This page contains some key British skateboard advertisers from 1987. Some of them are still around. Rollersnakes appear as “Rollernsnake” (another mistake) offering Tracker, Powell, Vision and Alva — interesting to see a truck company at the front of the list instead of the usual deck brands.
Bike City Bromley are there ( “now incorporating Skate City” ) alongside Round Ocean in Doncaster, Weston BMX, Mycycles, Bikes and Bits, and the BMX Centre Mousehole. There’s a vintage advert from jokes by post specialists, Matchrite and also a strange one from “The No-Ped Liberation Army” inserted sideways. I detect the hand of Billy Brown at play in squeezing the last few pennies out of the page.
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chall5 responded on 21 Dec 2005 at 8:32 pm #
Mycycles was my local shop in Malvern Link, I used to go in there and wonder at the wall of decks. They are still going but I don’t think they do skateboards anymore (although it still says so on the shop frontage).
timlb responded on 22 Dec 2005 at 3:34 pm #
That’s good to hear. All the different types of shops had their place in the skate landscape. The big names and the skater-owned-shops tend to stand out, but it’s just as interesting to learn about the places which had a more local appeal.