What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?

[treadonme]

1st deck was a Logan Earth Ski, Bruce Logan model.
Tracker Trucks and Kryptonic wheels with German bearings.
Still have it!

[thollandpe]

I had a Banzai aluminum double kick, deep red anodized.



Crappy Chicago roller skate trucks, run so loose on their rock-hard bushings. Roller Sports urethane wheels.



I have elbows and knees to remind me how many times I fell while going fast. Real fast.

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[thollandpe]

And Rad Pads, because how could you resist futzing with geometry?

[dgaddis]

Things can go sideways in a hurry - especially for a hack like me.

Nothing can beat you so quickly and unexpectedly as a skateboard in my experience LOL.

I went through bunch of wal-mart type boards before I finally got a 'real' board. On the cheapies I usually broke the trucks, which were plastic, the little piece that went into the pivot cup would always snap. One of those, a black and orange Nash which my grandma got me for Christmas from the JC Penny catalog, I snapped the tail off literally the first time I got on it. Skated down my driveway, ollied over the curb, landed and SNAP. Literally three seconds and DONE.

The real board...I don't remember all the details. I do know it was a blank Powell, a purple color, it was on sale. I don't remember what trucks (I think Venture, but I could be totally wrong), but I'm pretty sure I had Spitfire wheels and I know I had those green Lucky bearings.

[ericpmoss]

I guess I never grew up, and still can't stay on one. :) That said, Speedvagen Decks look nice enough.

[ElvisMerckx]

It was either a Hosoi Hammerhead or a Vision Gator -- can't remember which came first.

[rmplum]

It was either a Hosoi Hammerhead or a Vision Gator -- can't remember which came first.

Hosoi is a good follow on instagram. His younger two kids are tearing it up already.

christian hosoi on Instagram: “Thank you to all the service men and women who have sacrificed their time and lives to serve our country... 💯🙏💯 I honor you on this day and…”

[jclay]

Post your deck(s) here ..

I had a lime green Steve Caballero. I skated ramps a little but was such a wuss dropping in. My ollies were terrible as well and I wasn't much of a street or freestyle skater. Mostly my skateboard was just transportation to get from A to B. It didn't matter if B was 3 miles away and I don't remember getting tired once.

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Mine was a relatively tame time, skateboard tricks-wise; pine wood from the local lumber yard, then a G&S Fiberflex.

[Blue Jays]

Orange skateboard with orange rubberized plastic wheels. It was quiet and fast.

[deano]

セカイモン - 1986のナッシュ・プリモ・スケートボードのeBay公認海外通販

[j44ke]

Everything from my past is on sale in Japan. I'm not kidding! One shop after another in Tokyo contains things from my last 40 years. There was a used clothing store that could have dressed every era of my sartorial history. And some. My wife had to drag me out before I had a nostalgia meltdown. I should have saved everything! I could have sold it for real money. I could have been somebody.

[Rich Beaudoin]

I should have saved everything! I could have sold it for real money.

True: my old Sims Lamar board was in my mom’s attic and around 10 years ago I thought it would be fun for my kids to play/learn on. Quickly swapped the Tracker trucks and Gyro wheels onto a new deck and I ebayed the old Sims deck.
Even though it was beat up, three people emailed with offers within the first hour.
I let the auction run and it sold for $406 plus shipping! Apparently the values of some decks are so crazy that counterfeit models are produced

[Clyde]

Mine was a blue 'glass G&S from some skate shop in Buckhead.

[deano]

@j44ke You are somebody, Jorn. You are somebody to us.

[ldamelio]

1960's skateboard nostalgia from Northeast Philly: the deck was a piece of 2 x 4 from my dad's stash in the garage. 'Paint' was a technicolor mix of food coloring swiped from the pantry. Mom was pissed. Wheels were a single metal skate (the kind with a key to tighten it to your shoe, which never worked with sneakers) split into its two halves and nailed on. High tech modification was removing the rubber blocks that kept the wheels aligned - that made the board go from straight line only to impossibly wobbly. 3 in 1 (or Mazola in a pinch) was the NFS of the day. Good times.

[Corso]

The 70s: My first was a FiberFlex knock off, skinny fiberglass no name, hmm, maybe called a "California Slalom"? Then my dad made me an oak board, like an old G&S Peralta. From then on I made my own for a while, thin cheap-ass plywood, that I would run a strip of oak from tip to tail-like a Z-Flex had. Way Too many other boards to remember...along with lot's of skin & blood.

What I have now: I got the Deathbox when I was riding with my son, who was into Hawk and Bam. I never got used to "pop-stick" shapes those kids use...
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[dgaddis]

I did a little more thinking and Googling, and I was wrong, the purple Powell wasn't my first board, this was :: Flip, 1997, Geoff Rowley's pro deck. Sadly this crappy pic is the best I can find on the web...



EDIT

Found a better one ::

[WayneJ]

1960's skateboard nostalgia from Northeast Philly: the deck was a piece of 2 x 4 from my dad's stash in the garage. 'Paint' was a technicolor mix of food coloring swiped from the pantry. Mom was pissed. Wheels were a single metal skate (the kind with a key to tighten it to your shoe, which never worked with sneakers) split into its two halves and nailed on. High tech modification was removing the rubber blocks that kept the wheels aligned - that made the board go from straight line only to impossibly wobbly. 3 in 1 (or Mazola in a pinch) was the NFS of the day. Good times.

Ditto on the setup for me sans the food coloring and Mazola. I can still here (and feel) the whir of those wheels.

[yashkatsumi]

I skated very seriously between 90-92 before skateboarding abruptly died in 92, and I ditched it for cross country running. I had a bunch of decks, and since I was skating 4-5 hours a day, I would have to buy a new deck every three to four weeks. I started with the powell peralta cab bats, which my dad bought for me from california cheap skates, and I moved on to some santa cruz decks, world industries (vallely barnyard, jeremy klein) then to some h-street decks (hensley church), new deal (ed templeton), and a bunch of others that I can not even remember.

I was as obsessed with skateboarding as I am with cycling, but unlike in cycling, I was able to get better and better with practice. That is what I find quite frustrating and humbling about cycling is that my aspirations are hindered greatly by my lack of any real physical talent. In skateboarding, if I was able to visualize it, I could do it.

Looking back, I had many of the iconic decks, which are worth hundreds of $$ today, and I just threw them out or fokai (snap in half) as they wore out. I definitely should have kept a bunch of them!

This is a picture of my nos cab bats, the same one I had in 90. It was in shrink wrap until my son thought it was a present for him and unwrapped it.

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[NCC1701]

It was 1976 or so and I bought a Logan Earth Ski (which I still have) with the Sims Pure Juice Wheels thought I was hot sh@* spent every dime I had on it!
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