Vandem Longboard Shop News

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Merry Christmas, newsletters are useless

Hopefully your shopping's done... ...because we're not shipping anything out now until we're back on the 2nd January. And I can't conceive of anyone wanting anything other than pure skate goodies! Read more

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Christmas Skate Films for your enjoyment

The tree's up... The lights are on, and I can really no longer argue that it's too early for shops to be blasting Christmas music. It is a special time of year, though, and guilt-free hot chocolates and back-to-back films are not only acceptable, they're... Read more

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Christmas skate crafts

Who's there? Noah. Noah who? Noahny good festive crafts for the skater in my life? Why yes I do, please step inside...

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Bristol Longboard Shop News, New Skate Product, Timber Boards -

Timber Boards now available at Vandem

Did you know That nearly every Axolotl in Europe is descended from the same female imported from Mexico in 1863? That makes her the daddy. In the case of the beautiful skateboard in the above photo, the father is similarly traceable - this time... Read more

Competition time, Cult Wheels, Orangatang Wheels, Pantheon Longboards, Randomness, Sale -

Big wheels for big smiles

How tall is the stack of wheels? No really, how tall? Email me. Closest answer before next weeks email wins a Christmassy package... But what's special about them? For me, a longboard always had 70mm wheels. It just seemed to... Read more

Hackbrett longboards, Randomness -

A Postcard from Freiburg

Dear Rich & Danielle, We are having a lovely time here in Freiburg and are full of Käsespätzle, Butterbrezeln, Bier und frische Luft!We left the trip a bit late in the year to bomb any of the real mountain roads, they're all wet. A sprinkling... Read more

Bristol Longboard Shop News, New Skate Product, Sabre Trucks -

Back by popular demand...

You can't rush art. OK, I did rush this editing and I wouldn't necessarily call it art... But the point stands! And carving is an art form. ... Read more

Bristol Longboard Shop News, Cult Wheels, Lush Longboards, Sale -

Fire Sacrifice: Success

What are you burning this weekend? More than 400 years ago, Guy Fawkes had a few bones to pick with the government. As I understand it, he had relatively simple demands: Fix the shoddy road surfaces that rattle his bearings to bits Fix... Read more

Arbor Longboards, Bristol Longboard Shop News, Landyachtz, Loaded Longboards, Lush Longboards, Randomness, Sale -

Things we've shredded this week... Cardboard. Matt. Prices.

We shred every day.* Usually cardboard. It being halloween, we thought we'd jam Matt through the shredder too... ...MattGPT is far more efficient. The prices? We rarely shred those. But, between you and I, the wider outdoor leisure market... Read more

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