For The Retro Skateboard Crowd

I'm bending the rules to post this eBay auction. There is a set of Red Krypto 65mm new in the can with bearings. The current bid is
$1,008.00::::::::: eek:
Holy crap!



http://cgi.ebay.com/New-in-the-Can-K...QQcmdZViewItem

Hey Phil, got any of these in your garage somewhere?

Anyone ride in the mid 70s? Here's a flashback..

Aluminum boards. Not a Banzai but same double kick shape

I gave away my last Kryptonics board that was set up with Indy 131's and Sims Conicals. I saw one go for close to 2K on Ebay. But yeah, these old skateboards are going for stoopid $$.



The only area where I did capitalize was I had my old Hot Wheels and I sold one for $800.00. (73 Mongoose, blue, 9+ cond). I ended up clearing about $4K for 120 cars...and that was 10 years ago.

Wow, I didn't realize there was a seller's market for this stuff. I just checked though and the only deck I have that's not beat to sh!t is going for just a tad more than what I paid for it:

I have one of the original Powel Peralta Tony Hawk boards from '85(?), tracker trucks and bones wheels. The thing weighs a ton! I still skate it, but downhill only. My son's friends laugh at me. I was at a festival and some skate punks were going crazy over it . . . "grandpa, let me ride that board -old school!" . . . so I let them ride and to the last one they loved it.

I am sure it isn't worth much on e-bay, but to me it is worth its weight in gold. I started skating in the 60's with a wooden board that had metal roller skate wheels. I wish I knew where that board was! Antique by now.

I did have those wheels, on the board that is on the canister too. The board was actually made like a ski, it was a foam core with a P-tex bottom 30x8 IIRC. The board I am on in the pic, 79ish timeframe was 30x9.75 . I also had a 31x11.25 vertical laminate wood core Kryptonics Board. At that time, I think Kryptonics was headquartered in Boulder Colorado.

I was actually riding a "Boulder Board" 10X30 at that time with Tracker wides and a set of blue Krypto 65s-also had green 70s. Before that I had a 77 Alva with the heavy gold Gull Wings and 60mm red Kryptos.

In college a friend gave me a Santa Cruz Stinger with Gull Wings and Sims wheels. I gave that board away before I moved to North Carolina, kinda wished I had kept it. I picked up the Alva SM Dragon on eBay for $90 a couple of years ago.

OK, I've gone and done it now. I picked up a cheap Wal Mart board for free from Craigslist a few weeks ago (so my 5 year old would have something to kick around while I ride the Dragon). I'm a sucker for the "free" listings

I just snagged a set of retro Krypto 60s off eBay for that. Ya sure I got it for the kid:

Mmmmm The Dragon....

:Nice!

You should probably go with the 70mm blue Kryptonics for that one

That road is so nicely paved, you could go with the greens.

Parking decks were another good spot tor hard wheels.

We used to go to downtown Minneapolis and skate at the Federal Reserve Plaza. It was a big outdoor mall on a slight grade, all marble walks and floors: It really sucks that kids (and old folks) can't go ride just anywhere anymore:

Nice. I still have my:

- Tony Alva 8" deck from the late 70's
- Jim Muir Dog Town deck from the early 80's
- Jeff Grosso Schmitt Stix deck, Indy 169's, and Kryto Superlights
- Some orange Powell Bones wheels

Don't know where my Tracker Mids went?

Don't know where my White Bones went?

I also have an old'ish Powell long board with Indy 169's and G&S Double Conicles.

The deck that I use today at Sandstone park in Longmont is a replica Vision Psycho Stick with original Indy 169's and some newer wheels.

I also have a newer Beer City deck - I really don't like that new shool stuff at all.

Those Krypto reds would go very nicley with my 8" Tony Alva deck. :-)
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Marty

My brother had a magnesium board from the early 80's. Problem with these decks was that the tail would get ground to a nice sharp edge. When you hit a stone and pop off the front, the that nice sharp metal tail would pop up into your:

- shin
- knee
- thigh
- nuts

You name it, it would get ya there. I've got a real nice scar in the inside of my knee where the tail hit me during one bail. It needed stitches - I didn't get them - the scar is much bigger then it needed to be. I hated that thing. It's in a sewer in Cudahy, WI on Indiana Ave. Perfect place for that evil POS.

