Bushings

Bushings are made of polyurethane and determine the steering behavior of your trucks. You can choose between different shapes and duros. The main difference in bushings is the restoring force (rebound). The characteristics and also the color of a bushing can vary according to manufacturer and urethane mixture with the same hardness. The steering characteristics of an truck can be individually adjusted to the various needs of each rider.

rider through different bushings and duros.
Here the characteristics of the different bushing forms are explained.

From left to right: Double Barrel, Barrel / Cone, Double Cone and Tall Barrel Bushings.

Double Barrel: A lot of rebound, stability
Barrel / Cone: A mixture of stability and fast steering
Double Cone: Faster dipping and steering of the trucks, less rebound
Tall Barrel: Development from the downhill / freeride range, deeper immersion of the trucks (Lean). Only fit in trucks with a sufficiently long kingpin.

Shapes like Eliminator, Fat Cone or Chubby limit the Lean and make the trucks much more stable and can also be used to counter wheelbite vulnerable setups.

The hardness of a bushing is selected according to body weight. Here are our recommendations for the optimum bushing setting for cruising or carving.

60 - 80kg: 85a - 90a (standard bushings in most longboard trucks)
36 - 60kg: 75a - 80a
Up to 35kg: 75a
Less than 35kg: 74a - 60a

Here are our recommendations for the optimal bushings adjustment by body weight. The choice of the durometer of a bushing can vary depending on the purpose of use and personal preferences.

Bodyweight      Soft       Medium      Hard
0 - 22kg:             60a        65a              75a
22 - 45kg:           65a        78a              81a
34 - 56kg:           80a        83a              85a
45 - 65kg:           85a        87a              88a
34 - 79kg:           87a        89a              91a
45 - 88kg:           88a        93a              94a
79 - 99kg+:         91a        93a              97a

For topmount setups, we recommend to choose plus 5 duro harder bushings with the same body weight.

Do you already know our free assembling service?

Bushings for longboard axles can be found here: Bear, Blood Orange, Carver, Divine, Khiro, Orangatang, Polster, RAD, Reflex, Riptide, Sabre, Seismic and Sunrise.