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R.a.D Issue 58 Xs Craig Campbell
“Xs” was the name of the slot for a single page stand alone picture. It followed on from BMX Action Bike’s “Radness Unlimited”. We felt unhappy with the Action Bike name and came up with something equally bad. The main point was that it was meant to be the first powerful hit in the magazine.…
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R.a.D Issue 58 Preston Comp Page 5
I have no idea why the coverage of this ESA competition at Preston was slotted in to two pages of “Ears”. Perhaps we didn’t have enough space anywhere else for it? The Preston ramp was another ramp in a roller-rink from the same people as the legendary Warrington. Paul Duffy’s picture shows Mark Van Der…
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R.a.D Issue 58 Ears Page 4
The team referred to the news pages of the magazine as “Ears”, but the tagline “Communicating Knowledge” was more prominent. It was always a real struggle assembling the content for this section. Endless hours were spent ringing round to try to extract information from the skate world at large in an age before email, text…
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R.a.D Issue 58 Contents
Original photograph of Steve Douglas at Raging Waters was by Luke Ogden. The credit has been written on by hand. I assume we must have forgotten to have it typeset: at this time we were setting type direct from disk (which involved learning codes which make raw HTML seem easy). We dropped the disks off…
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Duty Now For The Future
If you’re interested in the history of skateboarding in Britain, this site contains original vintage UK skateboard material from the eighties and nineties which originally appeared in R.a.D Magazine. This is an exercise in skateboard nostalgia for old school skaters and a glimpse of the roots of British skating for historians and people researching street…
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R.a.D Issue 58 Atari 720 Advert
Is this serious? Well, since this is all about nostalgia, the adverts from the period may also be relevant! Somebody, somewhere might find these interesting. In this case we have Atari promoting the home computer version of 720. My recollection is that people like Steve Caballero provided the source material for this,
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R.a.D Issue 58 Lucian Hendrickse Cover
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What about the R.a.D Book or Exhibition?
This is not meant as a substitute for the book or the exhibition which has been discussed on Old Skaters. That idea is still going ahead, as far as I’m concerned. But that’s a very long term thing. At the moment I happen to have a bit of time on my hands (!) so I…