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try carving the pyramid after you drop the elbow… dont tell me your push is pathetic because besides standing on your board it should be in the blood by now.
Burnside forced me to surrender fifteen years of mongo foot.
burnside foreced me to surrender many years of carefully cultivated flesh. thats why its good, its fuckin hard to ride, and the pyramid carve is a solid formula for extra speed. i’m sketched to push in the flat there cuz i keep running over my damn foot which results in even more lost flesh.
The Annie Ross Open push race is this weekend starting at Mt. Tabor if you REALLY want to kick your own ass.
http://www.ncdsa.com/contest_registration.asp?ContestID=342
10:30 AM at the top, 8.5 miles of pain (record time by Robin McGuirk at 26′ 18), based of the Portland Pusher #4 race a few years back.
Most of the clowns on this site don’t push any farther than the distance from their parked SUV’s to the bowl at the local skatepark and a lot of them carry their boards even for that. They couldn’t even make it down Run 1 at Tabor, let alone push all the way to the Sellwood Bridge! Indy 139’s and rock hard 50mm wheels don’t fkcing cut it when you are *really skating on the street.
The problem with vert and “street” skaters is that they have completely forgotten or more likely never even knew about the roots of skating which has always been about getting from point A to point B with style while having the most fun possible.
Enemy C,
I understand your frustration but I’ll still say, my 139s get me around Portland, even with rock hard 56mms. In fact I spent a few days skating up and down the length of Manhattan with that rig…
And Run 1 at Mt Tabor is a piece of piss on any set up.
With rock hard 56mm wheels I’ll bet it is.
I love Burnside, it never gets old.
I apparently, do.
My legs give in after pumping/riding there for more than 30 min, everytime.
Not as lumpy or uneven as San Pedro though.
pedro is sort of narrow and boring, when compared to burnside or wash st. dont get me wrong, it is still DIY rad, but burnside and wash st (depending on what state im in) will always be where my heart lies.
hey EC, i know couple of local clowns and none of them drive suv.
i understand your frustration as much as i understand my sons frustration when he cries like you when something isn’t the way he would like it to be. you should try to have THE MOST FUN POSSIBLE with your ass not ours.
78a 65mm or 56mm 100a wheels… Mt Tabor is not really a challanging downhill… super fun but pretty safe and easy.
Rigid definitions of what ‘real skating’ is have never really ‘cut it.’
I wouldn’t call the right hander into the speed bump and the sharp left T intersection at the top of run 2 as easy especially if you enter it having bombed from the top. Unless of course you are on 100a wheels. In that case you won’t be going fast enough to get out of your own way.
Funny about how almost everyone who does downhill also skates parks, banks, and curbs but “street” skaters never do anything other than standing around bitching.
Funny how amazingly good people are at making generalizations about each other on the internerd… I skate Tabor frequently (not just on car-free Weds), amongst the parks, streets and so on… I’m usually on 78As at Tabor and find it pretty tame all round and I’m not much of a skateboarder.
Are you talking about the T Junction near the playground? There’s a good slappy curb near there, thats more fun…
Ride the Dirt trails at Tabor thats where its at!!! and the drum circles of course,,, Har de har harrrr.
We are adding some lumps down there at Bside.. Maby we’ll outdo Pedros amount of lumps, sounds like the lump challenge! Marginal Way wins on kinked transitions though..although I dont know if thats a good thing. Gnarrrrr.
sounds like you are the one standing around bitching to me… i’m just saying…
none-the-less, who cares. skate and have fun, however it may be, or however you may like it better. should we judge rodney mullen for not skating vert? probably not…
I’ve yet to get into dirt-skating. That does sound fun. Hopefully Enemy Combatant will approve.
I like how this went form being a post about a comic where a guy has a hard time trying to ride Burnside to a diatribe on who drives what and doesn’t skate the right type of wheels on the right type of terrain. Give it a rest will ya? Everyone is cooler than us OK? Can we be done with that crap please?
Chantry, 3 1/2 miles of winding moutain road.Next to that Gledora mountain road for “downhilling”.
Surf or bomb, but never met anyone who bombed Chantry.
To see Chantry in its awsomeness(if unfamiliar) look up “Ben Schroeders” run on you tube. I the only person who’s ever posted footage there and the footage is rad.
Whatever.BLAHBLAHBLAH
Great comic, Conahan.
One day when Grover and I were hiking Mt Tabor for some downhill (this is not a setup for a joke) we were walking up the side and as we got to the top a guy that looked like a feral dog launched over the curb on a regular size board with monster dirt wheels and flew a good 6-8 feet before touching down on the side of a very steep hill. It was the ballsiest thing I had seen in a long time. It almost seems like it was a movie special effect in retrospect. We talked to the guy later and he was mortified of going down on the asphalt run, so there you go.
That T junction by the playground is gnarly. The regular MT Tabor Run from the top through the parking lot and down the hill past the resevoir is pretty tame once you’ve done it once.
Wow, EC is all fired up, but I’m struggling to understand his point(s). I can only hope that he made a mistake including “vert” skaters in his scathing indictment of those who have “forgotten or more likely never even knew about the roots of skating…”.
