There is no doubt that the longboard market is creating some truly revolutionary products. From specialized carbon fiber decks to grippy yet fast wheels and sophisticated truck designs, retailers and consumers are constantly hit with new ideas. Some products are instant sensations while others fizzle and vanish into obscurity.
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Imagine you are sitting in a skateboard shop. You see hundreds of brightly colored boards on the wall. Some boards are intense. Some are decorated with a simple logo. Some smell funny. There are …
A dilemma that every longboarder encounters at one point or another is where to ride. We either cannot find a spot to suite the style of ride we are looking for, or we are tired of the same old spots and desperately need something new.
Like so many other manufacturers, Landyachtz began with a passion for skateboarding and a plan to produce better designs. Back in 1998, with the simple desire to build ideas into reality, Landyachtz began producing one board at a time in Whistler, British Columbia.
Triple 8 is jumping into the downhill longboard scene full force with their new downhill race helmet, the T8 Racer.
Built by the same development group that created the Kinect-controlled Board of Awesomeness, the research division of Chaotic Moon Studios has announced the Board of Imagination.
Xylite – Welcome to the future of skate graphics!! No longer are flat lifeless images necessary, enter Xylan and our crazy new material “Xylite”.
Prior to filming when I met up with Adam in Los Angeles he told me he wanted to do a Western themed skate video. And the video all began with one line. “Boy, you done gone dead for the last time!”
Break the piggie bank, sell the mule, hoe the pasture—whatever it is that you gotta do to get to Portland, Oregon for the 2012 Tabor Downhill Challenge—make it happen! Here are all the juicy details, and straight from Mr. Billy Bones himself:
VIGIL for longboarder Ralph Bissonnette Tomorrow at 3:00pm at St. James Park. A taxi driver has been charged with second-degree murder after a skateboarder was fatally hit by his vehicle in downtown Toronto Monday evening. …
There is no doubt that the longboard market is creating some truly revolutionary products. From specialized carbon fiber decks to grippy yet fast wheels and sophisticated truck designs, retailers and consumers are constantly hit with new ideas. Some products are instant sensations while others fizzle and vanish into obscurity.
Our main focus at our shop is longboards, so we’ll continue with that again this year. As far as bringing in new brands, we’re pretty happy with our current lineup, but we’re always open to checking out new companies and seeing how they’ll sell in town. Our shop is known for having a pretty amazing selection. Keeping at least 90 different completes in stock is our priority and our personal challenge.
CalStreets was recently featured in A Book by Ben Marcus called ‘ The Skateboard: The Good , The Rad And The Gnarly ‘. Many Photo’s for this book were provided by CalStreets.com as well as many of the vintage skate ads.
