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Bristol Longboard Shop News, New Skate Product, Surfskate, YOW -

A True Advent Surprise!

A Christmas miracle! Is Josh tiny? Are Lucy's socks massive? Is Rich very clever with a camera? Or is this just a really roundabout way of introducing you to our newest member of staff at Vandem?... Read more

Carver Trucks, Loaded Longboards, Seismic, Surfskate -

A new #1: The Most Expensive Board in the shop - which brand?

Did you guess it? Loaded Longboards - no brand has spent more time at the top of the Vandem list of most expensive products. The past year or two they've had competition -... Read more

Hackbrett longboards, Randomness, Surfskate, YOW -

A postcard from Morocco... 🫖

"It's good, it's good, yes?" ...the clapped out Renault Clio we were being offered didn't look anything like the 4x4 we'd paid to rent. The Škoda we settled for was far from 4WD, but the... Read more

Carver Trucks, Loaded Longboards, Longboard Scene and Events, New Skate Product, Orangatang Wheels, Surfskate -

Bristol's gone mad...

To level with you here I'm still somewhat reluctant to truly embrace the surfskate. But Bristol - home of Lush Longboards, harbour of longboard girls, haven of hardy down-hillers - has fallen... Read more

Carver, Longboard Scene and Events, Surfskate -

10,000 words on surfskates and skateparks

Don't worry! The majority of those 10,000 words are in picture format. Scroll down to spot yourself in the shots from our surfskate event last week. In the meantime, I wanted to sing the... Read more

Carver Trucks, Cult Wheels, Longboard Scene and Events, Lush Longboards, New Skate Product, Surfskate -

Behold: The Magic Carpet!

The keen eyed among you... Will have noticed we spent Saturday on surfskate shenanigans. Thank you to everyone who took the time to come by - especially with the weather forecast as it was! ... Read more

Bristol Longboard Shop News, Longboard Scene and Events, Pumptracks, Surfskate -

Make new friends with help from Vandem

iasdfiiawenlaweofidsdzhwyesfrgsdahhhhh is how my brain feels when I try and work out how to fit in everything I want to do this summer. To help me, I've compiled a little list here of things happening in and around the shop. Please do join for any... Read more

Bristol Longboard Shop News, Carver, Carver Trucks, New Skate Product, Surfskate -

Carver Skateboards now available at Vandem

*And equal pay. Double whammy! And I don't mean Lucy and Tilly, though they do make a formidable force. No - in a shock occurence, todays post covers two topics. Most important first. It was International Womens Day this week. Keeping it close to home, whilst... Read more

Arbor Longboards, Competition time, Randomness, Surfskate -

When you've got spray-on griptape, but want to actually grip...

We've had a few emails now... Regarding the clear grip on most of the Arbor cruisers and surfskates. As you may have noticed from our run of surfskate emails and Read more

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