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Stooge 3-link truck: skating in never-never land

A fantasy steam punk machine which looks kinda cool, if that's your thing, until you realize it can't possibly exist, because it violates the laws of nature and logic. #dhlongboarding #longboarding

I won’t spend any time introducing this truck, or its North-American maker. If you want to know more about the later, who genuinely and unironically identifies as “Moe and Mrs. Moe,” watch a few seconds of one of their YouTube videos, and don’t let me impose my own prejudices on you.This is how I will go about this: I will build a model of the truck, which requires that you, dear reader, make…

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Major Arc: a couple of problems

Major Arc: a couple of problems. A post about a design that doesn't (and could never) actually work. #longdistancepump #longdistancepumping #longdistancepushing #longdistancepush #ldp #dhlongboarding #changingangles #longboarding #slalomskateboarding

Major Arc entered the skateboard market sometime in 2020. Their marketing is rather fishy, but I focus on that in another post. Here, I examine their truck and the faulty principle on which it was designed. Specifically, I will look at three problematic aspects that make it completely unusable and perhaps unsafe.The first (and admittedly minor) problem has to do with the fact that each truck…

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