Skate accessory since long gone...

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:39 pm

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

Joe Iacovelli · Post by **Joe Iacovelli** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:11 pm

There was more than one. The Bird? Clyde Slide. Lapper.

Joe Iacovelli · Post by **Joe Iacovelli** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:12 pm

Need one?

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:36 pm

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

Ulf Haag · Post by **Ulf Haag** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:49 pm

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

Wesley Tucker · Post by **Wesley Tucker** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:39 am

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.

Donald Campbell · Post by **Donald Campbell** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:13 am

a coper is a grinding device,wesley.
popular "copers" were indy tracker zflex

Toby Warg · Post by **Toby Warg** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:52 pm

Jani Soderhall · Post by **Jani Soderhall** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:08 pm

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

YOYO SHULTZ · Post by **YOYO SHULTZ** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:22 pm

Lip Sliders!
That's what they were called in the 70's and that was before Tracker came out with the lapper.

Pelle Gustafsson · Post by **Pelle Gustafsson** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:32 pm

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

Dave Gale · Post by **Dave Gale** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:23 pm

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.

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Skate accessory since long gone...

Skate accessory since long gone...

lip slider...