kelly and crob: Chris: the only time my foot is on it is on a switch heelflip Kelly and crob: OOOHHHHHH GOTCHA

[@AvnerRosenstein-ULTRA-LXV]

@10:22...coolest guitar ever made imo. Plays like a dream too!

[@Gbpslo]

Chris Cole was like the best skater on earth for at least a couple years when I was skating growing up nobody had parts like him

[@MrWookieewonder]

About the spacers. 100% put them in. They're a pain to get them to work properly but it's so worth it. They need to be very slightly wider than the wheel core, if not use a very thin speed washer to widen them inside the wheel. Tighten the wheel nut snug all the way down, hand tight but don't go crazy as you will deform the bearing race and they'll slow and click and pop. This is why it's so worth it. Because the assembly is now a solid unit your truck axle is now around 12mm thick as apposed to being 8mm. You're much less likely bend an axle now. The bearings will be held in perfect alignment and last forever and roll free and faster due to zero side loading slowing them down. No more axle slip ever!!! The only negative is your board will sound different. Like mutated and quiet and very smooth but after a few weeks I got used to it. The wheel should still spin just as free as when the nut is loose. You will have a faster, more efficient board.

[@13bro45]

Skating is a lot about the feedback you get from the board. Half the pleasure in riding is hearing the acoustics of a skateboard. Absolutely savage wheel screech from a fat powerslide or a tail slide on transition is something i cant ever give up. If it means i need bearings every 3 months or so then so be it. Even the sound of popping the board up into your hand and throwing down.

[@marululumanolo]

What a very nice and real conversation about skateboarding 🛹! Totally awesome!

[@gonzo13ist]

I love when we talk strictly skateboarding!

[@TripleJ2001]

There’s so much to learn and absorb lolol

[@milessmith4727]

word

[@Bravo-Too-Much]

Tight trucks with shortys dohdoh rock hards on an 8.5. It does not limit my turning at all, if I wanna turn I turn. The stability and control just seems so much more apparent.

[@sluggdiddyyddidgguls]

used to see chris cole at the tiny little skate spot at the yardley kennels right by my house when I was really young. Everyone knew he was going to be huge back then.

[@larryjimbob]

Totally agree about the trucks, so important. Once I've got mine broken in and just right I never touch them if I can help it 👍😊

[@christianowens4104]

Another fix for if you have squeaky trucks is to just take them apart and cover each piece in a little bit of wax at the contact points. So pivot cup, and each bushing and where they touch the truck.

[@D00M3R-SK8]

Ha ha, I used to skate backwards, too. I just assumed the steeper end was the tail. It wasn't until I started skating in the city, with older kids, that they told me I was always skating my board backwards :D

[@D00M3R-SK8]

Did Daewon do one of these? Would love to see these dudes freaking out at his trucks set up (he skates no bushing, right?) I think he skates grindkings though, too right? I had some GK's once, but only bought them because they had a leopard print base, and I thought it looked really cool on a set up I had back then. Everyone I knew in my city though, would freak out about the Grind Kings, and said they're dangerous and stuff, so I never bought another set.

[@Dodgeram1500hd]

Another small fact you can take graphite dust and lubricate your bearings with it. Also you can clean your bearings with carburetor cleaner, you can also balance your deck with lead tape with your board balanced on the tip of a nail, yes I do all of this .no I'm not mad. Been skating for 23 years

[@mr.neqtan]

Been thinking about the use of graphite/dry film for bearings. Fill in the micro surface abrasion.

[@typerightseesight]

I can totally feel the difference on the spacer tho.. it keeps the bearings locked so you can powerslide. they'll wobble around in there without it and you'll get a really weird lean like if your tie rod blows out on a car.

[@typerightseesight]

also the adidas dennis busenitz have that heel guard that basically is a bearing spacer stabilizer. so

[@henrikfjellheimhansen6669]

@@typerightseesight Hi. can you explain that? what does the heelguard do with the bearings

[@typerightseesight]

@@henrikfjellheimhansen6669 your mother

[@henrikfjellheimhansen6669]

@@typerightseesight Dude i asked you a normal question and thats how you reply. btw i watched your videos.. seems like you escaped from a mental hospital..

[@typerightseesight]

@@henrikfjellheimhansen6669 thanks, henrik.

[@ibookboyuk]

Really good episode, guys. Very informative. Two very quick things. One: I believe in spacers and always have. Two: it’s a fine solution but instead of taking my trucks apart to sprinkle graphite powder in my pivot cup I spray WD-40, another lock lubrication product, in the pivot cup

[@mr.neqtan]

Wd-40 is not a good product for plastics. Spray silicone lubricant would be optimal. Have to clean up any excess for sake of debris collecting.

