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Slalom Cones
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On 6/12/2001 PSR
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I just noticed the price you paid for those beer cups,Adam.I bought my Pony Cones for $0.33 Each back in the day.Makes you wonder how much worse inflation will be in 15 years.
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Skate Racks
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On 6/12/2001
Hizzout
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I setup my own rack using "L" brackets meant for shelving. I bought them at a Home Depot for about $2 a bracket. Very simple setup, and inexpensive. If anyone wants to see the setup, e-mail me and I'll e-mail a pic.
Peace
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Rack
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On 6/12/2001 Duane
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I want a rack, too. I think a gun rack made for rifles would work pretty well, every Wal-mart and corner store here has them. Of course, they may be a little harder to find in the UK.
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Skate Racks
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On 6/12/2001
Simon
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Anyone know where you can buy a cool langboard rack so that they can come out of the garage and into the living room
Cheers
Si
COSMIC2 - LONDON UK
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tracker trekkers
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On 6/10/2001
hugh r
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I have put up some pics of the tracker trekkers... HR
http://www.longboard_skating.homestead.com/tracker_trekkers.html
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toe block
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On 6/2/2001 hc
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ricky, look under slalom from a couple of days ago, I posted description of the toe blocks on the board I bought from Maurice. The toe block looks home-made. If you are handy, you can make one using a jigsaw.
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Cones
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On 6/2/2001
SimFucious
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I grabbed 40 20oz "Plastic Cold Drink Cups" at the supermarket for like 2 bucks
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slalom cones
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On 6/2/2001 Adam
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Golf tees... yeah! My 32oz reusable beer cups are rocking on! $0.49ea from the drug store, and they come in red.
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Swiss Toe Block Thingie
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On 6/2/2001 Adam
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Can't find a toe block? Try this instead: Go to your local hardware store and ask for a self-adhesive 60-grit sanding disk, the kind used for bench sanders. Peel off your wimpy grip tape from the front of your deck and and slap that disk right behind the front truck. Makes Jessup grip feel like Charmin. One caution: don't leave your board in the sun or in a hot car... the sanding disk's adhesive is not as resistant to heat as normal skate grip tape.
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slalom cones
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On 6/1/2001
pepe
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I had an idea for a good slalom cones. Where I work, in a golf practice field, we use hundred of little rubber tee. They are about 2,5 inch high and the base is 2 inch wide. They won't roll like tennis balls (previous post) and if a car pass over it, there is no problem because they are undestructible. So if you want some, find a practice field, then at 3 o'clock in the morning.... well you know what to do.
Also, if you want them to look more like cones, just shot them with red paint et voila
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Swiss Toe Block Thingie
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On 5/31/2001 Ricky
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I forgot to tell you to look under the "Slalom" section of the Midtown page
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Swiss Toe Block Thingie
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On 5/31/2001
Ricky
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If it's not clear what I'm talking about when I say "Toe-Block", look at the close-up picture of Strobels(sp?)board on this page. http://homepage.mac.com/midtownpaloalto
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Swiss Toe Block Thingie
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On 5/31/2001
Ricky
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Are the Toe Blocks the Swiss guys at Morro had an available item? Does anyone think they are useful? I do notice my foot sliding forward during a tight cone run.
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software
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On 5/18/2001
hugh r
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My sister, the Engineer, has offered to write some software for designing decks and interfacing with milling machines and such. This will be freeware stuff (at least for non-pro designers/builders)
Do any of you know the protocol that is used for this type of machine to computer communication?
Also, what type of features would you like to see in this software?
Input will be appericiated!
So far, I would like it to be able to do full image manipulation in 2d... fully scalable printing... interface via a standard protocol to machinery... fully adjustable brush strokes... capable of importing multiple types of images (jpgs, bmps, etc...)
What else? Let me know what you think... thanks, HR
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Griptape cutting
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On 5/18/2001 Herbn
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I do diecuts around top graphics all the time.Flip the tape,locate the area,lines from the sides, aim for center,remember things are backwards.The best thing to use is a straight edge razor blade,cheap in a box of a 100,in the paint section of Homedepot.I recently did the outline of a knights helmet to match part of a topgraphic on a darkstar board so close it was scary.It's cool to see that stuff come back when the boards all busted up,usually a month or two later, and i like to think that if they do go occasionally to other shops,they leave an impression,or at least raise the question,"who did that?"
