Crazy electric ride it on your stomach skateboard
- Thread starter BATFINK
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e-beach
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BATFINK said:
Handlebars, hand brakes, helmets....kids are such wimps today.
Why in my day, when urethane wheels were barely invented, we use to lay down on our skate boards and go down Ingelwood hill on the sidewalk. That's .10 miles of 10% grade with a 2 foot square 3.5 foot tall steel US postal service mail box at the bottom waiting for you crash into in case you missed the 90 degree turn at the bottom of the hill.
By the time we got to the bottom were flying and praying to make the turn because it you didn't it was sure death by crashing into the mail box.
I never hit the mail box, but plenty of times I didn't quite fully make the turn either, belly-wopping across the thin 4 foot wide grass strip between the sidewalk and the street, hoping not to over shoot it and end up flying head-first into the street.
And then their were the several occasions that my knee-cap caught the brass sprinkler head on the corner of the grass strip stopping me dead and leaving me limping home crying in great pain, with my knee swelling to the size of a grape fruit.
What is with all the safety stuff...where can a kid have adventure any more?
The fingers
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Skateboard recipe from the 1950's:
Take one of your sister's clamp on roller skates (they had steel wheels), discard the skate key (throw it in the ditch so it will not be found).
Using a hacksaw, saw the skate in half crosswise in the middle.
On a 24" length of 2x4, mount the wheels to the board by hammering and bending numerous nails over the two wheeled pieces, eyeballing straightness tokeep dog tracking to a minimum.
Optional: Cut a 6" strip of carpet, door mat, or auto floor mat for the top and tack down the sides to keep the splinters out of the soles of your feet.
Give the other roller skate to a friend and have him make one also so you both can be in trouble together.
If you really want to be extra cool, nail an orange crate on the front of it and attach handles of some type: instant scooter!
Find the steepest, longest driveway in the neighborhood, hit a small rock near the bottom, and get stitched up at the doctor's office. The girls will like your cool scars and the stories of how you got them. :lol:
Take one of your sister's clamp on roller skates (they had steel wheels), discard the skate key (throw it in the ditch so it will not be found).
Using a hacksaw, saw the skate in half crosswise in the middle.
On a 24" length of 2x4, mount the wheels to the board by hammering and bending numerous nails over the two wheeled pieces, eyeballing straightness tokeep dog tracking to a minimum.
Optional: Cut a 6" strip of carpet, door mat, or auto floor mat for the top and tack down the sides to keep the splinters out of the soles of your feet.
Give the other roller skate to a friend and have him make one also so you both can be in trouble together.
If you really want to be extra cool, nail an orange crate on the front of it and attach handles of some type: instant scooter!
Find the steepest, longest driveway in the neighborhood, hit a small rock near the bottom, and get stitched up at the doctor's office. The girls will like your cool scars and the stories of how you got them. :lol:
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