Vintage 1970s skateboard forum

Yeh I don’t think we are going to find one of these boards in the flesh sort of speak

1977 gullwings were £6.99 in same mag , they have a sort of strap rather than a a bush and you trim it down for more turn , weird things I hope someone comes up with a pic of some

Never knew that , I thought it was a case of we’ve all the colours you want as long as it’s red

Interesting blog on the history of road rider wheels

https://www.longboarderlabs.com/11/from ... 0in%201976.

Road rider have been around since 1973

Black diamond trucks one of the few trucks which cost more than gullwings anybody got any or decent pics of them or had them back in the day or any additional info on them , they look nice quality

Malibu dog bowl Nottingham

Old advert

Another Ben Liddell signature deck made by logos this was the connoisseur , made and distributed by logos of elsworthy road London ,

Love it

It’s like the skateboarding industry spawned a load of cottage industries in the U.K. I wonder what happened when the bubble burst to most of these small firms

Sky of Macclesfield , all the wheels started with sky skygrip skysonic etc , I wonder what happened to all these small English firm when skateboarding went out

Advert for looner fireballs , these were sold by looner skates of stephendale road London , very cool wheels

Ulon not a name I remember

Sims