Vintage 1970s skateboard forum

Welcome on , get some pics up

I didn’t even know who at all made them only what they looked like them wide center bearing ones would look cool on the right setup , I used to see them on eBay and stuff but not seen any for sale for years

Here are some cracking example of apex metal hubbed wheels first couple of pics are newporter ones

These are in my opinion one of the cooler looking 70s skateboard wheels

Apex and newporter mag wheels

Nice one pb, I especially like them center bearing ones they’d look radical on the right deck

Who mad the mag wheels which looked a bit like alloy wolf race wheels off cars always fancied some of them

Yeh get some up I’ve started moving the wheels into categories now as well such as sims kryptonics Alva etc rather than having them all in one topic

There’s More vintage skateboard wheels from the 1970s if you go back on the main topics and select vintage skateboard wheels from the 1970

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Sold these years ago I’d forgot about them
Nos sims pure juice wheels

All pics and info below was kindly supplied by Ian on my Facebook page , Thankyou Ian for sharing 👍🏻 “ Wes's original full artwork on a test card for the second generation POP z-pig. Kent would later shorten Wes's design to how we see it today.” IMG_3204.jpeg The shortened and final version used on ...

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Here I have a pretty og Olympic freestyle , quite like the wheel wells on these , I think it’s circa 1977/78 and few adverts for these from back in the day, as said earlier the advert in the mag was a bit risqué for kids reading a skate mag , adverts are last pics, she was certainly keeping abreast ...

The shape of the grip tape is more like a G&S side cut tan any sims I can think of. I’m pretty sure these decks we’re made by Wee Willi Winkles so the grip job is likely to tie in with other decks he was making at the time and Z believe he did make decks for Sims. It’s like a phallic symbol Ste...