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Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« on: February 10, 2017, 02:55:43 PM »
What's some of the absolute shittiest stuff you guys have skated? I'll start off by talking about an old pair of tensors. Skated them for a day on the same curb (which was super waxed) and almost ground them down to axle. Not even with a crooks or a smith either, just a shit ton of 50-50s.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2017, 03:18:35 PM »
An Element board
she can ride dick ham ham no joke ham

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2017, 03:23:01 PM »
in the late 90s i would skate some adidas hiking boots, trying to find that drug-deLer crossover sweet-spot. all i got was rolled ankles

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2017, 03:28:06 PM »
Phantom 2s
Grind King AXL
Pig dual duro wheels
VOX shoes

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2017, 03:30:40 PM »
An Element board

i ordered one a few months ago and somehow i didnt notice until i set it up but the tail was super short, the nose was super long and wde and the board tapered from 8.25 at the front truck to 7.75 at the back truck. i tried so hard to keep skating it but i couldnt. maybe it was some special shape but i couldnt do it

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2017, 03:32:19 PM »
in the late 90s i would skate some adidas hiking boots, trying to find that drug-deLer crossover sweet-spot. all i got was rolled ankles
That sounds horrible

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2017, 03:33:48 PM »
An Element board
No joke,seen those boards snap first day. The wood that Plan B/Element uses is pure trash.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2017, 03:36:31 PM »
Blank wheels or those clear wheels by Powell in the mid 90's.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2017, 03:39:59 PM »
I was home from winter break at college one year and din't bring my board back but was itchin to skate this indoor park with my friends. This girl was selling a complete for $40. Done. It was a 7.75 enjoi with rainbow kittens, royal trucks, and ricta wheels. It was awful, so god damn skinny (I'm a size 12 foot so it was like a popsicle stick under my feet). Still better than being left out I guess.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2017, 03:46:55 PM »
Anything I've ever skated, because I still suck at skating.  :-[

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2017, 04:42:48 PM »
Wayward wheels.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2017, 04:45:21 PM »
Wayward wheels.

Really? I just ordered a pair.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2017, 04:51:43 PM »
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Wayward wheels.
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Really? I just ordered a pair.

I had them for two weeks and they started coning like crazy. BS tail to fakie slightly less than perfectly put an insane flat spot in them like I blunt slid a hill and it wouldn't go away. Back to Spitfire.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2017, 05:26:08 PM »

Found these in the closet the other day. I used to ride my wheels as long as I could. These are 10 years old. Maybe I'll set them up and see if Tensors really are as bad as some say.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2017, 05:34:04 PM »

Found these in the closet the other day. I used to ride my wheels as long as I could. These are 10 years old. Maybe I'll set them up and see if Tensors really are as bad as some say.
Oh believe me,they really are.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2017, 12:17:49 AM »
Royal trucks when they first got out, me and two friends ended up bying them because Girl trucks. We snapped 4/6 hangers during first weekend skating small set of stairs, and we were 8th graders.

Bronson G3's, within first two weeks I broke two cages skating only slappies, crappy quality.

Indy stage 9, those fuckin' baseplates...
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It sucks getting old.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2017, 02:32:54 AM »
black and pink 88 bombers

not only skated, but also worn to my grandfather's funeral

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2017, 03:50:06 AM »
Recently: Vans shoes. They've felt and worked OK for skating but never last longer than a week. They completely fell apart.

Powell mini logo boards used to be horrible. When I tried them they did not last more than two sessions. I hear they are Ok now though.

Bones Reds China: They were super good and fast and after three months they just disintegrated skating down the street.

