Smoking tailslide.
I've been giving Dan's old video parts a fresh viewing recently. It's weird how you used to watch a bunch of the same videos repeatedly to pick up on every detail and nuance until you had them memorized. I imagine that still happens, but I can't picture doing that in the current information overload world. Dan had quite the run in the 1990s and 2000s. It makes me wonder why "I'd rather watch Drehobl pivot to fakie" never became a thing. Perhaps it is for the best it didn't.
The wheel gimmicks were wild twenty years ago.
Thrasher - June 2004 Volume 24 Number 6
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It's going to be another week of random low 00s stuff coming up next. I've got a slapdash Halloween week planned out, too.
Wheels with the plastic cores were terrible. It did not matter who made them. I had a set of Ricta cores,, my friends had some from Alien, and we all experienced the core and bearings falling out while skating.
--Rikku Markka
I never had wheels like that. Was there a price premium on them? I remember about 25 years ago kids asking what the ABEC rating was on your bearings. God save us.
All the kids had them when the skatepark opened in 2004. They clearly bought the hype. I knew they'd be bad so I never bothered with them. I'd rather talk about bearings instead of wheelbase.
I never know how wide my board is, I've never known what its wheelbase might be. If the waist of my board fits between my hands feeling right, it's right.
I get picky because I know I like specific sizes. The difficult thing is not all the companies measure the same, which is why I've ridden the same shape from Polar for the last decade. The most messed up thing about wheelbase is that it's almost always 14.25" for every single board.
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