All the SUV-drivin’ vert skaters of the 70’s that I knew/know started skating on hills and to/from spots. They are fully aware of the pleasures of getting from point A to point B whilst having the most fun possible.
In the 80’s, with no parks to speak of, we had no choice but to skate to, and find terrain to ride, even if we preferred vert. Some of my fondest memories of living in Boston involve skating from my job(s) downtown out to the T above ground where I could get on for free. Hitting every curb between the Common and Kenmore Square “with style” was an absolute blast. Everyone has similar stories to tell from this era.
In fact, if we’re talking “roots”, the roots of current “street skating” can be traced directly to the freestyle (flatland ollies and flip tricks) and “mock vert” skating of the 80’s (curb slappies, curb rock & rolls and slides, wall-rides…street-plants don’t really count). Doing “vert” tricks wherever and on whatever you ran into. Then came hand-rails…
EC, you’ve got to give people a little more credit…Just because some of us don’t bomb Tabor regularly with you, it doesn’t mean we can’t or don’t skate outside the parks. The hills around my house are great, and I hit them all the time, just for fun. It reminds me of skating in Maine in the 70’s. If you’re having fun skating, then you’re a skater. Oh, and I don’t drive an SUV (my wife does, though. Ha!).
Yeah, that T Junction isn’t a joke… if I’m honest. I have an idea who that feral dog may have been but I’d rather not say in public… ha ha…
Duders, I agree. Burnside is better than Pedro by a yardstick.
I started skating Pedro in its infancy. 1/2 assed pyramid and 1/4 pipe w/pool coping is all it had to offer till it was finally finished. Still fun, and alot easier on the legs. That was the first DIY spot I ever hit.
I understand why Burnside locals command respect, its gnar shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D45RIHeCXFg
Chantry+Scroeder=Worth watching.
What did people do at work before unlimited access to the world of skateboard drama?
Try to fall asleep with their eyes open?
That road looks fun, too bad we didn’t know about it when we were bombing Glendora Mountain Road a couple weeks ago. 9 miles of gravity-assistance for all you non-pushers!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6946420311816791028
OK, OK, SO I NEED HELP, LOTS OF IT, WELL KINDA LET ME LAY IT ON YA, OR WHO EVER WANTS TO READ. i am building a 3-4ft wooden bowl in my basement and so far so good. i have enough pool block to cover the flat sections and a sweet rusty piece of coping, kinda like the section @ toledo. anyways… i want to have pool block in the corners and i dont know how to do that… i have seen the PVC technique on your website but im not sure how it will work in corners… i have some tight shallow end like corners and mellowish egg shaped one.. do i break pool block up and try to fit it in? is there a cheap “wet” saw i can rent/borrow to chop up the block.. or should i try to find bullnose brick and set it in… not to sure.. well i do plan on bonding the pool blocks together either w/ cement or bondo… but seeing how it is a wooden ramp it will flew and move around a little…so finally… is there a good bonding material that will be SOMEWHAT flexible and withstand X-treme slashes…. any advice will be very much apreciated, and if your a nice guy/women/sloth then you can probobly join us for our shed session/bbq/keg! whoo hoo! any who thanks i’ll try to get my pixs developed and send em over.
greystone in south corv has pool coping bricks for $1.48, you should be able to do a corner with em pretty easily
NICE! are they like 4-7 inches wide….?
bout 4″ wide
nice, is it like the standard bullnose/pool block style reg brick…? im not sure what to use to bond them together…. cement will eventally blow out and crack… i was almost thinking surf epoxy w/ fiber glass sheeting…i dont know or bondo… but bondo is pricy… any ideas….
they’re 3.5 inches wide. when i asked greystone about bullnose they said they didnt have it, this stuff is called brick pool coping, its like the stuff you see people using on planters, it has a rounded over edge on one side and no bump on the top. I used regular mortar on some and laid it on cement board instead of wood.
Casey M.-I lived 1 mile from Chantry and about 12 miles from Glendora Mtn Rd for decades of my life. I skated them frequently into my adult years. Glendora Mtn rd is classic, but Chantry is always sketchier/more challenging. I think Glendora Mtn Rd was also in Thrashin’….
Hands down my favorite guys to skate with are the guys who skate everything, downhill, street, parks whatever. Casey M and Billy the Kid are the most versatile and fun skaters to ride with and they rip at everything.
Not only that, I find that guys who ride more than one kind of skateboarding (and I don’t mean just taking your street board down Tabor) are more open minded and tend not to put other skaters down for what they do.
Just my two cents, I’m not sure when skateboarding became so cliqueish and factionalized but I think it hurts it in general.
Word.
Casey M- forgot to mention that footage was just the end of that road. The road is 3 1/2 miles and you saw the tamest section of it-the end. I’ve never heard of anyone who came close to completing their first run from top of mountain without bailing or eating shit.
And the slants on the turns are comparable to riding oververt.
People still go there every weekend to park and get fucked up or bang….and you can skate right by em’.
This is the footage link I meant to post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHqFNnhaFAY
And it does it way better justice.