Skate board graphics

[Andy Gorman]

There is an overlaminate available for floor graphics, like you see in supermarkets. KPMF do one. Protects the graphic and prevents slippage.

[Paul Rollason]

Hi Ian

I know this might sound daft but ask any skater and they would want the graphics to rub off

The idea being the more the graphic are worn the more rail slides etc they have done.

The problem with printed vinyl is that it tends to lift and tear and it’s to grippy for sliding anyhow.

Paul R(Mackerelbus Design)

[Afon Displays]

Thanks for the advice and yes skaters want graphics to wear, the

challenge is I think is to print worn or stressed graphics and then

overlaminate with floor mask, maybe (!)

Ian

[Robert Lambie]

i would recon clear vinyl would be enough..

the graphics will take abuse etc but for the likes of rail slides and stuff the boards have finger rails that sit proud along the underside of the boards so this would stop the rail coming into cotact with the rail directly.

[Paul Rollason]

Rob you’re showing your age mate

Maybe in the 80s or on very very cheap boards from Argos etc

Paul R(Mackerelbus Design)

[Nigel Pugh]

For the sharped eyed isn’t that a board just by your right lughole Paul

[Steve Broughton]

The 80’s!!!! check this mate got me first board in 76 when I was 14, you young scamps :lol1: spent all me pocket money on green Kryptonic wheels and grip tape here have a look at this site http://www.skatepool.com 😎

[Paul Rollason]

why yes it is

It is a original Mike McGill c 1985

And if you look closely (Rob) it has the afore mentioned rails.

Paul R(Mackerelbus Design)

[Steve Broughton]

Hey Paul don’t tell me that picture was taken whilst you were sitting on your purple chopper :lol1: Raleigh that is :lol1: 😉

[Paul Rollason]

You go to jobs on your bike

I have been known to go to the bank on one of my many sk8boards
Very easy to park

Paul R(Mackerelbus Design)

[Robert Lambie]

i must be way behind mate.. 😳 :lol1:
just spotted the boards when i read this just there.. cool!
now if i had seen those in the background before posting i wouldnt have opened my big gobb 😉 :lol1:
im not a skateboard man more the bmx.. :lol1: :lol1: ranked 3 in scotland for racing and no1 scottish dirt jumping and 3 in uk dirt jumping.
(as seen on extreme sports today) some making a mint at it today.
even my brother was into it too.. he was at delmar skatepark in LA a few years back. (Heard of it?) and just recently bought a matt hoffman bike. at 30 you would have thought he would learned a lesson 😉 :lol1: :lol1:

ok ive left a big hole to take some stick from mr broughton and some others i know having a chuckle at this. 😉 bring it on :dance1:

[Steve Broughton]

No problems with bmx mate, at the time I was into skateboarding, late 70’s 😎 , skate parks were a little thin on the ground in Lincolnshire i.e. NONE 🙁 and what with the total lack of anything remotely in the way of a hill I passed bmx by and went full on road racing and time trialling right up to about 8 years ago when I became self employed I’d regularily do a 25 mile TT in less than an hour, but after that there never was enough time for training, got rid of all me bikes except an old Trek aluminium MTB, mind you have you seen the new Raleigh Chopper 200 quid from Argos could be sorely tempted if it wasn’t for the fact I’d look a daft tw@ one one at 6’2′ and 16 stone :lol1: :lol1:

[Mike Fear]

😀 Its like an old school reunion here !

Getting vaguely back to the original topic, all boards are / were silk screened rather than using stickers, so I’d look into this for the customer – dont think stickers would really look that good unless you made a full deck sticker that covered the whole bottom of the board.

Takes me back though, I was skating all the time from around 84 to 89 – back when there was hardly any scene in the UK ( and none of us got paid – I was briefly sponsored but all I got was the odd free deck and t shirts ! ) – used to skate Bedminster in Bristol quite a bit if anyone remembers that – good park with a scary snake run and a concrete half pipe !

still have a few early Powell ‘pig’ pool boards in a cupboard waiting for restoration.

Wish I’d kept at it now seeing the money some of them make 😕

[Paul Rollason]

I’m very impressed with the BMX stats mate

We went to NASS last year at bath and west showground and saw Matt Hoffman riding vert.

I was like a kid again

Paul R(Mackerelbus Design)

[Robert Lambie]

sounds cool mate, im the same when i watch the x-games on sky.. :lol1:
the money to be made nowadays is unreal.. i broke my ankle back then just as i turned aged to race superclass, back then you got around £1000 for winning one national level race.. not bad for a sunday afternoon race 😉
not sure if you will know the names, but i came joint 3rd to andy ruffell and geth shooter in a dirt jumping meet called UK champions of champions, both of them them pro level and about 5 years older.
in that tournament i pulled off a no footed no hand 20 foot gap dirt jump. 3 years later an american called toby hutchison did the same for the cover of BMX PLUS magazine and claimed he was the first in the world to do it. he picked up 20 grand from his sponsoers to get the cover shot 😮 by then i was well out of it and making signs 😉

where did i go wrong? 😮

is ROM (romford) skate park still there or has that been trashed?

steve i can jump from one ramp 15 foot high spin a 360 in mid air and land on the opposite ramp20-25 foot away. but put me on a motorbike at 80 miles an hour and the crap would drip from out my trouser leg.. not to mention me screaming like a woos! 😳 😳
as for the chopper.. my older brother bought an original one about 2 years ago, paid 20 quid for it and its in mint condition. hes been offered £200-£250 for it but keeps it in a room in his house with his paintings collection.. :lol1: :lol1:
i guess we do all actualy hold onto our childhood in some form or other..

[Mike Fear]

I vaguely remember Andy Ruffell, I wasnt really into the BMX so much, but used to do the odd demo in the skateparks for R.A.D. magazine and some of the BMX guys used to turn up – did Rom, the South Bank in London, all those sort of places – we might have met each other back then 😀

On skating, I hadnt been on a board for a few years but was messing about with some of the local kids when they got them, they were dead impressed by all the old school tricks – had never seen a backside boneless or a hail mary before 😎

If any old school skaters want some good memories rekindled, check ebay.com as you get loads of the original old boards coming up for sale

[Afon Displays]

Thanks for your help and advice, sorry to take all this time to reply been in an accident and its only now i can reply cheers

Ian

[Peter Normington]

It’s proberbly too late now we have floor graphic vinyl it comes in two parts one to print on the other is an over laminate non slip

Lynn

[Paul Rollason]

Hope you are on the mend Ian,

sorry to hear you have been in an accident,

Take it easy mate.

Paul R(Mackerelbus Design)

[Ian Higgins]

WoW!! missed this thread……
All the memories come flooding back… Alvis deck 651 trucks… Super Bones wheels… Avons for the wet… loved it all…
My old man opened the first purpose built indoor skatepark in the UK back in the late 70’s…
It was a great sport back then.

Cheers
Ian

[Marekdlux]

I used to be Tony Hawk’s neighbor. 😀
(Finally found a thread worthy of stating that)
-Marek