Bring the Fury.
Fury was a truck brand started in 1999 out of Blitz Distribution, the home of Birdhouse, Flip, The Firm, and Hook-Ups. The team had the heavy hitters of the era with Tony Hawk, Chad Muska, Geoff Rowley, and Rune Glifberg. Tony was on Tracker nearly the entirety of his pro career so this was a big change. It made sense with the growth of skateboarding at the end of the 1990s for Blitz to expand to include a truck line.
The ad with Geoff holding the truck is from 2001. It was about the best I could find to show what a Fury looked like.
I believe the trucks were designed more for ramps and I want to say they were on the heavy side. I have no idea if the street skaters actually rode them. My guess is probably not since there was a Shorty's ad with Muska's setup in the same April 1999 issue of Transworld. He had Indys on the board in the ad.
Team: Transworld - April 1999 Volume 17 Number 4
Geoff: Transworld - December 2001 Volume 19 Number 12
2 comments:
Any idea what the shoes are Geoff is wearing? The close up sure doesn't look like a vulc.
Geoff might be wearing Airwalks. The photo is most likely from before he switched to Vans. They also could be one of the more padded Vans models made at the time. Picture is probably from 1998, even though the issue of the mag was dated April 1999.
Muska did actually ride the trucks.
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