Sure, his boards have been reissued in life size and on fingerboards, and they are always very active on eBay, but you don’t hear about Rob Roskopp the person anymore. I had heard that he was heading up the mountain bike division of Santa Cruz, but had never actually read anything confirming it. Leave it to a mountain bike site inexplicably named Pinkbike.com to tie it all together. Find out which old pros are hitting him up for mountain bikes, what exactly is the connection between the companies, and exactly how much crack Rob was on when he chose his graphics – that’s an actual question from the interview. Biggest shock? Roskopp used to look like the epitome what the rest of the world thought California surfers looked like. He’s still fit, but those golden locks have moved on. What about the body jars? Check it out. Interesting aside, I’m fairly confident one of the images used in the post is from an old eBay Watch, and yes I realize we lifted it from eBay…
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luke
cool story seedy.
liar.
Troy
mongo
Bevilacqua
I had a few hints about his professionnal life also on bike sites – MTB or VTT as we call it in France –
and here is the short version:
http://www.sakaroule.net/2010/07/rob-roskopp-eye-1989.html
Bevilacqua
PS: Neil: I still have the deck …
Og of course ;-))))
seedy
A buddy of mine called santa cruz bikes years ago to inquire about one of their frames, and Roskopp was the person he spoke to!
john e
always loved that raging waters part in wheels of fire, and now after all these years, i know what the soundtrack was—love it. Good post Kilwag, thanks
Jerkins
Back in the day you would have thought he was from Cali, not Ohio. Now he looks more like he’s from Ohio.