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A skateboard is basically made up of three items,

• 1 deck
• 2 trucks
• 4 wheels

A quality skateboard will cost about £100, a deck at about £40, 2 trucks for £30 and 4 wheels for around £20-30. A skateboard deck is made from wood ply pressed together and glued, this makes it very durable, so it can take plenty of abuse. More decks are also concave is shape. Trucks connects the deck to the wheels, and control how agile a skateboard is, they usually range between 4.75 and 5.5 inches. Generally all skateboard wheels are made from polyurethane, this is a hard wearing material which lasts a longtime.

About Skateboarding

Some beleive that skating began on the surfing beaches of California, USA in the 50's by surfers who put rollerskates on piece of wood. The orgins of skateboarding are reflected in the design of the earlier skateboards which looked like surfboards.

• Route One
  They sell over 60 different street fashion and shoe brands.
• Extreme Sports World
  Their sports include Skateboarding hardware wheels and decks.
• ExtremePie
  www.extremepie.com, the official shop of the Extreme Sports Channel.
• Transworld Skateboarding
  Find information about the world of skateboarding with news, features and information.
• Skate America
  Skate America sells the most complete selection of skateboard decks.
• Skateboarding.nu
  European e-zine with shops, skateparks, photos, videos, trick tips, product reviews.

Posted on 12 / 05 / 2005

Blank 52mm Skateboard Wheel

Low cost, light and quiet wheels with feature no design. If your looking for interesting wheels then these are not for you. But the performance has bee good, they do not make much noise when landing tricks, and the cost is the best bit. You can get 4 brand new blank wheels for 10 pounds.

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Skateboards have since the late 80's / early 90's become more of fashion item than just a sport. The skateboard talk / music and clothing has evolved into it's own world which is shared with surfing and snowboarding. This page hopefully includes information about places to find cheap skateboards and parts for skateboards such as decks, trucks and wheels.