Stop Stair-ing

Before everyone get’s their panties in a bunch, this was purely a design exercise and not a product meant to be sold to the general public. It’s kind of a fascinating train wreck to watch. It looks like a successful design of a skateboard you can ride down stairs, at least in a less jarring fashion than you could anyway. However, I’m not sure how much of that is due to the Frankenstein truck modifications and how much is due to the flexibility and longer wheelbase of the board. PoChih Lai is the guy who designed and made it. Whatever your opinion is on this exercise, you have to give him credit for actually fabricating this contraptions instead of just presenting it as a bunch of CAD renders. In fact, he constructed several different iterations just to get to this point! Buy one? No, but I’d like to try it.

[Source: Dezeen] – Thanks to Colin for the tip.

Discussion

6 thoughts on “Stop Stair-ing

  1. Justin on July 10, 2012 - Reply

    It’s all in the push…. nuff said

  2. john e on July 11, 2012 - Reply

    Two and a half minutes of film, 7 seconds of which is actually on stairs. Not very interesting to me.

  3. talentlessquitter on July 11, 2012 - Reply

    The tri-wheel principle already existed, one example: http://www.ardentsystems.com/buy/204850.html

  4. Notmuch2Cthar on July 11, 2012 - Reply

    But it does make me think, why are stairs so underutilized by street skaters? I mean, ollieing over them doesn’t count as utilizing them… why not come at them laterally, grind the first, boardslide the second, nose grind the third, fall over the fourth, that sort of thing?

  5. scummer503 on July 12, 2012 - Reply

    now the schlongboarders take shortcuts at the Mt. Tabor downhill. Use the stairs! One question.. how are you gonna mall grab those trucks??

  6. Mongoner on July 12, 2012 - Reply

    I second john e’s gripe!

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