Brand Histories, September 2026: every story Kingpin Magazine published in that section, newest first.
4 stories
Mike Schneider founded FlatFace in the United States in 2003, starting with the least glamorous part of a setup and ending up with decks, bearing wheels, a distribution arm and a collection of old gear. What the record confirms, and what it doesn't.
A new episode of the Bigspin Fingerboard Podcast picks up with Christian of Kalye after a long hiatus: a rebuilt team, a shift from pressing wood to drawing graphics, and a ten-year mark arriving this December.
Kingpin's roster credits Timo Lieben's Berlin workshop with bringing hand-pressed five-ply maple to serious fingerboarding in 2002. Here is what that one-line entry actually establishes, and what still needs a source.
Before it made trucks, Blackriver made the things you ride. A first pass at the record of Martin Ehrenberger's company — the ramps, Fast Fingers, the park, and the 2010 arrival of BRTs — with the gaps left visible.
