Sunday 27th May is the date for the 14th Annual – Mt.Tabor to Sellwood Park Skateboard Race! This is the longest running skateboard race in the Northwest US. This event is a charitable food drive for Oregon Food Bank to help the hungry in Portland. Visit the fb event page to find out more and to keep up to date with all the happenings. Advertisements Continue reading P-Town Throwdown 2018
Over to California for our latest Reader’s Rides! Nick is rolling quite the setup! The Rayne Ego is a double drop, rockered platform deck meant for bombing hills and pushing far. The wedge up front adds 6 degrees to your truck’s angle and is wedged downward 6 degrees in the back. I’m running Don’t Trip Poppys at 61°/14° with a spherical hanger in the front and … Continue reading Reader’s Rides – Nick Menor
Looking for a front truck for you ldp/hybrid setup? You can’t really go wrong with a Bennett. Designed in ’75 and blowing the competition out the water, Bennett was the first company to offer superior bushings, precision components and amazing turning capability. Sounds perfect huh? well you can improve on perfection. Beernett will take a stock Bennet and supercharge it for you – here’s how… … Continue reading The Beernett Mod
Recently we got tagged in an instagram post of a skater pushing down the most epic looking road ever. That skater was Erik Sander. We managed to grab him for a quick interview before he heads out on an adventure. SF: Hi Erik, thanks for giving us the time for this interview. Tell us about yourself and what you are up to! Erik: My name … Continue reading Sander’s Adventures
Insanity Boardshop – huge supporters of distance skating in the US – are hosting the The Salado Creek Push race Series in San Antonio, Texas on the 21st April. Shop owner Ehren is an active member of the distance community (read his great review on the Bern Allston Helmet here!) and it is great to see him pushing events as well as racing in them. We … Continue reading Salado Creek Push Race
Skatefurther’s Nat got to sit down (well everyone was sitting but in different hemispheres! ) and chat with Jasper and Eliah, just 2 of the 6 members of the ‘Younger & Further’ distance skating team to find out a bit more about them, what they are up to and what they have planned. SF: Hi guys! First of all, introduce yourself and let us know … Continue reading Younger & Further
Are you on instagram? if so, tag your distance skating photos with #SkateFurther! Click the link up at the top to go and see the #SkateFurther photos that others are posting! Thinking of doing a sticker run on #skatefurther too! What do you think? Continue reading #SKATEFURTHER
One of the biggest developments over the past few years has been the move from symmetrical low push setups OR topmount LDP setups to the hybrid/slalom/bracket style. Initially truck design led the way with companies building LDP specific trucks with built in angles (usually around the 60°/10° mark) this meant that topmounts got lower and wedged risers and pre-bending 2inch hardware slowly disappeared. Drop brackets … Continue reading The rise of the 0° rear.
Stoked to post up a great review by Jan-Willem Dee on the 2018 Antidote Longboards Hurricane. If you have a review you’d like to share – drop us a line! You can see all the other reviews by clicking the link above. Time to post my first experiences with the new Antidote Hurricane model 2018. I will compare the new model with the 2017 model Hurricane which I … Continue reading 2018 Antidote Hurricane
We have been keeping an eye on Exile MFG for a while now, they make rad brackets, rear trucks and now, to solve the issues with rain and snails, have started producing mudflaps. Made of carbon and designed to fit around any bracket system, the €35 mudflap is a thing of pure beauty. The Exile MFG ‘Snailbuster’ Hit up the mudflap thread in the SkateFurther forum … Continue reading Exile MFG ‘Snail buster’ mudflaps
