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Skate accessory since long gone...
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:39 pm
by Jani Soderhall
What did you call the device (in the 70s and 80's) you put in front of the rear truck to help you ride up a sidewalk (prior to the ollie) and that would also protect the truck?
/Jani
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:11 pm
by Joe Iacovelli
There was more than one. The Bird? Clyde Slide. Lapper.
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:12 pm
by Joe Iacovelli
Need one?
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:36 pm
by Jani Soderhall
Lapper is the name I recognize, but it wouldn't mean anything to someone who's not a skater. I'm looking for a more descriptive term.
No, I don't need one. I'm just doing a translation from French to English.
/Jani
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:49 pm
by Ulf Haag
Jani Soderhall wrote:Lapper is the name I recognize, but it wouldn't mean anything to someone who's not a skater. I'm looking for a more descriptive term.
No, I don't need one. I'm just doing a translation from French to English.
/Jani
I think they where called "Cheater Bars"
//Uffe
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:39 am
by Wesley Tucker
Jani Soderhall wrote:Lapper is the name I recognize, but it wouldn't mean anything to someone who's not a skater. I'm looking for a more descriptive term.
No, I don't need one. I'm just doing a translation from French to English.
/Jani
Wasn't there one called a "coper?"
I remember two kinds. One was a strap of plastic that was put on the king pin and then screwed into the deck in front of the truck.
The other looked like a skeg mounted on the deck and made sort of a fairing in front of the truck so the truck wouldn't hang on the concrete coping.
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:13 am
by Donald Campbell
a coper is a grinding device,wesley.
popular "copers" were indy tracker zflex
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:52 pm
by Toby Warg
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:08 pm
by Jani Soderhall
This is exactly the kind of device I was thinking of.
That photo is a classic (at least for us Swedes). I never like that board, it's one of the ugliest, but it's definitely one for the history books. Maybe it's one of the first "longboards"?
Check out the axle extenders!
And the double "lapper"!
Thanks Toby!
/Jani
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:22 pm
by YOYO SHULTZ
Lip Sliders!
That's what they were called in the 70's and that was before Tracker came out with the lapper.
lip slider...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:32 pm
by Pelle Gustafsson
i got one some where in metall that you put betwin the kingpin and the kingpin nut.
I also got "gorilla" gripp that you put your foot in and jump whit the board. I will finde it and shoot some pic´s on it for you. I just love oldschool
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:23 pm
by Dave Gale
I had one by (D.G Designs or D.G Systems) called "The Wedge" it had a replaceable hard plastic surface on top of a wedge similar to the one(s) pictured above.
