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New Rules at Tigard

Tigard has decided to rescind Skatepark Rule 3 concerning the consent to search bags. That rule was whited out for the Grand Opening tonight. Well done Tigard. Well done all you social irritants and furious bloggers! Oh and Mr. Mayor: sorry we missed the fifth Tuesday meeting but we did make calls to City Hall […]

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Tigard Snapshots

Some snaps I took at Tigard last week when there were only four people there.

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Know your rights: Free Tigard

We are now accepting donations for the “Know your rights” outreach program for the users of the new Tigard Skate park, whose posted rules state that anybody that remains in the skatepark consents to having their personal belongings searched. This money will go towards having stickers printed up that will be given away to riders […]

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Tigard in action

I finally made it to Tigard Oregon’s new park. It’s rad. Quirky, but fun. It was a total zoo there because the weather was nice, but it was still a blast. A few BMX guys were getting bent out of shape by some perceived snaking, but it was really just a case of too many […]

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The Doctor tames the beast of Tigard

Earlier in the week when we were having technical difficulties, Grover put together a clip he felt was not worthy of full GVK status, although I’m not sure why. We couldn’t post it because our web host sucks so EPM scooped us on our own content. Hopefully it will dry up by the time this […]

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Tigard opens

It was raining but we rode the park anyway, sort of.

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Tigard Man discovered

This guy didn’t make the cut. He was lying around the site for a while but they didn’t en up using him. I think he was originally going to be flipping off the T.Rex. Looks like he’d fit right in with our crew.

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Tigard getting close

Looks like it’s all poured, some curing concrete under that plastic. Fence work in progress. Click here to see it bigger, Neil, you shouldn’t look, you’ll just get riled. Crappy little Tualatin is just down the road.