Skateboards That Rock

By Rhyn Noll

An amazing display of graphic design and artistic imagery appears on skateboards made over the last forty years. Early "Plain Janes" gave way to many diverse colorful designs, some closely in step with developing rock music. Boards that rock include images of favorite musicians and bands, like Black Flag, Agent Orange, Sublime, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as memorabilia from the Dog Town movie...revealing a major subculture. Over 500 dazzling color photographs show hundreds of distinguished skateboards chronologically arranged, including construction details that make some collectors' items, and related stickers, memorabilia, and racing team clothing. Today's collector market is reflected in the values with the captions. Nostalgic riders and hot new blood alike will race through this book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764317903
• ISBN13: 9780764317903
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

1/2 the price of the disposable skateboard bible, but 1/4 the value.

This book had a lot of graphics from new concepts, not on boards, just as stand alone images. There were a lot of old boards and downhilling boards with little to no graphics, some interesting images of ads, trophies, tshirts, etc. overall I didn’t get as much of what I wanted, which is to have something like the disposable skateboard bible. Almost the complete hookups collection of images is on a single 2 page spread, but the cover is not representative of the book.

Skateboards that rock "ROCKS"!

For a skateboard collector this is a must have book on all the cool skateboards that have been manufactured and used through the years. I recommend this book to all skateboard enthusiast and collectors, the pictures are worth the book alone....