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Old style colored griptape
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On 5/17/2001 Pre-School Rider
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Mark,go look at www.oldschoolskates.com under 'accessories' for your tape(they have Flypaper,too)-Just don't go buy all the goodies I'm saving my pennies for!
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grip taping
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On 5/17/2001 Mark
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Andy,
Leo is right on: make a paper template of the top of your deck.
Use something like tracing paper or vellum, something you can see through.
Place paper on the deck, and rub the side of a pencil lead around the edge
of the deck where the rails start their radius.
Cut that out / trim it to fit the top surface of the deck (the area where
you want grip tape).
After that, it should be easy to position the paper and trace around the
logo / graphic.
Label the template as to which side is "up", and trace it onto your grip tape,
placing the "up" side against the backing paper on the grip tape.
Ruin some scissors cutting out the tape, and voila!
Mark Colden
Dallas, TX
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Colored grip
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On 5/17/2001 Herbn
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I was thinking of trying to stick down industrial sanding belts in search of truely tight holding abrasive grip,some of those belts are blue or dark red, perhaps not exactly the colors YOU had in mind,but the soles of my shoes ,as far as i can tell, are color blind, and have no particular artistic preference:)
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colored grip tape
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On 5/16/2001
Leo
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NIC hit the archives and you will find a link that was gave it to me of fledex products, they have colored grip tape and they even have a camouflage one.
ANDY: try to use a big sheet of paper and make a template.
leo
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how do i cut griptape out for a pic
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On 5/16/2001 andy
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how do i cut griptape out so that the picture or logo on the top of a deck will show?
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grip tape
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On 5/14/2001 Mark
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OK, here's a question:
Where do I get good grip tape these days?
Most of what I see is like wimpy finishing sandpaper.
I want that flesh-removing gnarly rough stuff I used to get back in the late 1980's,
and I want colors! All black is boring!
Please help.
I create artwork with grip tape, sometimes really complicated stuff, and I am running out.
Another question:
Let's say I've generated some severe artwork with my grip tape, and I want to spray a "sealer"
over the top of it - something that would help hold all the different pieces together and in
place, but would dry fairly flat (and there fore still be rough) and not be sticky. Anybody
know of something to try? Would "Workable Fixatif" be the stuff? I would appreciate any
advice or comments.
thanks,
Mark Colden
Dallas, TX
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re: cones, sort of
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On 5/11/2001 Mark
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kaspian,
The image you just described was spot-on,
and hilarious.
I love seeing people 'freak' on what I'm doing,
simply because it's something out of the ordinary
that they're not used to seeing.
long live longboards,
Mark Colden
Dallas, TX
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"cones" (sort of)
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On 5/11/2001
kaspian
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Okay, I got 48 beer cups at a local discount store for $1.99. The brightest color they had at Reny's (your #1 source for all needful things in the State O' Maine) was a translucent pink.
I also got 2 rolls of red duct tape from a Spring Clearance table in an assortment labeled "Bag of Tape" for 99 cents.
Having plunked down a whopping $3.12 (with tax), I am now ready to lay out the Rockport Harbor Slalom Run O' Death on a road mainly used by "summer people," but currently crawling with local working stiffs getting the million-dollar homes spiffed up for the coming season. These guys, in my experience, tend to enjoy a little sporting activity to distract them from brooding about the widening gap between rich and poor in this country. A middle-aged guy smashing into pink plastic cups while weaving frantically about on a Fluid Stinger ought to provide some fleeting entertainment.
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Tennis ball cones
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On 5/10/2001
Neil G
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I haven't had a problem with safety with the tennis balls, they seem to just get punted out of the way when I hit them. Another advantage of them is compactness - I can fit 20 or 25 of them into a can that formerly held 4 tennis balls. Compared to real cones they make a course a little easier, you can get closer to them, no worries about brushing them with your leg, and the "psych" factor is way down. However they are way better than nothing. As PSR noted they are also unobtrusive, you can set them up anywhere without too much hassle, and if a car comes you can just leave them there and let the car drive over the course.
Neil
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