Posts Tagged ‘Oregon’
On Tour With Merde And Bacon Skateboards
October 16th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
No need to write much about this – 4 days of skateboard camping / tour madness with Bacon and Merde Skateboards in Oregon, USA.
Great Burnside skatepark documentary film
June 5th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The world famous DIY skatepark Burnside in Portand, Oregon has been around for 18 years now and it is still a park many try to skate when they make it over to the west coast of the States. A very insightful video documenting the skatepark with the originators Kent Dahlgren and Sage Bolyard, local businesswoman Joanne Ferrero, and Bud Clark, Portland’s Mayor at the time of Burnside’s inception gives us a behind the scenes view of how a project like this can come to life. And yes, this is the park that was featured in the 2007 film Paranoid Park.
Take the time to watch this documentary, it’s well worth it.
Cold War Skateboards with new decks
June 2nd, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
I probably have just been living in some sort of hole in the ground for many years, missing out on smaller companies which make great gear supporting skateboarding the way it should be supported. So this morning I happened to discover the Cold War Skateboards website. They come from Portland, Oregon and have a very cool line of products which definitely take a punch at the current political leader in the US of A.
Good to see someone doing some graphics which also have something to say and make a point of letting it be seen.
The longboard shown above is the ICBM STAGE III – 2008 Model – pressed, shaped and printed in Oregon! This board is not a flexible cruiser. It’s got the same deeep concave as the standard short boards.
Max Width: 9.75″
Sidecut Width 8.4″
Wheelbase: 19.75 ”
Length: 38″
And these two beauties had to be shown as well: the anti-Bush board and a tribute to the one and only Naked Raygun band out of Chicago (second time this band has come up this weekend, coincidence?). All in all a company to check out and support!
March 7, 2010: austin hughes
March 7, 2010: TNT Skateboarding
March 6, 2010: alex
March 2, 2010: adrianne conner
