What Skateboard did you ride??

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

I just had crappy ones. Now I have a Jason Ellis Powell one and another with Indy trucks and Red Dragon bearings. I live just up the road from Tony Hawk's favourite Aussie skate ramp...but you won't find me on it these days.

[pooper_prez]

About 1976 I had a pretty cheap yellow plastic "bannana board". I always wanted one of the aluminum Banzai boards but never got one.

[Bo8a_Fett]

Used to make my own boards with either red or green kryps and california trucks back in the days of Lief Garret..lol..even made a 6 foot "speed board" to zoom down the giddy hieghts of greenwich park hill (london), knocking pensioners and courting couples into the air....

[steelcouch]

Hey I finally found a pic of the board I used to have. If anyone knows where I can get one like it I would really appreciate it. Heres the pic. Its a Per Welinder freestyle board.

[misterdroid]

Does anyone still skate? I do, but I broke my arm super bad a few years ago so I'm a lot more timid when it comes to skating these days. I have a Gravity street deck and a Sector 9 long board. Usually I'll just get on my longboard and cruise around. No tricks or anything, just good 'ol sidewalk surfing.

[steelcouch]

Yup still do. I havent tried a pool in about six months. Sprayned my ankle showing off to my kids in a skatepark pool and lets just say the pool won. Giving it another try during the summer after my house is done remodeling. Then I can afford a little pain. Have a reissue rob robskopp and a double tailed newer style board. Like the reissue the best.

[gman]

My brother bought me a Logan Earth Ski -- the thing was 32" long -- I remember hooking a ski rope behind his motorcycle and skiing through the mall that was under construction on it. My mom sold it in a garage sale to a neighbor kid while I was away at college -- he still has it and won't sell it back to me -- said he waited for my mom to sell it when I was gone. It a beautiful board and the only cool thing my brother ever bought me. He probably stole it.

[4NDR01D]

Hey I finally found a pic of the board I used to have. If anyone knows where I can get one like it I would really appreciate it. Heres the pic. Its a Per Welinder freestyle board.
http://megomuseum.com/mmgallery/file...erDeck01og.jpg

That's my first one too! I should geussed from your first post ,but I was thining you ment skateboard helmet, powell did a lotof skeletons and skulls ad such, so easy to get them all mixed up.
Anyways, if your serious about getting another, look to find a repro (they do make them) because the originals in good shape (especially Powell and Santa Cruz) cost a fortune.

[4NDR01D]

Does anyone still skate? I do, but I broke my arm super bad a few years ago so I'm a lot more timid when it comes to skating these days. I have a Gravity street deck and a Sector 9 long board. Usually I'll just get on my longboard and cruise around. No tricks or anything, just good 'ol sidewalk surfing.

I don't really skate anymore, but there are plans of putting a skate park in my town, and there's one close by in Napanee (Avril's hometown big whoop),
Funny thing is how much I still think about skating, I watch all the old vids (STREETS OF FIRE!!!) on youtube.
These vids are what got me into all the great 80's punk bands (their soundtracks largly made up of SST punk-Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Decendents, Minutemen., firehose etc)
Jason Jesse's run is burned into my head with minutemens world war3-"I try to go to work, I keep thiking about world war 3, I keep thinking of russia, russia, russia!!" it's was the crazyest think I had ever heard backwhen I was 12.

[Mikey]

Never had a skateboard

I grew up on a rural farm and skateboards and dirt roads just don't go together

[rch427]

I had a GT; I think it stood for "GrenTech" (this would've been in the mid-'70s). It was absolute crap compared to the boards that came out just a couple of years later. Another kid broke the plastic deck, so I made a replacement in woodshop class out of 1" thick ash. It had zero flex, but I don't think I had discovered flex yet!

In about 1984, I was sharing an apartment with a semi-pro skater, which meant that a lot of the pros of the time would crash on our couch when they came through town. I recall that, after Steve Caballero stayed over, he left one of the Bones Brigade boards he was riding behind, which I instantly glommed. But when I tried riding it, I found I didn't have the skill to control it worth a damn. A year later, when I moved to SF, I left it behind. Stupid, stupid, stupid. What would it go for on eBay today?!

[steelcouch]

Alot if it was in decent shape.

[mego boy CA]

i had a Vision Mark "Gonzo" Gonzales, which was a great baord! i would like to own one of those again. i actuallyu just saw Steve Caballero at a local toy show so it brought back old skating memories while i was talking to him. Juan "steelcouch" saw him there as well.

[rch427]

Hah! --two other central Cal guys. The couch (and apartment) I mentioned was in Fresno. I grew up in Madera.

Alot if it was in decent shape.

Damn! Stupid me.

i had a Vision Mark "Gonzo" Gonzales, which was a great baord! i would like to own one of those again. i actually just saw Steve Caballero at a local toy show so it brought back old skating memories while i was talking to him. Juan "steelcouch" saw him there as well.

Wow! Interesting connection. Was he selling or shopping?

[palitoy]

A blue V-05, I still have it!