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How we do in sweden
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On 6/18/2004
robotbobby
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Greetings from sweden. Enjoy some pics from the biggest downhill event in scandinavia.
http://brodin.truelearning.se/pub_bilder/2004_pub/20040605a_highvalley_downhill.htm
http://www.tacky.se/skateboard/bildserier/visa_bildserie.asp?imgcollid=280
http://www.ovetv.com/dokumentove_20040605_highvalleyclassic2004_galleri1.php
http://www.ovetv.com/dokumentove_20040605_highvalleyclassic2004_galleri2.php
http://www.ovetv.com/dokumentove_20040605_highvalleyclassic2004_galleri3.php
http://www.higvalley.se
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G-Flash
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On 6/12/2004 AdamH
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Thanks man. That sounds good. I was considering Kryptonics just couldn't decide which ones. I appreciate the help.
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AdamH d-town longskate
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On 6/12/2004
G-Flash
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Blue Krypto 76rs with Bones swiss and Jimmy Slinger 45 risers. Good for hills! No wheel bite so no supermans! Fast and stable with some slide action! Not too grippy!
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Wheels for Parks and more
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On 6/12/2004 AdamH
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Hey folks, I just ordered a Dogtown 39" Skate for Life deck and I plan on putting Randall R2 180's on it but I'm not sure what wheels to put on it. I want it to mainly be my Skatepark/Ditch board but I will likely be riding it in the street a little as well. Any opinions on some decent wheels for a set up like this. I don't want them to be too hard or too soft. Maybe grip the road but slide a little on the crete. Also, what type of bearings (under$20) Spacers and risers? Should I get soft risers, angled? Somehow it didn't seem this complicated in 1977. haha. I'm all ears...or ..uh.. eyes.
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Old Water Ski
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On 6/10/2004
North Carolina Longboarder
wrote in from
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Funny you should mention that! In 1979 I did exactly that...except it was tracker full tracks not Randalls....But damn, that is a great idea. I guess I will be digging around the junk shops this weekend.
To Everyone Else: Thanks for the ideas...I am checking them all out and I bet that there are others who will be too!
Roll on Brothers And Sisters! Roll on Roll on!
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Cheap Longboard 60" +
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On 6/10/2004
Roboto PDX
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Just go buy an old water ski and slap some r 180's on it. It's a great deck for around $5 - $10.
http://www.robosushi.com/cory/skate.jpg
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super longboard
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On 6/10/2004 toddc
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Here's a 50 incher for $30
http://store.yahoo.com/streetboardz/noname151.html
If you want a big nose and tail for walking tricks - try the fatboy, S9 Luke Nosewalker, Afroman Big Worm, Gravity Ed Economy, etc.
If you want a long wheelbase but don't want the big nose and tail - try the curve 46" swift (37.5 wheelbase) Insect Big Bug (35.5 wheelbase).
If you want something exotic - www.sk8shop.ch - pogo 140mm (38.5 wheelbase) needle tail or pogo 130mm (36.5 wheelbase)
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Loooooooongboards
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On 6/10/2004
Fatty
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stock sizes 48"-60", customs - sky's the limit!
www.longboardsbyfatboy.com
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Super Longboard
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On 6/10/2004
North Carolina Longboarder
wrote in from
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Great suggestions! Keep em coming gang.
Viatus: I will post a review of Foodlion next week after we ride it. I am taking both my 32" Santa Cruz and my 38" Think. I may even take my 46" Dregs and see how it does in that beginner bowl.
Talk to you soon. Thanks for all of the advise!
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OVER 50 INCH LONGBOARD
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On 6/10/2004
PALMER
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HEY NORTH CHECK OUT THE LUKE NOSEWALKER BY SECTOR 9. ITS 57 LONG BY 11.5 WIDE, 9 PLY WITH A KICK TAIL. IT ROCKS. GO TO WWW.SECTOR9.COM
PALMER
BLR
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Super Longboard Advise
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On 6/10/2004 vaitus
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yo NCL! here's my advise, get a gravity ed economy bank rider, it's a 57" 18plys baltic birch monstah with hweel cutouts, you can cruise or perform on this. or you could look into the ed e street rider, 15plys instead of 18, add a little flex and subtract a little performance. in my opinion you should steer clear of anything too flexy because with the long wheelbase of a supercruiser and your weight it would be tough to turn.
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Super Longboard Advise
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On 6/10/2004
North Carolina Longboarder
wrote in from
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Ok Gang! I got another hankering to add to the quiver (damn, my wife is going to freakin kill me..but heck, no worries!). The next board I want to purchase is something super long, say over 50"+. I am big rider (6' 215 lbs...no, I am not a fat ass...)so I am going to need a board that is stiff enough to handle the weight. This board is going to be used primarily for just cruising and looking cool around the neighborhood (joking-I haven't looked cool since about 1984) Cruising hills and carving about.
Ok, Longboarding freaks, give me the scope on the jumbos.