[@profo4544]

ive always heard and tried recently small amount of wax either wax for skating or off a candle, i tried it recently one of my pivot cups is a little noisy i put a tiny bit in it and it made it completey go away, but it came back but not nearly as bad. Ive heard of alot of things tbh, ive never heard graphite tho this is ltierally the first time ive heard anyone say that lmao. WD-40 is like the morons liquid to loosen anything up, it shouldnt be used like that. It probably will dry out and mess up the eruthane the cups are made out of. Ur better off using wax honestly

[@13bro45]

just use wax lmao

[@ben-i1n]

The tight truck theory makes me think of a couple of my buddies that have been in car accident. They were drunk, didn't tense up when crashing, no injuries. They flopped and didn't try and hold on. You get less hurt in a car accident if youre drunk bc of this reason. Tight trucks prove the same thing. I can dig it cole!

[@visualmeditation7593]

"because the thing doesn't do the thing, but your mind does do the thing because your body has the thing on it" chaos magic

[@gregprymicz9947]

I ride super tight trucks because it takes away an axis of balance, so I focus on the trick and not the balance. Tricks come out cleaner as well. I also I skate with on my tail, and nollie and fakie from the nose. But no one really cares.

[@nicoluminous]

gunna go crank my trucks now and take some laps around the block

[@JawsHLL]

7:45 Although the thing doesn’t do the thing but your mind does do the thing because it has the thing on it.

[@Zuhma]

The board in the thumbnail was my first skateboard I ever got, at least that I remember. I might have had a walmart board before hand but I was so young I can't remember. I got Chris Coles pro model when I was about 5

[@michaelimperato9125]

Trucks always super tight..front looser than the back, I like them tight the back truck stable..I ride 55s, been skating an 8.25 since 96..my first board was a girl Jovante turner, blue and orange..stereo and real had the best shapes back in the day 96 ish

[@Johanthegnarler]

Don't stop selling those 8.25 twin tails Chris. Love the shape and kicks. Give me some wild graphics and I'm in forever

[@Triminfernau32]

I'd love to see a theories compilation vid!

[@Namegamenamename]

Yeee

[@overkill7990]

I skate my trucks pretty tight. The only reason I'm a little careful with tightening them too much is I don't want them to break or the kingpin or whatever.

[@michaelweber6503]

Love when they theyre a nut for specificity

[@stephenthedude4383]

Well this is an awkward to recommend this KZbin 😂

[@Mystninja]

Soap bar. Rub it on the hangers where the bushings and pivot cup are. With the soap bar the more girly crap that's in it the better. And if you take a soap bar skating it's good wax that washers away.

[@im-pro-at-skyrim8285]

I've shaved soap into my pivot cups and they never squeaked again

[@CarsCatAliens]

Do you live somewhere is stays warm year round ? Just wondering if the soap changes with the weather..

[@eugenepiven2432]

I know I'm a couple of years late but you can also use paraffin wax on your bushings and pivot cap to eliminate the squeakiness.

[@13FloorsDown]

I'm tight trucks all the way. Wheel bite bad, I'm on the heavier side. I too ride my front truck looser than the back, but probably not as loose as Cole does.

[@AntiqueLanternPro]

Just put this on doing things listening with Bluetooth so it took me almost 14 minutes to realize they put that mic up to the screen for him like he was there. Hilarious. That's points for whoever thought of that one.

[@thijs199]

I skateboarded a long while on loose trucks but I'm gonna go middle ground, I just don't land anything or like once or twice

[@lukendestroy2386]

If there's any truth to that ankle theory then that explains why my ankles are starting to deteriorate at 29

[@CoreyJames-ed7oe]

ive been skating tighter trucks for 30 plus years. im 49. my ankles are fine.

[@lukendestroy2386]

@@CoreyJames-ed7oe do you find you just generally roll your ankles less than your friends that skate loose trucks? I'm just realising now that I skate the loosest trucks out of my homies and I roll my ankles way more than them

[@MinecraftBoss4Ever]

My trucks were tight and when I would roll off my ankle would do exactly like he said it would just roll it never sprained it cause it wasn’t tensed up I rode a loose truck board and can feel I tighten my ankles to keep the board balanced

[@MinecraftBoss4Ever]

It’s makes sense you know your most likely to tear something that’s tensed up

[@rjames2312]

I've been riding tight with 52/53 mm for 20 years and never rolled my ankle and feel great

[@D00M3R-SK8]

I would like to get a symmetrical board next. Jamie Foy pro model, to be exact. We're incredibly similar builds and height (I'm as little taller) so have to try his stuff out. He also has some sweet, turquoise sort of colour, signature shake junt tape, too. Hoping to build a full Foy set up. He has some really nice NB shoes, also. Lets go full Foy. Ha ha.

