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Old 07-25-2007, 02:35 PM   #41
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Just saynig hello.

I'm going to be skating across NZ in January next year. We are raising money for CanTeen and will take about 3 mothns to do the whole trip.

It will juat be me skating it. I hope to get in some slalom, downhilling and bowl action as well as the daily pushing.

go and check out www.skatenewzealand.com

would be good to hook up with you all.

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Old 07-26-2007, 04:42 AM   #42
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good plan man look us up in dunno's
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good plan man look us up in dunno's
Wheres that shot in your sig taken?
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Old 07-26-2007, 04:49 AM   #44
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and more joining us every week as they discover longboarding
hanging out bombing filthy hills (bit too much grit on the roads in winter tho)
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Wheres that shot in your sig taken?
St Clair in the city nice car park for a skate before a surf long as the filth don't nab ya
but i just argue its street/longboarding
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I just posted a drop deck I cut out of an old sector9 on the speedboarding section check it out
and if you need advice on the build of your bamboo carver (just ask)
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Haha, well how do you do it? Im trying to figure out how to get the bamboo into the right shape. Its bloody hard.
You could pm me if you dont want the public to know your secret haha.
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Old 07-28-2007, 12:58 AM   #47
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Haha, well how do you do it? Im trying to figure out how to get the bamboo into the right shape. Its bloody hard.
You could pm me if you dont want the public to know your secret haha.
just make yourself a press.Its really not that hard, have a look at the toothless method check out some threads on boardbuilding. get plenty of G clamps. Tip before you go bending up your bamboo throw some crap ply in your press and check out the concave, camber to see if you have it right
glues I use are epoxys and medium fibre glass. also check out the Lushboards site theres some good threads there too. Aunty says aways wear a mask when glueing and shapeing.
cheers..another tip draw a center line down your new board with the cut out lines,make sure your templete ie paper drawing, has a good 20mm or more around the edge,this will give your final cut edges a clean glued look.. then laminate put it in your press make sure you line up your center lines of your board and your press. start clamping from the nose to the tail either side as you go down the deck to push out any air, give it 2 days and you are ready to start cutting.
So now its your turn to go make a board.
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just make yourself a press.Its really not that hard, have a look at the toothless method check out some threads on boardbuilding. get plenty of G clamps. Tip before you go bending up your bamboo throw some crap ply in your press and check out the concave, camber to see if you have it right
glues I use are epoxys and medium fibre glass. also check out the Lushboards site theres some good threads there too. Aunty says aways wear a mask when glueing and shapeing.
cheers..another tip draw a center line down your new board with the cut out lines,make sure your templete ie paper drawing, has a good 20mm or more around the edge,this will give your final cut edges a clean glued look.. then laminate put it in your press make sure you line up your center lines of your board and your press. start clamping from the nose to the tail either side as you go down the deck to push out any air, give it 2 days and you are ready to start cutting.
So now its your turn to go make a board.
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I'll give it a try, dunno how successful i will be.

How do you flatten out the bamboo? And do you use ply in between the bamboo? Or is it all bamboo?

Bamboo, bamboo, bamboo?
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Old 07-30-2007, 11:25 PM   #49
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good plan man look us up in dunno's
Where do all you guys hit it up down there...

I'm up in Christchurch, but have a few good mates at uni down south who I'm keen to get boarding, so may be paying them a visit sometime soon (hopefully)!

If there's any particularly good streets to ride, could ya chuck a post up with the details - lol - saves me having to spend all my time hunting round (as much as I love finding sweet spots to ride myself) while I could be giving my mates a go!

Oh, and off the cuff... has anyone ridden the motorway (southern) heading from the airport toward the city? I vaguely remember there being a nice long hill somewhere along the way, can't remember it too clearly, and have no idea about the road surface either... hmmm, it's probably completely illegal though... lol, that's never stopped me before (unless some of you boarders in Dunners are respectable cops for your day jobs, in which case of course I'd most certainly never consider illegal skateboarding on the motorway late one night... never!).
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Old 07-31-2007, 03:48 AM   #50
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yeah the motorway
for a sweet little hill f no traffic but its pretty much one lane
park at tahuna cemetry and wander across the golf course to the hill at the end of john willy drive- its closed and security guards are good if you just stay on the hill and treat em with respect , please do as a few of us regularly use the hill and have a good deal going that would be sad to see go due to too many people using the hill and pissing off the rent-a-cops . please keep it on the quiet.
here's a little video i made there ....yeah i'm just a kook.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul4okoPMp90
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Old 07-31-2007, 05:22 AM   #51
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thanks for shareing the vid its nice to see kiwi stuff
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I'll give it a try, dunno how successful i will be.

How do you flatten out the bamboo? And do you use ply in between the bamboo? Or is it all bamboo?

Bamboo, bamboo, bamboo?
ok Im gonna give up my supplier.... check out Woven Bamboo in tauranga they supply sheets of 1,3,and 5mm ask them to cut it to length you should get 6 pieces easy from a sheet , enough for 2 deck at 1150mm /300mm 3 layers laminated per deck if you want a strong deck put more fiber glass in to stiffen.
DO YOU WANT ME TO MAKE YOU ONE? $$$
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ARGGGGGGHHHHHHHH when will it stop raining?!?!?!?!
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ARGGGGGGHHHHHHHH when will it stop raining?!?!?!?!
What are you talking about its not raining.
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What are you talking about its not raining.
yay ####een hooray.... the morning after i post it fines up..... after way too many days of rain...
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ok Im gonna give up my supplier.... check out Woven Bamboo in tauranga they supply sheets of 1,3,and 5mm ask them to cut it to length you should get 6 pieces easy from a sheet , enough for 2 deck at 1150mm /300mm 3 layers laminated per deck if you want a strong deck put more fiber glass in to stiffen.
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How much?

But nah i really want to try myself. Ah.. so you buy your bamboo in sheets....
I'll see what i can do.


Has anyone driven over the kaimai ranges? The Hamilton side?

That would be intense, to say the least.
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kiaora..
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kick around on a longboard with my daughter and partner weekends..
pretty much a newbie, but loving it all the same,
thought it would improve my surfing.. and quality time with family
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...then i finish work and it faarrkn rains again..... man dorkland sucks for that.

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Has anyone driven over the kaimai ranges? The Hamilton side?

That would be intense, to say the least.
nah bro sweet as aye, its a hill, and its a lil wind, but not as intense as the gorge to gissie aye.

hey kookyfish, would the bamboo place ship the boo or would we have to go on the roadtrip to collect?
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nah bro sweet as aye, its a hill, and its a lil wind, but not as intense as the gorge to gissie aye.

hey kookyfish, would the bamboo place ship the boo or would we have to go on the roadtrip to collect?
Yeah Traffords Hill just passed Matawai would be insaaaaaaanee! One of my bmxing friends went 80k down that on his bike.

But the gorge itself isnt too bad. Its pretty flat. Its the hills leading into the gorge that are the best.

Seriously i think we should all go on a road trip and just find some cool hills. Not really intense ones though haha.
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nah bro sweet as aye, its a hill, and its a lil wind, but not as intense as the gorge to gissie aye.

hey kookyfish, would the bamboo place ship the boo or would we have to go on the roadtrip to collect?
they will ship it no problem . best way to do it is to ask them really nice like can you cut it to 300/ 1175 lenghts long grain . its easy then to put on a truck rather than a sheet.
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