Powell Peralta Sidewalk Surfer Complete Skateboards

Awesome old school skate board

Assuming you know how to skate this board is amazing on potholes and speed bumps for cruising. I use it daily to get my dog way more miles than I’d like to run.

This mini-cruiser shares the drawbacks of all mini-cruisers: its compact size makes it portable and fun but also perhaps challenging for beginners and/or uncomfortable for longer rides. But the Quad Stringer graphics look beautiful and classy, and the printed dragon on the clear section of grip tape is also a nice aesthetic touch. The board has a comfy, shallow concave and a fully usable kicktail.The wheels are just big and soft enough to be comfortable and grippy, though they're not going to compete with longboard wheels. The bearings are high-quality Bones Reds, and between that and the board and truck geometry, this thing is fast and nimble and fun, though you may want to tighten the trucks a bit to avoid speed wobbles. Nice board!

Love this thing.. nice and light yet durable

Great spin, super smooth, rides great, lightweight

The wheels are made to compensate for rough sidewalk cracks, neither the board nor the wheels are really made for tricks but it's a great light weight board to get around on and the BEARINGS are good quality

Hubby buys Powell Peralta boards because of the company's reputation and their practices: made in California or Mexico, single-pressed decks, minimal or no warping, and so forth. This one failed on all counts. It was badly twisted straight out of the box (I mean so badly that the wheels don't all touch the ground without a person's full weight on it). The griptape hung out over the edges of the board in places, like it had been applied by someone who was in a rush to get home or had never gripped a board before. It was made in China, yet the price tag suggested it was a domestic product. It does have good quality wheels, bearings, and trucks, but the deck is just plain bad. This should not say "Powell Peralta" on it.

Powell Peralta is the classic skateboard brand. This board is a nice cruiser with the well known ripper logo. I’m taking two stars off as this is the Made in China version so I feel this one is over priced. I have the Positiv Andy Mac board that is also made by Skate One in China. They both have the same deck build quality and same trucks. Only difference is the wheels and bearings. These are nicer. I got the Positiv new here on Amazon for $34. I think this board is not worth more than $99 complete to be honest. You definitely are paying a premium for the name and graphic. Nothing wrong with board. I like it. They just need to be more straight forward on the fact this is Made in China. The description write up for this board makes it sound like it’s made in the USA. Just be more honest on country of origin. If I had known that before purchasing I wouldn’t have bought this.