SS50 Trials

SS50 trials special

Modified '77 SS50 vintage trails special..

China 120cc 4-speed engine.

Yamaha TY175 forks with Renthal handlebars.

Frontwheel is a TY175 drumbrake spoked into a 19" Akront alloy rim.

Rearwheel uses a 17" Akront alloy rim with a Cub hub and brake with a custom alloy Talon 59T sprocket.

Custom build NJB rearshocks..

poached from
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Snot Shots

I picked these up on opening night of The Longboard Lounge.
58mm Abec11 subLIME Snot Shots.
99a duro with core. 17mm contact patch, centre set bearing seat.

Fancied giving them a try, can't bring myself to open the wrapping.

(yet)

From Brighton With Love

Back from almost a week in Brighton.
Picked this up on my travels.
Fed5B, classic bit of Russian Rangefinder kit, not as old as it looks these were made from the mid 70's into this century.

I've had to splash out on a light meter now as it doesn't have one built in.

Trucks of the past - part 3

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Trucks of the past - part 2

The Bennett Rebel™ from 1986.
I don't recall ever seeing any of these.

Mr Bennett was the forerunner of Rockin' Ron with his aerospace technology hype and seemingly low volume supply of goods.

These truks featured...

a twin I-beam mainframe

a recessed shock tower to avoid hang ups and mashed nuts

a specially machined stud king pin

double conical Super Shoks™ 'super resilient, high rebound formula of pure gum, surgical and other space age goop'

fully floating Flexaxle™ 'exclusive soft mounts allow the axle to deflect in it's own dedicated channel'

Stak+Trak Plus, 'precision spacers provide fully adjustable axle widths from 6" to 6" in 0.1" increments'

Direct Drive™ Geometry - Only Mr Bennett fully understands this phenomenon.This is smooth responsive steering at it's finest.

Trucks of the past - part 1

Don't remember these, trying to imagine how they worked, maybe they were like the trucks that Mattel brought out.

Loven it.

Rad bit of footage from Saffy with "that bloke whose name I can't remember"* in it.




* It's Craig Scott

My Name's Up In Lights

Well, not really lights but you know what I mean.

Wheelscape have kindly put 5 of my photos up on their website.

Des, Dr Bill, Jellyhead, Ricardo and that bloke whose name I can't remember.

Powerflex 5's

Perhaps I had my wheels on in the wrong order, still only went backside. ;-)

Pipe Dreams

I really must get over my frontside fear.

Inspirational

Just a couple of pics that I wish I'd taken.

Jelly Close Up

Pity I muffed this one up.
It would have been a good shot if the focus was sharper and I'd have got the front of the board in.
Oh well, another day maybe.

Piggin' Hell

Pulled a sicky at work and went to Biggin Hill to meet up with Trevenen for his 45th B'day skate.

The Bob wasn't there so I had to get my obligatory sweeper shot from elsewhere.
Not sure who this geezer was, mad as a box of frogs...

Rad skater though.

Bert & Ernie haircut...

...is how one of my mates used to refer to this haircut of mine.
Taken at Farnborough waiting for the ramp to dry one Saturday in about 88 or so.
Self portrait with my Miranda SLR.
That's my elbow pad, not a black armband.

Long Arms of the Mullet

On Friday evening I went along to the opening of a new skateshop in town.
The Longboard Lounge. Although it's in Woking now and not Ascot as it says on their website.
I got a free t-shirt, wore it to today's skate session at Unit1.

SS100 V-Twin.

Hmmm, this blog seems to be going the way of Trawlers these days.

Anyway here's a beautiful thing, SS100 v-twin built from 2 SS50's by Allen Millyard who went on to build amongst other things a 2300cc V12 Kawasaki

Monkey Davidson

Brilliant, another flat track inspired bike. Love that exhaust pipe.

I want one.

H2

I think this is the most beautiful bike I've ever seen.
It ticks all the boxes for me.
Big 2 stroke motor ✓


Flat Track Style ✓


Built by a skater ✓



Yes, this bike was built and owned by none other than 7 times World Slalom champion Henry Hester.

Here's some foootage of him racing Tony Alva in the 1976 Carlsbad Hang Ten World Slalom Championships.