Tag: Madrid

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 […]

Posted 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 […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on June 30th, 2006

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Reviews: Skateboarding, Trucks

For every diehard Indy fan there’s someone who doesn’t really care or worse yet, someone who thinks that the quality of the product has suffered during this last era of the industry expansion. Then there are those who simply don’t want to be associated with a product whose logo is sported by the largest population […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on January 10th, 2005

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