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On 1/19/2002 mikez
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I still wanna skate it ;) damn I'd do anything(within reason) to ride a hill like that(can you guys say "2002 guinnes world speed record for stand up/luge/buttboard/gravity bikes/inline/GF1 etc etc etc hmmmmm It's so much fun to use your imagination)
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On 1/19/2002 Duane
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Mike, you are subject to arrest for just being inside the fences on US interstates, as a pedestrian / hitchhiker / whatever. Trust me, I got picked up a few times at the ditch skating spots in Maryland growing up. US interstates tend to never run out of cars, unfortunately. I bet US101 dropping into Marin would be good for 80-90mph on a luge, but hundreds of thousands of cars per day, non-stop.
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On 1/19/2002 mikez
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wo there after re-reading my post I realise it could be misinterpreted as a direct defience against the safety this site so carefully implies, what I meant when I said "15 miles of holding your tuck could get a man down but y'know ... I spose life could still go on." I meant that holding your tuck for 15 miles could really wear you out but I spose you could handle it
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On 1/19/2002 mikez
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I still wanna skate it, I've skated a national road and I saw only two cars the whole time! Any road can be empty at the right time, what do the police say about skaters on highways in the states?(must be something crazy)
also 15 miles of holding your tuck could get a man down but y'know ... I spose life could still go on.
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On 1/19/2002
hugh r
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Actually it's a bit more than a road... It's a multi-lane, well traveled Freeway (although technically it's a Highway) The steep part is around 15 miles long with around a 9% grade... many cars die going up it! There is probably 10 to 15 more miles of slight grade into Bishop. A very insane stretch of California... HR
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On 1/19/2002 mikez
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STUFF THE TAPE I WANNA SKATE THE ROAD!!!!!
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On 1/19/2002
hugh r
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Does anyone have the vid of the hwy 395 run that was done by Waldo (I'm pretty sure it was him)? I beleive he hit somewhere around 110 mph... I would love to see that tape! HR
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On 1/17/2002 TJ
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Wheres Waldo?
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On 1/16/2002
hc
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cool, 119mph!
http://www.the-rocketman.com/luge2001.html
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On 1/4/2002 mikez
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cause(as shnitzel would put it)
there's a damn modem stuck in the way ;)
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On 1/4/2002 hc
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why is the streetluge.com bbs so damn slow to load? (and the most popular one)?
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On 1/2/2002
david
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....i'm getting young and lazy.....
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On 1/2/2002
kmg
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Sorry Chris,
I must be gettin' old and lazy.
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On 1/1/2002
Chris Chaput
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Okay Dave, Your pictures are better but I have a picture about 11 posts down that shows all three side by side!
KMG, How did you miss that?
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On 12/31/2001 kmg
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Dave,
Great pics. Thanks
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On 12/31/2001
david
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a pegless luge is a luge without the extensions that support the feet. these are more safe because without foot pegs there is less chance of the riders locking luges during a race. http://4.33.176.246/streetluge/images/misc/IMG_1925.jpg
the thing is the foreground is a pegless luge made by the roger brothers. this is basically a luge just with no foot-pegs.
http://4.33.176.246/streetluge/images/misc/IMG_1932.jpg
this is also a pegless luge made by darren lott. this is more of a extremly hi-tech butt-board, but its not a buttboard because it violates almost every buttboard rule, but it still looks very cool.
hope that helps
-david
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On 12/31/2001
kmg
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I've read the posts about Darren Lott's resignation from the IGSA, but I still don't have any idea what a pegless streetluge looks like. Anybody have some links or pictures?
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On 12/24/2001
hugh r
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Is that busted up ol' Sean M? How you doin mister?
Are you planning on attending DT's Skate-N-Shoot?
HR
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On 12/23/2001
sean
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Julian,
I have a couple of street luges 4-sale if you are interested e.mail me.
Thanx,
Sean
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On 12/22/2001
Chris Chaput
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Splitters give you 4 wheels on four axles using one truck. All of the wheels are parallel to one another and so they "fight" each other in turns when the frontmost wheels should be turning sharper than the wheels behind them. Thats why we use two trucks with independently turning axles. We shim the front cushions up to get the front truck to steer a bit more in turns.
Darren has two back-to-back wheels on each side of a single (Moe) truck in the front and back. With sideset wheels that take the smaller (.300") spacer, he has just enough axle length to do this. He has a shorter board than most and chose not to put two trucks in front of one another. 8 wheels total.
In the past Darren has used dual trucks front and back, 8 wheels total.
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On 12/20/2001 Duane
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Mario, if you want to try the 4 wheels on one truck thing, you should try putting 10mm inner bearings into a randal spin axle truck (probably the 170mm would be better to keep the overall width down). You could then use a 10mm axle and the SiN bearings which would fit. For a good quality axle you would have to have one made, look for a shop with a centerless grinder. 8mm axle with that much overhang would bend, immediately.
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On 12/20/2001 hc
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mario, you meant those kwiksplit/moe things? Chaput claims they don't work, something about wheel scrub.
I like the 4 wheel on a truck idea, hope the axle wont bend.
I wonder how those moe trucks ride, too.
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On 12/20/2001 Mario
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I was looking at the truck setup on Darren's luge and I wonder how hard it would be to make trucks like that. Couldn't I just put some axles in my trucks that were 2" longer than normal? Then I could mount the wheels back to back and get double the contact patch. This measn I'd have to use flush-back wheels, though. Or get longer axles for different wheel sets.
I've been thinking about doing two sets of wheels on a single pair of trucks, but mounting them front to back, like those inline wheels (I forgot the name, but nobody seemed to like them). Anyone tried that? Why don't I just use two sets of trucks in the front? Just trying to be different.
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On 12/19/2001
hc
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ride this sat in SJ
check under events
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On 12/18/2001
Chris Chaput
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Lose the pegs.
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