Guides, October 2026: every story Kingpin Magazine published in that section, newest first.
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Nominal width is the one number every truck and deck listing confirms, and it is the least useful thing on the page. The five interfaces that actually decide whether your parts bolt together are the ones nobody prints.
A rider in r/Fingerboards asked whether normal skateboard bearing oil belongs in Piro and DGFB bearing wheels, how often, and how to get it in there. Here is what the makers actually publish, and the parts you have to ask them yourself.
A shop in r/Fingerboards is a year into a park build and about to commit to a finish. Here is how to pick a coating that keeps the ride surfaces fast, the ledges grindable and the whole thing repairable.
A dual-bearing fingerboard wheel carries a bearing in each side, like a skateboard wheel, and it won't go on a standard axle. What the design changes, which trucks fit, what it does to your setup's width, and what the makers haven't published.
