Rat Bones

These showed up today.  Right after I got home form the skatepark.  I had these Bones 100s on my park board and it felt terrible after riding big soft wheels for so long.  Im giving these Powell Peralta Rat Bones reissues a try to see if I can find a happy medium.  They are 60mm and 90a.  The board has Indy Stage 11s on it.  They say you can use 56mm wheels with no risers so I may be pushing it, but I am going to try with no riser for a time or two and see if I can get away with it.  Pushing around the kitchen they feel great with fresh Reds in them, I can't wait to get them out to the park Monday or Tuesday and see how they feel out there.

90's

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Old Rat Nuts and New Rails Do Not Work Together

Was getting ready to mount my recently purchased Powell Peralta Rib Bones on my Vallely Reissue.  I wanted to use an old pack of Powell Peralta Rat Nuts I had.  No good.  The counterbored part of the hole in the rail is too small for the head of the bolt to fit in.  Making the holes bigger wont work because the head of the bolt is almost as wide as the rail so there would not be much/any rail left where the bolts are.
Sooooooo.... I guess  I will use the screws that come with it unless I can find some drywall screws around here to put through and cut off.  I wanted to use the Rat Nuts so I would not have to regrip the deck.  I guess I will just be careful not to go through with the drill and use the supplied screws.

These were sold as these kits to stop your deck from delaminating, so that may be why the head is wide. I would think that rails were just that much wider in the 80, and they used these same bolts for the plastics though.

New Rails.

New Rails.  For a while the only Powell rails I saw available were those orange Thin Ribs.  I had a set but did not like them, so I gave them to my buddy Charlie.  He skated them a few times and did not like them either.  Now we can all get Powell Rib Bones in black and white as well as the orange Thin Ribs.  This set just came, I think I am going to put them on my Vallely Reissue or a new school deck to try them out.  The rails now come with little wood screws instead of Rat Nuts, which sucks, but I still have some old packs of Rat Nuts so I will probably use those instead.

Elephant!!!

I set this Vallely reissue up with as many of the parts I could find from my first skateboard.

Pretty cool deck, the front riser, bushings and the bearings are the newish parts.

The Venture trucks, Rat Bones, Cell Block III and the Bridgebolts are from the first board I ever had.  

That board also had a nosebone, tailbone, rails and some Rip Grip, I think I need to add that.  I have some rails and Rip Grip,  Internet shopping, here I come.

Powell Peralta Rat Bones

How awesome are these.  These were the wheels on the first skateboard I ever had.  I was like 10 or something so they did not get ridden very hard and are still in crazy good shape.  They went in towards the bearings so the graphics did not get worn off instantly like most of todays wheels.  And different graphics on each side.  I would pick up a set of the reissues of these of they made them a little softer.  I would love to have a couple sets of these in about 80a.