George Powell, the brains behind the Bones Wheels phenomenon discusses the development of the skateboard wheel and how he personally designed and made what he saw as the perfect urethane mix to make skateboarding as fast and as smooth as possible.
Author: Zac
The year could well end on the biggest bang yet if Chocolate and Girl Skateboards have anything to do with it. The much anticipated joint video venture from both companies is sat in a vault ready to be sprung on the eyes of the world’s skateboarders who will get their first official taste of what’s coming this Friday, so says Crailtap. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for this.
Sam Taylor knocks out 10 for Science Skateboards at Mile End this week. Look out for Science riders at this year’s Xmas Jam on the 10th December.
Wake up to a bolt of death metal and some chaos filmed from the Witchcraft tour in Plymouth back in August filmed by Alan Glass. If you want more of this then get some here.
Manchester’s Joe Gavin has a new edit online this week courtesy of Stu Bentley’s camera work. This raw, rolling edit features footage of Joe skating London’s streets and Mile End alongside Jak Pietryga, Gez Curran and Joleon Pressey.
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The Dwarves explode in London
Raucous US punk band The Dwarves rolled back in to the UK last night and tore Camden’s Underworld a new ring-piece.
As soon as the band kicked off their set, the pit exploded with people flying everywhere and continued throughout the night. Singer, Blag found a random ‘performance artist’ on his travels – a stripper armed with an angle grinder and plenty of blood that soaked the audience on the last song. They also played a Ting Tings cover as Ting Tings cover as giant Hells Angels moshed amongst the rabble.
Look out for them ripping the UK up on this winter tour playing tracks from their great new album at the following dates:
Nov 20th – Thekla, Bristol (£11.00)
Nov 22nd – Manchester Moho Live, Manchester (£10.00)
Nov 23rd – Rock City, Nottingham (£11.00)
Nov 24th – Ivory Blacks, Glasgow (£10.00)
Nov 25th – The Cockpit, Leeds (£12.00)
Check out the brand new Zip Zinger Krookakonda Komplete brought to you by the Krooked Skateboards family this month. Not only does it look a beast, it’s actually skateable as seen on TV by Krooked aficionado Dan Drehobl. It’s bespoke Konstructor snake shape is made up of a 7.5″ cruiser that from nose to tail comes in at 30.35″ and boosted to 8.6″ with the snake of doom wrap around.
Watch Drehobl ‘Ride the Snake’ here and get stoked that fun in skateboarding exists on a daily basis. Think yourself lucky you chose to ride one. The Krooked Fall catalogue is out now stuffed with plenty of colourful greatness. Feast on it.
Oslo’s Wolves Like Us hit the road tomorrow to kick off their European tour supporting Kveletak and will be visiting London, Glasgow and Manchester this month as part of it.
They have also released a brand new video for the track ‘Secret Handshakes‘ taken from the band’s acclaimed debut album ‘LATE LOVE‘ on Prosthetic Records which was released back in June. Read our album review and get hyped on this lot arriving.
Tour dates presented by Metal Hammer, Visions, Fuze:
24.11.11 UK Glasgow O2 ABC
25.11.11 UK Manchester Roadhouse
26.11.11 UK London Underworld
The 9th annual Crossfire Xmas Jam is confirmed to take place on Saturday 10th December at Bay 66 Skatepark in association with Slam City Skates Plan B, Flip and Superdead Skateboards who are providing best trick £comps during the afternoon. Look out for the schedule that will be announced soon.
Tickets are £10 for the full day on the door from 12-6pm. The unsponsored jams will kick off at 1pm with Slam City Skates vouchers up for grabs for best tricks. At 2.30pm the pro jam will commence and £600 cash prizes awarded on street and mini ramp. Also, look out for the product toss at the end of the day courtesy of our sponsors Flip, Superdead, Plan B, Heroin, Death, Drawing Boards, Science, Crayon, Kill City, Lovenskate and Blueprint Skateboards.
The after party will be held at Mau Mau Bar on Portobello Road with party tunes and a UK skate video premiere of the ROOKIES DVD from Kill City. Get your your travel booked and get ready for some amazing skateboarding as usual. There’s a facebook event page set up, invite your friends and watch last year’s video below.
Bay 66 Skatepark can be found between Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park Tube Stations at 66-67 Acklam Rd. Map here. If you need accommodation for the night, the cheapest and nearest place to book can be found at www.hostel639.co.uk.
Having never worn Quiksilver clothing before, this came as a complete surprise. Usually when I think Quiksilver, surfing comes to mind but their new core skate range is impressing by each garment that is being pulled out of the box here.
The Ole Oxford shirt is so soft that you will be going back a few years and remiscing on when your dinner was made for you and carried to bed. It comes with a single pocket on the left of your chest, a very small collar that can be buttoned down and zero branding making this a total winner. No big surf logos, no crazy red and whiteness, just plain, and beautiful and extremely soft to the touch.
I can safely say that once ironed and out of the wash, this will be one of your favourite shirts this winter.