Skate Geezer Connections

Many people have inquired as to where to find old school stuff. They are also looking for more information on skateboarding and longboarding. The following list may help you find that old Sims deck with Bennett 's and Road Rider 4's... Good luck and please, if you can, e-mail me with more connections.

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Dan's World contains lots of great skate info and other web sites.
Charged is a high-graphics action sports extreme leisure page and an entertaining resource guide for people who play hard and often.
Legal issueson the web for skaters at this great site.
A new site for those into skating, surfing and snowboarding go immediately to Boardpark and check out the section on longboarding!
See the Big Bang site. It covers skate, snow, indie punk & Hip Hop music.
See the International Network for Flatland Freestyle Skateboarding: which is dedicated to one of the oldest discipline of skateboarding, flatland freestyle. There's news from the world of flatland freestyle, contests and rumours.
Check out Sidewalk Surfing page: dedicated to long boards and other skating stuff.
See Chris Yandall's website. Chris was a major slalom/freestyle skater sponsored by G&S. He is also planning to come out with new slalom decks in the near future!
For a look at the premiere longboard manufacturer go to Sector 9.
Check out the Northern California Downhill Skateboarding Association's NCDSA Site!
The Extreme Downhill International (EDI) are the world's largest sanctioning body of Streetluge, Speedboard, and Gravity Formula One races. They are always interested in talking about races abroad.
Randal Speed Trucks make trucks specifically for longboards.
Todd Huber puts out a great fanzine for all skate gee zers. You can reach him several ways: his fanzine is called:
The Skate Trader
P.O. Box 3165
Santa Susana, California
93093
U.S.A
6 issues for $12.00 US
Phone: 805-581-2092
Fax: 805-526-3680
E-mail: SK8trader@aol.com
Skaters who live in the UK and Europe can get a hold of:
RAD SYSTEMS, Oak Lodge
Greenhill Lane, Colehill
Wimborne, Dorset
England BH21 2RN
Fax: 0202-684-4043
Lloyd Co.1430 W. Katella Avenue
Orange, California
92667
U.S.A.
Phone: 714-639-5567
Vintage Skate Supply
P.O. Box 3165 SV (I think this is Simi Valley)
California
93093
U.S.A.
Fax: 905-526-3680
Looking for Red 70mm Kryptonics?You've come to the right place! Contact Heidi or Mike at SPAZZ 72 Lippincott Street in Toronto M5S 2P1. Phone 416-944-9368. Will ship to US.
Want to see videos of skateboarding on the net? Check out Tom Durlach's skate page.
Gravity is a very cool longboard company out of Solana Beach. Believe it or not they make longboards that come with an optional speedometer! Zoom to Gravity.
Another cool site for skate stuff... check out Souldoubt
Visit, as the guys at Sonic describe their site, The Completely Biased Site of Sonic Skateboards.
SB skateboards carry old school vision and soon santa cruz blanks and old school wheels videos and stickers. Email: sbskates@juno.com
Alva website Check it out now! Articles and interviews of Tony Alva from 1975-1995
We are very happy to add links that have nothing to do with skateboarding. So if you find something cool, let me know. One page that I believe will be interesting to people visiting the skategeezer page is the Canadian Association of Baby Boomers CABB Site.
In keeping with the Generation X, Boomer theme checkout a UK based homepage.
Found a person I hadn't seen in 13 years at whowhere.
rOotsNriDE is now available in English !
It's an almost real-time translation from French to English, using the babelfish / altavista tools. The translation is sometimes quite approximative, especially with jokes, slang, etc.
Email: rootride@mygale.org
Check out Radar.com - it mixes surfing, longboarding and stories...
See Skater.net.