I love it when I see young kids looking to start their first business. Tim Scharrer is a seventeen year old from Sheboygan, WI. He and his partner have started a home grown business to create longboards. NS Longboards ($270) are hand crafted and beautifully made. They need help to purchase larger quantities of materials and equipment needed for production. For your money you get their 39″ NS Freedride longboard. It features a lock-in concave, and double kick tails. It’s light and stiff, but also provides great stability. So if your into long-boarding check out their Kickstarter today.
If you’re not familiar, Boosted is the maker of an electric powered long board for urban travel. Well, they say it’s for urban travel. I could definitely see myself tooling around the burbs with one of these. The Boosted Board ($1299) sold out of its first run back in October and now they’re taking pre-orders […]