Mountain Board History

[jameseb]

I didnt realise it was a local bloke (to me anyway) who invented the mountain board -- that chap from vets in practice, Joe Inglis.

 

I also didnt realise my old man had a very small part in getting the first mountain boards manufactured. Joe came to the GRP (fiber glass) manufacturing plant my old man used to run (many years ago) looking to get the decks made from GRP. Apparently it was a no-goer for the size of the deck and so on, so he put them in touch with another local resin impregnated wood company.

 

Completely useless trivia, but there you go.

[Maro]

I think (could be wrong) that Joe invented the nosnowboard and the mountain board (or all terain board) was invented around the same time but by someone else.

[Mini Michael]

Big Air DVD tells you all about the history of mountain boards. NoSno was the original, then an American guy (MBS) developed it but was aimed towards freestyle, using them on half pipes etc.....i think. Can't remember but yeh......its something like that

[Kitedeck Kid]

atb history part 1

 

http://www.remolition.com/history.html

 

part 2

 

http://www.remolition.com/history2.html

[maxgtfc]

Well first I had a Kheo Epsilon

Then a Scrub Ejector

Now on a D Ex

 

Or have I missed the point of this thread

 

Max

[jameseb]

This thread was mainly just me being surprised by a conversation I had with my old man. Been riding mountain boards for years, and I'm sure he never mentioned before that he was involved with these things back in the day.

[pierre]

My first deck was a Mongoose :-)

[DjMoz]

atb history part 1

 

http://www.remolition.com/history.html

 

part 2

 

http://www.remolition.com/history2.html

 

Good info, thanks for that.