[@michaelimperato9125]

Ive always skated tight trucks..i feel like the pop is better...I have way more control

[@i.haul.ass_]

No typa pinch tho

[@karlkidd1]

Tight trucks!! Always & forever the sickest style

[@ericholland-cr1nt]

I love listening to this guy talking about skateboarding

[@MrPDTaylor]

If you have tight in back and loose in front you get the best of both worlds.

[@jackjames1]

lol we used to sell power balance bracelets at the skatepark and I’d see ppl with them on both wrists and both ankles

[@TysonHook-22-]

Never heard the graphite powder squeky pivot cup trick before... another trick is to put a few small shards of parrafin wax into the pivot cup.

[@SkateboardProphet]

Cole is totally right...one hundred percent..takes longer to get tricks but it gives you the best consistancy..bolts.

[@nrxhavoc]

Chris Cole is a board wizard lol

[@WhatNotandWhatHaveYou]

@ 13:18 Kelly demonstrates his rain man like 411 knowledge

[@robertklowe]

shave some wax into the pivot cup to stop it squeaking

[@one_mega_ohm9139]

auto grease baby

[@godownondebbygang3456]

This actually works the best

[@heroicsquirrel3195]

Oh shit, thanks

[@gavinex]

btw you can sprinkle sum wax small pieces instead the graphite powder

[@CramerFrenchjr]

I usually go between 8.25-8.5 149 trucks and 54mm wheels and it’s perfect. Now I’m just going back to 8.5

[@Nishikarchandel]

That's the best nine club setup video he explained every aspect of every part

[@rizzorizzo2311]

I also ride very tight trucks. I was recently ridiculed for it by my local shop owner. I just don’t feel any stability with loose trucks.

[@robertl6770]

I ride super tight too. I've never had wheel bite or seriously injured my ankle. I can't ride loose for the same reasons.

[@khalliddo1385]

About the loose trucks being your ankle tight for my experience i rode tight trucks before i got so many ankle injury but now i ride loose trucks i haven't had a ankle problem maybe its just me tho. Loose trucks saves life for me. 🤙🏼

[@joshwhaley1778]

Best "inside baseball" video I've ever seen?!?!!!

[@ketchupheadd]

put a little bit of wax shavings in your pivot cups

[@typerightseesight]

Here's a good question for him.. Thunders come with one truck a lightning bolt and one a triple line emblem.. Which one does he put up front? The lightning bolt? I'm goofy so I keep it under my front heel.

[@zacherynoland8395]

They don't come like that anymore, that was a while back

[@typerightseesight]

@@zacherynoland8395 noway! I thought the original model stil does and the team model doesnt have the bolt anymore. crazy. ill rebuild this spring and make a newer version.

[@deadbodybaby1]

He said it’s all wheel drive 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@skarceoneafd9609]

Also bones speed cream in the pivot cups makes them quiet and smooth

[@CarsCatAliens]

You can save yourself money and just use a little dab of Vaseline

[@skarceoneafd9609]

@@CarsCatAliens I already had a bottle of speed cream in my toolbox so I gave it a go and it’s silky smooth lol wax works also

[@JaiyTheTriggerTrainer]

This is one of the first comments Ive left on anyone’s video. Chris is MUTHA FUCKIN RIGHT!!!!!! Tight trucks lose ankles your ankle with bounce back. Lose trucks tight ankles. That’s yo ass Mr.postman!!! Rolled ankle!!!

[@micktenthof]

I've always ridden with tight trucks, never understood why anyone would ride with loose trucks. But then again, I suck at skateboarding too lol.

[@CramerFrenchjr]

The ankle thing makes so much sense

[@yevkin75]

It was going well until Chris started thinking that only his front trucks turn on a board like a car lol. When you lean to either side of the board, both trucks are going to turn. Then there are kick turns on your back trucks to consider as well.

[@michaelfigueroa1624]

Randy Rhoads flying V is indeed a bad ass guitar!

[@ryanlea750]

ahhhhhhhhh tahts what i do loose front not so loose in the back

[@lukasberg7155]

same here

[@raiylab]

Doesn't it fuck you up when turning after you do a shuv it? Then it's tight in the front and loose in the back. I imagine it'd be annoying to constantly have to switch your nose and tail around just to ride comfortably

[@DARRENTINOnz]

@@raiylab 1 name "Daewon"

[@AlexNiedt]

Same

[@TaylorPhase]

doesnt want to catch the board on the way up? ANDREW REYNOLDS HAS ENTERED THE CHAT!

