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R.a.D Encyclopaedia Part Two
Grentec Coyote Greve, Soren Grind Grind King Grindmaster Grip Tape Groholski, Tom Grommet Grosso Guerrero, Nicky Guerrero, Tommy Guildford Gullwing Guy, Ian ‘Gooey’
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Encyclopaedia of Skateboarding February 1990
The R.a.D Encyclopaedia was a project which was never completed. It appeared on and off during the course of several years. Some people on the editorial team disliked it — a lot. Perhaps they confused it with one of those glossaries of skateboard jargon which would sometimes appear in the conventional media? I’d like to…
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Gullwing Trucks Advert February 1990
Gullwing Phoenix: now there’s a name with history. In my case the history dates right back to working for Alpine Sports in 1978 and having to try to shift thousands of the original Phoenix and the earlier split axle Gullwings after the collapse of the first British skateboard craze. A lot of that was done…
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Win a Rareunit Mini-Ramp (too late: in 1990)
Commercial ramp builders were beginning to emerge at this point, but they were all struggling to persuade the councils to listen to them. The real expansion of public skateboard facilities was still a long way off in 1990. The bloke behind the Rareunit ramps was more in tune with the skate scene than some and…
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Steve Douglas USA Skateboard News February 1990
The picture is by Steve Keenan and shows Eric Dressen at Stone Edge Park in Florida. News In Brief Grosso’s moved up to San Jose. Christian now has a ramp in his garden right in the middle of gnag-land LA. When Tim Payne was building it there was a drive-by shooting. Joe Lopes is ripping…
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Letters Page February 1990
An interesting selection of letters this month. Nigel Bond from St Albans taking Sean Goff to task over some comments about coverage of non-Uk skating in British magazines. That’s a debate which is still going on to this day. Nigel’s in favour of coverage: “I rely on mags to fill me in on what’s going…
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Split Skates Advert February 1990
Split Skates was a skateboard phenomenon for a while around this time. Their aim was to have the biggest range in stock and a glance at the wall of their Manchester shop suggested they’d hit the target. Despite the size of the Manchester scene, the city never got enough coverage: Warrington or Goshen always seemed…
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Billys and Skateboard Gang Video Advert
This Billys’ advert features their Fab Feb Sale with Blanks at £19.99 and various “surplus” decks at £29.99. Free griptape and Powell rails (or similar) with any deck over £40. “That’s about 13 quidsworth free.” They were also selling skate T-shirts at £9.99 which sounds more like the death throws of HSC in 2005. I’d…
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Ears – Skateboard News Page February 1990
Media Watch We’re used to seeing skaters blamed for everything in the papers — most of it total fiction — but the strangest ‘skate rats’ clipping of recent months has the ring of truth. It’s from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’ and begins “Up to 5 car burglaries on recent weekends may have been the work…
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Santa Cruz Big Balls Advert
Santa Cruz adverts ran on the back of R.a.D magazine for most of its life, but this one, featuring Rob Roskopp montaged onto a picture of some surgery, was hidden away on page 10. That would almost certainly have been because of a fuss over another Slimeballs advert for Vomit or Spewage wheels which showed…