(1988)
DECK: POWELL & PERALTA - MIKE VALLELY
TRUCKS: VENTURE
WHEELS: POWELL & PERALTA G BONES
(I loved that deck man! - Still got it in 2 pieces packed away somewhere in the snapped deck graveyard under the bed!)
What was your first set up people?
DECK: POWELL & PERALTA - MIKE VALLELY
TRUCKS: VENTURE
WHEELS: POWELL & PERALTA G BONES
(I loved that deck man! - Still got it in 2 pieces packed away somewhere in the snapped deck graveyard under the bed!)
What was your first set up people?
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Re: Your first set up and date!!?
Mon, March 7, 2005 - 5:46 AMdeck santamonica airlines NATAS
trucks: gullwings
thanes : slimeballs
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Mon, March 7, 2005 - 5:47 AMi had some of those ugly mofo vans with the palm trees on the too -
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Mon, March 7, 2005 - 6:05 AMMan - dont get me started on classic footware!!
I had the Airwalk - LAVA (classic velcro lace protector!)
nice mid boots man - brings a tear to my eye!
They were proper 'shoe goo'd' up by the time they died man!!
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Mon, March 7, 2005 - 6:19 AMi remember kutting up old shoes and lacing the leather "olly flap" on there ah yeah shoe goo .. nice
i am still skating a deck that has fly paper on it with g&s chromolly and some well worn t-bones -
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Mon, March 7, 2005 - 6:21 AMwe used to cut up pieces of camping dense blue foam and make hip gaurds so we would not get bruised hips and tailbones wearing those under the shorts .. lol
fuck those were the days .. skate all day and all night
bailin pools out in the dead of the winter .. yarr ! -
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Mon, March 7, 2005 - 7:55 AMYeah man - all we used to do was skate!
Finding stuff to make stuff - and yeah days at the skate park (our good old 70's knackered park) consisted of 2 concrete bowls and a snake run...all dodgy broken concrete in places - but we would spend days on end there!
watchin Animal Chin and then going out to search for it!
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Mon, March 7, 2005 - 8:01 AMchappa lappa ya gillet all over tha place -
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Mon, March 7, 2005 - 8:01 AMjonny rads blue tile lounge .. say no more -
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Mon, March 7, 2005 - 10:08 AMPink Motel, baby.
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Mon, March 7, 2005 - 6:41 AMShoe Goo!! lmao. I stretched a pair of cheap Vans for like a year with shoe goo, crazy glue and pieces of old shoes.
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Sat, April 30, 2005 - 12:45 AMyo gordon smith
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Mon, March 7, 2005 - 6:23 AMoh fuck ya i remember those i had some grey airwalks with those velcro lace protects .. nice ! i almost forgot about those babies -
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Mon, March 7, 2005 - 6:24 AMthe classic long bangs down to the chin with the hair shaved up the back .. combed off to the side .. hehe
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Mon, March 7, 2005 - 6:37 AMMy first:
Red Cab dragon board(1987)
Trucks: Independent
Wheels: Can't exactly remember, but I wanna say Rat Bones.
Holy Crap!!! They've reissued the board!!
www.daddiesboardshop.com/brows...k.html
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Wed, March 9, 2005 - 11:49 AM1978 : Fisher Price 'flexi-flyer'.. the next setup was a Sure Grip with trackers and Powell Mini-Cubics i got at the OC Swap Meet . -
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Wed, March 9, 2005 - 4:20 PMMy first deck? Aw, yeah, baby...I rocked the Valterra Gargoyle....lol...followed up by my cousin's used and abused Gator....
anyone remember Vision skate pants? I had a pair of Gray ones with red letters down the side....and a reversible men's T&C Skate jacket...way too cool for school.... -
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Wed, March 9, 2005 - 4:21 PMP.S...that was back in like '86 or '87....
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Wed, March 9, 2005 - 5:31 PMi had those baggy vision grey and black tie die ones ..
i usedto love wearing my zorlac painter cap too :)
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Thu, March 10, 2005 - 5:24 AMWow man - Vision skate pants were f*cking cool Darla!
What about Skate Rags?
Yeah, 1987-88....thats when skatin grabbed me by the nads man!!
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Thu, March 10, 2005 - 6:44 PMAwww, yeah....dems were da dayz!
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Wed, March 9, 2005 - 7:21 PMthis is too fuckin' funny I could go on for hours............
first real one I gripped my self - ripped up pieces!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SC Keith Meek Slasher w/ the wheels and trucks off a freeformer.
it was about 10.5" wide
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Thu, March 10, 2005 - 10:32 AMDeck: Bad Boy Club
Trucks: Gullwings
Wheels: Slimeballs
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Fri, March 11, 2005 - 5:37 PMYeah, I recently acquired a big old '80's deck...mo fo is HUGE! It's just a plain deck with bones wheels and Powell Peralta and Bones Brigade stickers, and a randome "Vaurnet France" sticker...remember THAT??? I should take a photo of it and post it!
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Mon, March 14, 2005 - 7:05 AMoh shit! I had to respond.
bill danforth (alva)
oj1's
valterra trucks
Yellow Jimmy-z pants
1987
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Mon, March 14, 2005 - 8:58 AMFirst board (real board, not the piece of crap I had before): Lester Kasai with the splash graphic (1984)
First real trucks: Indy 165s
Wheels: I think I was riding on bones, but I could be mistaken.
Had a million boards and setups since.
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Tue, March 15, 2005 - 10:15 PMDamn you guy's are all young!
Converse All Stars, Fiberflex board with god only knows what kind of shit wheels, and trucks that were about five inches long.
Alot like what Farrah is riding in Tommy Boy's pic.
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Thu, May 19, 2005 - 6:54 PMshee-it I had a yellow banana!
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Fri, September 30, 2005 - 3:03 PMdeck: Kevin Staab(?) mad scientist(?)
trucks: sorry, tracker ultralights
Got my first board on a trip to cali in 86'. I was 13 and slept with it like it was a teddy bear. -
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Tue, October 11, 2005 - 11:27 AM1982
Deck: Santa Cruz (Yellow Red Logo) Black Tire tracks or something on it.
Trucks: Independent
Wheels: Big Fat Soft and Powell
Nose guard, Rails, Woody Tail Pad, the works.
Man...How we used to trip over protecting the boards.
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Thu, December 8, 2005 - 1:08 PMI learned to do kick-turns on a yellow bannana board wth a shark on it and red wheels. (Mid 80's)
First modern board: Valterra or Nash (Shock Treatment)
First pro set up: Hosoi/Picasso design, gullwings, toxic wheels.
Best times of my life!
