Powell Peralta Bombers’ destiny is to rip crusty or smooth terrain. A combination of wide contact patch and 85a duro make them highly usable on challenging spots without putting them into a “cruiser wheel” category.
Bombers are familiar to almost any old school rider and have been around for over 30 years. Known as tall and relatively skinny wheels, Powell Bombers have been popular for bowl riding with street capability.
These are reissue wheels from Powell-Peralta. Perfect for shredding skateparks and bombing hills fast, hence Bombers. And let’s not forget how awesome and proper they look on a big shaped board with some rails. Being an awesome reissue wheel with outstandingly long history and a worldwide appreciation, these are a brilliant piece to complete an old school setup puzzle.
Powell-Peralta Bombers:
- Size: 60mm
- Durometer: 85a
- Width: 40mm
- Urethane formula: SBA
- Asymmetrical conical shape
- Coreless design
- Great all terrain performance
- Suggested use: vert, rough street
- Vintage looks
- Looks proper with a reissue deck
- POWELL PERALTA HERE!
It all begin with George in his garage, making homemade skateboards for his son in the 70’s. George, an aeronautics engineer, had a knack for innovation, and loved tinkering with new ideas for making everyday things better. It wasn’t long before he connected with Stacy Peralta, a pro skateboarder who had a special talent for marketing. The match was made in heaven, and the brand began growing in popularity, recruiting a team of underdogs and misfits, who would become the infamous bones brigade; tony hawk, steve caballero, mike mcgill, lance mountain, rodney mullen, and tommy gurreuro.
The team topped the competition podiums for years, and released a number of industry-leading skateboard films which have now become timeless icons of skateboarding culture. However, great success can have a dark side, as Stacy and George began to argue about the future of the company; Stacy wanted to see the team disperse to start new small companies, whereas George saw this as foolish. Eventually parting ways and bringing the company temporarily to a close, Bones Brigade members parted ways to make many of the iconic brands of today: Lance started the firm, Tony started Birdhouse, Tommy started Real, and Rodney started world industries with Mike Vallely and Steve Rocco. Today, Powell Peralta continues to be an industry leader, pioneering new technologies within skateboarding; particularly with the creation of the flight deck, and Bones Swiss Bearings.
Powell Peralta is an American skateboard company founded by George Powell and Stacy Peralta in 1978. It became known for its Bones Brigade team, which included top skateboarding competitors of the 1980s.
Peralta left the company in 1991 and Powell continued to produce skateboard equipment under the Powell, Bones Bearings, and RollerBones brands. CalStreets or CSI was the company's second distributor in Canada after Northwest Skateboards.
