Skateboards

The good ol' banana board hey! My sister's boyfriend gave her his and she didn't like it so gave it to me for Christmas. I adored this thing and I just used to sit on it and use my hands ...

Freestyle skateboarding was considerably different from street skating in both style and equipment. For a start the skateboard itself was different - a freestyle board was longer and narrower than a standard skateboard. And then the main difference was the ...

Gordon & Smith made Fibreflex skateboards and they were the boards to have in the late 70's. Fibreflex skateboards came in various models - Warptail, Teamrider, Bowlrider, Slalom - and were ofter seen sporting the best quality wheels & trucks ...

Ever since I was little I remember television programmes enticing us with visions of the future and Tomorrow’s World was a fine example. A look back through their archive shows their predictions for what life would be like at the ...

Kryptonics were the baddest, fastest wheels that were out there in the 80s for your skateboard.I never got any when I was a kid because they were expensive.I still look and drool at them on eBay! ...

I can remember some of the first boards that came out that were cheap (and nasty) very hard wheels that slid sideways around corners and sent you flying if you were not careful. They had bright hard plastic decks too. ...

The snakeboard was invented in 1989 by James Fisher and Oliver Macloed Smith. Its creation came about as a progression from the original skateboard design, taking in aspects of snowboards and surfboards. The difference between a snakeboard and a skateboard ...

After attempts to make a skateboard out of a single roller skate and plank of wood I was lucky enough to get a 'real' skateboard in the late seventies called "Super Slalom Flyer'. It had a red thin moulded plastic ...

The hero of every skateboarding child in the eighties and nineties. Tony Hawk was the world's best skater and inventor of some of the coolest tricks such as the airwalk, stale fish and Madonna.Tony Hawk also became the first person ...

Not to sure the exact model of this skateboard from the 80's, but here's an old vulcan super slalom skateboard my brother and I used back in the day ;-). Hope you guys enjoy the old school skateboard :-D ...