Silver

Silver doesn’t make decks — it makes trucks. It’s an American truck brand Rob Dyrdek founded in 2003, having already started Orion Trucks as a teenager. If you landed here looking for a Silver deck, there isn’t one: what the brand sells is hangers, baseplates and kingpins. Worth flagging straight away, because the listing on this page is noisy: “silver” is also a truck colourway, and a good share of the products below are actually Independent, Krux, Ace or Bullet in a polished finish.

History

Silver’s peak lines up with the years Dyrdek was everywhere — on TV and at contests. In 2007 Transworld had to run a piece knocking down rumours that Ryan Sheckler had left the brand; that December, Ottawa’s Paul “Trep” Trepanier joined. In 2009 came the Illuminated commercial with Paul Rodriguez, and in September 2010 the Official Series Pro M-Class landed with signature models for P-Rod, Dyrdek himself, Brandon Biebel and Josh Kalis. The last traces of that run are Micky Papa signing in January 2013 and, in November 2014, an L-Class commercial with Cody McEntire picked up by Thrasher’s Skateline.

The brand still exists today and M-Class trucks are stocked across Europe, but it’s a far quieter operation: the official site is a bare-bones page with no team and no news.

The team

Every name you can actually document is historical: Ryan Sheckler, Paul Trepanier, Paul Rodriguez, Rob Dyrdek, Brandon Biebel, Josh Kalis, Micky Papa and Cody McEntire. Kalis still had a pro model in 2017, when Sidewalk reviewed the brand. There is no current roster published anywhere, not even on Silver’s own site.

The trucks

The range is tiered: M-Class (standard height, the line the brand launched with), L-Class (the low version) and Pro-Class. The one you’ll mostly find in Europe is the M-Class Hollow. Sidewalk tested it in November 2017: a 5.25” hanger on a 7.875” axle — slightly narrower than the industry standard — a hollow kingpin to cut weight, set low so the nut doesn’t catch mid-grind, custom bushings, and sized for 7.75” to 8” decks running 52–55 mm wheels.

One practical quirk when you’re buying: Silver sizes its trucks by axle width in inches (7.75, 8.0, 8.25) rather than hanger millimetres the way Independent does. The brand offers a lifetime warranty on kingpin, axle, hanger and baseplate, as long as the breakage wasn’t deliberate.

Who it’s for

It makes sense if you want a light street truck with a low kingpin that locks into grinds, and you don’t mind riding something outside the usual three or four names. It doesn’t if you need spare parts on demand from any European shop — Independent, Thunder and Ace are far easier to service — and it definitely doesn’t if what you actually wanted was a deck.

Before you buy, read each product title on this list carefully: if it says “Stage 11”, “Krux” or “Ace”, it isn’t a Silver, it’s another brand’s truck in a silver colourway. And if what you need is to work out which height suits you, there’s the Hi vs Lo trucks guide.