Spitfire Classics: Good Wheels until they flat spoted skating at a skatepark after having used them for two weeks.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2017, 04:05:24 AM »
supra stacks shoe back when it came out and still was terry's pro model! sole was thin but stiff in a very weird way. crappy suede and quality over all! in the matter of a three hour session the WHOLE bottom of the sole (not only where you have grip contact) went completely bald. i think i threw them straight in the trash at the indoor park after session was over! friend of mine came over and said i was crazy for throwing new shoes away and said he would take them. i just told him that i just wouldn't do that to him, giving him this piece of shit shoe! look on his face was priceless  :D

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #19 on: February 11, 2017, 04:10:15 AM »
zoo york wheels - flatspotted first day
speed demon wheels - fatted day one
toy machine deck - i hated it.  shape,
feel; couldn't stand it. glad it snapped
super fast as well. i love toy as  brand
but  this deck sucked so hard. haven't
tried one ever since. overall they are a
little  bit  too  flat for me concave wise.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2017, 04:14:20 AM »
Deathwish board - soggy as fuck!
Theeve trucks - axle OD was different sizes at each end

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2017, 04:20:13 AM »
- boards in 95 that would snap every week
- some "sanded down" wheels in 93-ish that weren't round but at least they looked cool on my blind deck right?
- san diego trucks
recently the worst was those fucking adidas stan smith vulcs! skate in them? I couldn't even walk in them :o
how could a company that came that came up with the silas 1 be the same company who came up with that stinking pile of crap?

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2017, 04:37:11 AM »
Wayward wheels.

you deserved that one


Spitfire Classics: Good Wheels until they flat spoted skating at a skatepark after having used them for two weeks.

you too




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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2017, 05:23:58 AM »
Quote from: Krooked antihero  link=topic=94346.msg2608247#msg2608247 date=1486801069

Bronson G3's, within first two weeks I broke two cages skating only slappies, crappy quality.


The cages in my G3s broke really easily too. Expensive marketing hype pieces of shit.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2017, 05:36:28 AM »
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Spitfire Classics: Good Wheels until they flat spoted skating at a skatepark after having used them for two weeks.
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you too

F4 or get inconvenienced

I once bought a set of Classics just to film 2 tricks that day.  Cannot beat that feeling but they are the worst for wear on crust.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2017, 05:43:38 AM »
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Wayward wheels.
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you deserved that one


F4 or get inconvenienced

I know I know. I'm back on these.



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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2017, 05:54:42 AM »
I bought tensors back when they first came out. I couldn't do fuck all with those trucks. They had the oddest feeling turn ever

I ordered a daewon board back in the trilogy days. The board showed up and it was comically small. Like 7x30.5. broke the first day of course


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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2017, 06:42:09 AM »
Silver Trucks - stock bushings were trash and they didn't turn for shit
Adidas Superstar Vulc - multiple rolled ankles/broken foot and the insole always moved my socks into an uncomfortable position when I skated them :(
Ricta Wheels - flat spots, flat spots, flat spots
OJ Thunder Juice - I thought they would make me shred like Willis Kimbel.....I was wrong.
Huf Classic low - hands down the most uncomfortable shoe I have ever skated

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #28 on: February 11, 2017, 07:03:41 AM »
Silver trucks - First pair of "real" trucks I ever bought. They had just come out. Got them for my birthday. Broke the kingpin in a couple weeks. Called silver, they told me they didn't sell separate kingpins and they couldn't help me. Que almost 10 years of new looking trucks in my parts box.

Element feather light core wheels: the core wheel part slide off the core part.

Huf Classics! I bought 3 pair because the were 17.99 on amazon at one point. They last no more than 2 sessions, maybe 5 or 6 with shoe goo. Sole is clunky and has no feel or flex, so by the time they're broken in the upper is shredded.

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Re: Worst Gear You've Ever Skated
« Reply #29 on: February 11, 2017, 07:04:56 AM »
cracked a day old zero deck on a flatground tre flip. indoors!
make it right, chief!
tracker trucks w/ those plastic ass baseplates.
all other trucks in the 90s w/ those breaking ass kingpins.
i inherited rusty's tensors and temporarily lost my 360 flip.
i bought a 5boro w/ a vhs graphic. great board. bought it a 2nd time and it weighed as much as 2 boards. felt like extra plies or something. actually wasn't bad just strange