skateboards
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A Guide To The Booming World Of Souped-Up Skateboards And Scooters
The Renaissance. The Industrial Revolution. The Computer Age. Each era of history has produced its own remarkable inventions. What will history remember most clearly about our own epoch? Perhaps the many kooky ways we’ve invented to avoid walking to work.
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These Sping-Loaded Skate Trucks Make Me Wish I Knew How To Skateboard
Skateboard suspension is an idea that sounds long overdue — modern skateboarding is a lot rougher than it was when my parents were young. Professional riders fly through the air, grind across metal rails and land on hard concrete after jumping down enormous flights of stairs. They do it all without suspension, forcing them to…
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The Process Of Making An Entire Skateboard Looks Like A Lot Of Fun
Skateboarding is fun but George Powell of Powell Peralta skateboard makes building skateboards look even more fun. It’s always cool to see hands and machines and people transform wood into something completely different but especially neat to see how the whole skateboard — trucks and bearings and wheels — comes together.
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How Pieces Of Wood Turn Into A Skateboard
Video: Chapman Skateboards shows the whole step-by-step process in how they make their boards and it’s such a cool process to see. You get to see how the wood pieces bond together into one piece, how the skateboard gets its shape and how it’s cut out from the block. I can watch this kind of…