Skyline Luge?

**IGSA-1** · 10-16-2007 11:30 PM

Has anyone ever seen or tried this? I would appreciate any feedback. www.northskyluge.com

**OMGWTFBBQ** · 10-16-2007 11:43 PM

hey ive ridden one of those in rotorua

**ryanredbaron** · 10-17-2007 01:09 AM

That is screaming to become a longboard park... I swear if that thing can live and have its own custom track... so can longboarding

http://www.northskyluge.com/track_luge.html

AJ · 10-17-2007 01:15 AM

Yeah we have a track a few hours drive north of montreal, they let us skate and streetluge the track after closing hours. the turns are banked so you can take the hairpins rediculously fast! the best part is when you pass the photo gate and you show up on the HUGE tv screen in full tuck at the front of the waiting line ( i wonder if we can buy the picture?)...I'll try to get the video of this whenwe brought Aki up 2 years ago.

**ryanredbaron** · 10-17-2007 01:31 AM

Originally Posted by A.J.

Yeah we have a track a few hours drive north of montreal, they let us skate and streetluge the track after closing hours. the turns are banked so you can take the hairpins rediculously fast! the best part is when you pass the photo gate and you show up on the HUGE tv screen in full tuck at the front of the waiting line ( i wonder if we can buy the picture?)...I'll try to get the video of this whenwe brought Aki up 2 years ago.

I swear right now right here....

if I ever become a millionare I will fly chaput and all the other top brass of longboarding out here to design a gnaaaar track then i will invite everyone out... thats what longboarders need.. a track!!!

**SteveC** · 10-17-2007 03:47 AM

YUM!..... qwertyuiop

**Shore** · 10-17-2007 03:34 PM

o what!!!!

now they just need to build one in southern california

**mcgoon** · 10-17-2007 03:46 PM

I've ridden those! They had them at the local ski hill. In the off season they would open it up and anyone over the age of 12 could rent a luge and ride it. It got shut down about 6 years ago becasue kids kept getting mangeles. There where 3 speeds and you could puul up to stop. The first time I got road rash was on one of those!

**IGSA-1** · 10-17-2007 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by A.J.

Yeah we have a track a few hours drive north of montreal, they let us skate and streetluge the track after closing hours. the turns are banked so you can take the hairpins rediculously fast! the best part is when you pass the photo gate and you show up on the HUGE tv screen in full tuck at the front of the waiting line ( i wonder if we can buy the picture?)...I'll try to get the video of this whenwe brought Aki up 2 years ago.

The track seems really narrow to me. Does it work out pretty well for skateboards and luge? It would be awesome if you could post your footage! Thanks!!

**EBasil** · 10-17-2007 04:39 PM

That looks fun, and very similar to a skatepark/gravity park idea the guy from Skatebrake has online... He wants multiple tracks in one location.

They say no packs, drafting or bumping. Hmph.

AJ · 10-17-2007 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by IGSA-1

The track seems really narrow to me. Does it work out pretty well for skateboards and luge? It would be awesome if you could post your footage! Thanks!!

NIko hits it up regularly,(he lives u north). he does it with a bit of foot/airbrake, its a drifting course.
Its tech for luge and the Laurentians have so much more to offer (120kmh+).
Apparently JimZ has the footage from the big session, I don't think I'll be seeing that anytime soon...
Anyone ever see the road to Whistler's luge track...its sooo gnar!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...rLugeTrack.jpg

**bpz** · 10-17-2007 08:57 PM

I remember seeing some footage on Youtube I think... there were clips of dudes skating Voie Camillien-Houde in traffic and then they hiked through the woods and hit a track like that. I think. It was like a year or two ago when I saw it, not sure where to find it.

AJ · 10-17-2007 08:58 PM

That might have been the cemetary...

**bpz** · 10-17-2007 09:06 PM

Do you know of a video like the one I'm talking about, but with footage from the cemetery? Hook it up with a link!

**SteveC** · 10-17-2007 09:13 PM

This one?

AJ · 10-17-2007 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by Sofa King

Do you know of a video like the one I'm talking about, but with footage from the cemetery? Hook it up with a link!

I think you're gonna have to wait for DRIFT to come out...or the next teaser/trailer

**bpz** · 10-17-2007 09:21 PM

Nah I'm pretty sure it was some kind of track... real tight turns and it looked like it was made out of blocks of cement rather than just paved. It was from someone who was on vacation in Montreal or something, lots of clips from all around the area. Like I said, the TC course when it was still open to traffic, and some kind of track. I know I've seen it...

**HerBDerb** · 10-18-2007 12:59 AM

I seem to recall a video that used to be on the KebbeK site that had some footage of one of these tracks. Seemed kinda mellow.

AJ · 10-18-2007 01:05 AM

Originally Posted by HerBDerb

I seem to recall a video that used to be on the KebbeK site that had some footage of one of these tracks. Seemed kinda mellow.

Yeah thats the spot! I don't know why the video doesnt work anymore on kebbek.com... Pierre should get on that (when he has the time). The reason why it was so mellow in the video you saw, was because the track wasn't closed yet and Jim had to go slow to swerve around the really slow luges.

One of the employees at the ski hill modded up a luge so it would go insanely faster than any other one. That musta been really fun!