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| dancinwithdeath |
 Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 1:10 pm |
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ORDER OF THE SKULL
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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Location: Florida
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Anyone still ride them? I remember some article somewhere ripping on launch ramps, however I would love to ride one if I had a place to build and store one.
Anyone have any pics of their old or newer launch ramps? |
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| craigs |
| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:54 am |
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ORDER OF THE SKULL
Joined: 22 Jun 2007
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Location: Santa Rosa, CA
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I wish we had photos of the launches we used to ride back in the day.
Those are great to have, you can cruise them around on top of your board or just throw them in a pick up and have a ready to go session wherever you stop. |
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| pickieman |
| Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:45 pm |
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Location: Maryland
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| rightfootforward |
| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:36 am |
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ORDER OF THE SKULL
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Don't cut it down just hit it with a lot of speed!
The faster you hit a launch the easier the tricks are to land.
The locals here have a few launches used for contests and what not, some times its a ring of fire like last weekend at the Pro and sometimes its a highest ollie contest.
I can usually smoke any of them on distance because of my long board set up, not really fair seeing how my wheels are 70mm.
launch ramps are fun as hell, everybody needs one. |
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| beton hurlant |
| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:58 am |
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Location: Bordeaux, France
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We organized an old school bowl contest last sunday and we held a launch ramp session on the sides ... lots of fun !
but kinda hard on our old achilles and knees on the long haul ...
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| medallions |
| Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:17 am |
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Quote: wish we had photos of the launches we used to ride back in the day.
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| pickieman |
| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:18 pm |
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medallions wrote: Quote: wish we had photos of the launches we used to ride back in the day. 1988!I still have the yellow G&S Chris Miller too.lost the 'deux and my miniscus Tho.
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Cool shot! Check the dude on crutches - classic! |
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| pickieman |
| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:18 pm |
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| patsplat80 |
| Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:36 am |
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ORDER OF THE SKULL
Joined: 20 Nov 2003
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Location: brooklyn, NY
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I'm tryin to build one. Did you guys use just like 1/4" ply for the face, 1/2" for the sides? Tryin to make it light, I got stairs to walk it up!
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| Lean2Tail |
| Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:57 am |
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Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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Location: Tampa/St.Pete area
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my buddy had a launch with a mellow transition like yours...you need to hit it FAST!!!
maybe build a small lip on the top for lip tricks... |
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