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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...
welcome to the club….sucks.
You can get by without cartilage. You know it’s over when you’re BONELESS!
I can feel that I will need surgery on my right knee sometime in the future. I tried to take glucosomine, but I broke out in a rash from it.
I hear they are having success growing cartilage in a petri dish, but I suppose that will come too late and too expensive to help us.
Skateboarders should support stem cell research.
well im only 22 and my knees (well right knee) sucks! i mainly blame snowboarding, but when i skate hard, or well for a longer time then usuall it hurts and it sucks, sometimes when i am walking around or getting up from sitting down for a while it kills! but marijuana seriosly helps, i smoke a bowl 1/2 way though a session and it makes it feel nice… i know PLG the vert guy smokes down heavy, anyone ever see the old On videos…? there is an interview w/ BOB burquist and he talks about how he has seen guys smoke bowl and pull tricks better and then seen people smoke and make it way worse, personally i like skating stoned, but not like comotose stoned…yeah just had to get that out there…anyone know any good ways to work out me knee to get it half way normal again?!?………
I’m in the same boat Colin. I wish I did know what to do about it. I think mine started hurting before there was such a thing as snowboarding. I remember blaming it on soccer when it started.
Now that I think about it it does help to skate switch. Im regular-foot and I can do little switch kickturns on my miniramp when my right knee hurts without pain. Hmmm.
how affective or non-affective is glucose?..
Glucose is only relevant in cases where you have muscular or arthritis problems, usually due to lack thereof.
I once read some article where it mentioned how when you wake up in the early morning or middle of the night and have some horrible leg cramp that usually makes you limp around franticly till it goes away. They say usually that happens because you did some drinking all day prior and even ties in w/dehydration.
It also said it happens to all active people, or inactive, drinkers, and non drinkers. It mentioned keeping gatrade by your bed or drinking a glass of water before passing out. The gatorade obviously has glucose and thats supposed to help. You make an interesting point Colin, Im almost 30 and have some pretty serious injuries (yes, knee) but we all sound like old farts when we complain. I smoke a bout a bowl too, and while I beleive it has medical benifits.
My reasons are purely recreational. I like to relax with the weed. I also usually bring a quart to the sessions, but Im kind of a loadie I guess.
Mellows my nerves especially at the parks where perils are bikes flying by and little kids on scooters slowly snaking runs and hiding at the bottom of bowls,hips, transfers, ect.
Weed is fine, a lil’ never hurt anyone. If you wake up a vegan, making your own “special” cream cheese in a tie die shirt and listening to phish, then its time to put it down.
There’s some research that shows active people retain higher levels of bone mass/density. Eventhough I deal with a bum knee, I still find I feel better when I’m skating than not. The stoke is greater than the pain. 🙂
As for the knee, try a big slab of tiger balm or something if it kills. Bend and stretch your knees that morning before skating. Or snort up a shitload of coke, sure you might overdose and die but on the plus side you wont feel your knees, problem solved!
Actually, funny story, then I’ll shut up. I had this one pair of Krew pants I bought because I hate baggy pants. But the style was too slim, it was even like this stretchy rocker pants/nuthugger material.
I was wearing them last summer and my knee was killing me. I did just what I advised which is slap a bunch of tiger balm on the knee. Then pulled the super tight pants back up and viola! 2 minutes later my knees sweating and on fire and the pants spread that shit all over my nuts and chode, I looked like such a fag with my hand constanty jammed down my tight pants while my friends were skating around me like, what are doing. I couldnt take my pants off in public and my car was like a mile away. I rolled around on the ground and just suffered. Thank God that was after I had my kids.
My left knee’s a bit of a mess. I find that most of the pain/stifness is from swelling, usually after an accidental stiffleg or a long car ride. Ice and Ibuprofen usually makes the swelling/pain/numbness go down a bit, though I have to take a couple days off (yeah right) if it gets too bad. As far as Medical Reefer… You friggin hippies! 😉
Damien, goofy or regular? Colin? Just wondering if skater’s knee is a trailing foot syndrome.
im goofy and its my front R knee, it also hurts all kinds after long rides w/ little or no leg room, i actually prefer to drive rather then be a passenger cause my knee is always moving nd doesnt get stiff… i was it the cab of a little truck coming back from boarding @ hoodoo, got out of the back about 2hrs later and collapsed on the ground cause my knee was SOO weak i couldnt stand on it for about 10-15 sec, wierdest experiece i have ever had. but yeah it sucked(s) im not a hippie i just like refer
what’s trailing foot syndrome…….? pushing mongo or sometin?
Conohan, I skate regular and it’s the lead (left) knee that hates me. Aside from stiff-legging it for some insta-pain, pushing aroung too much (skating burnside for example) gives it some pressure-pain. I assume it’s because the bad leg is planted on my board the entire time with all my weight shifting on it. I have discovered that pushing Mongo releives the pain while gaining me mad style points.
I was making up that syndrome because its my trailing foot (leg) that has the sore knee. Sounds like there’s no correlation according to our scientific sample of three subjects.
i see, shitty
Goofy-footed, both knees, but yeah, right knee hurts/retianed water more.
The Emergen-C drink packets with Glucosamine and Condroitin have been helping me. You have to take them every day for about a month before it starts to work. My back knee started hurting about 15yrs ago (at 30). Its been better the last couple years.