Comments on: New Skateboard Products, November 1989 R.a.D Magazine http://www.whenwewasrad.co.uk/index.php/2006/03/30/new-skateboard-products-november-1989-rad-magazine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-skateboard-products-november-1989-rad-magazine History of Skateboarding (UK): Vintage R.a.D Magazine Official Archive Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:18:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: timlbhttp://www.whenwewasrad.co.uk/index.php/2006/03/30/new-skateboard-products-november-1989-rad-magazine/comment-page-1/#comment-157 timlb Sun, 02 Apr 2006 10:14:35 +0000 http://whenwewasrad.co.uk/?p=132#comment-157 One of the reasons I was wary of including anything remotely like technical reviews was because there was so much variability. Take that "durometer" business, for example: we used to have one at Alpine Sports, so I knew from experience that it was easy to produce different readings from wheels from the same box. That's not to say that the wheels themselves varied (though they probably did), but that errors could be introduced by bad testing. In the same way, comments about the concave of one deck in the days when the things might be pressed in batches of ten at a time could have given the wrong idea. So we stuck to pictures. And graphics were always food for dreams. One of the reasons I was wary of including anything remotely like technical reviews was because there was so much variability. Take that “durometer” business, for example: we used to have one at Alpine Sports, so I knew from experience that it was easy to produce different readings from wheels from the same box. That’s not to say that the wheels themselves varied (though they probably did), but that errors could be introduced by bad testing.
In the same way, comments about the concave of one deck in the days when the things might be pressed in batches of ten at a time could have given the wrong idea.
So we stuck to pictures. And graphics were always food for dreams.

]]> By: Backsidenocomplyhttp://www.whenwewasrad.co.uk/index.php/2006/03/30/new-skateboard-products-november-1989-rad-magazine/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Backsidenocomply Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:22:46 +0000 http://whenwewasrad.co.uk/?p=132#comment-156 I loved the new products page - always new stuff to dream about or add to the "next deck" list.The Rocco board also emotes a time of variable quality wood used in decks - H-Street wood was really bad at one point but you just had to have those decks, Santa Cruz wood was always pretty good in my experience and what about Bone-ite?!?! Powell/Peralta adding cardboard with a missconception that skaters would appreciate a lighter board and not mind the fact that a British climate (wet) would ruin the deck in a matter of days? ah those were the days..... I loved the new products page – always new stuff to dream about or add to the “next deck” list.

The Rocco board also emotes a time of variable quality wood used in decks – H-Street wood was really bad at one point but you just had to have those decks, Santa Cruz wood was always pretty good in my experience and what about Bone-ite?!?!
Powell/Peralta adding cardboard with a missconception that skaters would appreciate a lighter board and not mind the fact that a British climate (wet) would ruin the deck in a matter of days? ah those were the days…..

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