How badly does your local shop suck?

[atxjimatx]

What's all this then?
This is a Local Shop... for Local people.. We'll have no trouble here!!!

Are you local?

[Directive0]

I somehooww...remember that bit...but the memories faded..seems so long ago. What show was that?

[raven6241]

How good is my local shop?


Well, I work at the local shop and I tell them about you and my landyachtz. Mind you, the Sector Nines we're getting in have Gullwings or Randals now and are starting to get a good rep here. Mind you, I'm seriously thinking about starting up my own Aussie mail order business...


We'll see how that one goes...

[Deus_Horribilus]

[raven6241]

Just skate there man, long distance skating rocks.

Finally, I am not the only one who thinks a 15mi skate is a leisurely bout of 'practice'.

Did I tell you I skated from UC, over Black Mountain, through the Botanic Gardens, around the lake via the city to Fyshwick, through Kingston and then to the Hyatt for gym? Yes, that's right, 35km skate then I go to gym after.

Oh yeah, I'm core.

When you come back, we're going for long distance skates. Gunners to Tuggers! I want to start up a race doing that, and get like some energy company or Green fuel organisation to get the name behind it.

Then it'll get on the nes and we'll get longboard sales galore and I can start getting some good boards in at work!

Oh yes, I am a corporate whore.

[frank]

Our local shop rocks!! The guy has his own clothing line and 4 different stores. One happens to be a skateshop. They sell mostly short board stuff but have started to get longboard and slalom stuff. Then after holding on to it for a year sells it to us at cost. We are starting to get a bigger scene here but his shop prices are so high noone can afford it. Pleasure tool abec 7 steel sealed bearings are $45. Randals are not priced and they dont know how much they are but the employees thing around 50 - 60 bucks. They mount randals backwards of course. 1 time they did have some bones hardcore bushings for $10 for 1 top and 1 bottom. I just cant afford to support them. I can get 4 sets of bearings with shipping for his price of 1 set. They are quick to bitch about noone shopping there but wont lower his prices. The asshole also backdoored his way into luna slalom jam. The community read and thinks he puts it on when all he has ever done is set up a barrier or 2. So if your ever in jackson ms and need something dont go to swell.

[leolivi]

Around here stuf is not htat bad, but not good either..

I go to the guy at the store and ast for flat bushing washers. the guy sais: that does not exist.

I ask: what kind of spacer this wheel use? the answer is: DUH! there is ony one kind! it is impossible to have diferent kinds of spacers!

(this from guys who sell 76mm, 80mm 85mm kryptos and krypgrip, as well as shortboard wheels...)

and so on, so son, so on.... I can buy bolts, i can buy kryptos and moskas... but i just dont realy ask stuf anymore... i just ask to see what they got and figure it out by myself...

[sniffleless]

Man I guess I'm just lucky here cause I've got two good shops close by. Almost all my longboarding needs can be taken care of at either shop. On is more longboard oriented while the other is just a good well stocked shop. Anything they don't have they will order for me. Unless I'm looking for something odd (and I often am) they can get it for me. I may have to wait (like with my Seismic 180 or Dreggs Alpine) but they come through and usually cheaper than mail order.

[RetroFutureNow]

My local shop is Purple Skunk, and they are pretty great. I still go online to MileHigh or Solidskate sometimes. Skunk doesn't stock extra-long randal kingpins, extra long mounting hardware, seismic springs, etc. The sliding gloves they stock (bozi's i think) suck. They dont carry good safety gear.

Seems like MileHigh might be better on custom setups than the Skunk. Purple skunk doesn't do much in the way of custom deck setup (ie you will get stock randal bushings, stock seismic springs and like it).

Anyway, I have the best of both worlds. Good local shop, good online shop. I have zero complaints.

[serial666]

The Lonsdale Board Company is located 10 minutes away from me. Rocky's got everything one could possibly dream of. Killer shop!

Yeah I know you're all damn jealous. :P

[Nickle]

The sliding gloves they stock (bozi's i think) suck. They dont carry good safety gear.

