During the early part of the Eighties, ARA folded and skateboard racing fell into a decline. McCree retired from skateboard racing and devoted his time to his bustling architecture business. As the years sped by, McCree maintained contact with those he knew in the skateboard world, and the thought of improving on the Radikal design was never far from his mind. Then in July, 1987, McCree stepped back onto the skateboard racing scene at an event in central California billed as "Slalom Returns to Earth." Racing on the DSX models, McCree and his racing buddy Keith Hollien of Gainesville, FL, placed first and second in the Tight Slalom, respectively, with Hollien finishing fifth to McCree's sixth in the Giant Slalom. Overall, Hollien finished fifth to McCree's sixth, and the skateboard racing bug was once again alive in McCree's heart. McCree and Hollien had a go at it again in 1989 at what has become known as the "Great Virginia Beach Washout." Under less than ideal conditions for all racers, Hollien placed third and McCree fifth in the slalom event. Now the bug was reallybegging to be scratched. The Virginia Beach event had not been sanctioned by the NSA (National Skateboard Association) for various reasons, but the fast times posted by Hollien and McCree on the now 12-year-old original Radikals had McCree's inventive mind thinking, "We can improve these trucks and really make an impact on the sport once more." As McCree took his Radikals back to the drawing board, more years quickly fled by.

Fast-forward to the year 2000 when FCR (Fat City Racing) came out of retirement- and so did Racer, Mark McCree. As McCree re-entered skateboarding racing, so did the Radikal Truck. The new design for Radikal Trucks, produced the second generation of the now legendary skateboard racing steering system. Grass roots races begin to spring up around the Nation. An interest in the sport, which had never really died despite the dark years of the '80s, helped fire the new efforts. McCree recruited a team, located a partner, Mike Renick of Riviera Beach, Florida, and The Newly tooled Radikal Truck is back in the hunt for Championships once again. Florida Skateboard Hall of Famer Bobby Mandarino, a Fire Department Captain in Ormond Beach, FL, and the aforementioned Keith Hollien, employed by the University of Florida, quickly signed on to race with McCree for Radikal Trucks in the Pro Division. Soon Ricky Byrd of Jackson, MS, signs on for the Open Division, and his thirteen-year-old son Josh, joins to take on the Boys Division. But the real coup for Radikal comes when hard charging Kenny Mollica, an extremily versatile Apple Skatepark vert skating local back in the '70s, joined the Radikal Titanium II Pro Racing Trucks group of owners only three months after their release.

The new Radikal Titanium II Pro Racing Truck officially entered the market just as FCR's World Slalom Championships were set to getunderway in Morro Bay, CA, exactly one year after prototypes had still been on the drawing board. McCree had his Radikal team ready. Mandarino and Hollien meet McCree at Orlando International Airport on the morning of Thursday, September 25, 2003. They arrived in Los Angeles and rented a car to take them up to Morro Bay. At 9:30 pm, the team arrived at the Day's Inn and began to wrench and tune their decks, wheels and trucks to the rough racing surface that Morro Bay's Main Street offered. The fog is so thick you can't even see the famous Morro Rock. The next morning dawned grey with fog and a temperature of 52 degrees. It was an inauspicious beginning for a long day of Giant Slalom competition.

The team drove east toward the foothills to reach Paso Robles, about 35 miles from Morro Bay. It's cold and foggy in Paso Robles, as well, and every blade of grass appears to be dead. Still, there's a fine crowd on hand to see the first race of the World Championships. The course is burly and difficult. Ricky Byrd takes a nasty spill and is disqualified. Hollien and McCree are quickly ousted. Josh Byrd hangs on for a while in the Boys Division. Soon, only Mollica is left. He doesn't disappoint by attacking the course like animal. Thrusting, pumping and gyrating in between every cone with pin-point accuracy and generating more speed than the competition to capture the Giant Slalom win on Radikal Trucks! An amazing feat for sure against a heavy field of GS racers including Hutson, Kosick, Chicken, Fluitt, O'Shei, Ransom, Hackett and Olson.

McCree with 2003 World Champ Mollica

Back at the motel they Celebrated and got ready for the next day's race. None of them had brought any cold weather clothes and Sunday morning dawns just as cold and grey as the one before. It's the day of the Tight Slalom, (TS) in downtown Morro Bay. As cold wind blew off the Bay, and everyone was freezing. The wind chill factor was in effect as racers headed right into the wind. The TS proves to be a real crowd pleaser, especially in the Pro Division, with some notable races on the way to the championship: after 25 years of anticipation, Mark McCree finally gets a chance to race John Hutson and takes Hutson out. When the dust settled,it's the indefatigable Kenny Mollica, already the Giant Slalom World Champion, who would face off with Italian TS Legend, Luca Giamarco (who has come all the way from Italy) for the Tight Slalom championship. Tight Slalom is a double elimination event. Mollica gave it his best, but in the end Luca will not be denied. Without seeming to touch even one cone in the two head-to-head races, Luca managed to defeat Mollica for the Tight Slalom World Championship- But it was Mollica who took it all.

KENNY MOLLICA WON THE OVERALL WORLD SLALOM CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE - ON RADIKAL TRUCKS and the world of Skateboard Racing as we knew it, had changed forever. The team, and especially Mark McCree, was ecstatic! Radikals had won a World Championship! Mollica, with his second place finish in the Tight Slalom and the Giant Slalom Championship, was crowned Overall World Champion racing on Radikal Trucks! Radikal Trucks had podiumed at the World's! An amazing journey and accomplishment for McCree, and Radikal Trucks. The Radikal Titanium II Pro Racing Trucks had faced their stiffest test. A crowning achievement for a vision that began a quarter of a century ago, and a fitting triumph of McCree's competitive spirit, and a tremendous way to celebrate 25 "Radikal" Years.