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Vids, and Adam H
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On 6/9/2004
Lenny
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I love the Gravity vids. Again, if y'all haven't checked them out, do so ASAP! Great stuff!! "Flow" could've had less sliding and more park stuff, but hey! It still rocked! Jessie Parker and Yancey Meyer and crew reshaped the possibilities as to what people can expect from longboarding on street. And Brad Edwards' slide-to-slappy? All I could do was rewind that to make sure I saw it correctly!! Any more vids in the works?
AdamH, I have two Gravity cues: the 46" concave carve for cruising around and pumping and the 39" concave carve for parks (my wife likes to carve and cruise on that as well). Anyway, I love them both!!! Right now there's a special on an older graphic of the 46" (actually the graphic I have), my advice is get it while it's there! You won't be sorry!!!
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vids
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On 6/9/2004
sfPaul
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Check out nuac.ca for some cool downhill videos.
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videos
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On 6/9/2004 robc
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tom and adamH- watch these:
http://www.supaflexbyug.com/supatv/index/html/index_e.html
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Longboard videos
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On 6/8/2004 AdamH
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Tom,
I just got 2 videos from Gravityboards.com . One was called FLOW and the other was a 3 in 1 special. Both are worth it. You can also go to their website and look at the team photos and on some of the member's individual pages there are short vids that will download automatically< If anyone else knows of any others that are worth picking up, I'd like to know what they are.
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Another UK guy
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On 6/8/2004
Tom Meakin
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Hi, you're articles have really inspired me, and i cant wait for my bozi pintail which should come this week/next. I was wondering how do you psyche yourselves for a run like NCLB was on about? I have only done a very few hills, because there are few where i am and i cant drive yet, but hope to do a lot more soon with the pintail. Also, what good longboardvideos are available, i need to see more for inspiration!
Tom
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Sayreville's concrete is longboard-friendly!
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On 6/7/2004
John Dillon,Team Fun
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The Wally Hollyday design/build concrete park in Sayreville, NJ is a blast to skate on a longboard. The crete is smooth, there's 4 partial bowls linked together, including a small clam-shell in the deepest roundwall corner. I rode a Powell NoKaOi 43.75" and a 38" Bulldog Longboard and had a blast. My co-pilot rode the Alva Longboard. The 4-hr drive in the rain sunday was worth it as it had stopped raining within 2 hrs of our destination.......needless to say, FDR was fun too for the dawn patrol session...just had to dodge puddles and trash...and the 60 degree temps made it even better than the 90+ temps a couple weeks earlier.
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421
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On 6/7/2004
North Carolina Longboarder
wrote in from
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AdamH: No worries on the questions....funny you should mention the part about filming it. My wife said the same thing last night...except in a sarcastic manner. I think her actual words were "Why don't you film it so I can see what the hell you have been talking about all *@#$&! day!" Ha ha.
Actually, the guys and I talked about it some on the drive back. I like your suggestion about using a van. I have an F150 pickup someone could actually sit in the back and film. Just got to find some buddies willing to get up at 4 am and then ride down a mountain watching us have all the fun!
As far as safety gear, I basically wear elbow pads, knee pads, helmet, and heavy leather work gloves (sometimes have to scrub off speed in the front side turns by touching the road.) I had ordered some sliding gloves from Boziboards but they didn't get here in time for this run. They are suppose to be here this week so I am going to test them out to see if they are a possibility.
Talk to you soon!
Roll on Brothers and Sisters! Roll on Roll on!
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anyone from virginia
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On 6/6/2004
ben
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Hey if anyone out there rides in VA post any good spots that they know and if you want to get together and ride thats cool too. I am always on the look out for longboarders in VA.
thanks ben
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421
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On 6/6/2004 AdamH
wrote in from
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NCLB, You aren't rambling. I appreciate the first hand account. I can only imagine the exhilaration. Have you considered filming any of this? maybe get some buds with a mini van to open up the back and ride in front of you filming the whole way down. You could also have folks on the side of the road in different locations with video cameras or even still cameras. With a run that long, people could actually move ahead, pull over, film you, then pass you and do it again. I don't know just sounds like something worth seeing.
Sorry to bother you with so many questions but what kind of protective gear do you wear for a situation like this? Anything beyond standard elbow, wrist, knee and helmet?.
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421 Run
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On 6/6/2004
North Carolina Longboarder
wrote in from
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AdamH: Thanks for the words, dude. It was great run this morning. I have been replaying it in my mind all afternoon (after my nap...had to get up a 4 am to go make the run). To answer your questions: So far we have not had any issues with the law. As you know 421 is a US Highway and not an interstate so at sunrise on Sunday mornings it is not patrolled very frequently. (A North Carolina Highway Patrolman actually lives about 1/4 of the way down on the left of the run and we just have this rule that you have to make your pivot away from his driveway so that we don't wake up his dog!) That is the only time we make the run and June and July are the only months we have attempted because of the early amount of daylight. The sooner we roll in at the top the less traffic. We were at the top at 5:45am this morning and could have rolled off then but one of the guys was having to make an equipment adjustment. I was riding my 46" Dregs cutaway with 180 Randalls and 75mm Red Kryptonics. My Bozi hasn't got here yet. The softer wheels seem to do better because a couple of the sections has a little rough pavement but nothing major. They held pretty good on most of the backside pivots but a couple of times I got a little heavy on the back and did a little unplanned sliding. There is one section where they have actually ramped the pavement up on a guard rail on the left and I actually got two wheels up on the guardrail itself. (Real cool idea but really stupid at the speed I was going). As far as my max speed I really don't have a clue. The damn thing is so wide, so long, and so big it is hard to get a perspective on the speed. I was carving it pretty hard in every pivot and was down in a crouch on both backside and frontside, standing up between the rolling between turns. Backside was hard railgrabs to make each pivot and scrub off enough speed. There is one section that you can actually bomb straight down the fall line because there is just this slight incline section at the bottom. I imagine I was going close to 45 mph there because a car coming behind me took a while to overtake me. (again another stupid move). I was down in a complete tuck and rolled right on over the incline section like it was not there almost.
