Tank Skateboard

DTV Shredder from bpgwerks: The Shredder moves with up to 30 mph and is thought also for military purposes, search and rescue, patrols. LINK: LiveLeak

SKATEBOARD BENCH

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Flowlab Skateboard Looks Deadly Fun

You kids and miscellaneous hipsters probably love this one: The Flowlab Skateboard. They were invented in the 90s, and it surprises me that they haven't completely replaced regular ones. It looks a lot more fun.



Unlike most conventional skateboards—which can lean up to 25 degrees—the Flowlab allows you to carve at 45 degrees. That gives them a handling similar to a snowboard, without requiring any snow. [Mike and Mike and wikipedia], Via: Gizmodo

World's Largest Skateboard

This summer, California Skateparks brought The World's Largest Skateboard to Camp Woodward PA. One afternoon, campers and staff took the enormous skateboard out for a ride. Late in the day, California Skateparks owner, Joe Ciaglia decided to take his creation for a solo ride. LINK: Youtube

Music: 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!' - ABBA

Propeller Powered Skateboard

He took the propeller powered skateboard out for a spin and somehow avoided death. The skateboard worked amazingly well and was great fun to ride! The engine was an OS 1.60, more details here: crazybuilders.com/item.php?id=000014&type=project_section / LINK: Vimeo

DFW 20 YEARS: HIGHLIGHTS

This video has been selected as one of the best Sport videos on YouTube and was added to the channels playlist accordingly. LINK: Youtube

The Skateboard Car

What if the next car you buy will be the only car you ever have to buy again? What if you could sit where ever you wanted when you drove? What if you didn't need a steering wheel? But could navigate using a joystick or a mouse. And what if you never burned a single drop of gas wherever you went, because your car had no engine. LINK, Via: Youtube

Old School 70s Skateboard Tricks

Old school tricks from a skateboard competition in England, 1978. LINK: Youtube

Nothing like they can do now a days.

Rob Dyrdek

"Rob Dyrdek's new house" LINK

"Giant Skateboard - Rob Dyrdek" LINK


"Rob Dyrdek: Happy Star Saved My Life!" LINK

Oil-painted nudes on skateboard decks

Etsy seller Alexxxcastaneda makes skateboard decks with nudes painted in oil on them. Lovely work. LINK

Oil Painted Skateboards

World’s Largest Skateboard Ramp

In 2006, professional Bob Burnquist built a skateboard ramp in his backyard. But it’s not just any skate ramp … the $280,000 mega ramp is 8-story tall and longer than a football field! (It has an acrobat’s net to um, save a skateboarder from plunging to certain death)

On a recent sunny afternoon, the ramp’s owner, Bob Burnquist, a renowned 30-year-old professional skateboarder from Brazil, peered over the side to treetops below and said: ”I’m not afraid of falling. I’m afraid I might jump.”

That mind-set helps on the Mega Ramp, where skaters reach speeds of up to 55 miles an hour and soar like stuntmen.

Approximately 360 feet long, the ramp is 75 feet high at its apex.
That is where riders begin their run, speeding down a 180-foot-long roll-in to a ramp that launches them across a 70-foot gap with trapeze netting below. Landing on a 27-foot sloped section, they then boost up to 50 feet above the ground from a 30-foot quarterpipe. A shorter route begins with a 55-foot-tall platform leading to a 50-foot gap, and the 30-foot quarterpipe. LINK, Via: Youtube

Extreme Downhill Skateboard

16th September, 2008: World Downhill Skateboard Championships from Eastbourne, UK. LINK: Youtube

Skateboard Flower

Ted Hunter of Roarockit Skateboard Co. made this flower sculpture with skateboards as petals titled "Reach for Light":

It’s a good example of free hand vacuum veneer bending. The flower petal designs are actually printed using photo’s of real tulip petals. The inside is printed griptape (sticky back sandpaper) and the outside is printed styrene. The internal core is Canadian maple veneer. The shape of the decks are our Roarockit classic pintail skateboard shape that is included in our longboard deck kits.

Link, Via: Neatorama

The Skateboard Stairs

Ted Hunter of Thin Air Press fittingly created this awesome set of skateboard deck stairs for the Roarockit skateboard deck woodworking school: Link, Via: Neatorama

Recycled Skateboard Furniture

“You don’t have to be a skater to appreciate these clever decks! Based on their passion for mid-century design, skateboard culture, and the SoCal lifestyle, designers Pierre Andre Senizergues and Gil Le Bon de LaPointe have launched a new company that makes sleek, gorgeous post modern furnishings and accessories out of recycled second hand skate board products.” w/ photos. LINK