Laidback Bob

Bob was in London so I hopped on the train up to Brixton to meet him at St. Ockwell (the patron saint of skateboarding) Park.
He had Joxa and Smell in tow and after they threw themselves at the ground a few times it started raining so we jumped on the tube to Meanwhile 2 where I threw myself on the ground.
The sun was out again so we skated to Meanwhile Gardens were it promptly started raining again so we debunked to Playstation for a quick skootle.

Then to the pub. Rad day out in the big village.

Shoreham Ska (tepark)

Some more from Shoreham opening day.
Des, Matt Ellis and Mike Day.
Music by Tackhead

The imaginary food from the imaginary chefs never really caught on...

You'll have somebody's fisheye out with that!

Mike Day nearly took out my fisheye out with his deck at Shoreham.
Luckily I stopped his board from hitting the railings with my leg.

Deathbox

I went to the grand opening of the new skatepark at Shoreham today.
It's absolutely lovely.
Only complaint that I had was about the deathbox. I wanted to be able to put my camera inside it to fire with the remote but it's not possible.
Jellyhead informed me that it was to stop people putting things in there to set fire to. I can see his point.

More pics here

Fred Blood

The rollerskating legend with a frontside air at Woodward in 2004.

Quad update...

Fitted the 651 copy hangers and the Alva wheels from the 8 wheeler (for now).
Took them out for a spin, might need harder bushings and maybe some shorter kingpins (or inverted ones) I think.

Oh and here's a quick film of my first time on tranny wearing skates in about 30 years.





Maybe I should have worn some kneepads.

Stylin'

I had some of those kneepads in blue suede.

Quads Wrangled

Got me some free quad skates from my local Freecycle group.

Project quad skates will be documented fully on here, I already have some ACS651 copy hangers which will fit straight on.

You need wheels...

Love the fact that someone commented "Fuckin Chaz & Dave in parkas" on YouTube.

Anyway, I got some new (to me) wheels.
BDS DubCon things. 65mm.








I like the way they've machine the tooling so that the name is embossed in the wheel rather than using printing which falls off.