How was your daily longboarding ride/s?

Alpha06 · 08-02-2007, 07:36 PM

Today was kinda weird. I had some college? people in a mustang following me for three blocks screaming whoooooooo! yeahhhhh! It distracted me from my ride

m60feral · 08-02-2007, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Alpha06

Today was kinda weird. I had some college? people in a mustang following me for three blocks screaming whoooooooo! yeahhhhh! It distracted me from my ride

did they slow down to keep up with u? i hate that...

iHugTrees · 08-02-2007, 09:54 PM

^^^^^Annoying drivers and crazy dogs, two things that can turn a great cruise into a nightmare.

Dinero · 08-03-2007, 01:51 PM

i rode around my house for a bit and it was really hot so i chugged some gatorade. had a ride lastnight where my friend brought his new board and he was given a bad truck where the kingpin literally fell off 5 seconds into our ride. stupid...........oh and i bombed my first hill

isk · 08-05-2007, 05:24 PM

just amazing as always. ive only had my first longboard for 3 days and im having so much fun with it. its a loaded vanguard with randalls and gumballs. im still amazed how it rides everytime i step onto it. im getting the basics down, taking it everywhere i go. i dont mind the looks i get either, im probably the only person in my town who has a longboard.

well not anymore, i convinced a friend to buy my arbor fish which i also ordered to try it out. so tomorrow were gonna tear up some local hills togehter. i cant wait!

JibeCity223 · 08-05-2007, 05:40 PM

today i learned a bunch of sliding things from the slide help video adam was so kind to make. i was having a sick time untill i accidentally did a safety slide that whent over a pot hole and i felt something hit my arm. i thaught it was a rock at first but then i noticed that a chunck was missing outta my wheel the size of a quarter...tunnel rocks are not for sliding. ANywho ya couldnt piss me off 2day cuz it was just one of thoose awesomeness on top of awesomness with a cramy awesomeness center that pirateswin described in another thread.

i also stopped at a country club to tell my sister she needed to start walking home. i checked my board at the door but kept my slide gloves on and as i was walking thru some construction worker yelled at me to get back to work...i assume it was cuz my slide gloves are the hefty working gloves. i just gave the man a funny look and skipped away.

Alpha06 · 08-05-2007, 06:37 PM

m60 yeah they did. I hate that also, it just annoys me a lot for some reason.

As for today:
Hmmm todays ride was sub par. Standard cruising with moderate wind speed, high humidity and sunny sky's with temperatures in the mid 80's. Traffic was moderate today, with a near accident involving dihl syndrome (deer in head lights) locals. And now back to your standard programming.

Jibe, thats classic. "Get back to work" haha
I would have yelled back: "Hey man I quit two weeks ago!"

concreteaddict · 08-05-2007, 11:38 PM

my ride was pretty awesome. Went to alki for the dragon fly jam and tried some new boards including LBL dancer which im totally about to purchase.. i met longboard larry and then skated about 4 times up and down alki with some buds. Then rode to greenlake did about 3.5 laps and called it a day. rode about 20miles today :P it was awesome cuz im getting really good at footbraking and i love doing it behind unsuspecting walkers cuz its so loud lol. they get freaked out espessially at greenlake when its dark and you got sand and gravel under your shoe!

oh yeah i let this chick ride my board and she rode it through a baseball diamond that was all sand.. i was like uhh why did you just do that? so after she f-ed it i was like what the hell and started doing some stand up slides in the dirt it was awesome. end of story my back bearings are loud and needa be replaced

pyromaniacman129 · 08-05-2007, 11:45 PM

today, a truck droped gravel so i got a nice belly flop to the pavement at 30 mph. mice bruises, and my dumb ass had no pads on, but i had a helmet
safety first, haah siike

Johnni · 08-06-2007, 09:37 AM

Well yesterday was my first real ride in a week (I rode oncee in a parking lot and in front of a friend's house but those were just short little putt arounds) since I had a nasty biff last Sunday going down a hill. Me and my buddy rode around Whyte, a bike trail and around the U of A campus before making our way to the Heritage Festival in which we had to carry our boards around. Got some odd looks as well as some "Ohhh those skateboards are huge" or "Why is that board pointy?".
On the way out we rode part of the parking lot out of Hawrelak Park before the stairs that went up a hill. There were two cops who were on break. So me and Josh decided to go talk to them. The cops were complimenting our boards and thought that they were pretty sweet. One cop asked how fast they went. Josh said "Before you die?" Everyone had a chuckle and I responded with "Depends on the hill but it's possible to do 50". Some more small chit chat about other things and then I asked about rumors on riding boards on Whyte. We were told that it's technically illegal to ride on the street and sidewalks anywhere and that the only legal place to ride is at a skatepark. Then he went on to say that they're generally stricter on Whyte because there're might be 500 people in the span of two hundred meters whereas some residential there might only be one or two people who you could accidentally run over.
Then he went on to say that unless they see you as a risk and are causing trouble they're not going to bother because they've got more important things to look out for on Whyte like purse snatchers, aggressive panhandlers and people fighting. Yaddi yadda they said we looked like decent people so we shouldn't have much to worry about but If someone did write up a ticket, don't be shocked because it's technically illegal to ride skateboards around town. Josh was like "This is a skateboard?" "Errr...yeah" "I guess so since it's a plank with wheels". We wished each other a good day and then made our way uphill. Once we got to the top we hopped back out on our boards and rode back towards Whyte when it started to drizzle. Rode to Remedy to get shelter, food and chai lattes. I'd say it was a good day. Felt really good to be out there riding around again.

thered930 · 08-06-2007, 01:17 PM

today i skitched onto the ups truk

Bam Bam · 08-06-2007, 03:51 PM

I spent some of this evening learning cross step, pivot stand up slides with the Ninja Master Colton. I swear that man is a machine.
Left, Down, Square = *POW!* Backside Powerslide Shov-it
He has a controller in his pocket, i saw him do it.

So today was a good day, we're off to skate mini ramps in south england tomorrow, should be a laugh.

Oh and we're back from Europe 6 weeks earlier than planned. Long story.........

Spacedout45 · 08-06-2007, 05:08 PM

I went back to the home town to do some free laundry and chill with the fam and my neice wanted to ride her bike around so I went out and skated around while she rode and was bombing our col-de-sac (sp?) and drifting around the circle at the bottom and one of the times hit a sewer lid and got thrown off my drift a little and ended up in my neighbors garden... Oops! And I unfortunately made the mistake of buying gravity slide gloves (they were on sale at mhs and I wanted to bump my order up to $100 to get the free shipping

) And a second one of the pucks has just delaminated itself from the glue that sticks it to the velcro.... Weak titties if you ask me..