Gene pool
It’s been a while since we checked in on Gene’s My DIY backyard project. Looks like it’s done except for the decks. Additional coverage available at Confusion. Looks super fun.
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- 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...
- Jason Edward Blood: Suttaheads was my crew. Rodgers, buttahead, chief and jason blood...
- David DiClaudio jr: I got this board hit me up to buy it.... just about anywhere @davidavape...
- Biff Wellingterd: Well… 17 years later, it comes to an end....
- Paul Guttridge: Hi there. Wow I had one of these back in about ‘88. Same knock off colour way as this one. Just bought a genuine brand x re release. After all this time finally got much nearer the original...
- Lucas Pauken: I'm desperately looking for a graphic from a board I got here in like 1990. It was a kids deck, I was maybe 7? I wanna say it had a drawing on in that someone's kid did.. maybe it was a gator deck. St...
- boglung: I bought a yellow double kick aluminum board from Skateboarder. I wanted the camber slalom board but settled on the double kick. It did lots of tricks, but I didn't ride it very long. Sharp thin edges...
- Danny Bourke: Hey mate, the first board with the Tracker truck and black wheels ended up in Australia as part of my collection. It now has the original trucks and orange wheels replaced as it would have been when i...
- Stephen: Tony Mann had a pro model with Bonzer skates....
- Neil Robinson: Hi Looking for a set of orange SK3 wheels for my blue polyurethane Super Skuda....
- Terry: What’s the current day, 2024 value of a Yellow, Mad Rats sticker ?...
- Kilwag: Gah, this reads like A.I....
- Dave Reuben: An original Gator, Street warrior is definitely a good investment. A battered full deck recently sold at auction for close to £22,000. I would love to get my hands one of these bad boys!...
- Wesley C Scott: I have one fairly mint. Great board...
- Marc Prempain: Code of honor are absolutely great. I wonder if Mike Fox is the same Mike Fox who played in Los Olvidados ?...
- Roberto A Lopez: Yeah man howzit. I rode with you, Butch an George W a little at haters alley and aids pool and the little half-pipe, launch ramps, boxes ,railslides we had in N. L B by the railroad tracks right near...
- Keiran: I’ve got an original pair of Bonzer sand cast trucks....
- kenzie: i know this post is 15 years old, but chop socky chooks was a fucking lit tv show...
- Orezona: I'm going to need to track down that cover of jungle boogie, now I'm intrigued!...
- Kilwag: Nice! Did you paint yours is that the way it came? Plastic version or the metal version? My guess is you want relatively soft wheels, bearings and bushings not too important. I prefer Bones brand bush...
god the wrong neighbors could fuck that up bad…does that increase home insurance i heard it does alot
I’m not trying to be a douche, but people just need to think about noise. What’about a small soundproof wall? Or how bout telling neighbors, ‘hey, we won’t skate after 8p.m.’ I dunno, peeps be afraid of noise ‘n shit. Cus I hear what ‘Glue Huffer’ b sayin, you build that sick’ass shit then a couple a noise complaints and bob the neighbor turns into bob the guy that ruined my fuckin life. Okay, I’m a little drunk, but you know what I’m sayin.
his neighbors have to be cool, he never wouldve got a single quarter pipe up…now what about insurance?
Just don’t let Jack Sparrow or the like skate it. You know, the “…well it’s really more a loose set of guidelines than an actual Code…” types.
And yeah I know you meant homeowner’s, not getting separate skate insurance… but I know of at least one successful way of Eddie Haskelling the home inspector into happily skipping the backyard while yer at work. (Only people who yer reasonably sure live and, um, die by the code belong in your backyard, after all.)
You know you’re getting old when…
I don’t think I’d want that next door to me either, unless the dude was super cool and his friends were super cool. Couldn’t handle the noise, yelling, raging and sketchy beardos hanging around otherwise.
^ Is this Rob Zombie posting?
^^HAHAHA^^
Law mowers, leaf blowers, drunk arguing, kids in a kiddy pool, loud cars, people talking loud on their cell phones in the yard. Concrete isn’t Nearly as loud as wood and it looks below ground level bet its not as loud as the things listed above.
People forget that irrational irritation is sacred only to the Tea Party, but that irrational FEAR is sacred to a wider population in America. And that oftentimes a bunch of able-bodied, unbashful males next door winds up being more reassuring to neighbors than not, and so they choose not to be irritated, even rationally. I think the thing that people miss, in this whole debate, though, is that if George Zimmerman skated, he would not have molested his cousin all those years….
If you’re insinuating he also would have been less prone to killing if he skated, you’re full of it. But, if you’re insinuating he would have been less likely to GET AWAY with it… okay. As for skate neighbors, though, remember, it only takes one “Get off your lawn!” type.
has to be less noisy my mini ramp- haven’t had problems though- does look fun, that’s for sure