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Skating the Eastlink Trail

02 Mar

Over the weekend I finally was able to do something I wanted to do for awhile now. Skate the entire length of the Eastlink Trail. Even before I got to 5 meters on the trail I had to turn around and go back. I forgot my helmet lol.  I started at what I thought was going to be the hard end.

I had read up about the trail on various cycling forums and most of the comments were about how it was fairly steep in parts of the bushland. Either I’m fitter then what I thought or the cycling guys are whimps :)

Only time I got pasted by someone on a bike was near the end. Only then it was while I had slowed down to look at the map. I also think everyone on a bike was travelling in the other direction. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Wow

15 Dec

I took my Vaypor’s out on Sunday. Just for a test run. It felt weird at first I’ve never had a low cut boot before. I still have a long way to go before I can say I’m decent with a low cut boot. I also need to heat mould them. Which I never did with the Semi-Races.

I went for a spin today with my Semi-Races before I got out of the driveway I noticed they didn’t roll anywhere as well (could be because of the MPC wheels are just about dead and the ABEC7 bearings have seen a fair bit of water). I took ruffly the same track as Sunday. I was pushing hard for most of it. Sure I was 2/3minutes a head of Sunday. But there is a hell of a lot that I can approve on with the Vaypor’s. I’m happy with the Vaypor’s very happy.

I’m working on getting the GPS data on google maps.

 
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Couple of skate YouTube clips

16 Nov

First clip is a little old I never got around to posting it up till now. Its from the start of the month. You get to see some of my fancy foot work near the end :) The bullet camera is mounted on my right Bont Semi-Race boot. Using just the flap that covers the laces. (Warning if you get motion sickness you might not want to watch this as it has lots of motion when I skate instead of roll)

Second one is from today. The last video I made of this hill was at 1am and the image wasn’t the greatest. I didn’t set out to do this downhill run but I was close by so what the hell. There is a strong headwind as you will hear. So I only managed about 50km/h.

 
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