ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

Dan,

I guess you will a little bit of explaining to do here...
I came across these wheels during the Open German Championships. The guys just "I got them in the shop, why do you ask?"



Me for one I had never seen, nor heard about these. But the name rang a bell. I remember seeing a complete setup being named Richter 7.1.

Let us know the story.

Jani

Yes, we molded several thousand of those wheels in the mid-1990s! The Seismic Richter 7.1 was 66mm tall, and 78A. It was excellent for carving and slalom, at a time when no one cared about those things. Who knows, maybe we'll do wheels again someday...

P.S. At the same time that we designed and molded the wheels, we were planning a complete skateboard that was to be called the Seismic Richter 7.1. It was to feature slalom decks hand-made by the master himself, Bob Turner, assembled with Seismic trucks and the wheels pictured above. Bob made a short run of cutaway decks for the project, but the whole concept was many years ahead of its time. This was 1994! Longboarding didn't pick up until around 1996, and slalom started coming back only in 2000.