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On 11/15/1999
Lindsay
wrote in from
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It's those little 1-2" ridges between the street and a driveway,
where the driveway joins the street. I keep hitting them and
taking a dry dive.
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On 11/14/1999 Jesse M
wrote in from
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I was riding down this hill. Not too fast maybe 18-19 mph. I was riding my homeade board and it has like wal-mart brand trucks on so they really suck. I went to do a coleman slide and the back truck broke off of the bolt. I scraped up my elbow a litt le but that was all.
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On 11/13/1999
mike
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this happened to my cousin. it was two days after we got our old school board.
he was down low and fell off and came down on his elbow. he shattered it. $10,000 to
rebuild it with stainless steel and screws. this is not a flashy crash story.
the point is protection lots of it. we knew how to skate long before we got these new boards,
so we were not inexperianced.
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On 11/12/1999
namon
wrote in from
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I hate twigs. When ever I do a backwords nose ride thing (I have no idea if there is a real name for this tricck thing, but its just when you do like a hang ten, but you hang your heels over the edge) I allways hit a twig or something ellse that is not happy. And then I fall. And then I get hurt. And that is not fun.
-naMon
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On 11/12/1999 PreSchoolRider/Re; The joys of fall
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Ah,Autumn!I'm here in the second worst town to SK8 around in the world,Richmond,Va.When I do find that odd side street that has good tar,a hill(Kinda,sort of..)and a lack of Stock Car fans emulating their fave racer,I bust out the old 50" an go cruisin'.Last week was nice,sunny,in the lower 80's,just beautiful!So I'm rollin' down a fairly nice hill,doing 20ish.The leaves have fallen on most of the trees,and the people here rake the piles out into the side of the street,presumably to be collected.So I'm Flowing pretty good,when Minivan-Mom-from-Hell comes rippin' up the street at 45-50(in a 25 zone),and cuts me off.I put it right into one of these leaf piles,sliding at speed.BIG POOF,leaves everywhere,And I don't lose much speed!I dug it hard when my wheels got back onto the tar,plus I'm blinded by all the leaves in the air.I bounced into a mailbox post,Ouch.I'll be glad to get out of this town,if I can do it alive.
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On 11/12/1999 brian
wrote in from
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this one happened a little while ago, but now that everyone is talking about twigs i thought i come forth. so me and a couple friends were going down this nicely paved trial in the woods. alot of leaves and stuff, but we figure, we're tough, we can take it. start gaining a little speed when (silmultaneously) i heard the sound wheels make when you slide and i did a flip in the air and landed on my back in front of the board. happened too fast to even think. just bruised up my knee and ankle one one leg.
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On 11/12/1999 Luke
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Hose incident: I ride to work every day (great weather in Denver!) and am corporate--shirt/tie/nice--pants so I get stared at plenty. One day I'm headed home and see the fine female. I'm just cruising (ok, and staring) so I assume the concrete is the same as always. Anyway the gardeners were apparently about because a hose stopped my board so quickly I was horizontal in the air then on the ground so fast I cdidn't move my arms or anything (imagine a Ken doll). Oof. Did NOT get the girl . . .
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On 11/12/1999 Trevor
wrote in from
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Twigs do suck. My friend Shawn Marshal eats shit all the time becuase of twigs
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On 11/12/1999 SXE Phil
wrote in from
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TWIGS SUCK!!! It's Fall in New York right now and their all over the streets. I got hung up doing a nose wheelie. I went flying off my board and bruised my hip, it definately sucked. Also a twig got hung up in my truck, the board stopped, I kept going and felt stupid. Keep your eyes on the road, especially in the Fall. Sorry, no stories of broken bones from unrealistic speeds from this skater. Just a couple of minor hang-ups. Later.
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On 11/12/1999
alex and daz
wrote in from
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hahaha thats a funny story brian, hahaha, Im laughing cause I know exactly the fall you mean, Ive done it a few times actually, like riding along slowly, cause your just standing on your board and not thinking about much, then all of a sudden a small damn twig stops the board and you go flying, OUCH, hurts, but all falls hurt, i guess what hurts more is the stupidity of it, your trying to look or casual on your board (cause people stare at you cause your on a longboard) (and they stare more especially if your a GIRL!) and then you fall and look all DORKY, it sucks, its the humiliation (or embarrasment) that hurts, but yeah you GET OVER IT quickly, but it seems to happen when everyone is around and watching, ,murphys law, murphy gets to me, later longboard skaters! keep riding with a smile :)
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On 11/11/1999
namon
wrote in from
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Brian, thats kind of funny.
Those crashes have to be the worst. When you fall beause you where going to slow, and hit something. Wel, when you are going fast, and you hit something, that hurts too.
naMOn
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On 11/9/1999 brian
wrote in from
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well i was skating on some tennis courts and not looking at the ground when all of a sudden i got bucked off onto the ground. when i got up with just a hole in my pants i looked to see what stopped me. some punk tennis player had left a candy bar on the ground!
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On 11/9/1999 Jesse
wrote in from
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Lil dog Dude I bet that hurt did u brake any bones Why did you not move your car
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On 11/9/1999 DT
wrote in from
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Lildogie,
were you wearing a helmet?
