Comparison Of Original Truck Carver Cx And Its Cop How Are The Cx ...

Carver CX compared to its copies

Production:

Carvers are produced in the foundry in California. Carver looks are produced in Asia

CX trucks were invented and patented in the early 2000s by Carver. Ten years later the patent expired and therefore today there are many quite similar trucks, produced in Asia. However, we are not aware of trucks of this type produced in Europe. All the trucks of this type that we know are produced in Asia today, whether they are mounted on LongIsland in Spain or on Outride or Algal in Italy and just to name a few quite well-known.

Construction features:

As often happens, the first replicas were quite approximate but now the quality is improving, especially in trucks mounted on medium or high-end surfskates. So much so that many non-Carver CX-like trucks today have little to envy to the original Carver. The geometries are now identical or almost identical and indeed in some cases the turning radius is even greater. The weight differs slightly. The Carver Cx weighs 420grams. The most common Cx similes generally weigh a little more: between 430 and 460 grams.

If we go to see the price it is easy to understand why many choose the low cost alternatives to the carver .. but there are differences and it is good to know them to choose in an informed way!

What distinguishes Carver's CX truck from many competitors is the extreme precision of its joints and the quality of every single component, including the rubber parts (bushing and pivot cup) which are often a weak point in other brands a little. cheaper.

Quality and wear of bushing and pivot cup

In many CX-like trucks the bushing hardness is not specified ... So often this data is not comparable. What we can tell you is that not everyone rides the same bushing. Some use softer bushing, others slightly stiffer.

In gait, especially when the skate is new, the skates fitted with CX-like trucks show quite often some squeaking . It can happen to Carver too, but we have found it less frequently.

E' bene precisare che eventuali cigolii dei bushing non sono assolutamente un difetto preoccupante... magari solo un pochino fastidioso. E sono anche facilmente risolvibili... fra poco vi spieghiamo come.

A little different is the discourse of usury.In this regard, we compared the trucks of our Carver Yago Dora CX after a year of rather intense use with other trucks used in the same period: Long Island, Outride, Algal, Miller, Mindless and other non-brands always of Asian production.

Bushing and Pivot cup of the truck carver are still more than acceptable. The others are almost all to be replaced or we have already had to replace them for some time. In particular, the Pivot cup seems to be the component that gives more problems. Sometimes it doesn't fit perfectly, sometimes it tends to crack.

I remind you that if the bushings and pivot cup do not work perfectly your surfskate will not move correctly. In particular, the rebound will suffer.