Nike Killshot Roller Skates

Roller-skating used to be a big deal. In the ’80s, my small town had its own rink with a competitive speed skating team. It wasn’t something weird, either. People were actually proud when their kids did well.

When the roller-skating craze started in the late ’70s, Nike thought it could get on the fun train by issuing these bizarre skate made by bolting a pair of Killshot squash shoes onto a skate chassis. The whole thing looks so slipshod I wouldn’t be surprised to see half-inch bolts sticking up through the soles.

You can buy a used pair today for several hundred dollars, should you choose, but please don’t. Instead convince your girlfriend or wife to join a roller derby league and then send pictures of her in her uniform, complete with knee-high socks, to me. For a science experiment, of course.

Nike abomination [Brandish.tv]