This is my only 3rd time down it and I think today was my best run of it. The only problem with the run is there is no way to actually get your legs use to being on the board for that long of period of time and with that much work needed. Even when you are trying to go slow you have to work the board so hard on both sides of the road as you make your pivots to set up your next shot across the road. I actually started getting some cramps. toward the last 500 meters or so.
Sorry to ramble so much. It's just been on my brain all freakin day. We hope to get another shot at it later in the month. Weather was perfect today but that is not always the case. I started the ride wearing a light bicycle rain shell but got pretty damn warm and took it off while in one of the more mellow parts and shoved it in the pocket of my OP cargo shorts (my favorite skate shorts of all time!).
Have a great week! Thanks again for the post.
Roll on Brothers and Sisters! Roll on Roll on!
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421
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On 6/6/2004 AdamH
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NCLB, That's awesome. I've been down that strech in a car . Probably going slower than you were.(The person that was driving was scared out of their mind and I was too young to take the wheel) What a great place. Have you ever had any trouble with the Law doing that? just curious. Also, what would you say your average and top speeds were? What board were you riding?? New Bozi ??? Thanks for sharing.
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Today's Ride 4.5 mile Run Non-Stop!
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On 6/6/2004
North Carolina Long Boarder
wrote in from
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This morning at exactly 6 am 3 Carving Board enthusiasts and I lone longboard skateboarder rider (that's me) made our first run of the summer down Highway 421 east of Boone, NC starting at the top of the mountain and the new Blue Ridges Parway Bridge and carving down the mountain toward North Wilkesboro, NC. As I have described in the past, it is a 4 lane highway winding down a mountain with no median and a turning lane down the middle for almost the entire run and 4 lane's wide with no median the entire 4.5 mile length. As always it was like nothing I have ever ridden. I started my watch when I rolled in at the top off the side rode and 30 minutes and 36 seconds later I pulled a powerslide at the bottom beside the car left to shuttle back (I was not trying to go super fast just turn long carves and pivots at speed). As I have said before the grade of the route is about 6-8% in most sections and 5% for the rest. The state has paved the bottom half fairly recently and it was very smooth, the only obstacles being the embedded reflectors in the middle of the lanes. They are spaced far enough apart that they really don't come into play too much if you set up your carve right. When I say it was a 30 minute run I mean literally without stopping. I only stepped off my board once and that was at the top of the hill when I realized I had carried way too much speed early going into a backside pivot at a guard rail. My adrenilin had me pushing way too hard out of the top. That was pretty freakin stupid. I got my composure back and the rest of the run was just ridiculous! I felt liked I was stealing something at the bottom...it was so good I felt like I should be paying someone for that ride! Oh, that's right I have with my taxes! Thank you Department of Transportation of North Carolina for building such a fine piece of asphault off of that mountain and failing to consider a median! Damn, what a rush. And traffic was very light, with only 6 or 7 cars, two dogs, and one dude in a truck offering me a ride back up the hill cause "he was heddin dat way to go fishin'", the whole ride.
As a note of interest, the guys on the Carve Boards finished 19 minutes behind me. I actually walked back up the hill 1000 meters or so and finished the last section again with them.
Needless to say, I am toast now! The drive back (its about 1 hour) seem to take twice as long. Thanks for letting me share.
Roll on Brothers and Sisters! Roll on Roll on!
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Gravity
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On 6/5/2004 AdamH
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Pre- School, Thanks for the info. I just got a sector 9 that is 38" and it's my first longboard. I like it alot but I also want something a little longer like a 42". I suppose I'll gradually go bigger. I am considering a long DogTown board. Anyway, on the Flow video , I think my 2 favs were Isabelle Claudle and Yancey Meyer. They definatly didn't show enough of Isabelle. They have more of her on the website than they do on the DVD. I thought the stuff Yancey was pulling off was not only Rad but he did it with a smoothness and style. Same with Isabelle. I thought there was more than enough of Sergio Yuppie. He's a Badass for sure. I appreciate all types of skateboarding but am personally a bit tired of seeing photos and videos of people riding rails and jumping steps. I looked into longboards with carving the streets in mind and maybe a little skatepark stuff. I had no idea about the diversity of longboards. Opens up a whole new world.
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