NEW 4×4 Pat Lennen 59mm/91a Wheels

The new Pat Lennen 4×4 Wheels are now in stock and shipping. These high quality wheels are perfect for shredding through your city while skating from spot to spot. Enjoy a smooth ride at your favorite skatepark just like Pat does. Get a set of the long awaited Pat Lennen 4×4 Wheels right away at rattail.bigcartel.com.

Brian Shima on the cover of the NEW One Magazine

Brian Shima graces the cover of issue #15 of One Magazine. This issue also features an in depth interview with Joey Chase, coverage of the last Nimh Europe Tour and photos of several Nimh riders. This is an issue not to miss, get your copy now. believeinone.com

Vicious Red Backpack & Promo Edit

Anthony Finocchiaro and Greg Mirzoyan worked together on a promo edit for the red Vicious backpack. This was recently released for the European market. This is a special edition for the European market and will only be available in a limited number. The backpack is ideal for your every day life and also fits your skates. This is the new version of the last Vicious backpack with an improved zipper area, extra padded for a good carrying comfort. Be sure to cop yourself a vicious backpack for the holiday season.

Vicious bag from Greg Mirzoyan on Vimeo.

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NEW 4×4 SD Crossbones Flexfit Hats

This is the newest hat from 4×4. It was designed by Jeremy Beightol. The hat features a high quality puff embroidery of the San Diego Crossbones Logo on the front and a 4×4 embroidery on the back. Available in two sizes on flexfit hats. There are six variations of these hats which are limited to 55 pieces total. This is a very short run limited edition hat. Available exclusively at the Rat Tail Store. Read more

The Nimh Shaman Skate

Roll the line between good and evil with the new SHAMAN skate from NIMH. Combining mystical properties of strength and style, the SHAMAN features a sleek, new over-skin, the latest NIMH soul plates, new bomb-proof NIMH liner, all stacked on Ground Control FLT2 frames outfitted with high-grade ABEC-5 bearings and 58mm/90a wheels. This is the skate preferred by team riders Montre Livingston, Joey Chase, John Bolino and Brian Shima. From the shadows comes a glimpse of your future… as foreseen by the SHAMAN. Read more

Marc Moreno visits Oli Short in Brighton story and edit

Marc Moreno recently was in Brighton, England to visit, skate and film with Oli Short for the upcoming Nimh Team Video. So much went down on this trip, they decided to put together a b-roll edit from behind the scenes. Kingdom Magazine was there to document the trip and created a .pdf article about it, which is available here.

Marc Moreno & Oli Short NIMH Brighton edit from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.

New Brian Shima 58mm/88a Wheels

The new Brian Shima wheel has arrived and shipped from the warehouse, we have almost sold out of them in the first week, so get yours before they are gone forever.

R.I.P. James Short

James Short will be dearly missed. He was and will always considered a part of the Rat Tail family. Our condolences to his family and close friends. His life should be celebrated as he always lived it to the fullest. He was a very talented individual as seen from his skating and music. James he has left a mark on many minds and hearts and will never be forgotten.

Your friends at Rat Tail.
Brian Shima, Jon Elliott & Jan Welch.

Oli Short at Roskilde Music Festival in Denmark

The Rosklide Festival was amazing as always! After a week of camping, skating, live music and 24:7 partying it’s hard to say goodbye, but a relief to get a little rest…

Christian & Core before breakfast

Heads up on the heat

5 Star Accommodation

land of the living dead


Local denmark blader Jacub Hejmak, rocking NIMH.

Local Denmak roller, Mass Madden. Another convert to the dark side.

Don’t think before you drink!

Fixing a hole where the rain gets in to keep my mind from wondering. 
Cold beans, breakfast in a tin

Human car wash

Whats the story morning glory?

Some of the crew

The skatepark.

The skatepark.

Posters

Pete Doherty

Sitar band

Thanks to everyone who I was able to chill with over the past few day and to Jojo for making it all possible. See you all again next year!

Keep posted for the NASS updates over the next few days when me Kola and some of the UK Nimh/ Black Death riders hit the ditches for another camping mission and skate session.

Oli Short

Check out roskilde-festival.dk to see who played and what went down.

Rat Tail Warehouse Sale Saturday July 11th.

Rat Tail is having an open house and warehouse sale this Saturday, July 11th from noon to 2:00pm. Come by 2621 El Cajon Blvd in the North Park neighborhood of San Diego. We will have discounts on all back stock, backpacks, wallets and so forth as well as discounts on some of the newer items for this special two hour sale. If you can’t make it we still have some specials going online at our webstore. rattail.bigcartel.com

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