Category: Skateboarding
Reviews: Skateboarding, Wheels
Height: 59mm Durometer: 85a Width: I lost my micrometer Contact Patch: I haven’t found my micrometer yet Grip City Wheels are not just the house wheel brand of Rip City Skates, but more of a special project. They’re currently available only in one configuration: 59mm 85a durometer. These wheels are in fact, grippy and softer […]
Drop inPosted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 16th, 2014
Reviews: Skateboarding, Skateboards
Toy Machine Fiber Prime deck, 8.0” X 31” The fiber in this Fiber Prime deck isn’t made of wheat or bran like the breakfast cereals of the vegan Toy Machine guys but rather some man-made high-density thermal poly ply. The deck has 6 plies of wood and one of the special fiber material. The feel […]
Drop inPosted by: Danimal on June 26th, 2009
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Reviews: Skateboarding, Skateboards
Width: 7.75 – 8.5 Length: 31.375 – 32.5 Wheelbase: 13.75 – 14.75 Sometimes a graphic can be so hideous or messed up that it can draw you to it like gawkers at a grisly highway accident. The graphic on this deck is one of those. On the surface it’s just a cigar band featuring a […]
Drop inPosted by: Kilwag (editor) on September 14th, 2006
Reviews: Skateboarding, Skateboards
Width: Yes Length: Yes! Wheelbase: Adjustable Slalom. I don’t know a damn thing about it. It came from the 70’s and it died in the 80’s, but somehow it’s making a comeback of sorts in this decade. (The 00’s?) In any case. Through a convoluted set of circumstances I found myself with a new slalom […]
Drop inPosted by: Kilwag (editor) on August 31st, 2006
Reviews: Skateboarding, Wheels
Madrid: Cadillac Wheels 52mm 92a Durometer Cadillac Wheels were the first production urethane skateboard wheels in 1973. Frank Nasworthy is credited with bringing the urethane wheel to skateboarding, almost as if he invented them. The history books (and films) are not very clear on how these wheels differed, if at all, from the preexisting urethane […]
Drop inPosted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 3rd, 2006
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Reviews: Skateboarding, Trucks
Madrid Skateboards Cadillac Trucks 5.5″ I got these trucks to set up on a retro cruiser hybrid because I figured I wouldn’t need the performance and I wanted to match the styling to the appropriate era. I suppose I could have just gotten Indy’s but I don’t have a wholesale connection there so that was […]
Drop inPosted by: Kilwag (editor) on June 30th, 2006
Reviews: Skateboarding, Skateboards
8″ x 31.25″ 14.25″ Wheelbase Chances are you might have heard of M and M Skateboards from Portland Oregon if only from the brief spotlight in the Buddy Nichols & Rick Charnoski Film Northwest. In any case, M and M is a small operation (getting bigger!) that started as a DIY project in the late […]
Drop inPosted by: Kilwag (editor) on June 30th, 2006
Reviews: Skateboarding, Trucks
So I got to check out some Fury Evo’s in the 850 size, which is 8.5″ I assume. I’ve heard people say these are basically a copy of Indy trucks. I can’t vouch for that, but. according to a an anonymous inside source that I will ultimately fail to protect, “Evo is the Fury ‘high’ […]
Drop inPosted by: Kilwag (editor) on April 19th, 2006
Reviews: Skateboarding, Skateboards
Ok you’ve got your Sigafoos model. Also available is the very cool Death Angel, which is a retro shape reminiscent of the old Santa Cruz Claus Grabke. The art is also don by Ken Sigafoos. The picture here doesn’t do it justice. You’ll have to go to the Extinction web site to see a large […]
Drop inPosted by: Kilwag (editor) on February 6th, 2006
Reviews: Skateboarding, Wheels
Bones wheels recently released this tribute wheel for Chris Miller who has come back onto the scene in the past couple of years. For you younger guys Chris Miller is an influential vert skater who ripped hard in the 80’s then disappeared from the limelight for a while only to reappear as one of the […]
Drop inPosted by: Danimal on February 5th, 2006
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