When We Was Rad:
Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine

Category: Issue 58 November 1987


  • 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.…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • 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,


  • R.a.D Issue 58 Lucian Hendrickse Cover