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Orangatang Nipples Bushings

MAXIMUM SUPPORT. HIGH ENERGY.

Price
$20

Color: Orange

RECOMMENDED WEIGHT RANGES

  • Orange / Soft: 75-200+ lb / 34-90+ kg
  • Purple / Medium: 150-250+ lb / 68-113+ kg
  • Yellow / Hard: 175-275+ lb / 79-125+ kg

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Description

Big and lively longboard bushings designed to help you spring out of every carve. Poured in our extremely high-rebound Randy Thane formula for responsive, energetic turning. An excellent upgrade to any setup for carving, pumping, dancing, or freestyle.

 

Specifications
Diameter 1.00″ / 25.4 mm
Height (top / road side) 0.56″ / 14.2 mm (short barrel)
Height (bottom / board side) 0.66″ / 16.8 mm (tall barrel)
Formula Randy Thane
What's included?

Pack includes two tall barrel bushings, two short barrel bushings, and four thin and strong flat washers.

COMPATIBILITY

Nipples are NOT recommended for every truck on the market. They work great on Paris V2 and V3, Carver CX and C2, Tracker Fastrack, and Randal reverse-kingpin trucks.

They DO NOT work on any traditional kingpin (street) trucks, such as Independent trucks or Paris Street Trucks.

If your truck is not on this list it may not be compatible, so please check the measurements and compare with your current bushings.

INSTALLATION

Both top and bottom Nipple bushings feature a subtle chamfer on one edge which improves performance with cup washers. We recommend installing Nipples with the chamfer (or bottom of the printed graphic) oriented toward the washer, but feel free to experiment.

Packaging of Orangatang Nipples skateboard bushings in various colors and hardness levels.

Orangatang Nipples Bushings

Color: Orange

$20

Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 19 reviews.

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"Its very responsive even at a good tightness"

— Lorenzo (5/5)

"Very smooth and stable. Good to be learning on."

— Andrew (5/5)

"Love these bushings on my loaded basalt tessaract. Super lively ride and good rebound"

— Jon (5/5)

"Bought these and an orange set for my carver cx trucks and I like them. Could have, like, thrown in a sticker or something, but I’m not going to ding y’all for it with a bad review"

— Jamie (5/5)

Finest bushings around!

"It is almost like these bushings were specifically made for Loaded’s dancing lineup of boards! Who would have thought! I have tried 3 others brands of bushings, just for the sake of experimenting. However, none of them come any where close in performance and quality to Orangatang‘s Nipples! They have INCREDIBLE rebound, while at the same time providing perfect stability during a deep carve! You can literally hear your carves with them! If you’re looking to bring your dancing to the next level, then I couldn’t recommend these enough!"

— Cameron D. (5/5)

Like surfing

"Filing smooth ride"

— Marlon A. (5/5)

First time trying them

"I like them so far they are great for little hill action"

— Mand K. (5/5)

Best bushings ever!

"I have the purple ones on my generation 1 dervish and it makes it feel like a new board , no really even my trucks are old (Randals) and they turn so good! A little tight at first but once you get used to them it’s pure carving, pumping and pushing magic!!!"

— Jose C. (5/5)

Favorite.

"I run the purple up front and the yellow in back. I’m around 190lbs, 5’11”, and run split 50°/43° Paris trucks with Paris top hat/sleeved washers. Fit and function perfectly."

— Temothy T. (5/5)

Old product was better / yellow/hard

"All of my 20+ boards all have/had orangatang nipples, but this new version (the ones in bag) have disappointed me, I believe they changed what it made out of giving me wheel bite on 4 of my boards, but the old product the one in the vertical box works perfect on all my boards, I am on the lookout to stock up on them, even got another one just to make sure the first wasn’t defective, also the new purple works just as well though no isssue with those for my wife and friends, maybe they need to lower the weight standard with the new formula, I would hate to use a different brand of bushings"

— Canay O. (5/5)

Q&A

Do your bushing durometers match your wheel duros? For example orange are 80 and purple 83?
Good question! Bushings do not match the wheel durometers. They are a completely different high rebound formula. Since durometer is only part of the equation we suggest customers choose the bushings by recommended weight. But since you asked; Yellow hard is 89a, Purple medium 87a, Orange soft 85a.
What is the recommended install method? I see different opinions about the flat side vs beveled side being against the washer.
The beveled side goes against the washer, flat side against the hanger. There's a nice diagram on the Nipple bushing product page!