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They will not be out here for a while yet, but it is funny to think 43 mm (1992-1993) through 66.6 mm (1997-1998) so yeah, the 90s were a funny time in skateboarding.
At least that was my take on the timeline of some of those sizes.
Anyone else got a different thought as to when they were in their prime / when they got really big for the super small and super big sizes?
seems about right. i skated for a few years as a little kid, bones brigade era, tragically quit, and then restarted in 1994? whenever 411 vm #6 was. first setup had 44.5 spitfires, on recommendation from the shop, to not use something ‘too small’. by 1998, ish (when did osiris first start? that year), i was skating a setup with 60 mm spitfire classics. the wide ones. there were some interesting moments with gear, as we upgraded components as we could.
maybe i have it wrong in my mind, but i remember loving drake jones’ skating, and wanting indy’s because of him. decks were 7.5, but in my memory, indy wasn’t offering a 129 at that time.
then we got the narrow trucks, but EE3 came out, and we needed the big, big wheels, so then it was these really tippy setups.
oh. another dumbass thing i did was i’d skate riser, or ‘shock pads’, on every setup. 54s? cool, got my risers. and for 52s. and then for 60s. etc.
every now and then a friend would get a board from a sponsored skater, and we’d all marvel at how insane an 8” deck looked.
that era was a lot more interesting, compared to say 2003ish-2010, were people went on autopilot and skated the same ish shit.
if skating dies, are we going to get a new uniform?
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