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looks like split axles are still selling well in the states


https://www.ebay.com/itm/236904113719?_ ... R7aw69CHaA

And they haven't got the guards , I used to buy BMX stuff first and you used to be able to buy stuff from USA even with the shipping customs etc it was still really cheap as I don't think they were interested in it till years later , I bought a Sims taperkick once with gullwings and Sims wheels a nice one 140 dollars even with shipping and everything it cost new 200 quid and then over here it was worth about 400 quid now a board worth 200 quid here is 400 quid in USA

i think this one will be going back in his attic for another 40 yrs at that price!


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267768381088

This “Fibreflex” could be joining it

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/198592265077 ... BM7oyYoYlo

for sure

punkboy wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2026 11:35 pm bargain

heres a new one on me,ive only ever seen red fireballs ,looks like a rodents had a good nibble on one of them

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/158177751580

Yikes these may have a new owner

I’ll let you know how bad they are when they arrive

At least they are rare, in that colour, and I can still probably ride them if I’m brave

love the artwork on that one

im still not sure if the fireballs were originally green/blue or black? you will have to tell us when they arrive

Itsonlymoney!!! wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2026 11:33 am

punkboy wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2026 11:35 pm bargain

heres a new one on me,ive only ever seen red fireballs ,looks like a rodents had a good nibble on one of them

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/158177751580

Yikes these may have a new owner

I’ll let you know how bad they are when they arrive

At least they are rare, in that colour, and I can still probably ride them if I’m brave

Cheap enough at what you got them for and rare wheels , maybe they'll sand off a bit on the rough wheel

these are super rare,ive not seen any for sale for yrs,i dont think the rareness is going to make them fetch that much though!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/257715575802?_ ... R7bnrsGLaA

Yep another thing I've never heard of , very cool but like you say no one's going to pay a lot for something no one's hardly heard of it would have to be strokers or something, sometimes rare doesn't mean it's worth much , like there's a lot of obscure UK brands which they can't be hardly any like sky trucks but they don't fetch owt, the trucks I'd like ate some of the radikal ones but you don't see them on these shores

punkboy wrote: Tue Sep 01, 2026 9:33 am these are super rare,ive not seen any for sale for yrs,i dont think the rareness is going to make them fetch that much though!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/257715575802?_ ... R7bnrsGLaA

Yeah I saw those, I’m a quarter of the way to owning a set I’m in early discussions about a second hangar but can’t see me ever finding baseplates if I did get it.

The only obscure truck I could see making big money is the Alva truck if any ever turned up, I have seen them on U.K. pricelists so believe more than prototypes existed although only seen a photo of Alva riding them, similar baseplates to the Hitchcock.

For balance here are some obscure British trucks that are super rare and worth next to nothing, I’d still like them though

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/147535178500 ... 2236.m5337

Seem to remember they came on an odd but nice looking coffin shaped fibreflex style deck

i always assumed the alvas were some obscure unkown brand that he had fitted those strange copers too,never realised they were alva trucks ,would love to see some better pics.
yes those traxions were on a coffin shaped deck like you say black and green if i remember right,which i prob dont