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White and nerdy: a longboarding odyssey

Abstract:
One summer in Beach Haven, N.J., all the kids on my block suddenly stopped riding bikes and all bought skateboards. It was in the mid `90s, and skateboarding -- particularly longboarding -- was suddenly resurging as the "cool" thing to do. Everyone was trading in their Tamagotchis for longboards....

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Peter Golde

posted 2/01/08 @ 5:49 PM EST

Dude i feel you, but i am almost eighteen and i live in Ogden, Utah.
We are bringing it back lots of kids ride now and we even have a club going, but i am still the only one on campus to figure out that the fastest way to class has four wheels and some bamboo invloved. I hate getting those goofy looks when i whiz past people trudging down the long slopes that Weber State University is built on.
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