About us

Who the fuck is SCYTHE?

We are a crew of skaters who make skate gear the way we want to ride it.
With Ignacio's engineering and Zed's design skills we try to push downhill (and lately also other disciplines) skateboarding to new levels.
Our gear is tuned for performance, it's not meant to suit every rider but we believe that those who like to test their limits and challenge themselves will find what they're looking for here.
We sell what we ride and we stand 100% behind it.

History

Scythe Gear began as a two-man project in late 2020 in Prague, the capital city of Czech Republic.

2020

in November we make our first footstop, the V1
on 20th December 2020 Scythe is formed

2021

at the beginning of 2021 Bell Harrison joins our team
in January we begin prototyping our second footstop design
in April the T-Rex footstop goes on sale
Harry Clarke and Joshua Evans join our team sometime in 2021

2022

in spring of 2022 the first drafts of our own truck design emerge from Ignacio's cave and we go on to test the first prototype on spots on Tenerife
in May Fabio Scarno and Lorenzo Passalacqua join our team of riders
by the beginning of summer the truck design has gone through countless iterations, Sam Sidorchuk joins us in our effort to perfect the design, he's shortly followed by Matteo Delbigio
in July Dominik finishes prototyping our griptape which goes on sale the same month
we take our truck prototype to KNK where we let riders try it out for the first time
in August Maxime Sokol tries our trucks on the Straja 2022 event in Romania (and doesn't want to return the test set), he subsequently joins our team in October
in September Josh takes the Reaper trucks to their first podium by winning KKKonice 2022 Czech Championship (with his truck backwards)
in October the Reaper truck is announced
in November Sam and Josh take the Reaper trucks to World Skate Games 2022 in Argentina

2023

Reaper trucks go on sale in April
in May Matteo rides a set of Reapers to the 1st place in Juniors and 4th place in open in Attack Of Danger Bay 2023
in June we organize our first event Kysuce Scythe Session in Slovakia
on June 17th Eduardo Cotto (Eddii) becomes a part of our team
in July we reveal the Excalibur version of our Reaper truck
our grom Jan Ryšavý scores 3rd place on KNK No Paws Down 2023 in Juniors category riding Reapers
in September Jack Plummer joins our ranks and shortly after becomes the second rider to win an event on Reapers by taking the 1st place in Tregz 2023 - British Downhill Championship
in November Jarod Ames and Fenghang Lei join us in development of a dedicated LDP truck
on November 15th China becomes the first woman to join our team

2024

on March 7th our first LDP truck "Crusader" is announced
on March 8th the second generation of our footstops is announced the V2 and T-Rex V2
on March 8th our e-shop is launched

Why the name?

tl;dr We wanted an edgy name.

"Make it metal as fuck" was the no.1 requirement when designing the brand. Scythe sounded metal enough and it's also a play on a czech term we use when we crash each other out on the hill (which happens a lot in our crew).
We are definitely not a cult.