Downhill madness

tar76 Custom Title Time!

1,622 posts · joined Dec 2009 · 20 Sep 2012, 6:44 pm

#922925

Bit of skateboarding downhill madness! 🤪

"Obey your Dreams"!

62 Std beetle.
65 11 wnd Split "The Cross".
6? coming very soon!!!!

GedPalmy Casual Dubber

32 posts · joined Oct 2011 · 20 Sep 2012, 7:17 pm

#922930

Sick

Ged

64 Standard Beetle
65 Panel Van

tar76 Custom Title Time!

1,622 posts · joined Dec 2009 · 20 Sep 2012, 7:46 pm

#922938

Are they using a special compound wheel?

"Obey your Dreams"!

62 Std beetle.
65 11 wnd Split "The Cross".
6? coming very soon!!!!

waltermitty Legend when my beer goggles are on

1,993 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 20 Sep 2012, 8:22 pm

#922951

Very Coool M

23 windows ...8 too many!

donn Wolfsburg Elder

3,515 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 20 Sep 2012, 8:35 pm

#922953

Mad bastards, no tread, running slicks ! 🙄

I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!

Bob down Wolfsburg Wizard

455 posts · joined Jan 2012 · 21 Sep 2012, 7:11 am

#923002

tar76 wrote:Are they using a special compound wheel?

theyd have to be, ive never seen a 180 slide done with such ease on a skateboard. i can do it on a wakeboard, but wont be havin a crack on my zflex. 🙅

tar76 Custom Title Time!

1,622 posts · joined Dec 2009 · 21 Sep 2012, 6:03 pm

#923058

Yeah i could do it, but would probably go more like slide - to ass plant then hospital 🤪

"Obey your Dreams"!

62 Std beetle.
65 11 wnd Split "The Cross".
6? coming very soon!!!!

Bob down Wolfsburg Wizard

455 posts · joined Jan 2012 · 21 Sep 2012, 6:14 pm

#923060

or face plant 😂😂😂

shaihulud Custom Title Time!

1,448 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 22 Sep 2012, 9:52 am

#923140

I know that that is a form of madness, but no such thing existed when I was a kid in the 1950s.

How I envy todays youngsters their playtime technology.

If I wanted to do anything like that when I was a kid, it would have to have been on a 28 inch wheeled back pedal braked bike, a pram wheeled or ball bearing wheeled billy cart or on steel wheeled roller skates, without a helmet.

That in itself yould have been crazy, exciting and dangerous, but those kids have taken that form of excitement to a whole new level.

I'm green with envy.

gerggl Wolfsburg Wizard

447 posts · joined Sep 2010 · 22 Sep 2012, 2:15 pm

#923162

No fear - I hate that! 👍

Greg Gordon-Lane

Brisbane

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Bob down Wolfsburg Wizard

455 posts · joined Jan 2012 · 22 Sep 2012, 4:47 pm

#923174

shaihulud wrote:I know that that is a form of madness, but no such thing existed when I was a kid in the 1950s.

How I envy todays youngsters their playtime technology.

If I wanted to do anything like that when I was a kid, it would have to have been on a 28 inch wheeled back pedal braked bike, a pram wheeled or ball bearing wheeled billy cart or on steel wheeled roller skates, without a helmet.

That in itself yould have been crazy, exciting and dangerous, but those kids have taken that form of excitement to a whole new level.

I'm green with envy.

so true !great way to look at things mate 👍

HappyDaze Superannuated

2,887 posts · joined Jun 2009 · 22 Sep 2012, 5:39 pm

#923189

shaihulud wrote:I know that that is a form of madness, but no such thing existed when I was a kid in the 1950s.

How I envy todays youngsters their playtime technology.

If I wanted to do anything like that when I was a kid, it would have to have been on a 28 inch wheeled back pedal braked bike, a pram wheeled or ball bearing wheeled billy cart or on steel wheeled roller skates, without a helmet.

That in itself yould have been crazy, exciting and dangerous, but those kids have taken that form of excitement to a whole new level.

I'm green with envy.

Maybe a little bit before your time [late '40s - early '50s], but the best biily cart I ever built had pram wheels at the front, and ball bearings at the back.

Reckon that's where I learned how to drive a Beetle.🤪😂

I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!

shaihulud Custom Title Time!

1,448 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 23 Sep 2012, 5:17 pm

#923300

Oh! Yes!

Drifting around corners on a ball bearing wheeled billy cart is certainly where I learned a lot of vehicle control.

Being so close to the ground and the cart being made of jarrah 4x2s, it was impossible to turn it over.

I never bothered to have brakes on mine. To slow it down or stop it, I put it into a sideways drift, just like the kids in that video slowed themselves down.

Also, A ball bearing wheeled billy cart is so noisy, that cars could hear you before they saw you and so easily avoid you.

tar76 Custom Title Time!

1,622 posts · joined Dec 2009 · 28 Sep 2012, 7:30 pm

#924134

Man they make it look easy.

"Obey your Dreams"!

62 Std beetle.
65 11 wnd Split "The Cross".
6? coming very soon!!!!

donn Wolfsburg Elder

3,515 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 2 Oct 2012, 8:09 am

#924515

OH DEAR !

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8541287/skateboarder-slams-into-deer-in-downhill-race

I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!

tar76 Custom Title Time!

1,622 posts · joined Dec 2009 · 2 Oct 2012, 7:29 pm

#924611

donn wrote:OH DEAR !

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8541287/skateboarder-slams-into-deer-in-downhill-race

Holy Sh*t !! Bambi 1, skater 0

"Obey your Dreams"!

62 Std beetle.
65 11 wnd Split "The Cross".
6? coming very soon!!!!

Bob down Wolfsburg Wizard

455 posts · joined Jan 2012 · 2 Oct 2012, 8:17 pm

#924633

anyone for venison?

vwvic Seriously Crusin Dubber

192 posts · joined Jun 2007 · 3 Oct 2012, 12:13 am

#924680

Awsome vids 👍👍👍
Those guy seriously have no fear. I do a little bit of downhill longboarding
And to do a slide going that fast takes some real skill.
There are different wheel compounds for different skating styles they have soft compound
For grip 75a - 79a ( I run 79a cos I don't like to slide ) and hard compound up to 84a - 86a
For sliding and the ones in between are for a bit of everything.

59 beetle,61 beetle,72 dual cab,58 beetle,55 splitty,
65 manx,74 camper,60 Rat beetle.....and many more to come

tar76 Custom Title Time!

1,622 posts · joined Dec 2009 · 30 Oct 2012, 5:27 pm

#929098

Bit slow at the start but some mad sliding comes

"Obey your Dreams"!

62 Std beetle.
65 11 wnd Split "The Cross".
6? coming very soon!!!!

tar76 Custom Title Time!

1,622 posts · joined Dec 2009 · 4 Nov 2012, 7:09 pm

#929706

Full down hill bombing

anyone know of any good skateable drains around northside brissy and sunnycoast?

"Obey your Dreams"!

62 Std beetle.
65 11 wnd Split "The Cross".
6? coming very soon!!!!

tar76 Custom Title Time!

1,622 posts · joined Dec 2009 · 21 Dec 2012, 2:39 pm

#936525

Some surf style turns off the lip. these guys are ripping this park up!

"Obey your Dreams"!

62 Std beetle.
65 11 wnd Split "The Cross".
6? coming very soon!!!!

donn Wolfsburg Elder

3,515 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 3 Jan 2013, 6:08 am

#937839

Now for some real stuff, not those pussy's, and check out the winner !👍

I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!