.oO(Solid Grind - Soap Shoes Photos - Mike Cosentino busting out a sick Royale on a South African kink.)Oo.

Sep 19, 2006 broox

This is a really dope pic and great grind. Too bad he quality is slightly lacking.

FYI: This is originally from the UKFSW guys. Check them out at soapshoes.info.

Sep 25, 2006 AnthoFlex

Woah, sum serious tweak is going on there, DAMN!!! Its gotta be illegal to tweak like that! CALL THE POLICE!

Nice freaking Royale!

Oct 3, 2006 skate321dude

Dont Hit the truck. Or The photo gragher. Don't hirt him.

Nov 21, 2006 Curtinator

Soapers from the UK are so good.

Nov 21, 2006 Slidey

Yeah, that would be because of the lack of skate parks and MASSIVE handrails we have everywhere, I had to learn (or am still learning) hip hieght rails the hard way.

Thats a sick rail and great tweakage, you don't realli see many white rails around do you?

Nov 21, 2006 SonicSoaper

Oh...my....god. That is truely a work of art.

Dec 19, 2006 snikas

nice kink

Feb 19, 2007 mdc

A friend emailed me and told me a photo of me was online.

I haven't seen this photo in a while. Thanks for the comments.

This was a road trip some friends and I did up the west coast of South Africa.
Unfortunately the photo was printed on matte paper and then scanned in. Thus the not-so-good quality.

Feb 19, 2007 AnthoFlex

Still looks super sick

Feb 19, 2007 matrix8967

wow, i thought it was just photoshopped.

Feb 19, 2007 SonicSoaper

Major tweeeeeeakgae!

Jul 17, 2007 RamenRadio

Those look like my cobalt boltars :P

Jul 17, 2007 Page645

i cant see shit in this pic regarding the shoe. so how the fuck do you know then?

Jul 17, 2007 AnthoFlex

they are blue turntables.......

Jul 17, 2007 RamenRadio

Son of a gun, he's right XD

My bad renny. You don't miss a shoe, do you? nice call man :D

Jul 17, 2007 Page645

HOW THE FUCK CAN U SEE THAT?????!?!?!?!?!!?

Jul 17, 2007 Page645

oh and sorry trav and renny for making another html tag on the scorcher broadsides forum post

Jul 17, 2007 AnthoFlex

you guys should know by now that i study every single shoe down to the thread patterns

Jul 17, 2007 Altman

He does, yo.

Jul 17, 2007 broox

these are not turntables.

Jul 17, 2007 AnthoFlex

u sure? i remember seeing that they were somewhere....i duno w.e

Jul 17, 2007 broox

no, i'm not 100% sure, but here are my thoughts.

The biggest clue is that I don't believe Turntables have that bottom lace holder on the toe like you can see in this photo. The blue turntables in particular have a dark Soap logo on the toe, not a white one as pictured here. the laces appear to go behind a flap of leather or something, which does not happen on the turntables.

finally, the turntables also have a white lower sole, which, even though this is a nicely tweaked royale, I think we'd see part of the white, especially on that back foot.

However, I don't really have a better argument. They sort of look like expresses, but I think this photo is way to old for that. It might even be too old for Turntables.

I'm guessin they're either dark sylons or dark boltars with the white marked out?

Indigo Boltars with the white marked out? Possible, but probably not, same argument goes with the white bottoms. But it seems more likely than the turntables.
Dark Sylons? The problem here is that Soap logo on the toe is still off.
Daggit has that lace holder and Soap O, but there's too much white.
Express just seems too new.
Nitro also seems too new.

Jul 18, 2007 RamenRadio

I'm pretty damn sure that those are cobalt boltars then. I'll upload a pic to show you guys tomorrow.

Jul 18, 2007 pepsi

yeah, they look exactly like cobalts, the laces..the colour..

the front even looks the same ;x

Aug 30, 2007 ZOMGSCORCHERS

Lol, I was born in the UK but most my family are from South Africa (me, my bro and my sister were born in the UK), sadly were my cousins live (in SA) (in a estate) there are no hand rails (apparently, but I do remember there being lotsa Curbs :p

Sep 7, 2007 mdc

RamenRadio is right.
They're my old Boltars. I had Goas and Boltars. The Boltars have the plastic on the royale part of the foot so they took a damage a lot better than the Goas did.

Sep 7, 2007 RamenRadio

Oh cool! Mike, welcome to solidgrind!!!!!

Sep 7, 2007 Page645

u mean welcome back XD

Sep 7, 2007 RamenRadio

Oh he's been a member as long as me XD sorry

Jun 16, 2008 cody

narly