A Novice's Question

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Wed Jan 30, 08 9:44 am

SteveCase wrote:How do they get THAT much power thru those little wheelie bar wheels then?!

My old 70mm Radius Edge Kryptonic Reds gripped well. Perhaps they use them?

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Wed Jan 30, 08 10:44 am

Kev wrote:
SteveCase wrote: My old 70mm Radius Edge Kryptonic Reds gripped well. Perhaps they use them?
I was a Bones man myself!

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Wed Jan 30, 08 11:19 am

Ivor wrote:
Kev wrote:
SteveCase wrote: My old 70mm Radius Edge Kryptonic Reds gripped well. Perhaps they use them?
I was a Bones man myself!

Too slippy for us street boys! Ok on the concrete of The Rom skate park but no good on the flag stones and 30% angled transitions of the Festival Hall car park!!

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Jan 30, 08 7:44 pm

Ivor wrote:I was a Bones man myself!

Me too, I could do the best power slides in school

Looking back it's hard to imagine skating before the Olie was invented!

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Wed Jan 30, 08 7:54 pm

Hang on! I was skating the South Bank in '79, how old were you then?

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Jan 30, 08 8:01 pm

-1

But skating didn't die off after you gave up

I got my 1st board in 89, by the mid 90's I was frequenting the Bristol skate locations like the Lloyds bank down by the docks. Skating didn't change a whole bunch in UK till the early 90's, we were still watching the old Z-Boys vids. I guess it was different in the US.

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Wed Jan 30, 08 8:04 pm

Didn't have a vid then

My first board in '77 was a Surf Flyer, a plank of wood with basically half a roller skate on each end and rubber wheels, wore them totally down to the open race bearings....