Wackyboard Blog! its alive!!

**sk8norcal** · 07-23-2009 12:18 AM

well, I finally got around to moving my geocities wackyboard page
(which i started in 2002!) to blogger!!

part of the reason is because geocities is gonna shut down in October.
another reason is that geocities just sucks in general..

This blog is gonna only focus on "alternative rides",
I will start another blog for all the "skate porn" stuff

anyways, check it out...
boards are categorized...
you will see what i mean...
(and it sucks stupid blogger don't have subcategories)
and still the most complete collection of wackyboards anywhere on the web..

http://wackyboards.blogspot.com/

**Gomer** · 07-23-2009 06:25 AM

Excellent!

The only things I see missing from the mountainboard section is the GI board, Earthboard and Terraboard and the original dirtboard off-road skateboards.

Good job including NPD. Most people have forgotten about them.

**Gomer** · 07-23-2009 06:39 AM

Did you have this one?

Gboard -

Here is a picture of the NDP Landboard

Terraboard

Possibly the best mountainboard ever made

**kraffft** · 07-23-2009 07:55 AM

Yeah that completely rules.

Be nice to have external links to further info.

Funny to see my three wheeler on there.. got a couple more for ya soon..

What's that kids ride from the eighties with the triangular red seat and handlebars? Didn't see it there.

**sk8norcal** · 07-23-2009 12:18 PM

kraffft,

'roller racer' - look under wackyluge...

i will try to add the links later...

gomer,

G-board - under bizarre...

thx for the other mtboards...

got a better pic of mountainaire ??

**Gomer** · 07-23-2009 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by sk8norcal

got a better pic of mountainaire ??

Looking. I think I know where one is.

Found this Mountain Shocker on the Mountainboardz site on the Wayback Machine.

Here is a board called a Spacedeck made by Snakeboards I think.

Flame Mountainboard in Germany

Howla - probably the best looking board ever made.

Do you have the Surf Rodz Thresher on you web log? Another really good looking board.

**sk8norcal** · 07-23-2009 03:51 PM

wackyboards: Snakeboard, Streetboard

good link to history of the snakeboard..

i been using the wayback machine to get some of the pics i forgot to save back then... (but usually a lot of pics are missing from websites...)

* the Thresher will go into my 'skate porn' site...

**Gomer** · 07-23-2009 04:17 PM

Love that Wayback Machine,

Index

Looking for a decent Mouintainarie image

http://web.archive.org/web/200404021...net/mahome.htm

Getting close

Biker Sherlock on a Mountainarie

This one is pretty good

**Gomer** · 07-23-2009 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by sk8norcal

wackyboards: Snakeboard, Streetboard

good link to history of the snakeboard....

Good article. I see why you call streetboards snakeboards now. I think something is wrong with the link you posted. I got to it here -

http://www.snakeboarder.com/story.html

**sk8norcal** · 07-23-2009 07:27 PM

i meant the link is in there...

good find on the mountainaire...
that thing is a beast...

**sk8norcal** · 07-23-2009 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by Gomer

Good article. I see why you call streetboards snakeboards now. I think something is wrong with the link you posted. I got to it here -

S n a k e b o a r d e r . com - history

its weird that it got renamed..
that thing was invented in '89..
shouldn't the patent run out (i don't know much about patents)
seems like Dimension have some type of patent on it...

check out these variations..
wackyboards: Snakeboard copies

**sk8norcal** · 07-23-2009 07:46 PM

wackyboards: Motoblade by Edge of Creation

you know anything about this guys...?
no pics on WayBack...

the 3 wheeler have all wheels leaning!!!

**oldnbroken** · 07-23-2009 08:33 PM

The X-Board by Excite Sports is the three wheeler that I was talking about that had the back wheel attached to the deck and leans with the deck when you turn/lean the deck over. I could not remember (when Bluegrass showed us his version) but I knew somebody had.

**Gomer** · 07-23-2009 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by sk8norcal

you know anything about this guys...?
no pics on WayBack.

