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10-99 Grind Pin
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10-99 Grind Pin

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- 2 inches across, 2 mm thick
- soft enamel
- black nickel plating
- partial glitter 
- epoxy 
- three premium back posts with rubber clutches
- designed by real actual humans!
- handmade with care
- ships in 2-3 days via USPS. 

I skateboarded a bit as a kid. Never got very good. I could ollie higher than almost anybody, grind, and boardslide. I was always respectful and polite, but my friends and I did get chased off by cops/people threatening to call the cops more than a few times in extremely small-town America where I grew up.

I like to think that this struggle between authority and adrenaline-driven teenage angst exists across the entire universe, and that somewhere right now an alien youth has a sheriff's deputy or beat cop shaking their alien limbs in the air, cursing extreme sports. It makes me laugh when I'm feeling sad, and that's why I made 10-99 Grind.

I didn't have a name ready by the evening that 10-99 Grind was needing to go into production (rush to get everything in). I knew I wanted a play on words that included a police code and would sound like a legit skateboard trick (50-50 Grind). I was perusing Illinois State Police documentation when I stumbled upon a code that rolled off the tongue and was appropriate enough to use. It is my understanding the code, elsewhere, can be indicative of a more serious situation, and in no way do I mean to reference or make light of anything terrible. I have provided a screen shot of the documentation as my proof of my innocence here.