How old is this board?

hey guys, do any of you know how old this board is and what kind of hole insert pattern it has? my friend bought this board but the problem is that the newer bindings can't mount to this pattern so he's stuck with it. just trying to get some info on it. thanks in advance! http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w97/dontlabelmeee/ listingoncl007.jpg

Awww That's a bummer. I have no idea, but couldn't your friend ask the person he bought it from what binders he used?

Maybe it is one of those possible rental type looking things. A base disc might have bolted to the deck. Then the upper disc could be rotated. Kinda like a 55 Chevy Bel Air. Maybe great in its day, but pretty prehistoric.

Post edited by: PerryRObray, at: 2008/03/05 20:14

There was a period (mid 90's?) of baseless bindings also.

So what did they do then PerryRObray?

breezz wrote:

So what did they do then PerryRObray?

The Southern California type crowd said the baseless bindings gave them more feel of the snowboard. I'm guessing this was a skater type thing.

Thanks. This was the first time I heard of this. Getting wiser every day

The baseless bindings supposedly didn't effect the flex of the deck as much as other bindings also.

PerryRObray, have you ever tried this or heard from friends about this?

breezz wrote:

PerryRObray, have you ever tried this or heard from friends about this?

A neighbor when I lived in Riverside county in Southern California tried to explain the baseless bindings to me. He said he was from New Mexico I think. I personally feel after living numerous years in both Northern California and So. Cal. we have different backgrounds at times that have an effect on how we ride.
The skateboard I learned on had steel wheels. My skateboard after that had clay wheels. To say the least, I don't really consider myself a heavily skater influenced rider. I can't even remember a single kid who rode a skateboard to school (2000 kids in high school) in the 60's and 70's in No. Cal. I'm sure it was different in So. Cal.

Interesting. Thanks for that PerryRObray I would think there exists difference between various states in the usa, but that also existing within one state is news to me (although it IS a big state). I don't remember skateboards in the Netherlands either in the 60's and 70's. Not at all that is.

We had skateboards in No. Ca., but they didn't seem as big a part of our lives. I was into baseball, American football, and a little cyclocross type bicycle riding. When everybody else seemed twice as big as me in my teens I played tennis, and soccer.
I've been known to take a nephews skateboard and test it, these are very few and far between low level events.

Post edited by: PerryRObray, at: 2008/03/18 23:54

I wonder what changed it. The first signs of skateboards becoming popular in the Netherlands was beginning '80s and here, in Israel, mid-90's.

Maybe the price of fuel skyrocketing in the 70's had an effect on the popularity of skateboards.

I would never have thought of that

breezz wrote:
existing within one state is news to me (although it IS a big state).
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The official state flag of California has "Republic" in English on it. Some people said in the 60's/70's? that economically Ca. was the 10th biggest country on the planet. Some now say we are the 7th biggest.
I was raised in Northern Ca., have lived in Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties for a minimum of 1 year as an adult, besides doing a few road trips as a minor. The differences tend to be very subtle, and I'm not the only person (I've met many others who claim to have lived in both places also) who has lived many years in both the northern and southern sections of the state.

Well, I believe you. Sometimes the difference in mentality between a city and a village 10 mile away will differ immensely, so why wouldn't different parts of a state as large as CA do that as well. It is just it never occured to me.

things really have changed now u cant even walk outside without seeing a skateboard

fritz100 wrote:

things really have changed now u cant even walk outside without seeing a skateboard

It has become an acceptable and easy form of transportation

Hi Slowpoke, I have an old Burton Asymmetrical it has a very similar pattern 4 holes along the middle and 4 holes straddling them. It came with these round disk called cants. You used these to adjust the angles you desire.
Then your boots mount to the cants.
I currently use the same cants on my Alpine board, and love them.