Up in Stoke
Feature: 7.6
Skate
In pondering the essence of the modern skateboarding tour, this famous sentence [above], as written in A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, can’t help but come to mind. Although completely unrelated to skateboarding, such prose seems to completely bespeak the trials and tribulations of the modern skateboard tour as we have come to know it. Tours in which disaster anxiously awaits around every bend in the road, tours in which trouble can sometimes turn to triumph, and tours in which legends are born, friendships are solidified, and battles are won.
