When I started here I noticed a bike rack with one lonely bike hanging from it. I brought a skateboard (cruiser) to work for use on breaks and lunch, and I decided to hang it in the rack. After a couple of weeks, the bike disappeared and another skateboard took it’s place. Another week or two went by and another showed up. Now there are quite a few hanging up. To be fair, I don’t think anyone is commuting to work on these, but they are being ridden. We are taking over!

It seems you can’t throw a stone at a hippie in a street fair without hitting an urban artist using old skateboards as a substitute for canvas. This was from my neighborhood last night. It looks like Central America, but it’s just Last Thursday on Alberta Street. Actually, this is mostly an excuse for testing out the WordPress iPhone app.

Reader Tony Bro sent in this photo of a bike path in Boulder City, Nevada that looks like a potentially great skate spot. Enlarge-o-rama.

“The BCSA presents the 1st annual GnarBQ & Nontest Saturday September 26, 2009. Up Rise Skate Shop is sponsoring an outlaw pusher contest starting at 11:00 am from Martin Luther King Jr. Park off NW Walnut Blvd in Corvallis and ending at the stakepark, located at the intersection SE 2nd and B streets. For more info see the flier after the jump. Thanks to Diego Banuelos for our flier. BBQ and live music starts at 12:30 pm. Sk8 competition starts at 1 with beginner and intermediate, advanced to follow. Live Music includes They Wont Stay Dead, Richard Hedders, and the Angries. Line up and more info to be posted soon here and at our the BCSA website: www.bcskateboardingalliance.org.

Full flyer after the jump.

Under the Bridge tonight is where you’ll find Crispin Glover.. No wait, that’s at the river’s edge. New from Thrasher and the guy that brought you the big-bang-for-the-buck beer series, it’s Under the Bridge. It’s a chronicle of D.I.Y. bridge projects subtitled “Quit bitching and start building.” Expect to see footage of Burnside, FDR, Washington Street, Channel Street, and others. There’s a trailer online, or if you are in Portland tonight, Shrunken Head is sponsoring two showings at the Clinton Street Theater, located at 2522 SE Clinton St. The all ages showing is at 7pm and the 21 and over showing is at 9pm. See ya there.

Looks like the civil lawsuit against the Baltimore cop who has anger management issues when it comes to skateboarders (and RC car enthusiasts…) has been tossed out of court again. I thought the damages they were seeking were ridiculous, but I still think this guy doesn’t serve or protect the best interests of the citizens of Baltimore, even though he has been back on the job for several months.

– Thanks to Doc Murdock for the tip.

Viral promotion video from Freeboard, maybe indirectly. We’ve covered caster board hybrids before, but surprise surprise, Freeboard is still in business. The extra caster wheel makes it possible to ride sideways on the board if you want, making this Tetris tribute with neon head gear possible. On the one hand, it’s kind of cool. On the other, they aren’t doing much to help thier case. – Thanks to Tim for the tip.

[Source: Yay! Everyday]

Contests are back at Aumsville, Oregon, thanks to Ravage Skateboards and the rest of the sponsors of the “Don’t Drop Out, Drop In” contest. Thanks to everyone who entered or helped out. Thanks to Mike Estes for the photos and for heckling me for not being at the event we sponsored. We were out of town, not lazy! more of Estes pics, a few from Carl Warren and video from Crust Productions after the jump.

I was excited to get an invitation to join Wally Inouye, Chris Strople, and Bryce Kanights on a four day trip to the Treasure State. Wally and Strople were childhood heroes of mine and I have been meaning to get up to check out the Montana skateparks for the last several years.

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Let me start off by thanking all those who sent in links to auctions that finished in August. Like I said last month, I missed 2 weeks of auctions because I was out of the country, and consequently I didn’t have very many decks to highlight. Well you all came though and sent in tons of links, so thanks for that. Thanks to you, this month features about the same amount of decks as usual! And to think, I was looking forward to doing a shorter one this month! Now, unfortunately I lost all of the links to the featured auctions this month. I normally keep the auction link in the Spotlight Comments field of the file, but I ran some maintenance utilities on my MacBook Pro a few days ago, and it appears to have cleaned out all of the metadata in the files. So I have no original auction info to check back on for things like trucks and wheels on completes etc. If some details seem scarce this month, that’s why.

Check out eBay Watch: August 2009

EDITOR’S NOTE: We seem to get a constant trickle of emails from people asking Neil to appraise a skateboards that people found in their basements, attics, or yard sales. I always respond with a form mail explaining we don’t do that because because some of the collector community thinks we might affect the outcome of future auctions, and Neil is happy to abstain because it would take up a fair amount of his time. In any case, we point them to Art of Skateboarding and wish them luck. Recently a couple of douchebags have actually gotten upset that we don’t want to help them make money. So I’m going to break our rules and offer some advice: Piss off and get over it!