How was your daily longboarding ride/s?

**Sk8Guy31** · 11-27-2009 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by Wendler

Pff, 100+.

Arizona we're in the 110-115+ range during the summer, we still skate

lol props for dedication XD

**mace the bass** · 11-27-2009 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by Wendler

Pff, 100+.

Arizona we're in the 110-115+ range during the summer, we still skate

But you guys got 110 dry heat! Down here its all nasty sweaty humid heat.

**Sk8Guy31** · 11-27-2009 02:57 PM

Originally Posted by mace the bass

But you guys got 110 dry heat! Down here its all nasty sweaty humid heat.

ye thats much worse than dry heat

**milothefultz** · 11-27-2009 09:09 PM

Crappy rainy day until about 1:30, then a one hour ride down the brand newly paved bike path working ONLY on cross-stepping. Now I feel like I can really do one right. And I got a teenage hipster in a brand new convertible to look at me funny and the girl sitting next to him to smile. Alternative transportation FTW!

**FaceVsAsphalt** · 11-27-2009 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by milothefultz

Crappy rainy day until about 1:30, then a one hour ride down the brand newly paved bike path working ONLY on cross-stepping. Now I feel like I can really do one right. And I got a teenage hipster in a brand new convertible to look at me funny and the girl sitting next to him to smile. Alternative transportation FTW!

Where is there a newly paved bike path? I want to skate it.

**Smurf** · 11-27-2009 10:21 PM

For the last week ive been trying to get this pair of skate wheels down to like 30mm from 56mm!
Its a bigger challenge than I anticipated!

**milothefultz** · 11-28-2009 01:54 AM

Originally Posted by FaceVsAsphalt

Where is there a newly paved bike path? I want to skate it.

Springfield starting about 38th and Watermark going until Pioneer Parkway E is all repaved, I believe.

from: 35th and Watermark to: 1889 pioneer parkway E Springfield OR - Google Maps

Point A and point B are roughly your start and stop points. It's pretty nice BUT for some reason there seems to be a bunch of gravel on the path at certain points. :\

**AFTT** · 11-30-2009 02:58 PM

I broke in my new Otang 86a Stimulus.

These wheels drift forever!

**DreadFred** · 11-30-2009 03:10 PM

today i was just cruising at school on my longboard to my next class.

i go down a small slope, and have done it many times, but this time there is water where i turn right (note im goofy, so its heel side) and i try to avoid it but is too late....flew in the air a good 4 feet away from my board, i sprained my wrist BADLY....

i did a good job today

no longboarding heavily for a few weeks. i can barely make a fist.

**mace the bass** · 11-30-2009 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by milothefultz

Springfield starting about 38th and Watermark going until Pioneer Parkway E is all repaved, I believe.

from: 35th and Watermark to: 1889 pioneer parkway E Springfield OR - Google Maps

Point A and point B are roughly your start and stop points. It's pretty nice BUT for some reason there seems to be a bunch of gravel on the path at certain points. :

Is there a big Eugene longboarding scene? I really wish I had started longboarding earlier, when I lived in Cottage Grove.

**isk** · 11-30-2009 03:59 PM

a dry day!

was at my local steep short hill by myself for 1 1/2 hours just practicing some slides. fastest colemans ive done so far, probably 50 km/h on a pretty narrow road. love the adrenaline. also practiced speed checks, getting better at them. attacked the switch backside stand up 180 and failed a lot but eventually i got three in a row.

i really want to longboard right now. its too late though.

**Jat** · 11-30-2009 04:26 PM

Finally the sky was left free of clouds long enough for most of the pavement to dry up.
So after a day of chores and job hunting I thought that throwing my new, shiny 215's on the old Sean Mallard. Wedged it in the back, put a 1/8 riser in the front and some gators on.
And just as everyone else who has tried the 215's for bombing I fell in love. I barely got 15minutes on them, but stand ups are still super easy even with the wedged back!

Can't wait to find out how it behaves in speeds over 20km/h =P

**milothefultz** · 11-30-2009 05:16 PM

Did this route today:

Today's Route

about 7 and a half miles in an hour, yussssssss.

Originally Posted by mace the bass

Is there a big Eugene longboarding scene? I really wish I had started longboarding earlier, when I lived in Cottage Grove.

Not really from what I've seen. Whenever I go out to longboard around Springfield almost every day, I never see another longboarder, and I'm usually out at least an hour a day. Most times I see another person longboarding, it's my friend or it's somebody on campus between classes, nothing else really. There is a much bigger downhill group (facevsasphalt, to name one person on SF) then there is a dancing/boardwalking group (me), but still, not many people longboarding around here.

**Sk8Guy31** · 12-01-2009 02:09 PM

I went out today while the pavement was wet to try and get my colemans down. The wet pavement made breaking the wheels out easier but when the loaded spray grip on my board got wet my back foot kept slipping off the board. I managed to get a few good slides to start of but it got wetter as I tried more. I have managed to do a few before but I find it hard to get the board all the way around without stinkbugging.

**milothefultz** · 12-01-2009 02:32 PM

My Route

Hit up another completely deserted bike path and on my way back home met a downhiller who just moved to Eugene and is looking for hills to bomb. He said he'll be checking out SF and the Eugene thread, so I'm sure there is enough of you to help him out.

**loug** · 12-01-2009 04:46 PM

crashed in the same exact spot i crashed about a month ago. whats the chances of this happening? dumb arse people letting their dog run loose and almost had to knock some sense into it with my scimi. was thinking about the dog and its tard owners when i went down. the rest of the skate was all good. the way back was a little dark which made it interesting watching for all the rocks and sticks that were hiding in the shadows. made it home in one piece. alright for a sunday skate (my sunday)

**Lemon Zinger** · 12-01-2009 05:31 PM

Terrible. Old Man Winter is getting on my nerves.

**loug** · 12-01-2009 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by Lemon Zinger

Terrible. Old Man Winter is getting on my nerves.

why? double up the hoody and go. maybe a wind breaker in the backpack and all is good. where u skating? here in pissburgh if there aint rocksalt on the roads its time to skate

**Timski** · 12-02-2009 09:07 PM

I keep trying to go out for runs on some streets nearby but it's just too friggin cold outside. So I decided that I'd go anyways. Skating in 20 degree weather is not fun. I start bombin down and it was gettin late already, and about half way down a pot hole got a hold of me and I jacked the kingpin on my chargers. Poop

**Eddy Martinez** · 12-02-2009 10:04 PM

The clouds did clear. Gumby and I hit the Arroyo trail park. Speed aboat mid 20's. It was a blast rode my Rayne Audibus Project/HellCat and my EastSide. The new Earthwing 76 Obombers grip well. STICKY. Gumy rode his Madrid Roger Hickey, kahas, Eiful wheels. It was fun BIGTIME. Your Amigo Eddy Texas Outlaws,