Everyone knows the legendary moment Tony Hawk landed the first-ever 900 at the 1999 X Games. But what you don’t know is the board that made history was never supposed to be the one. Just hours before the “Best Trick” event, Tony’s main skateboard cracked during a photoshoot!
A last-minute switch to his backup board—the Birdhouse “Falcon 2″—was a twist of fate that turned a replacement into an icon.
It just went up for auction and created a new record for skateboard – it sold for $1.152M at Julien’s!
