Skateboarding

[bels]

Post stuff about bikes, skateboards, Segways, rollerblades, rollerskates, hyperloops whatever in here.

[starfox64]

this is now the dirty mirror drunk disheveled marty mcfly costume thread

[starfox64]

[hooplah]

my favorite part of all time

[maj]

no idea if you can embed vimeo but this video is my favorite on the internet.

http://vimeo.com/67430121

love palace, or anything really that is 240p.

http://vimeo.com/60415522

http://vimeo.com/56223094

another of my all time faves

http://vimeo.com/39778222

[bels]

Offensive.

[bels]

[bels]

I would like a light weight single speed to go with my heavy duty city bike but I don't think I could bring myself to run it fixed

[iffe]

[RycePooding]

Bringing this thread back. Calling all bicycle enthusiasts.

Beginning to amass gear for my sojourn. Here's what I'm going with so far. Would absolutely love opinions on the gear, and recommendations from fellow cyclists.

The bike: Surly Disc Trucker



The saddle: Brooks B17 (been riding it for a couple years, very well broken in.)



Rear and front racks: Surly Nice

Panniers: Ortlieb Rollers (both front and back). Haven't decided color yet, opinions welcome.



Camping gear:

MSR Hubba Hubba:



Random pad+bag I've had for a couple years now.

Petzl Tikka 2-plus.

Need recs for camping stove.

odradek, come with me.

[hirokinakamura]

Rycepooding when you said you were going on a bike tour of America I thought you meant like, motorcycle not bicycle.

I would have gone with you if it was the former.

[venilla]

so excited for this video, anyways im trying to learn bs 360's and am failing miserably

[balloons]

trying to teach myself to do anything beyond move around on a skateboard

man I am so bad

[maj]

i recently bought the bits to make a skateboard to get me out of the house and to do something, we can "push" ourselves together.

[sknss]

Me too! Let's place bets on who will break a limb first

[teck]

i "skated" in college. i fell probably at last once a week, just using it to commute. its a very brutal sport. however if pain is cool, then its the coolest way to get around.

consider getting a longboard. its the cadillac escalades of skating.

[fun_yunchables]

dude can tre flip a block of wood

[seth83292]

My absolute favorite skateboarding video that I lose the link to every few months

[sknss]

come at me

[hharrissonn]

Tim and Eric

[fun_yunchables]

[youtube]?v=FVf4pkhCU2c[/youtube]

this guy has some of the cleanest dolphin flip variants i've seen

[ramseames]

currently rewatching this and just getting more and more angry, even though its all stuff I've seen before. Seems like such a high percentage of people who're a part of fixie/messenger culture just suck so hard, in contrast with how positive pretty much every other cycling community is.

[odradek]

[fun_yunchables]

^ reminds me that HBA had their ss14 show with skaters in a skatepark

[hmwut]

newly arrived, plus a little extra

[odradek]

[yourdad]

this thread is making me want to buy a skateboard and i don't even know how

[germinal]

money can be exchanged for goods and services

[iamacyborg]

[ramseames]

mark abma is basically a god. don't really have any love for salomon product but damn they're like the best thing to happen the the sport in ages.

in general though, skiing is weird. I can huck 20ish any day, i bet i can carve a GS turn better than like 85% of those dudes, but they go so fucking big. but its all mental. lean kinda back, let the skis kick out, make sure you're landing where you want to land, hit it at a reasonable speed, repeat for anything 10-90 feet. i can 3 shitty jumps, anyone can learn to backflip with enough time, but 0.01% of dudes are pros. funny how that works