Tasmanian born sisters, Bec and Amber spent much of their childhood on blades. Skating the pavements of the Hobart bike track and the ice rink.

It’d been a good decade or so when Bec re-donned wheels and spent a summer along the foreshore of St Kilda beach, clumsily remembering how to skate. Loving the wind in her hair and the sun on her face, she wondered why no-one was offering rentals by the beach, with the nearest roller rink being at least 30 mins drive away. 6 months later, she’d acquired and refurbished an old caravan, filled it with rollerskates and Rolla Bae was born!

When Bec was close to launching Rolla Bae in late 2019, Amber had just returned home from 18 months living abroad in Ibiza. Bec picked up her jet-lagged sister up from the airport and, as you can only really do with family, pushed a paint brush into her hand, and without hesitation (or even a post-flight shower), Amber got to work helping her sister with the finishing touches on the Rolla Bae caravan. Opening doors only a few days later, paint barely dry!

In May 2022, after wrapping Rolla Bae’s final season at St Kilda Beach, and a little weary from three consecutive summers of Melbourne’s chaotic weather and pandemic shutdowns, Amber and Papa Patterson drove the old girl filled with 150 pairs of skates along the coast all the way to sunny Queensland, for a new chapter of Rolla Bae.