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50+ Years of Skateboarding, by Michael Brooke -

Chapter 12: A SkateGeezer Comes Home

Five bucks. That's what it cost me to access the Internet back in 1995. This got me an email address and an opportunity to have my own website. According to an inflation calculator, $5 is about $9.40 in today's money. In the mid-90s, the Internet was just... Read more

Arbor Longboards, Longboard Scene and Events, New Skate Product -

Cheap and buttery... but not margarine.

These wheels Arbor-illiant When it comes to offering value to skaters - and mums and dads of skaters - I'd say we do better than any other shop out there.We keep a keen eye on what's about for anything to add to that.But sometimes something slips through the... Read more

50+ Years of Skateboarding, by Michael Brooke -

Chapter 11: Extreme Dreams and Nightmares

When the skate company owners met up after the Action Sports Show in January 1994 to discuss the future, they were most likely unaware of what sports cable network ESPN was dreaming up. Had they known, the meeting minutes would have been decidedly different. Why do I... Read more

Bristol Longboard Shop News, New Skate Product, Pantheon Longboards, Paris Trucks -

We're opening on Saturdays

A shop, open on a Saturday? We may be late to the party on this one.But the cool kids always are, aren't they? Fact is, we're a tiny outfit and as busy as our lives are in the shop (extremely)......they're even busier outside of... Read more

50+ Years of Skateboarding, by Michael Brooke -

Chapter 10: A Gentlemen's Agreement

Chances are you've probably never heard about a critical meeting of skate industry leaders that took place over thirty years ago.  I only found out about it because it was linked in a section of the Dansworld Skateboarding website. As mentioned in a previous chapter, Dansworld was... Read more

Landyachtz, New Skate Product -

Want to carve more?

Yearning for turning? It's the natural state of soul surfers everywhere.And that doesn't mean you've got to camp out on a desert island for weeks, unpaid and undernourished, waiting for the perfect wave.Just sneaking a few carves in your street can be the difference between a good... Read more

50+ Years of Skateboarding, by Michael Brooke -

Chapter 9: It’s Like Deja Vu All Over Again

You didn't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what would happen to skateboarding once it was showcased in the biggest film of the summer of 1985 - “Back to The Future.” After toiling for close to four years in obscurity, skateboarding EXPLODED in popularity.... Read more

New Skate Product, Orangatang Wheels, Powell Peralta -

Wheelie Good News

90mm of happiness For anyone who didn't know - Orangatang's urethane is called "Happy thane".To be pedantic, there is less than 90mm of it if you take the core into account... but still, these new wheels still offer a solid kilo of happiness! Read more

50+ Years of Skateboarding, by Michael Brooke -

Chapter 8: Back to your future

As this is the SkateGeezer Manifesto, it's essential at this stage of the book to reiterate one key point: don't stop skateboarding. If an injury prevents you, I get it. But longevity and quality of life work hand in hand. Skaters under 21 (aka NOT SkateGeezers) will... Read more

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