Photon Torpedos

You light up my life

If you want light LED skateboard wheels without all the effort of making them yourself you can always go the store bought route. Availabel in red, blue and poo-brown! That guy in the middle has the Delorean Motors back-to-the-future skateboard wheels. Bonus (?) LED riser pads after the jump.

They got that book learning too?

Kickbacks? That’s the only thing I can think of that would convince a physical education program to buy Waveboards for PE classes. Let me try a different approach: In my day we had to push uphill five miles on a dirt road to get to the waveboard track and the U-shaped slide. Kids these days […]

Lifestyles of the rich and clueless

Stop the presses! The days of slipping, banana peel-style off the top of your deck are over. Ferrari has made an important advance in friction technology. Apparently, the grip tape on this Ferrari branded skateboard is also coated with some sort of magical anti-slip material, which would make it even gripier than regular old grip […]

The gift of gab

Still need a last minute X-mas gift for the guy that runs your favorite skateboarding web site? How about this amazing Street Smartz Interactive (talking) Skateboard skateboard? This skateboard talks, teaches, and offers feedback! There’s nothing like it! Our amazing, interactive skateboard will have your child shredding in no time. Its unique technology actually measures […]

Landsail or landwing? I prefer landshark.

Dear Sirs We are one exporter of landwing in Shandong,China. The landwing is new wind sport way. It can help the player of ln-line skating and snow skating to move by wind power on the land. We have two size Landwing as follow: Effective Area Size 2.8m2 297cm*140cm 3.9m2 340cm*155cm If you are interest this […]

Wheelboarding is a crime

Police in Bournemouth England raided a garage and confiscated an illegal motorized skateboard offshoot. From the Timesonline (UK) article titled The skateboard that can top 45mph – and is illegal The G-Wheel is widely advertised on the internet for about £499, but its sale is illegal in the UK. Tests on the seized machine revealed […]

Discovery Channel discovers longboards

Apparently, the Discovery Channel did a short feature on the downhill longboard scene in Canada, more specifically, the Rayne Longboards team and operation. I tried to find out some information on the context of the piece (what show was it on?) but the web site was mum. But they do sell a pintail longboard for […]

Hurricane Kwak strikes

Speaking of the S-Board, there’s also a thing called the Hurricane Board that appears to be trying to avoid patent infringement by switching the rotating connection link in the center into a wiggly spring instead. I say “appears” becasue the web site looks like it has had all the content removed. The “inventor” is a […]