[@nettykunai4842]

Love these vids, keep it up!

[@gfeast4518]

Woah I’ve been busy with school and haven’t watched in a little while, did jeron take rogers spot or something lol

[@aaronmiller9811]

For squeaky trucks all you gotta do is put a little wax on the top and bottom of your bushings.

[@alanbrooks5404]

My trucks are a little more on the loose side, and I roll my ankles a lot. But I hate tight trucks, feels like I can barely turn with them

[@Jake-dc8yx]

i ride lose trucks and when i used to ride tight trucks, it felt like the rolled ankles were way more frequent and way worse. thats just me tho

[@typerightseesight]

I've always skated tight trucks.. but went to medium a few years ago.. but I mean if you loosen them, you might as well go full bore and ride them how they come. LOOSE. took me a few years to finally commit.

[@aussiesoulsurfer553]

Tight trucks for me especially nose grinds and 50-50 I feel I a lot more in control

[@rolling4life-media-house.90]

spacer saves your bearings by pinching the bearing race together thus your bearing spins proper .. doesnt stop your axles slipping at all !

[@MrWookieewonder]

It will help reduce the chances of axle slip if you do the wheel nuts up snug.

[@rolling4life-media-house.90]

@@MrWookieewonder true might reduce , but in 30 years of running spacers and snug nuts .. crap trucks will still slip . axle should never slip even when u grinding through it . never had a indy slip since like stage 6's ? older indys slipped.

[@Shao.Lin69]

I ride boards from 8-8.25 but for some reason I'm always running 8.25 trucks, my 139s or my 5.2s (indy and ventures) just don't feel right to me, i like 144s with bones buschings or 5.6 ventures with stock buschings i actually prefer ventures these days

[@puma0210]

139 and 5.2 are too low.

[@Shao.Lin69]

@@puma0210 depends on your wheels they don't bother me on 52mm or smaller. Honestly I don't even notice after skating a setup like that for an hour or so

[@Shao.Lin69]

I actually don't think there any lower unless you specifically buy lows in those axle sizes maybe like a mm or 2 then 144s but we all skated 139s or smaller in the early 2000s, fucking tensor lows and shit lol

[@some_random_penguin]

I'm pretty sure you could also just put some vegetable oil on there to make them less squeaky

[@NathanBrooks_91]

Chris cole is the 🐐

[@dneck]

just scooped that ZERO Tommy Sandoval Grim Reefer board. Had to!

[@CramerFrenchjr]

Chris Cole is the man

[@CarsCatAliens]

::FUN FACT::: If you just scroll and scan titles, 8/10 times you will read "Chris Cole Beard setup" I was like, I guess thats cool? Wonder if dollar shave club is the sponsor for it

[@joshuajones302]

I mean I skate tight trucks because my flicking ankle just is as strong as it used to be and it’s only just way more support

[@RichGANG-l9b]

Chris Cole reminds me of the John Wick of skateboarding lol

[@crowminami6841]

Ima a Darewon truck guy as loose as they go without the bolt falling off

[@pr0ph3ce34]

Tight truck gang baby!

[@braulionico]

The Zero💀 legend

[@gavinhell4597]

Legend.

[@Paul-dw2cl]

When did people start skating bigger boards? 8.5, 8.6, I never heard of that

[@taylor3090]

I feel like spitfires get flattened out so easily, if anyone skates 52 spitfires can u tell me if they got smaller over time, ive only ever skated bones 52s

[@panchi_wav]

My conical fulls (52mm, 99A) have lost a millimetre a month so far. Mainly due to only skating street at the moment and a pretty rough flat ground spot. When I was always skating at a park they would last way longer. 🕺🏻 Still my favourite wheel tho!

[@whopwhop6732]

Try the formula four, best wheel ever

[@Darksupersonic768]

Skated regular spitfire 52s years ago and they were shit. Wore down too easily. I recently got some formula fours and they’re really good

[@richtaliaferro6133]

5:55 lol

[@DARRENTINOnz]

Jeron still sharp as fuck

[@annakquinn7084]

@6:17 Kelly, this is just for talented people. It’s to hard for you.

[@sanyone1659]

Where are all the doctors ? XD Right , it's skateboarding XD

[@Backlashed]

Chris Cole 8.5 deck 8.5 trucks, Jamie Thomas 8.5 deck 8.75 trucks, Andrew Reynolds 8.5 deck 8.25 trucks, used to be 8" trucks before 144's came out.

[@whopwhop6732]

Jim Greco 8.5 deck 139 trucks