Okay, true story: I was on Myspace, clicking around friends of friends of Mumble and I came across what seemed like some unknown new wheel company called Teenage Runaway. What I immediately thought of the clever, funny, random-shit-thrown-onto-wheels company was that some genius kid in the midwest had somehow made a batch of wheels to sell to his friends, that I had found a diamond in the rough that I was going to introduce to you so that you could get stoked too, and maybe help this kid out by buying a set of wheels off of him.

So I wrote a message to this kid saying that I thought what he was doing was rad and I asked if he'd be interested in us doing something on his little venture. I get a message back from the kid and it's Todd Bratrud! The guy who's known for creating some of Consolidated's raddest skateboard graphics over the years, among others. I felt duped... but obviously stoked. And I was probably only "duped" by myself because I don't pay close enough attention to the skateboard media and perhaps the industry as a whole and I hadn't seen the ads that Teenage Runaway has been running.

So it's still genius. It's still a diamond in the rough. And you should still be excited if you randomly come across these wheels in a shop.

Above is Clark Hassler's bonus part from Enjoi's Bag Of Suck.
Clark rides for Teenage Runaway, that's the connection.