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Readers Letters from Issue 58 of R.a.D Magazine
Letters from: The Joe Lush Does Our Head in Mob, A Confused Skater from Bradford, Ollie Spackman from Thornton Heath, Sean Goff writing from Bakersfield USA, Jimbo The Mosher from Doncaster, A Trickless Skateboarding Freak called Nat, Mark, Carl Anderson, Pup, Crav (Sec of Squashed Squid and Semolina Skate Squad), Matthew Butterworth from Ormskirk, Mark…
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Skate How To: No-handed Bone-up by Shane O’Brien
“Approach the object at a moderate speed.” The classic skate how-to opening! Writing trick tips can be a real struggle. Shane O’Brien obliged at the Shell Centre.
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Two Seasons, Stussy, Anarchic Adjustment and Winchester BMX n Skates Adverts
“Dance Freaky and Adjust”. For most skate (and fashion) trivia freaks the 1987 Stussy advert, placed by M Zone, will appear more significant. But for me it’s the Anarchic Adjustment advert from Nick Philip which dominates this page and my memories of the period. The slogan resonates still. Two Seasons from Northampton and Winchester BMX’n’Skates…
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Holeshot Final Page
Our support of the Holeshot event probably went a bit too far. From the look of this we even included a ticket booking form in the main body of the feature!
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Skateboard Roots: No Softies and Skate City Adverts
Two more shops who were solid players back in the day, and both from Kent by some unfortunate coincidence, I think. Variflex and Powell are very noticeable as well as Brand X and Blockhead. Finger boards are in there as well, of course, and Tracker Ultralights cost just £15.95 each. In amongst the G &…
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Christian Hosoi Holeshot Preview
A Steve Keenan shot from Raging Waters, montaged with an earlier Sobell Centre sticker toss. Action Bike and R.a.D were always behind events like this where the emphasis was on the fun rather than the competition, so we got as far behind this as we could with a piece which verges on advertorial. But if…
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Andy Ruffells Holeshot BMX and Skate Christmas Party 1987
The big Christmas event for 1987 was Andy Ruffell’s Holeshot competition. He knew how to stage such things, even then. This was the first year in which skating was included, and Christian Hosoi was on the list. Also lined up were Jeff Grosso and Jason Jessee with Marc Gonzales and Gator in the “maybe in…
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M-Zone Blatant Malarky Advert 1987
The M-Zone adverts defined this period of R.a.D just as much as Nick Philip’s design. They captured the energy of the time and their influence was astonishing. Chuckie B was the mind behind them and can be seen in two of the pictures here (in sunglasses). The legendary Curtis McCann started his career with M-Zone,
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Buddies of Ealing and Motorcycle City Adverts
Buddies was a strange shop. They made a bit of a stir at about this time, trading heavily on the idea that they’d been around a long time (picture of Benjy team riders on the wall to prove it), but most of the London skate establishment were very dubious. I think Sketchy had a poke…
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Win a Pacer Street Scoot (Closing Date January 1st 1988)
All you have to do was to complete the limerick: For a Street Scoot with Pacer to thank, And no need to visit a bank, Just write the last line, To end in a rhyme… What makes me think we weren’t as into scooters as the number of pages devoted to them in this issue…