Balancing the trade deficit
At long last we’re finally shipping some substandard manufactured goods to China instead of receiving them. The Fanling Vert Ramp in Hong Kong being perpetrated by American Ramp Company. It’s prefab concrete, which I gotta say kind of makes sense to me. I mean, if you’re going to build a concrete vert ramp, prefab might be the way to go since uniformity is more desirable than creative artistry, assuming they have the skills to set it up right. Look at the size of those vert panels. This thing looks like a beast, although at that height it’s going to seem narrow.
- Thanks to Chad Balcom for the tip.
Posted by: on March 16th, 2011
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Categories: Asia, Skate, Skateparks
Tags: A.R.C., China, prefab, prefab concrete, Vert
That looks like an appropriate amount of vert. My question is…What is the point of a vert ramp that is 18 feet wide & right up against a cement wall? Skatepark fail.
Don’t these guys know vert is DEAD!
Shipping prefab concrete to china, really? I can’t even imagine the cost of this…
so am I the only guy who has skated down a sidewalk in recent memory? that seam where it goes to vert is gonna be an issue – besides the seam where it goes to flat. all decent vert ramps have the sheets turned at a 45 degree angle for the same reason, no?
perhaps I have set the bar to high in my expectations of what should be getting built.
I would assume/hope that they are going to be filling in the gaps with concrete manually. Although, I could be wrong.
If that was part of a freeway overpass, we would all drive by it saying, “HOLY SHIT!!! Pull the car over!”
We would then proceed to scheme when the traffic was mellow, so we could get a hit in on it.
We would probably get a grind, or an air, or a rock and roll, and hopefully a photo.
It would become an epic spot.
In a Chinese skatepark, built by a shitty company, it sucks.
Perhaps ARC should get into actual urban architecture, so their shit would at least be palatable in the wild,,,,,
Big soft wheels, do they have free health care?
American Ramp company sucks a fat one. prefab junk