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I met a guy in a pub once who had invented a new type of truck. I'm not a skater so I didn't totally understand the significance, but somehow it could flip 180
by stevage 4y ago
I met a guy in a pub once who had invented a new type of truck. I'm not a skater so I didn't totally understand the significance, but somehow it could flip 180 degrees while being ridden. Apparently this opened up new kinds of tricks.
He had patented it at vast expense and was in discussions with a couple of big retailers, and manufacturers.
This was late 2000s. I wonder sometimes if anything came of it.
- nopenopenopeno 4y agoThat guy obviously wasn’t a skateboarder. Inventing new tricks with new technology is considered by skateboarders to be inventing another sport altogether.
- captaincaveman 4y agoSounds like he invented something gimmicky.
- gregplaysguitar 4y agoSounds like a “surf” truck? https://surfskate.love/surfskate-trucks/ https://surfskate.love/surfskate-trucks/
- stevage 4y agoOh, interesting. I don't think it was that though. My understanding was that somehow the entire truck ended up flipping around 180 degrees (or more). And I didn't quite understand why that was a good thing - I think it was mostly about letting you do new kinds of tricks that weren't otherwise possible.
- brokenmachine 4y agoWas it a snakeboard?