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On 11/8/1999
LILDOG
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It was a chill summer day in July. I was at my little brother's friend's birthday party. He was turning 15. He had a skate party for him and his friends and I tagged along because I own a longboard. My dumb ass decided to bomb his street which started at the top of a nice slope and flattened out in a wide culdesac. He lived on a street in "rich" Fair Oaks, CA. So I took a look at the street and planned on bombing it straight down and curving to the left along the perimeter of the asphalt. I skated off, gained speed, started my turn and clipped the tires of my car. My dumbass had parked at the center-edge of the culdesac with my tires protruding out. I misjudged the turn and couldn't fix it because I had too much speed. I saw my obstacle coming (my car tire), I sucked in a lot of air, and flew off landing on my stomach, rolling to my left side and stopping on my back. My car tire had completely stopped my board when I was in the middle of a quick turn. I woke up on my two feet, with blury vision, looking at the birthday boy asking me if I was okay. I had bloody elbows, bloody knees, a scraped back and a scraped head. For twenty minutes I washed myself off and thought I was dreaming as I replayed memories in my mind of the weekend before. In this state, I asked myself if the characters in my memories really existed. For two weeks, if I turned my head too quickly or looked down for more than 3 seconds, I felt my head still moving and got dizzy easily. That fall was the weirdest experience. I actually understand now why artists drew stars and flying birds around a dizzy cartoon's head after an accident. All bombers should wear pads.
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On 11/8/1999 Herbn
wrote in from
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Holding out on wobbles? its a judgement call. One you only have to make if you miss-judged the hill and your trucks stability.Thats two strikes and now those wobbles are comin up. First ,did you have the intellegence to make slider gloves or at least wear reg. gloves (they would probabely work for one highspeed slide) that's three strikes ;you deserve a good long bodydrag on the asphalt. With gloves,on real loose trucks ,the wobs might hit around thirty and if you practice sliding you have no problem.If you have no gloves, to save yourself you might try turning,turn like your life depends on it(it might) trucks usually don't wobble while turning just crank one hard turn after another watch the backside turns but don't be to cautious ,during a long cautious carve the speed just picks up.If you do hard carves from the top of the hill ,you can probabely keep the speed down below the wobblezone. Carve hard,wear gloves,know your abilities and wobbles should not be a problem , An old time skatebud ,named Charly ,from way back once kneeslid(on pads) thirty feet in the street ,up over a asphalt curb ,and another 30 feet on someones lawn, because he got wobbles and the road was turning sharper than he could, got up without a scratch,thats how the story goes.(run if you must) By the way don't even try to run the speed your going when you decide to bail, while running, like when skating your weight needs to be centered,centered means leaning back if your going faster than you can run, imagine a series of jumps landing on alternating feet, you'll probabely sprain or at least compression stress your ankles and they'll hurt for a couple of days. I hope this isn't a rant,when I reread it to check for typos it seemed interesting and informative.
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On 11/8/1999 DT
wrote in from
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If you look in the "trucks archives" you will find an indepth discussion on speed wobbles.
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On 11/7/1999 PreSchoolRider/DA-Wobs
wrote in from
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Charles,what is happening when your trucks wobble is that a wheel destabilizes by imbalance and-or deflection from rolling true and straight.The skate board truck,being basically designed by some roller skater in the 1930's,is a wholly inadequate device for the function of steering your board at speeds greater than 25 M.P.H. That said,I should add that any current truck using a convetional layout(Indy,Tracker,Fury,Etc.)is a highly Refined version of this steering machinism,and can be easily altered to work at speeds that the original Sure-Grip or Chicago designers would have considered ludicrous(50 M.P.H.+ standing,75 M.P.H. luging).In the past thirty years some have altered the layout to allow for quite different angles of steering to allowed(such as the Rebound,Gullwing H.P.G.,Variflex,and currently Randal designs)by reconfiguring the placement of the bushings and the pivot point in the truck.Other notable ideas have been Torsion tube setups(where Independant Trucks got their name)that kept the wheels in contact with the ground more thoroughly,Strokers,that turned each wheel as the truck hanger tipped,and now Seismics that use a pivot axle,not a point,and coil springs to regulate turn rate. The best fixes for the wobbles are,use a stiffer bushing set,alter the geometry of the pivot with angled risers(Reduce the angles,which makes for a longer turn arc),and-or get onto a board that is twist resistent (concave,not flat;stiffer,not too flexy),and if you're psycho,balance your wheels.Note that Randal makes four distinct baseplates for their trucks,at different angles,for different turn arcs and stability.
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On 11/7/1999 brian
wrote in from
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you can stop wobbles by getting some real downhill trucks like randals. or for a quick but cheap fix, tighten your trucks as much as possible. it won't really fix it but it might be a little better. oh yeah, to "not crash" simply hold out the wobbles, never jump off and try to run.
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On 11/7/1999
Charles Holiday
wrote in from
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What is the cause of "speed wobbles"? How can I stop them
so that I can go faster and not crash.
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On 11/5/1999
Carlo Medina
wrote in from
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Obviously "Mork the Dork" has'nt slammed the pavement real good yet. It only takes once to realize how vital pads are. Go ahead, don't wear pads. Its a form of population control and your genes need to be weeded out anyway.
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On 11/5/1999 brian
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Pads are for pussies.... yeah, smart guy.
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On 11/5/1999 DT
wrote in from
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Mork the DORK,
Every racer in the x games and gravity games wears pad , so i guess there pussies,
dumb ass
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On 11/5/1999 mork the gork
wrote in from
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It's always a good idea to scope out your lines before a bomb. You never know where that raised manhole's gonna be. So just make sure to inspect your 7-11 beef jerky for hair before grubbin cause there's some sick scabby suicidal puppies out there. P.S. PADS ARE FOR PUSSIES!!!
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On 11/4/1999 TIO
wrote in from
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Perhaps no one is writing about crashes because there are no crashes to talk about. Go figure. Ok, here's my recent story: I was riding my board too slow down a sidewalk and the wheel got stuck in the crack. My backpack TOTALLY fell over my head as I plummeted to the ground. Luckily, my hands hit the ground first thus saving me from major head trauma.
Fin.
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