Friday, August 16, 2024

Jacob Rupp #4.


Wild Style.

Jake does a crisp and clean tailslide back when he rode for Element. It took me a minute to figure out who this was with the graffiti letters. I was a tad surprised nobody had scanned this ad before. Jake went through some quick sponsor changes in 1999. He was on Santa Cruz and Krux to begin the year and switched over to Element after an offer from Donny Barley. He's riding Ventures in the photo. I believe Jake was on Kastel to some extent before they closed up shop.

Vert Is Dead is taking a late summer break.

I'm going to take some time to get everything organized for this site before posting any new stuff. My friend was able to copy everything off the old iMac's drive so I'm in great shape in terms of having all my files. I'm thinking maybe do a four day week after Labor Day or wait until September 9th to start back up. I'll see how it goes.

Have a good one. Feel free to leave suggestions in the comments.

Thrasher - January 2000 Volume 20 Number 1

3 comments:

Justin said...

I've got the files sorted out from the hard drive and the new iMac about as good as they're going to get. I do need to plan what to scan next. I'll probably go with a four day week of Poweredge starting on September 3rd.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for keeping this going. Hyped on an unseen Rupp photo

Justin said...

You're welcome. I'm not sure how this one slipped through the cracks. It's in the Thrasher scans, but I'm shocked Chops didn't scan it for Chrome Ball.