What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?

[holliscx]

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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[David Tollefson]

I made my own...

[ElvisMerckx]

I had the one that was kinda shaped like a whale shark. Can't remember the name of it because I've backfilled that part of my brain with trivial bike knowledge.

[maunahaole]

I had a G&S Stacy Peralta model, then a Logan Earth Ski (a 3/4" solid oak plank that weighed about 50 lbs) then a maple laminate Atlantic deck, iirc like 34-36" x8" made by some small shop in Maryland. That was set up with some tracker mid-tracks and some Bones wheels that I dumpster picked from some joint in Purcellville, Va. That was a nice setup.

[David Tollefson]

Kryptonics and Tracker 6-Tracks...

[Matthew Strongin]

I had a ton over the years, but my first "real" deck was my Vision Gator.

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[xjoex]

I'm pretty sure it was a Mario Rubalcaba of some sort... i sure did suck at skating.

-Joe

[holliscx]

I had a ton over the years, but my first "real" deck was my Vision Gator.

Totally forgot about this board, I had one too purple I think!

[Jonathan]

I had a handful, but the two note worhy ones were a Vision Agent Orange and a Santa Cruise Cruz Steve Olson.

[robin3mj]

My first and best "real" board was a Lance Mountain:


I was the least hardcore of my skater buddies and before this board I had a couple handmedowns from them. All were Powell Peralta though.

I just watched the recent Bones Brigade docu- worth a look if you were from that era.

[devlin]

I had one of the first ones that Hosoi put out and a Magnussan used the same Gullwings trucks on both. I sucked at skating but didn't really have the environment to enable it either. I still would have sucked anyway.

[Matthew Strongin]

My first and best "real" board was a Lance Mountain

A friend of mine had that deck.

This thread inspired me to hit the Google. Found this slideshow: The 25 Best Skateboard Decks From the '80s | Complex

Man this is bringing back memories!

[jerk]

schmitt stix chris miller with the naked guy with the dog face on it...gullwing phoenix trucks...broke about four of those things....had a baby natas too.

[holliscx]

^ great slideshow Matt

My brother had a Rob Roskopp

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[AJPM44]

Vision Psycho Stick
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[Matthew Strongin]

i broke a couple sets of gullwing trucks too...then I switched to tracker. Started riding my BMX 10:1 over my skateboard so I never had a chance to break another.

[j44ke]

G&S Bowlrider with Trackers and Powerflex wheels. Like 1978? What I lacked in ability I made up for in spectacular crashes.

[holliscx]

I bet Chris King could make a mean skateboard wheel

[AJPM44]

I'm pretty sure my first board was a castaway of this guys:
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I was lucky. Lived about half a mile down the road from him, he was about 6 years older than me.

[Crashburn]

Jim Muir Triplane with Indy trucks and Kryptonic wheels
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I got it in sixth grade and it was so big it was like riding a surfboard. It was stolen a few years later and replaced with a Vision Gator and the combination of smaller board and larger me was much better.