I don't see why under-maintaining one's bike, car, whatever, is a badge
of honor. A skateboard is a pretty low-tech piece of equipment that's
designed and built for abuse. My $3,000 bike and it's $100 tires are
worthy of some upkeep.
On 12/23/2010 10:06 AM, james black wrote:
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 09:08, JimD<rasterd...@comcast.net> wrote:
I like tires with tan sidewalls to my eye they look greatt but in persistent
rainy conditions they turn mucky gray.
I consider those grey sidewalls to be a badge of honor, a natural sign
of actual usage. Your preferences might vary.
When I was a child skateboarder, you could tell the real skaters by
whether the paint was worn off the "tail" of their skateboard deck (we
all used plastic "rails" on the middle part of the deck, but those
rails are out of fashion). I remember stories of "poseurs" who would
take a belt sander to the skateboard decks to rapidly achieve this
broken-in look. Not unlike the dumbass $200 jeans sold today with the
fake distress. I prefer to buy my workwear jeans in dark indigo for
$20 a pair; they look nicely broken in after just a few years of
regular wearing.
I should bottle and sell a compound that instantly turns your
sidewalls a studly mottled grey!
James Black
Los Angeles, CA
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