I would guess, judging by your avatar, that they don't.

[tyler87]

I have an amazing local shop, becasue it run by only one guy! He also special orders anything for me, like my comp 2's and he calls me when new stuff is in. Plus at night he comes and skates with us and lets us demo gear for free. It might have to do with the nearly 3 grand I have spent in his shop, or that I am there at least 4 hours a week, but hey you never know?

[cookie]

our local shop is crap
but in bath there's a shop in near city that has some sizemics (sp i know)
randel and krypto's and some abec 11 stingers good bones stuff and fibreflex decks some slalom stuff, and another that can order pretymuch anything in. so its not to bad the guy there longboards too which is cool
i wish there was more longboarders around here though

[The Chief]

I have a shortboard shop down the street its pretty good, the owner is really nice give me deals and has started carrying longboards when he started selling them he had lake taho longboards i belive, but know he sells s9 some cool visions pool boards and he has 4 pocket pistols up for sale.




Also a short 20 minute bus ride away there is a surf store (what the hell is a surf shop doing in the prairies?) they sell longboards and have a pretty good selection. landyachtz s9 barfoot skull skates and some other ones. lots of wheels and other stuff

[NWFresh]

My local shop used to be daddies...miss those guys
Now I consider it MHS, because with one day shipping for less than 5 bucks seems local to me.

[steveisgreat22]

mines pretty good cool people good vibes i just hang out there sometimes times and just tlak about the stuff they should get for just me like grip tape wider then 8" and **** like that

[skatardude10]

My shop is small. Very big on shortboarding and snowboarding. They have a longboard rack, with like, one sector 9 (just the deck) and all shortboard wheels and decks, no longboard hardware, risers, wheels, anything. I have seen like, one box of bushings, and they are the hard ones. Its not that great. They did used to have a big rack of longboards, but they are all gone now. I guess there may be some hope of people longboarding in my area. I bought the only fiberflex while it was available.

[mb]

Two shops in my area stand out; one caters to longboards, the other old school. There are very good completes (sec 9, gravity, arbor, dregs, G&S) at the longboard shop featuring randals, baku's, carvers, Kryptos, ocassional flywheels and other good gear. The other joint has Deathbox, Alva, DTS decks in stock. CW on the counter. Good prices. Both depend on surf gear, shortboards, soft goods and videos to pay the bills.
Neither of them stock long hardware, riser pads, bushings other than Bones, or good safety gear. I'm glad there's several good online sources, including Mile High. I've never had a bad experience w/ an online skate vendor inc.
Mile high, Abec 11, Bozi, 3dm, poolskater.com and usually get more than I paid for.

However the best skate shop is the one that shows up at comps w/ a small truck load of the latest, coolest longboard and slalom gear. In my case it's Bozi. Jeff always has gear (wheels , trucks , bearings, bushings, HARDWARE!, bozi decks) to sell at races and frequently offers his completes as prizes. You can email him ahead of a DC outlaw race and p/u the gear at the race. Thanks Bozi!

Radical frequently has gear (3dm cut downs and those great bushings) for sale at races. Really cool; it's got to be a hassle to travel with all that extra gear. Thanks Mark McCree.

Autumn skate shop in NYC is a small, candle lit shop laid out like an art gallery. You can buy a key to the warehouse (in NYC!) where they have a nice wood bowl. 24 hour access. The owner will order any type of skate gear you want; three to five day waiting. Does not suck.

I'm spoiled but very grateful.

[silversurfer]

Damn, you are lucky!

Glad to hear about your good experiences.

A lot of people who have ordered a bozi from
jeff are pretty upset.

There are quite a few posts on ncdsa about people waiting up to
6 month's without even an e mail from jeff letting them know the
status of their order.

And, then they hear about jeff giving away free boards at races
and I guess it would kind of make your blood boil.

He should just shoot out an e mail to all his open orders just to
let people know what's up.

Hopefully everything is ok with him.

[FacePlantInProgress]

Asylum...

that's all the info you need to get an idea what skate shops are like in the metro D.C. area.