I just tried out my new to me set of Rogue slalom trucks for the first time today and I had a great time on them. Coming from Aeras and Zealous trucks, these were my first set of trucks with no bushing seats. The ability to correct your line mid slide exists on Zealous Downhill Slaloms, but it's even easier on the Slalom Rogues. I'm running mine with the stock bushing setup of 73a/78a 95a/97a with 97a front and 95a rear inserts. Compared to the same setup on Zealous trucks, the board really just does everything I want it to without doing anything weird. Slides feel extremely calm, though how I currently have it set up it is almost too slidey in the rear truck. I may experiment with harder inserts and softer rear bushings to see if I can get it to feel a little grippier in the rear. Standup is definitely harder to do on them than the Zealous, but with good form it is entirely still possible, and feels really good. I'm still getting used to how much weight is needed in the front to get these trucks to corner to their best ability. I haven't taken them down a big run yet, but I plan to take them out soon and will report back on how they were. If anyone has any advice for setting these trucks up with different inserts please send the info my way :)
@Diego Murray I got the same feel on my rogues I should try the same,im going to try a Spherical-Bearing in the front incert with electrical tape to si how they feel and if I can get better lines
@Diego Murray Do the hardest inserts 100% of the time tbh, feels weird to me otherwise, unless you are really commited to doing standup on them, then ease that via softer inserts, these trucks are not made for that tho. Zellous are I feel like.
Also some of my notes are: these are not forgiving in standup, they are tall, and narrow. They also seem to have a array of small, easily fixable issues as of the last 2 batches (posted in 2024), hopefully they don't once again make mistakes but we shall see. Figure out your trucks issue and resolve it.
I like these trucks and rode them exclusivly for a year prior to having any idea I'd work with rouge- but I'll let other ppl hype them up.
I ran a standard height bushing roadside in the rear truck when I was on gold Rogues, really helped to limit the lean a bit and make initiating slides a bit easier, since I mostly freeride. Worth playing with if you aren't exclusively raceboi mode.
@Emmet Kabel Idk how I feel about this....
@Matt Needs Wheels you could try it and find out🤷♂️. I rode that setup exclusively on some decent runs out east and had no issues, but I'm also a freerider before a racer. If you're trying to maximize grip not the move but I know a couple people doing the same thing in other tall bushing slaloms and they've all had similar experiences
@Emmet Kabel My aeras treat me ok, I'm not sure I want to cheat on em, I'll make @Diego Murray do it so I can see for myself. 😈
