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The Flyer has the regular BBS concave. It will vary in steepness based on where it sat in the pile when it was pressed. 1 to 4. 1 = steeper, 4 = mellower. You can tell by the roman numerals stamped on top of the deck.
Its not a 1993 style concave but that would be cool
How was concave different back then?
As others have said.. Boards were flatter and more mellow in the kicks back then, it wasn't all that far removed from the plank with a tail days before concave was even used. The molds were pretty primitive compared to the 3d modeled CNC molds they use now. Prime was kind of the BBS of the day, pressing boards for the biggest companies, and they had a mellow street mold so that's what everyone copied. Kinda like how FA happened and then all of a sudden everyone had square popsicles for sale.
One time I got really ripped and came up with a conspiracy theory that the reason Chinese boards tend to be flat is that Prime sold off their molds overseas when the original operation shut down in the 90s and everyone over there ended up inadvertently copying them again. Definitely not true, but it was a fun thought.