Yeah, I talked to the inventor when he came on a forum (either here or DBX, can't remember) and got trashed. I took up for the guy because the board is innovative in several ways, I like motorized boards and the guy seemed like a decent character that ran into a poop storm by innocently posting his board.

This shows how it works.

BOARD TECH

**Gomer** · 07-23-2009 09:26 PM

Originally Posted by oldnbroken

The X-Board by Excite Sports is the three wheeler that I was talking about that had the back wheel attached to the deck and leans with the deck when you turn/lean the deck over.

In all fairness to BS this Excite does not work exactly like his three wheeled board.

The Excite does have a fixed back wheel and it is a lean to steer but doesn't the truck system turn the front wheels (like the linkage system on a n Outback) rather than toes in the front wheels to turn (like a channel truck).

I hate to say this because I know I'm going to have to hear some psudeo-scientific surfer-metaphoric BS out of BS but I have not come across any non-motorized board that has a fixed back wheel and a channel truck steered front truck.

It's not that nobody ever thought to do it. I think it's more that many people thought to do it but saw no reason to do it.

As far as I have been able to see there are three steering systems used for flexible truck systems on more-than-two wheeled boards.

1. Pivot Sytems - Vertical king pin like a skate truck and horizontal king pin like a channel truck, Including alll the other twin pin and elastomer type systems that force the wheels to create a smaller inside/larger outside radius to turn.

2. Strut Systems - Trucks that force wheels that move forward and back from each other to form a smaller/larger radius to turn. Like the BMW board and several of the electric skateboards.

3. Linkage Sytems - Trucks that work like automobile steering sytems that force the wheels to turn in and out to form the smaller/larger turning radius. Like Stoker trucks and the front trucks on Outbacks.

**Gomer** · 07-23-2009 10:07 PM

Here are some things I dug out of the SFLB forums.

Loko Board

Quadline

**oldnbroken** · 07-23-2009 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by Gomer

In all fairness to BS this Excite does not work exactly like his three wheeled board.

The Excite does have a fixed back wheel and it is a lean to steer but doesn't the truck system turn the front wheels (like the linkage system on a n Outback) rather than toes in the front wheels to turn (like a channel truck).

I hate to say this because I know I'm going to have to hear some psudeo-scientific surfer-metaphoric BS out of BS but I have not come across any non-motorized board that has a fixed back wheel and a channel truck steered front truck.

Yes, it is an Outback (tie rod) type front steer (don't think it works as well) with the back wheel fixed to the deck. What I said when we had the three wheeled board conversation was that I had seen a board just like an Outback but with a back wheel/axle that was just mounted to a slot in the back of the deck. This was the one I remembered. Bill said he had not seen a back wheel set up that way before. Just proves that history repeats itself and very few things are truly new.

**sk8norcal** · 07-24-2009 01:04 AM

another 3 wheeler

wackyboards: Bajaboard

there are a bunch of other ones in the motorized section..

**sk8norcal** · 07-24-2009 01:06 AM

Originally Posted by Gomer

Yeah, I talked to the inventor when he came on a forum (either here or DBX, can't remember) and got trashed. I took up for the guy because the board is innovative in several ways, I like motorized boards and the guy seemed like a decent character that ran into a poop storm by innocently posting his board.

This shows how it works.

BOARD TECH

good find

i thought the site was gone...

very weird how it works...

**Gomer** · 07-24-2009 06:15 AM

Originally Posted by sk8norcal

good find

i thought the site was gone...

Thanks, Wayback again.

It is more complicated than I thought when I originally saw it. I thought the two smaller back wheels were fixed to the larger back wheel so that when the board was tilted the smaller back wheel made contact with the surface.

In fact the two smaller back wheels are on struts and are always in contact with the surface. The larger wheel that drives the board breaks contact with the surface if their is no rider on the deck. I don't know if it was their intention but the back wheel seems like it would function as a "kill switch" if you came off the deck.

It is probably just so the outer wheels are always in contact with the ground.

The front wheel axle pivots in a channel to allow the wheel to rotate slightly like the front wheel on a Dirtsurfer.

I found their patent application but the drawings are not very good.