There are some unfamiliar names in here. Which of these is still in existence? Add a comment if you know.
- Surf Ski, Coventry
- Gridiron, Nottingham
- Stamyps Skates, Birmingham
- Cheshire Skateboard Centre, Northwich
- Skate Zone, Torquay
- Mycyles, Malvern
- TnB, Tiverton
- Scotby Cycles, Carlisle
- Round Ocean, Doncaster
- Tombstone, Bristol
There’s also Matchrite, selling their jokes and someone advertising wholesale supplier of “Totally Radical Surf’n’Skate ‘T’ shirts now available!! Does anyone know who that was? Could it have been one of the great industry titans of the current boom starting business life in their back room?
9 responses to “UK Skateboard Shop Adverts 1988 style”
Mycycles went in the last few years, sad, used to love looking at the decks in there
Scotby Cycles…..We are still on the go!
We did really well with Skateboards and BMX then.
Weve dropped skateboards now though!
http://www.bikebike.co.uk
Tnb were a great bunch of skaters in TiVy. The noisy boys. Graham Larson, and Ben Watson were the highlights, I really wanted to be one of them. Miss the skating days
I am trying to track down some Bristol skaters from the 80’s
Bob and Rast. they were conected to skateboard magazine. They also had a mate called Tim Vernon, who was a BMX,er any news would be appricated.I lived in Spain with them in about 89
cheers Sean
If anyone knows anything about those two, I can pass on an email to Sean.
Tim
TnB Skates was me, a mate and my lady at the time. I was 17 years old… It only last a few years sadly.
TnB skates was me (and 2 others). I’m now living around Oxford and skating with Rox, Sean and OWP crew…..
“Tnb were a great bunch of skaters in TiVy. The noisy boys. Graham Larson, and Ben Watson were the highlights, I really wanted to be one of them. Miss the skating days”
What ever happened to Ben Watson Graeme?
surf and ski was the only skate shop near Coventry in the 80 s got my first pro board from there loved skatin bak then and still do a bit now the shop closed down years ago and was a concession in an travel agents odd