Ray

The skate Quiver continues here, in absolutely no chronological order at all.

This is Bulldog Skates Design Ray Flores # 1. It's # 1 for a couple or three reasons. Reason #1is that it is really skate numero uno in the quiver. I love this sonofabitch. It will skate any terrain. It's a short board, a pool cue, a ditch board, it'll slalom, it's a long-board, and it'll cruise around town (with a wheel change). I'm so comfortable on it that it's scary and it will make me try stoopid shit.

Reason #2 is that is that it was the first Flores that I acquired from Rich at BDS. I've got three of 'em, another one that is a working skate, and one that is my only wall-hanger skate-as-art, and it is signed by Ray Flores his own self. It's pretty cool, but I'm really not much on that skate-as-art shit, I've got a couple skates that are signed by the Bulldog, but they're still just working skates in the quiver. Maybe the only reason the Ray that's hanging up is special is because I've already got 2 others to bash.

Stop reading here if you don't want all the techno mumbo-jumbo and click on the "Next Blog" at the top right of the screen here.......

Number 1 Ray here has obviously been chopped and channeled to my personal specs and there is a plethora of truck mounting options. A stock Flores from BDS was 33-1/3" by 11-1/3" with a 19" wheelbase. This puppy has had an inch & a third removed from the tail so it's now a tad over 32" in length, but the wheelbase has been altered enough to remain the same at this point. We're running Independent 215's (ain't nothing else, is there?) with a vintage set of Clouds bushings. The wheels are BDS Cow Skulls that are 62mm and 98 durometer, with Rockin' Ron's bearings. The risers are old school angled risers along with a rubber 1/8" rubber riser for shock type support. The tail skid is a custon Pee Wee jobee made of clear lexan to protect the Ray and the vintage Indy Cross and Skateboardrer Magazine round stickiees. The nose protector is an O.G. Powell-Peralta vintage Nose Bone in the mondo desireable robin's egg blue.......The grip-tape is the original BDS Sperm design and the stain designs on the top are Pee Wee contributed Type-O from a three inch coping inspired scar at the right shin. The lip-slider device is an original Clyde-Slyde from thirty years ago.

Just talkin' about all that shit just makes me want to go skate.....................Skate hard.........