Old School

madtekniques · Outlaw Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 156 City: Toronto

Anyone else still riding an early generation deck? Here is my original and only wakeboard bought at a boat show in spring 1997.

1996 - Full Tilt - Mike Weddington - Function 55

See the specs here -> http://www.wakeworld.com/boardguide/getboard.asp?boardid=5

wkebrd3 · Posted: Jun 27, 2005 7:01 am Post subject:

How are you progressing?

elyse · Posted: Jun 27, 2005 7:08 am Post subject:

Man that thing is old school Shocked

. Can you do any big tricks on it?

410fortune · Soul Rider Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 314 City: Morrison

I still ride my ghetto Hyperlite Offshore Smile

Boards are expensive man....not everyone can afford new ones every season.....

madtekniques · Outlaw Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 156 City: Toronto

I wakeboarded a lot in my first years but the last 4 years I haven't made it out much and didn't have the money to get something newer. This year I getting back into it again and if I make it out as much as I want then I will get a new setup for next year Smile

I cannot do any inverts, nor have a I tried. Butterslides, surface 3's, W2W grabs, 180's, 3's without the handle pass that's about it.

I have never tried a newer board so really I don't know what I'm missing out on.

pooser · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 4738

my dad rides a 2000 honeycomb belmont, i have a 98 voyager kicking around in the boat, i just saw someone rocking a 98 honeycomb murray board(vero shape). people were tearing it up on those boards back in the day, so can you.

buckshot · Outlaw Joined: 22 Apr 2005 Posts: 213 City: Charlotte, NC

410fortune - Offshore was my first board, too. Have moved on to newer setups, but still have respect for the board that introduced me to the sport. It's kinda like your first car, might have been a POS, but you'll always remember it.

mrb01tj · Criminal Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 82 City: ft. myers

i have a mw too but the bindings are messed up so i have to tack it easy.

boike · Newbie Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 45

"BUCKSHOT", where do you ride?

simland · Posted: Jul 20, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject:

My old school ride: Blindside Patterson 142 '99

http://www.wakeboardreview.com/blindsidepatterson99.html

Chad H · Posted: Jul 20, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject:

I picked a skurfer up off the side of the road, it was pretty friggin awsome when i rode it too. I plan to take it out again sometime.

Epic · Addict Joined: 21 Aug 2005 Posts: 765

I still ride a skurfer. It's a bitch to ride switch though.

the_hog · Newbie Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 20 City: Fairview

I was riding a 98 Jobe Diablo and 99 Jobe Vibe until this summer. Now I moved up to a 00 Byerly 137 so you could say I am still riding old school, but I love how my Byerly rides. I am still looking for maybe a few more to have as spares. They are getting hard to find.

hal2814 · Newbie Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 34

I still occasionally break out my 98 O'Brien Banshee. It's a POS compared to my 2003 CWB Ecstacy though and the cwb isn't exactly a spring chicken.

beau_bushnell · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 185 City: GP

the_hog, you should try thre 05 byerly. you can get them off ebay fro $250 brand new. I got mine off ebay for $210 and that was last year. I got an awsome deal and I love it.

beau_bushnell · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 185 City: GP

man that 96 board is pretty old school but it must work alright sense you can do some basic-itermediate tricks.

CoRe NoBoDy · Posted: Jul 21, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject:

99 Double Up Colin Wright Skull Tree.Love it.

Whats with the stupid"got to have the latest thing,even if I ride like crap"vibe.

It's what really killed it for me.

the_hog · Newbie Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 20 City: Fairview

beau_bushnell, why? I love the way my 00 Byerly rides, and I know how it rides. Why spend 200+ on a board that I might not like. I dont need the latest and greatest stuff to be a good boarder. I will ride my Byerly until I cant anymore and hopefully I will have a spare by then and be able to ride that. I will ride 00-03 Byerlys until I cant find them anymore!

pilfers · Criminal Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 52 City: Cooperstown

i still have the old hyperlite big kahuna. i have a newer board but every once in awhile ill strap on the big kahuna and see what i can do with it. so far ive managed to pull off back rolls and raleys with it which was pretty good considering the board.

AndyAndy · Addict Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 660 City: cutchogue

yea man i learned on a big kahuna. Last year i used it as a wakesurfer alot, its pretty fun, you cant freeride it but you can thrash around alot which is pretty fun. I love that board though. With the 3 huge fins in the back, it rides like a surfboard. Fun to carve around on if you want to mix things up

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Jul 22, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject:

I have a board that shape that is about that old, I ride it down beachs and on rails tho