Everyone knows that skateboards have wheels and they might have guessed that hover boards will not need wheels; or will they? If you can build a hover board with wheels then that will make it easier for landing, but it…

What will skateboards look like in 15-20 years? Have you ever considered that? Well, in the early 1900s skateboards were literally roller skate wheels strapped to two-by-fours and they were not very safe at all. In the future skateboards will…

Everyone knows what a skateboard looks like, but will it always look like that? The reason I ask is that in the 1900s a skateboard was a two-by-four with roller skate wheels attached and a basket or crate in the…

Skateboarding traces its roots to the seventies but it really reached the peak of its popularity in the mid-eighties to the present when major skateboard manufacturers propelled it to new heights.

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Indeed, we can only imagine how hard the old fashioned early skateboard contraptions were to ride. Perhaps you have tried to ride such a contraption yourself? I can remember personally as a kid using old trucks off an old skateboard…