Upper Peninsula skateboarders will be interested to hear about a young skateboard company in Trenary, Temptation Skateboards.
The company is a small family-owned operation that designs skateboards and sells them--and in addition, their latest design is one that supports local U.P. food pantries.
Temptation Skateboards created a skeleton chef design, appropriate for its goal of helping Feeding America through a Sault Ste. Marie food bank. $5 of each purchase of the decks with the design (they usually run about $40) goes to local residents in need of food, through the food bank.
The owner, John Colley, clearly likes to keep it local on several levels; he started the company in April of 2012 with his son, Dylan, to reignite a love for skateboarding that he first discovered in 1985. After skating for several years and uncovering a passion for freestyle, he eventually left the sport for awhile. When Colley wanted to return to his old sport, he couldn't find a freestyle deck, so decided to create one himself, according to the Temptation Skateboards website.
Temptation Skateboards does small production runs, just five or ten decks of each shape and size, with hand-applied graphics, in both freestyle and street models.
The "chef" deck should get even more attention this month, as Temptation-sponsored rider Pete Betti heads to the
World Freestyle Round-Up in Vancouver to compete, and will be using one of the Trenary-made boards.
Writer: Kim Eggleston
Source: Temptation Skateboards
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