I’m kinda proud of my shred stick collection. Not the largest but for the most part, everything I’ve been stoked on from Snowboarding.
Here it is:
Skeeter, Moms got me this to ride the hills of the Whaling City Golf Course in New Bedford in the 80’s.
1984 Burton Elite 140 – my first real shred stick that I bought at the factory store in Manchester VT. This is actually the second one as my first one got focused on the ice at Loon Mtn. when I went head over shoulders on the ice and ripped the binders out of the board. The other wooded B is something we used to rip on the dunes in Wellfleet Cape Cod after we’d get all juiced up at the Beachcomber.
Wintersticks – the green one with the bindings is actually Shafucks from Milosport but he doesn’t know the dudes from SLC let me steal it. The other one I got when I moved to Seattle and stopped by a yard sale. Dude had $50 on it and I said I’d give him $5. We settled on $7. I think I’ve seen them on Ebay for a G or more.
Sims Terry Kidwell Promodel-Ian at Darkside gave me this two years ago. I’d been searching Ebay for one, and he took me to the upstairs collection at Darkside Stowe and showed me all their boards. When he saw the boner I had for that stick, he gave it to me.
Avalanche Accell 180 – Chris Sanders sent this and Damians actual deck that he jumped the fingers on (a poster from back in the day) for us to display at our brew pub in Steamboat. This deck left town when I did.
Rad Airs – Tanker 167, 72 and 77 along with the Reto Lamm 59 Pro Model – I used to help out these guys way back when and this actually gave me my first experience with working with Euros. The Tankers were/are some of the best pow machines ever built. The 72 is one of the first test boards out of élan, the 67 was my last board from Harry be4 I started with Capita and the 77 is my stick that I rode in Arlburg with Hor-Hey years ago. It was a machine and I’ll never rid myself of that beast. Reto’s base graphic I actually did. Was looking at a Playboy during the summer and saw this good girlie shot, cut it out and taped it to a snowboard outline and sent it to Harry at Rad Air. Reto was stoked on the idea and had their artist make it into a base graphic. When your grabbing tail, your grabbing ass. You got to notice the Drake Bindings in the picture too. The blue and yellow F50's are how we launched the brand. George got all the Forum dudes to run them, no charge and when the mags and vids came out that next year Drake was on the map. Blew up out of no where.
Liquid Race Mike Kildy model – Gums had this in his collection, didn’t know what to do with it so I lifted it from him.
MIA Mighty Mighty Bosstones deck – a 149 special makeup tribute board to Bostons finest.
F2 AirBoard – The boys from the House packed this up for me. It’s got a bike pump that blows air in the core and makes the flex softer or stiffer. Stupid Euro’s.
O-Sin’s 4807 and 3800 – Sully from Rome used to work at O-Sin and when this boat nose thing came out, I had to have it. The 3800 was something Mike D sent to me as a back up AK deck. Yea, I was gonna ride it!!! The nice blue and silver Drakes are the LTD's that had some turnbuckle screw on the sides of them that when tightened would change the flex of the baseplate. People would tell me they could tell a difference but I never could. A lot like magnet traction and rocker...
Morrow – Goodwills deck that he won the King of the Hill Extremes on.
Unity Twin Towers – this board has the twin towers as a graphic on it and came out the year they blew up. The story from Pete is that his best friend from college chose the real world (NY) for his direction in life and he chose the mountains. So the graphic was a nod to his friend not knowing that a couple of planes were going to fly into them.
A Boards – Regis Rolland was our distributer for Northwave way back when. I got to ride with him all day in Banff and then he signed a board over to my two boys. The graphics have always been pretty dope. Legend.
Farmers – the one Chappy just sent me and an original Double F Fallen logo one. Rocket had given this to Benny from Milo to ride a couple years ago when we all met up in Snowbird. Ben mounted it then quickly unmounted it and handed it to me saying, “They’ll be out of business soon, I ain’t riding this thing. Here, collect it.”
Steepwater – Steve Klassen signed this for me. Stoked, it’s his deck.
Capita – Have the first three years Human boards. Also have one of three no notch Travis Parkers promodel that the graphics were actually on a twin tip Seth Huet board so Trav had something to ride for filming. Then I got all three double swallow tails. Those are sick. There's some super misty ltd Drake Mikey LeBlancs on this deck. We did this binding only for shop dudes. Like 50 or a 100 pair were made .
Banana George Pro Model – George used to come in the shop all the time and we’d hook the old man up. He gave me this when he was 82 years old and shredding on Switch’s. He’s still alive now and like 90 something. This thing was made by Yaqui in Canada.
Missing is a Morrow Revert 55 that Chuck Mason and I were the first retailer to go to Morrow and tour the factory. Only cause Party Marty brought us up there. We signed the core and laid that board up. It was pretty rad.
O-Matic – TR owe’s me a signed board of his and I’m waiting for it. Put it in the mail World Champ you cheap bastard!
All I need is to add a horizontal lam Barfoot and a original Flite to it then pick and choose my battles of what’s collect worthy as it comes up.
