I’d bet that practically the same day the name “sweeper” was coined, someone cracked the joke while cleaning off a ramp somewhere. You know, the one where you are sweeping out the flat or something and someone says “Hey, nice sweeper you just pulled!” I swear I thought I made that joke in with a picture post, but I can’t find it. Greg Baller of Freezine fame sent in some pictures of a board he made for a fundraiser. This is one of the all time great artsy fartsy concept boards.

From Greg:

The premise was a ride-able broom. The bristles were from a stiff street sweeping broom, and I inlaid them into a deck. I went with narrow trucks so that the broom surrounded the wheels like a hovercraft. Then they were trimmed to length, so that they did apply pressure as you rolled, so they actually swept.

If you went down a steep hill where you might normally get a speed wobble, the bristles acted as drag, and made the hill managable! And turns got a bit drifty if the bristles outpowered the trucks…. it was so funny to ride.

It sold for $350 at the gallery, and was part of a fundraiser for our skatepark’s construction. If you are like me, you probably keep a broom in your car trunk for sweeping out skate spots. I liked the idea of a rolling broom, even if it is just a gag.

Horizontal pics can be enlarged. Hey Greg, where are the construction pics? I’d like to see it in progress. How did you inlay those bristles?

August 27th, 2008 by: Kilwag (editor)
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