These are the first 2 stickers from our limited production sticker program. When you place an order, you will receive one sticker, which happens to be the Speedboarder Sticker currently. When most of one design sells, we will retire it, and move to a new design. We will try to keep enough of the retired stickers on hand to sell on the sticker section of our site.
I must say, the new Plum Sauce graphic really spices up the Loaded Vanguard. We were also very pleased to pair the Abec11 Lime Bigzigs with the newly retooled Randal 180mm Trucks. To top off, we upgraded the bearings to our new System Abec Sevens. The new graphic is currently available on the flex 2 and 3, with the remainder of flexes available sometime in July.
Many customers have mentioned that they need to sell their old longboards before purchasing a new one, so we decided to let users take advantage of our large viewer base and launched The Longboard Trader. The site works very similar to Craigslist, in that users are contacted by an anonymous email form, and then the transaction is negotiated between the lister and buyer. The Longboard Store often receives over 20,000 visitors per day, so there’s a very good chance of selling longboard related items on the trader site. Best of all, this service is completely free. The Longboard Trader.
Dear fellow longboarders…[by the way, this is our version of the state of the union address]. The state of longboarding is very strong. Despite fears of a recession in the US economy and high fuel costs, citizens are still reveling in America’s new past-time, longboarding. Not to mention that longboards run on a couple slices of pizza and a cold bear [hmm, gives me an idea for a new study]. We have seen near 4 times the traffic on our website over this time last year, and we receive emails from new longboard companies every week. The bounty of longboarding products is growing. Until next time, happy traveling.
A new shipment of Comet Longboards just rolled in this week. We are especially excited about the 40″ Crystal Chalice and 45″ Crystal Mountain. It’s not very apparent from the photos, but these puppies are pure environmental tech. They begin with a core of vertically laminated bamboo, add a layer of tri-axial hemp fiber using soy resins, and then cap both sides off with maple veneer. We are working on embedding a video of Comet Skateboards Factory that aired on The Discovery Channel, but here is the link to the video on their site for now.
Sector Nine Race Formula Wheels come in 4 different sizes and 2 durometers for each size. The urethane on these wheels are premium. Rebounding from a depression test show that they will resist deformation under high loads and will have a longer life than common urethane formulae.
We receive about 5 emails a day from customers asking, “Why don’t you carry Sector Nine Boards?”. Well, the questions inbox just got 5 emails shorter everyday, cause Sector Nine boxes showed up on Thursday. We’ve so far managed to complete photos for the 6 Bamboo Series boards, 21 Sector Nine Wheels, and Gullwing Trucks. We should be able to finish 12 more boards in the next 2 days. At first glance, the quality of every board is impeccable. The Carbon Trylam is so thin, and feels amazingly strong. We will add more comments on each board as we begin playing around with them. As always, we will be custom building each Sector Nine Board. Sector Nine Link.
We have a bunch of old skateboards mounted up high in the warehouse, and have always wanted to produce a board that’s just like they used to be, so we did. The new TLS Retro Board is made from solid oak, and we cut a wedged section from the bottom of the tail to make kick turns much easier. A bevel is added to both sides of the board. And to really bring back the memories, we’re using reissued OJ Wheels and Tracker 85mm Trucks.The Retro turned out to be much smoother than we expected. Gordon, our shop manager, managed to pull off some kick flips despite being very narrow. The TLS retro will definitely challenge you to try all those old school tricks.
These limited edition art boards from Flexdex showed up yesterday. They are a very limited run of only 100 each, and feature artwork from Pinky Taylor and Andrew Nguyen. The graphics are applies to the bottom side and also under the clear grip tape on the top side.
Not sure if there’s an official name for this board yet, but we are calling it the Kebbek JimZ Flushcut Universal. This new mounting design will accept just about any truck on the market, and mounts flush from the bottom side. The top side has the Kebbek “K” logo machined into the wood, with a poured resin/recycled material.