Nice pic.

Kryto decks: We never wood.
Then: The way we wood.

Lovin' this thread!

Note the sock's, they make the man.

Man?

You look like you're about twelve in that pic

[voice cracking] Fifteen! [/voice cracking]

What where the durometers of those red, blue and green Kryptonics?

Tru Dat!
I hate boards that don't have a well defined front and back. I want boards that can jam down a hill or parking deck and carve a pool. I'm not in to hopping around on rails and riding switch:
I'm eyeing some of those Alva Re-issue decks. I eBayed some blue venture trucks last night, got some risers, hardware, and stickers at the shop tonight. I'm not exactly sure how wide they'll be with the 60s on them. But, I'm thinking something between 8" and 9" would probably be a good set up since I've already got the 10" dragon.

OK done deal, just ordered this to go on top of the blue ventures and red krypto 60s

Cool. I had tracker mids and bones on mine. I have no idea where the trucks and wheels went. :-(

That isn't skateboarding anyway. Vert! Wood or concrete waves. THAT is skaboarding.

I once rode a set of white bones myself-maybe on a Mill City deck with ACS trucks?? They were a bit "crunchy" for street, but really good on wood

I built my first skateboard in 1963, out of a pair of sidewalk skates with steel wheels and a 1x6 maple plank. I was 12. I also made one for my brother, who was 8. His got crunched by a car when he failed to make the turn at the lower end of the block. He bailed out and the board rolled into the street beyond. The steel-wheeled boards required a lot of finesse to turn them around a sharp corner, due to their tendency to slide instead of bite.

My first store-bought board came at Christmas that year. It was a surfboard-shaped oak deck with standard roller skate trucks and wheels on it. The wheels were some composite material that wore quickly and stopped cold on a pebble. We had to stay on the sidewalks because the streets were too full of gravel. It was also far more maneuverable than any modern board. I could turn a circle inside our single-car garage.

There were about a dozen kids on the block with skateboards at the time. The main thrill seemed to be carrying as much speed as possible into the corner at the bottom of the block. A board would occasionally get away and roll into the street. The cross street was a busy avenue, but my brother was the only one who lost a board there.

The following summer, Jan and Dean released "Sidewalk Surfin'".

Sorry, we never took any pictures.

I did that too, one skate=two skateboards, the trucks were stamped metal with a square piece of foam, not adustable at all.:


Those wheels were made of clay.
That sounds like those Hobie boards. They were kind of bananna shaped. I don't remember exactly when urethane wheels came out. They were out before I tried the options above around 1976 when I was 12. They were EXPENSIVE. We transitioned by replacine the clay wheels with urethane roller skate wheels. There were eight individual ball bearings on each side of each sheel that had to be meticulously placed in the sheel wells while tightening the end bolts. It was a real : PTA before the precescion bearings came out. Around age 14 I started working and then had money for good equipment and going to the skate park occasionally. Skating was a good way to pass the summer time. By age 12 Skiing was my #1 passion, but skateboarding, golf, swimming, and fishing would get me through the summer.

Here's an ancient gem. California Slalom trucks:

They be some wide wheels and trucks on a narrow board.

Yup, I remember the pitfalls of that style....be needing some W----I----D----E, bow legged kick pushes or else you hit your neel with the wheel. But, you could drop your big toe over the edge and touch the wheel for braking

Nash was the big maker of real skateboards in the early 60's and had those soft composite wheels.

My first board ...... after seeing a board my cousin brought back from the west coast in about 62 .... was a pair of skate wheels nailed to a cut down 2X4.

It wobbled and was a nightmare .... but it was a start ...

Dad wasn't big on tools and all we ever had around the house was a hammer and nails ...... I probably didn't even know what a screw was.

Bamzai Aluminum

Tony Hallam in Austrailia appears to have about the largest collection of retro 70s and 80s skateboarding gear of anyone out there.
:
http://www.tonyhallamskateboarding.com.au/index.html

I had one of these. The tail delammed but I wa able to epoxy it back. It held up nice