where can i find...
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Topic: where can i find...
Posted By: WGP guy
Subject: where can i find...
Date Posted: 20 August 2004 at 11:50pm
| i need to know where i can find 2 skateboard decks preferably under $10 each. ok, heres the story, my friend has this gigantic hill by his house and last year i used 1 deck to slide down it when it sniwed, but of coarse i couldnt prevent cloths hanging off and producing drag. So, i want to use 3 decks, 2 in back and 1 in front and mak the front one turnable so we can steer. Also, we plan to just use the decks as the "runners" I guess you could call them, to touch the snow, then we plane to use wood for the rest of it, also, my friends dad has a welder and some metal so metal is another option, also we plan to make the front pivot up and down so it will form to the shape of the slope distribute the weight the pressure out over a larger area. Also, we plan to make this lockable in 3 different positions so it can jump good, and also another position will make it go slower. Opinions appreciated. Thanks for the time. |
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Posted By: paintballman_13
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 12:03am
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Posted By: :ShockeR_ratm:
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 12:08am
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That seems like a very very bad idea. I see serious injury in the future, good luck to you ------------- 
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Posted By: WGP guy
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 12:08am
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i mean like a physical store like walmart or d's sporting goods, but they are $35 there |
paintballman_13 wrote:Posted By: Sammy
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 12:46am
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Go to wallmart spend the 25 extra bucks. ------------- 
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Posted By: meteora
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 12:51am
start lookin at garage sales or yard sales ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 1:48am
| Skateboards?!?!?!?! punk kids, back in the day I used a piece of wood from my bedroom wall, some nails and old tuna cans to roll down the hills. And forget what people say, helmets are for wussies. |
Posted By: WGP guy
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 8:11am
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i dont think plain wood would be very slick in snow, so....... also, keep in mind this is in the snow so there is a small chance i will get hurt, also, last year we went down them and i accudentally went down backwards, hit the jumo, and flip over twice backward while tumbling don the hill, it didnt really hurt |
Posted By: tippy_182
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 8:32am
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Why don't you just go play in the street? Probably be safer.........
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Posted By: youm0nt
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 8:37am
not till you're in the ER. 
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Posted By: Tolgak
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 8:45am
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For your steering board, fasten two or more strips of metal longways to give you more control. ------------- 
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Posted By: MetallicaESPa5
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 10:26am
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walmart has crap borads for cheap. ------------- 
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Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 10:33am
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Go to a skate shop and see if they will sell you discontinued blanks for cheap. ------------- 
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 10:37am
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Walmart also sells steerable sleds that are specifically designed for this purpose. using metal, wood and skateboard decks isnt really up there on the 'brilliant' list. Pardon me if I sound like an old man, but I had my girlfriend break 2 vertabrae in her back on a snowtube.....so a homemade contraption like this one doesnt strike me as particularly ingenious. ------------- ? |
Posted By: munky!
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 11:21am
choopie, things have changed. now we have seatbelts... and crapy lawn darts that arnt very dart like at all. ------------- Forumers ageinst stuff that sucks |
Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 1:03pm
| thats what they make sleds for.... |
Posted By: pballa j.r.
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 2:05pm
It is always funner if serious injury is possible lol. ------------- 
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