Your first skateboard

[pigeonrat]

an aesthetic deck with a race car on it, ventures and spitfires

Came home on my birthday and it was laying in my bed. Best birthday ever.

[crobar]

got it from a garage sale. old school board with coppers and tail block
the graphic was a devils face or something like that and my mom spray painted over it.

[yeahmmm]

exactly this same stain as well.

[lk130]

Blind Gideon choi koreapor

[billy McGivern]

Wet willy vs flame boy World Industries, grind king trucks, and blank white wheels

[sluggers]

A few early great ones...

[Bloody Matt]

Me and two friends ordered some boards from a CCS catalog in 1995. I got a Workshop Spectrum and it was a slick. This weird sports store that was open for about one summer in the tiny town I grew up in was for some reason selling trucks and wheels. I bought these Indy's that had a weird golden orange finish to them. I guess they were pretty old because the holes in the base plates didn't match up to the ones in the deck. I eventually drilled new holes but the first day I set up the board I was riding with two bolts on each truck. So messed up. Mad Circle Ed Devera 44mm.

[Random Matt]

First thing resembling a skateboard was a Snoopy "Joe Cool" freestyle shape from Kmart in '88.  Then I saved up my Kool-Aid points and sent away for a big fat board the next summer.

First genuine board was in '92: an Alien Workshop Duane Pitre slick, 41mm Clone wheels and Tracker trucks with a loose axle (didn't know any better).

[Justis]

[burl chung]

corey obrien santa cruz with gullwing street shadows and g bones wheels.

[fookya]

besides an old schmitt stix my dad gave to me, my first real board I ever owned was

Birdhouse Falcon 3
Destructo Trucks
Spitfire Big Head
Shortys Silverados
Black Panther abec 7
Black Magic

[midwestmiddleman]

 with some bullet wheels and off brand trucks,

[5fowty]

.

[Conan]

Zorlac Abrook Ghoul
Indy's
Slimeballs

25 years ago, fuck I'm old

[steve]

haha, oh man, looking at these posts from 07 is taking me back a bit. I remember focusing my slap account in the Rowan County Public Library the day I heard the librarian call a little girl a nigger.

Reading about Kastel shoes and ghetto child wheels. Fuck! 2001 or something, eh? Anyone else have the shorty's t shirt that read "fuck you" when folded up? Or the skate tool herb pipe? What about the ejaculator wheels?

My first board was a slick variflex that I traded this puerto rican kid, Marky who I thought skated beautifully, like artful ballet but doing 540 pivots and shit like that, a set of red urethane roller skate wheels for. The deck graphic was an alligator crawling out of a sewer. Had some jacked roller skate type brick trucks and some fat yellow, see through urethane wheels.

I had a powell mini logo in between but the first real set up I scored was for my 13th birthday.

Paul Zuanich Think deck- yellow green background with two cartoon girls wearing a red and blue dress, bent over with a fart cloud coming from under their dresses, reading THINK in the center
Thunder trucks
Ghetto Child Wheels
Black Panther bearings

[mattchew]

Super old thread bump!

I recently broke my collarbone and was posted up at my parents house for a week or two. My mom has about ten thousand photos she's sorting through right now, so I was digging through them with her and we came across this picture of my first set up. Beyond stoked to have found this photo. Christmas '96. I had a few different hand me downs from my older brother and various neighborhood kids before this, but this was my first personal/brand new complete.

Zoo York - Robbie Gangemi/Futura collab
Thunder Trucks
Spitfire Wheels
Black Panther Bearings
Shorty's Silverados

I would pay a small fortune to own that deck.
Long shot, but if anyone is holding...

[coneklr]

If I remember correctly I had Indy's, and Powell Ratbone wheels that were like 85 duro and some cell block risers maybe ... wish I still had that for the wall!

[somethingmustbreaknow]

first skateshop deck:
tower 7.5 deck - it was decent. but i have never seen that company anywhere else and cant find any infos on it haha
rellik trucks in black/silver - they sucked. the kingpin constantly broke, they kingpin clearance was way too low and they werent turning
rellik blank wheels - normal blank wheels that wore down way too fast and unevenly, partly due to the rough surfaces we were riding on

after that i switched to grind king, and city stars.

[captainfalcon69]

a mongoose from walmart when i was 12. learned to kickflip on it then got a blind complete from fast forward, i believe it was a corey sheppard's pro model.

[N.L.]

Santa Cruz Psychotic. Indys and Sims wheels. 1986.

[midevilco]

Think Matt Pailes with some Krux and (still searching) some Rick Howard Girl wheels? All I remember is they had NY Knicks colors and logo but it said Howard instead of Knicks.

[Willie]

The Ninja skateboard Ronnie Creager has here:

[French manicure]

[Pretty Serious]

Was a tough decision but a few kids on the block already had Nash "Executioner"s and I didn't wan't to be the dreaded P word (poser).  I rode the shit out of it, was very proud of myself for wearing out the skid plate and coning the wheels.  Who remembers Bike Factory in Bel/Red, WA?  I begged to go there and spent all day flipping through decks before settling on a Schmitt Stix Grosso mini.  Good memories.

[JB]

7.75 alien deck
grind kings (g6s i think)
ricta 55mm templetons
reflex bearings

the bearings were so bad that i broke 3 of them the first week and my dad had to keep taking me back to the skate shop to get replacements. the guy there gave me a free set of quickies after the third one blew out.

[CRAILFISH TO REVERT]

Tracker 6 tracks
3 guys wheels

[layzieyez]

Maybe some of you know whos pro model this were : Vision old school board, blank except for a red and black face/monster thing in the middle of the board. Searched for it for ages..

Sounds like this:

[mynameisnotjeff]

Element Tony Tave Board
Huck Trucks
Blank Black wheels
Generic trucks and hardware
Purple Griptape

[layzieyez]

February 23, 1987, bought this from the Bikefactory in Honolulu with money I saved from delivering newspapers and the other half from christmas money.  White Powell mini ribs, independent trucks, white Hosoi rockets, NMB bearings, cellblock 2 in front/cellblock 3 riser in back, and copers.

[TrustNo1]

I think my first board was some shitty Wal-Mart plank with a cobra on it or something. But my first real setup was pretty fucking goofy. I went to the local shop, because people at my park told me ordering stuff online was lame. I was completely clueless with what was what in skateboarding, so the guys at shop pretty much talked me into buying the product they couldn't move. "Oh you're not sure what trucks to get? these Royal trucks are sooo good. They're the best ones we sell."

I walked out of the shop with this:
-8.0 Plan B logo deck
-Royal trucks
-Revolution wheels
-Rush bearings

Man, I thought I had the sickest setup in town.