Hold on to your Rectors, nobody is suggesting this is a viable alternative to contemporary skateboards. It’s just an exercise that proves you could (if you wanted to) design, print and ride skateboard that is entirely 3D printed, with the exception of the mounting hardware, kingpin, and bearings. This is the Modjul 3D Printable Skateboard System, from Thingaverse user Treegemmer.

Here’s two winter board sports products from the April/May 1979 issue of Skate magazine. Surprisingly, there were no ads for these products in this issue, just the product announcements. First up is a Snowboard from Elite. It’s 1979 and this is a far cry from what was right around the corner in the snowboarding industry, say 1982. This one looks like a Snurfer with the addition of a couple of very shallow surfboard-style fins on the bottom. Meanwhile, the Snow Skate is a set of 4 skis that strap on to your wheels.

This was a new one to me. Long time readers know I have a skateboard-based ski-trainer fetish, but I’ve never seen try Ski Trek before, seen here with aftermarket axle extenders on the trucks. The trucks pictured are not original equipment. The Ski Trek appears to be based on the Techni-Ski with the addition of what looks like a front end extension that allows for adjusting the wheelbase. As usual, there is nothing about this on Interwebs™. No amount of adjusting key words, quotes or hyphens seems to help. Check out that bikini girl logo. Yikes. Watch out for road rash! – Thanks to Fernando Linhares for the pics.

Introducing the Flybar 3-in-1 Skate Trainer, a less elegant version of a concept we’ve seen once or twice before, but hey, it’s been almost 10 years since the original product appeared, and almost 5 since it apparently failed, because you can’t find these for sale anymore and the domain name has expired. This version may look like it exists in renders only, but it’s a real product that you can buy at places like Walmart. In a paradigm shifting development in the multi-use board industry, Flybar adds stationary trucks for ollie training. Hardcore scooter and bouncing enthusiasts may find this a deal breaker. If you’re familiar with the Flybar brand, chances are you’ve seen or used one of their many bumper cars, animal hoppers, hopper balls, “antsy pants” systems, scooters, swurfers, pogo sticks or even pogo stick trainers. It’s OK, we won’t tell anyone. They also make conventional skateboards that are about 80% cheaper than this $50 setup, so you know they are good. – thanks to ____ for the tip.

Thanks to Don Brown for sending in these pics of a BMW Mini that he picked up. I’ve never seen one of these in the wild. We have covered this before, but it’s nice to have some bespoke pictures. This is luxury, novelty skateboarding circa 2002. Still no idea why there is a strap on it, but It sort of looks like a flip flop. One thing we did learn this board is made out of plastic and not some high performance composite.

This unassembled Ben Lexan Skatewing was won on a cruise many years ago, and has sat in storage since then until Jamie Shain decided to help their mother-in-law do some cleaning. It’s funny because I’ve often wondered how they packaged these boards for shipping, being as unwieldy as they are, and now I know. Trucks (regular, and auxiliary) and handles came unassembled. – Thanks to Jamie for the pics!

Hunter Simms emailed us about a Skircle he had just acquired, and agreed to share the images with us. When I tried to search for more, Skate and Annoy (big surprise) was the site that came up with the most frequency. I did manage to find a couple new (old) images and have compiled them into this post.

Blades for skateboarding on ice were invented back in 1966, and you used to see some advertised in the 70’s and 80’s as we have covered extensively before. In 1996 Iceman Products, Inc out of Sonora, California filled a trademark for Iceman Blades. I’m guessing these were probably advertised in the skate mags too. How well did they sell? Probably not too well if there’s a guy in Arizona who allegedly has 1000 units left, which can be yours for around $22 each. If you want something more upscale, you can get Xtreme Ice Blades for $130 (!) – Thanks to Quee for the tip.

Maybe the preferred domain name already had squatters, or Sick Tricks wasn’t Extreme!™ enough. Syck Trix is an indoor skate training accessory (or complete board) that is made by affixing (via velcro) two small inner tubes contained in nylon or possibly neoprene bags, to the bottom of a skateboard. The inner tubes take the place of trucks and I would imagine cut down on some of the noise if you’re indoors. If people keep making them, we’ll keep posting them. I kid you not, I keep trying to type “syck trix” and it has auto corrected to “suck truck” more than once. UPDATE: So syck, we already covered it 5 years ago! 5 years? I can’t believe they are still in business.

When a plain old skateboard isn’t enough and you need to add a motorized sound to get the kids excited, the Irwin corporation has you covered. The advert is most likely from a 1965-66 Playthings Magazine, an industry publication for toy retailers. A suggested retail of $1.98 ( Under $17 according to the US Inflation Calculator) would have gotten you a noisy plastic sled that didn’t really turn. Fun! Time to “cash in on this surfboarding business.” Order your Whoom-m Jr. Sidewalk Surfer now! Thanks to Darren Haugen for the pics.