I am interested in experimenting with a split wheel setup on my landyachtz evo.
My friend suggested to me to put more slidey wheels in the back, with more substantial grip in front. However my gut says this would not be the best idea. I expect that with such a setup, low angle slides/scrubs/checks would uncontrollably swing out into pendies every time.
I don't know many riders who ride split wheel setups but I expect that some of you will. I am curious about your considerations.
Posting the second part of my experimental setup and planned experiment as a comment, because I'd like this thread to be a more general discussion, and not necessarily centered around my personal experiment.
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For my first experiment: I'm planning to put snakes in front and krimes (wide lip facing outwards) in back.
Context: I have a wider truck in back and a narrower truck in front. This is on a Landyachtz Evo
My hypothesis: is that the extremely wide setup in back should scrub out very smoothly, but if they start to really ice out, the less grippy wheels in front would be eager to follow. I expect this will do the opposite of overswinging and instead, allow me to consistently stay in the scrub zone between grip and slip, and even do easily controlled checks. The narrower truck up front along with the centerset nature of snakes should retain some control of my hookup.
Don't do it... wheel split for slalom only. That said lets see the results.
@Matt Needs Wheels
I finally got around to it. To recap, the idea was never really to have less grip in front. There are other factors at play that are somewhat closing the gap of the difference between the slidyness of the front and rear wheels. I wouldn't expect this to work if the grippier wheels had sharp square lips or if there wasn't the wider truck in rear.
In practice, the grip difference is not jarring. The rear still wants to break out before the front does. As the board recovers grip it feels perfectly natural too. I would describe the feeling as understeery as opposed to overswingy. You can force out a slide in a very sloppy agressive manner and it results in a super chilled out low angle drift.
I consider this to be absolutely a success so far. But It's not fully conclusive yet. I tried this only at moderate speed so far. I want to try it at a higher speed and I want to make sure I could still do a pendy normally.
I'll keep you updated
