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« on: December 03, 2015, 06:16:49 PM »
I started skating in 1989 and boards/wheels were still pretty big then (and had varying nose/tail shapes). I liked when decks got more uniform (nose/tail wise) in the early '90s (tho I think noses were slightly bigger?). I hated tiny 30-something mm wheels, even when I skated them. I was happy to get back into the mid-50 mm range.
Since I've been more out than in skating in the past 10-12 years, I've had the same deck (John Cardiel, Anti Hero maybe?) I got it in 2001 when George Bush gave out the original round of stimulus checks, thought I'd support my local skate shop! My trucks/wheels are from maybe '96, and held strong through my waning majorly active days (Indy trucks, Spitfire wheels... the only way to go!). I don't know who makes boards these days, but I used to love Real/Stereo/Anti Hero... I think they were all made by Deluxe? I got into Consolidated for a while in the mid-'90s when they held the price line at $55 for decks, but I always went back to Deluxe. Their shit took abuse and kept their pop, unlike whoever was manufacturing World Industries and their subsidiaries, which had a good pop at the start but would snap on gaps/stairs.
Since I was born and raised in northern NJ, I was always loyal to NYC skate style, but felt that in the mid-'90s, Philly and Zoo York were innovating the going super big style (gaps, stairs, huge wall rides). I remember Ricky Oyola (?) being the sickest and he always had bigger boards.
Damn, I love this thread!
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