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- muk: Would love to see SBS pics. Any team pictures?...
- Kilwag: Yeah got a post in the can on that one. Seems to predate this stuff....
- Lou: Actually I just looked it up, there other truck swapping thing is called "Qwik Truks". Spelling things differently makes them 36.4% cooler, guaranteed!...
- Lou: Looks like a fake "Quik Trucks" mechanism. The Quik Trucks are to fit any truck though, and they seem to be much lower than the Switch Board thingy....
- Kerry purcell: I have a pair of what I think are early Megatron trucks one has the number 1 stamped on one the other has 19 they were paired up on an Alva deck with powel bones which are totally original. Is there a...
- Cate: Hi Mike, did you do "funny " skits around Cronulla to put in the movie?...
- Gary moore: I have an original street warrior skateboard, it has a picture of a wasp with a axe in its hand and skater on it,is this worth anything?cheers...
- Eric M Fleming: Well that was something. Thanks for your effort....
- Pat Anstett: I bought my fiberflex with carry bag when the Hobie team came to Tampa. My dad was ops manager at JC Penny's, he took me out of school and we picked up the team at the airport. Had a blast hanging out...
- Kevin G: Great read, I love my G&S trucks. Of course the base plates died about as quick as Tracker ones did. I replaced them with Indy base plates, while not a perfect fit they are close enough to work. ...
- Jonny5: Fwiw those are not the original wheels as you correctly assumed. I have this board in original condition and the wheels are black. I was too much of a pussy to stand up on it and pretty much just sat ...
- Mark: Can’t believe I found this! My youngest son is a musician and we were talking about weird songs and I told him about one of my buddies from childhood in the 70’s whose parents were very German (th...
- Peter: I have a big surfi no.22 up for sale if anyone interested...
- Daire Meleady: can anyone let me know if you are selling any of the skb100 or sk100 helmets its for my son for christmas - heres my email to contact me - dairelfc@icloud.com...
- Daire Meleady: has anyone got any helmets like these, if so please send me an email at dairelfc@icloud.com....
- Paul Bates: looking for some flex power paw two tone scateboard wheels gold clear colour!...
- Peter Elliott: Hi guys, I was looking to purchase a Cooper SKB100 or Cooper SK100. Do you know how to go about buying one of these? Thanks, Peter...
- Monica Maka: A green version of Venice beach popped-up on Marketplace today....which led me here. Thanks for putting up all these great photos of what is out there. I appreciate it. Too Cool...
- Big Steve: What a killer thread! I got on here after seeing a T Hawk CoQ10 commercial that prompted memories of what I thought was a skating exhibition at the V.P. Fair in the Lou back in mid-to-late 80's. So I ...
- Kilwag: I thought that was joke Lance Mountain or Neil Blender made, can't recall....
- Kilwag: Fudge, link busted...
- Bobcat: Yee haw! I skated it last week - awesome mission. It's beyond crusty but there are some workable spots. For anyone asking for the location, I was able to find it using the clues in this blog post. ...
- Sean Landry: Tucker….I used to email and talk with Ellen many times before she passed away from COVID….killed me to find out and I’m trying to learn where she is buried now….i am terribly sorry that your s...
- Brian H: I was lucky to have a girlfriend with great taste who bought me these. Mine were dark blue though. Did these come in a dark blue?...
- Kilwag: Updated this ancient post so the embedded video works again....
- metal mike saunders: not unless being " the best live band in the entire world in early 1978" outside of AC/DC in their own genre and the Saints if they were still playing like banshees -- totals up to a joke. refernece...
- metal mike saunders: yea metal mike here and looking for something else entirely, this page/thread came up via the always unpredictable innernet of googleworld. i typed out a sufficiently totally-biased west coast ans...
- metal mike saunders: Bad Brains? etc. wrong wrong and wrong. in fall 1979 there were FOUR LA/OC/Valley punk bands that were doing ONE MINUTE SONGS. black flag, the crowd, red cross w/ron on drums, and our band the an...
- Alec Brown: Martin Sweeney, unfortunately no longer with us. Passed away in 2017 aged 54....
- Seth: RIP to an OG...
- S Hughes: First time I met Sean was when I was a 13 yr old grommet. We had a 1/4 pipe out front, it was maybe 1985. Sean rolls up seeing it and wants to ride. He was a full grown man with a leather biker jacket...
- Duke: This is just not true. We all had 7 ply decks in the 80s....
- TTFD: many thanks for getting this online - and all the other media etc you've got up here, appreciate you....
- death: Replying to this ancient comment in hopes of correcting this but, Tim Tillman is my stepdad, he didn't stick around too long on the scene. I mainly possess vague pieces of stories, but from what I hav...
- Alexander Maielua: I have and use one of these boards. I had to fill in and redrill the mounting holes to accommodate the updated trucks but can't beat this one for a daily cruiser...
Nobody was kick-flipping in ’78.
yeah they were, just without the ollie part.
Meh… that’s freestyle, it was banks and ditches for me.
78 has room to talk shit on 08’s fashion?
have you not looked at the gear dudes were wearing then?
two words, bro. flyaway helmets.
Hey watch it! A couple of the Skate and Annoy staff still sport the flyaway and they
Speaking of Kanoa Surf, those Kanoa Roll-out wheels were ahead of their time. Rolled outer lip, conical backs and the ‘thane was good. One of the best wheels of that era for sure.
Flyaway helmets is the best you can come up with? What about short-shorts? Tube socks with rainbow stripes? Suspenders? Those flimsy rector pads, and bulky gardening style gloves? Denim padded skate shorts? The jumpsuit Tony Alva wore? Wrist guards? Ankle guards even, There’s lots of bad skate fashion in the 70’s, flyaways weren’t one one them. Though I bought mine in the 80’s so it wasn’t airbrushed.
What about absurdly baggy pants from the 90’s and donut hole sized wheels.
If I could still fit into my tight pants I’d be wearing them, just not to skate in.
Weirdest hip fashion mashup: lowrise skintight rocker jeans that show your boxers hip hop style.
“and bulky gardening style gloves?”
Bulky gardening style gloves rock, especially when you glue on the free Corian samples from Home Depot for slide pucks. I just got a new pair for $1.98!
As seen here.
So the “aint-talkin-bout-love” photo would be less impressive given 70’s garb?
No, were talking purely fashion here. Aw crap. did I just actually say that?
More impressive, on the actual gear of the time.
as i remember it there were girls around in ’78 and there still around now and most dudes would tie a sock around their nuts while standing on one foot wearing lipstick to get an edge up on his competition, sad but true, slaves to fashion? or nature?
Don’t forget mesh team jerseys, sometimes cut to the always-attractive shimmel/midriff length, ala George Orton or Bert Lamar. Pair it with some ultra short Rector Protector corduroys, tubes, and Blazers and that’s a winning 70’s combo right there. Uh, Randy, make sure you call me before you post those slides, eh? Ha.
“Fashion. Never Function”
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Yes my friend people were kick flipping in 1978
Curt! is that really you? I saw John in Hailey last year. I used to skate with you guys at Steve’s South Bay.