Voxter

The 2-minute overview

Short on time- watch this 2-minute product intro we put together for Voxter. It covers all the need-to-know details about these trucks. Want to know more? Keep on reading below.

Setup guide

Want to know how to best setup your trucks, check out our setup guide for Voxter
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Coplanar bushing seats

"Coplanar" means that the two surfaces are perfectly flush with each other; in Voxter, we're talking about the top of the boardside bushing being perfectly flush with the bottom of the roadside bushing. Why did we do this? Well, every other set of trucks on the market has some amount of material separating the two bushings. 2.5+ years ago we theorized that we could get deeper lean by removing this thickness between the seats. Turns out that we were onto something.

Bushing pre-load

Most trucks have both bushings on the same kingpin- we don't. When both bushings are on the same bolt, tightening your trucks puts equal pre-load on each bushing. With Voxter, the roadside bushing is closer to the pivot than the boardside bushing, and as a result, it takes more of the pre-load than the boardside bushing. We laid the bushings out this way because it's the boardside bushing that carries the rider's weight. By taking some of the pre-load off the boardside bushing we're in effect reallocating some of its capacity to compressing during a turn. With this in mind, we recommend setting your trucks up with the same duro bushings boardside & roadside and fine tune from there.

​Use hard bushings

Plan on running hard bushings in Voxter. Our setup guide has some good weight-based recommendations for barrel bushings. 

If you're over 130lbs (58KG) plan on using bushings 90a or harder. The setup in this video has 95/95a RipTide APS tall barrels up front and 97/97a RipTide APS tall barrels in the rear. I'm 170lbs.

​Use tall or standard bushings

Voxter bases are designed to run tall (.750") bushings, however, we make it easy to experiment with standard (.600") bushings. Typically we don't recommend putting anything under your boardside bushing, however, if you're going to use standard bushings make sure to use our precision bushing spacer against the base as shown here.


​Additionally, each set of trucks comes with two sizes of kingpin nuts. Use the tall nuts with standard bushings, and the short nuts with tall bushings (see picture). This will ensure the threads on your kingpin are covered and protected no matter what you ride.

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Let's talk about angles

The deal with split angles

Riding split angles refers to when your rear truck is set to a lower angle than your front truck. In a setup where both trucks are set to the same angle, the front and rear of the board contribute equally to steering. In a split angle setup, the front turns more than the rear of the board. Rear steering is inherently unstable, and so a lower angle in the rear can help improve your stability at speed. Think of a car as an extreme example of this- it only steers from the front and is very stable going fast on the highway.

What your base plate angle does

The angle of your bases determine how much turn you get when you lean the board. Imagine you have two identical boards where the only difference is one board has two 35 bases and the other has two 50 bases. If you were to lean the same amount on each board (angle of the deck relative to the ground is the same for each), you would be able to make a tighter turn on the setup with 50 bases. High degree bases (~50) are great for cruising and technical freeride where you have tons of rotations and quick checks. Low degree bases (~40 and lower) are less responsive and can be perfect for skating fast

How angle choice affects your bushings

 The lower the angle of your trucks, the more leverage the hanger has over the bushing. In order to get similar rebound from two trucks with different angles, you’ll need to run harder bushings in the truck with the lower angle base.
This image shows the same truck at 50° and 35°. The deep purple vector represents the force exerted on the axle when you start to turn. The angled vectors represent the components of that force along the hanger; the blue vector on the left and the red vector on the right is the force that the bushings push back against to return you to center. Notice that this vector is greater at lower angles when everything else is the same.