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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #240 on: April 26, 2018, 06:03:54 PM »
Vision Grigley 1987. Just got the reissue and it's like an ironingboard. Sick graphic though

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #241 on: April 26, 2018, 06:15:28 PM »
June 2000.

Local shop (Exo Shop in Quebec) Warrior Series 7.75
Indy Stage 8's
Don't remember what kind of bearings... most likely Reds or Speed Demons.
55mm Spitfires.
Duffs Imperials.


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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #242 on: April 27, 2018, 10:46:36 AM »
Ordered right out of CCS...

Willy Santos "Weasel" Board - 7.88"
Grind Kings
53mm spitfires
Pretty sure i just got quickies bearings and shorty's in there too

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #243 on: January 24, 2019, 04:47:59 AM »
Bringing an oldish one up

First board was some red sears board with painted sand grip and 40mm wheels.

First real board was a Christmas complete from the local, now defunct, skate shop called cloudbreak.

Element generic 7.75(it was blue)
Tensor self lubricating trucks that I wanna say the baseplate was blue/raw metal.
Pig wheels
Random bearings and hardware

Can’t forget the Steve Caballaro pro series helmet complete with all his stickers haha.

Wish I still had the board for nostalgia

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #244 on: January 24, 2019, 05:25:36 AM »
Actually I was never sure what brand my first deck was, green veneer with a small logo next to the back truck it
was a silhouette of a girls head with long black hair and devil horns, no writing apart from '1994' below the graphic.. seen shuvit use a similair logo, but mine did not have any mentioning of a brand.. anyone know what it could have been?
anyway, that deck,know it was 7.5, thunder trucks with black bushing and new deal wheels 42mm.
Got it in Sweden back in the mid 90s, was not even from a skate shop.. it was a toy store that had a skate section with like 5-6 decks, thunder trucks, and black or white new deal wheels. That was all the options and it worked fucking perfect!

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #245 on: January 24, 2019, 06:13:47 AM »
from Blades in 2000.

speed demon abec five bearings
world industries wheels 55mm
Independent trucks
world industries deck
graphic looked like this https://i0.wp.com/www.surefiresponsoring.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Untitled-3.png?resize=300%2C125

still skate the trucks
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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #246 on: January 24, 2019, 06:22:44 AM »
from Blades in 2000.

speed demon abec five bearings
world industries wheels 55mm
Independent trucks
world industries deck
graphic looked like this https://i0.wp.com/www.surefiresponsoring.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Untitled-3.png?resize=300%2C125

still skate the trucks

actually had one or two penny decks from yard sales before the World set-up. one made of wood that gave me bad splinters on my hand

another yard sale set-up before the World deck: a single-tail Vision Gator deck with rails, risers, blue grip tape, big soft pink wheels, and Venture trucks with old school truck holes

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #247 on: January 24, 2019, 06:24:05 AM »
From my local 2006

Standard red and black Baker deck

Indy Highs

56mm blue head spitfires

Reds Bearings

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #248 on: January 24, 2019, 06:26:54 AM »
Jersey Devil ~8.25.
Independent stage 7
Hookups 57mm wheels

Bought from Switch in Newark, DE in 1996. If anyone knows anything about the Jersey Devil board, that info would rule. Barely remember anything about the graphic, but it was white with maybe a blue silhouette of a demon.

Before that had been skating a Variflex Jack the Ripper board that I had borrowed from a neighbor.

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #249 on: January 24, 2019, 06:34:11 AM »
Mike Vallely World Industries Barnyard for Christmas 1990.

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #250 on: January 24, 2019, 06:36:39 AM »
1998, chad muska set up. Got it all from CC's over the phone.
Basically this with ghetto child wheels.

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #251 on: January 24, 2019, 06:42:39 AM »
the full rodney kit from CCS

enjoi sinner deck
tensors with the orange sliders
darkstar wheels
speed demons bearings

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #252 on: January 24, 2019, 06:52:56 AM »
Element feather light I think it was like 7.5
Grind king trucks
Element wheels
Lucky bearings risers and bolts
Black magic grip.

My mom ordered by phone from a ccs catalog ha

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #253 on: January 24, 2019, 07:49:09 AM »
i was lucky, cool skate shop dude put together my first board of this:

-chocolate mike york city series 7.75(wish i would have known what i had and kept it mint) with jessup grip

-silver venture trucks

-mini logo wheels and bearings

he especially told me to never buy any board brand that isn't chocolate, girl, alien workshop or 23

actual first skateboard was some cheap ass toy board with plastic trucks made by or at least licensed from powell peralta and came with the classic cab dragon design.

i still have both those decks. the cab one is missing the tail tho.

