Skateboards Archive

  • Video game inspired skateboard decks

    Video game inspired skateboard decks

    Artist Logan Zawacki (what a fun name!) put together some pretty impressive game-themed skateboard decks for the I’M BOARD skateboard art show held earlier this week in Florida. Zawacki created four decks in all, each with the following theme: Mega Man, Super Mario Bros. 3, Street Fighter II, and TMNT: The Arcade Game. If you look [...]

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  • Electric skateboard features 600-watt motor, top speed of 19 miles per hour

    Electric skateboard features 600-watt motor, top speed of 19 miles per hour

    Finally an answer to the age-old question of what can be done to improve skateboards and/or make them more dangerous. Hammacher Schlemmer’s doozy, “The 19 MPH Skateboard” is the answer.

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  • Rocket Board: The Propellor-Powered Skateboard

    Rocket Board: The Propellor-Powered Skateboard

    Ryan Bavetta’s Rocket Board doesn’t actually use a rocket, but it does look like one. The home-brew prop-powered skateboard carries a 3.7 HP model airplane engine which powers a propellor in a standard house-fan cage. It doesn’t use gasoline or kerosene but proprietary Glow Fuel, a dangerous sounding mix of methanol, nitromethane and oil. The [...]

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