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  <bio>Shred City is your first successful drop in on a mini ramp. It is the feeling of the stomp after nailing a back lip on a rail after eight heartbreaking attempts. It is a night of cheap whiskey and good stories with your crew around your kitchen table. It&amp;#8217;s skating mini until it&amp;#8217;s too dark to see and headbanging at a metal show even when there&amp;#8217;s only fifteen people there. It&amp;#8217;s &lt;span class="caps"&gt;PBR&lt;/span&gt; tallboys for two dollars a piece at the bar and early summer cliff jumping into freezing water. It&amp;#8217;s the fork holes in your leg you don&amp;#8217;t know how you got and the girl in your bed whose name you don&amp;#8217;t remember. It&amp;#8217;s a local skate art opening with free box wine and the success of distracting security while your friend gets the shot. It&amp;#8217;s the artistic inspiration you get from a freshly uncapped can of spray paint. It&amp;#8217;s a car full of your homies, blasting your favorite Misfits mixtape. When you are in these moments-the ones you live to create and remember, you are in Shred City-time slows, nothing else matters, and you&amp;#8217;re complete because of the experience. A new clothing brand from Burlington, Vermont that fits you in every epic moment of your life. Limited runs now available. Spread the Shred.

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  <location>Burlington VT</location>
  <login>Ben Danger</login>
  <name>Ben Banks</name>
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