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #254 on: January 24, 2019, 08:00:24 AM »

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #255 on: January 24, 2019, 08:39:19 AM »
Started riding my older brothers Willy Santos Birdhouse until christmas of that same year he got a Zero complete. Wish i saved it, zero deck, NJ skateshop NJ cut outline griptape, zero wheels and ventures. Life changing.
hopefully ty evans was there to film him laying on the ground in HD

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #256 on: January 24, 2019, 08:40:54 AM »
Had a world industries complete I got at a yard sale then hand me down parts from kids at the local shop
First proper complete:
Justin Strubing Santa Cruz 7.75
Royal trucks (chocolate colab)
HiFi wheels
Ninja bearings (absolute garbage)
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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #257 on: January 24, 2019, 10:26:43 AM »
this would've been early 2001 right before reynold's left for baker

birdhouse reynolds deck
grind kings
darkstar wheels (saw the promo after downloading rodney vs daewon on kazaa)

if anyone is selling this deck dm me

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #258 on: January 24, 2019, 10:37:58 AM »
Had some Wal-Mart setups for a while. I do remember my first actual setup though.

The classic element deck
Tensor trucks
Black widow bearings in the coffin which I still have.
Pig wheels
Shortys hardware
Black Magic Griptape

Because I was only 10 years old, an older guy in the neighborhood managed to scam me out of it.
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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #259 on: January 24, 2019, 10:40:51 AM »
My first board was a Shorty's with grind king trucks and unknown wheels (cant remember).
Sick board tbh, I wish I saved it.

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #260 on: January 24, 2019, 11:25:06 AM »
The first board I remember riding was a banana board that was in my family's garage. I have no idea where it came from. I wanted a proper set up all through 8th grade. My friend got a G&S Billy Ruff and I was bummed because that was the board I had picked out too. I didn't wanna get the same thing that he already had. Over the summer, I went to the local and picked out a black dip Sims Kevin Staab mini.

It had Tracker Six Tracks and I don't know the wheels anymore, if I ever did. I do know that they were each a different color neon. I also bought every possible piece of plastic you could for it -- rails, nosebone, tailbone, copers -- all of which were a different color neon. Each part of the top grip was also a different color neon and the top graphic was left showing. The shop owner saw me coming a mile away and let me keep adding to it. It was a total fucking dork mobile.

The shit was so expensive (way more that the $99 mail order completes I had been eyeing) that I had to put it on lay away and save money from my paper route. By the time I picked it up, the summer was over and I had a growth spurt to 6 feet. Good thing I picked out a mini!

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #261 on: January 24, 2019, 11:52:12 AM »
1989 - some weird single kick from K-mart. It was blue and had some skulls and shit on it. I soon upgraded to another K-mart board that strangely had Vision graphics with no vision logo.

My first “real” skateboard was some shitty no-name complete from a surfshop. All of this was before high school. When I started high school I got an Alien Workshop with a slick bottom.

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #262 on: January 24, 2019, 12:25:06 PM »
after a couple Kmart boards I got an enjoi on tensors and autobahn wheels from blades, which was the first skateshop in Manhattan that came up when you googled. fucked up that someone would give a kid tensors
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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #263 on: January 24, 2019, 04:47:58 PM »
Summer of '86, when I finally caught the bug after all my friends started skating because all the cooler older brothers were doing it, I mistakenly got this because mom & dad didn't want to invest $100 in a solid setup:



When they realized I was actually going to skate every day and that I wasn't going to stop after a week, the first non-shit board 3 months later was this:



I still laugh at how I initially got a setup with 99a Slimeballs that had my slipping all over the driveway, so dad took 'em back and convinced the bike shop guy to swap them out for some 92s for me.  Which for some reason I traded out for some huge fucking beer-can sized Kryptonics that were so soft, you could squeeze them and feel tons of give on the outer edges.  Good times.

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #264 on: January 24, 2019, 05:04:05 PM »
Flameboy I got from Play It Again Sports back in 2009. Mowed a bunch of lawns and did odd jobs to buy it. In hindsight I should've gone for the Almost board but it was $108 and the WI was $80 and I wanted a board so bad. Plus the guys from the local shop had moved one town over to the skatepark and I didn't know them yet. Only complaint I had about it was how soft the wheels are, but I still have one of them in the garage.

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #265 on: January 24, 2019, 05:08:12 PM »


Silver Tony Hawk (2)
Indy Stage 5 159s
Rat Bones 97a Black

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #266 on: January 24, 2019, 06:57:18 PM »
My first was an 8.38 Zero, the original American Zero with yellow background and red stars. Man, I miss that thing. I got it around '99 or '00 bought it from a friend from school that "couldn't skate anymore". Whatever the fuck that meant.
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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #267 on: January 24, 2019, 07:23:08 PM »
Element muska 8.0
thunder hi's -
ricta's the shitty clear blue ones (crystals?)
reds
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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #268 on: January 24, 2019, 08:29:58 PM »
A Spider-Man board from Wal-Mart. I was the only skater in my family, and had no exposure to it prior. My mom did the best she could for me.

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #269 on: January 24, 2019, 09:39:57 PM »
Nash sawblade or whatever from toys r us

Then a dynasty team model 8 for my first real board. Asian kid gets an Asian board. Kien lieu rules.