out of curiosity..any shredders out here? BLADE OR DIE

[accident]

i <3 clayton

[Stephen]

and btw your feet are the brakes dummy. a front brake just seems terrifying to me. cause then your not in control. if u know how to ride and anticipate u certainly dont need one. i guess u actually have to ride to understand.

2. i never said a thing about a velodrome. dont put words in my box!haha if u ride a fixie on the street the point is keeping your momentum. ie braking as little as possible. u clearly dont ride in cities

and if u ride and felt like i did, and almost wanted to hang up your fixie cause all these tight jean hipsters started riding their flashy bikes, then ur a real fixed gear rider. but theres a fine line between ridin like an ass and a "real" rider. (really no such thing as a "real" rider, i know that. its my opinion. thats all) some ppl know how to stay on the respectful side of it. cause its a fact that most cars dont know how to react with bicycles on the road. if your an ass you only increase your chances of being hit. i love how all these ppl who dont know me are coming to conclusions about me.haha and theyre not even in the scene so they dont understand.

so, you did it before it was cool?

[87e30]

You're better than me. I thank you for taking your precious time to respond to my petty comment.

and btw your feet are the brakes dummy. a front brake just seems terrifying to me. cause then your not in control. if u know how to ride and anticipate u certainly dont need one. i guess u actually have to ride to understand.

2. i never said a thing about a velodrome. dont put words in my box!haha if u ride a fixie on the street the point is keeping your momentum. ie braking as little as possible. u clearly dont ride in cities

and if u ride and felt like i did, and almost wanted to hang up your fixie cause all these tight jean hipsters started riding their flashy bikes, then ur a real fixed gear rider. but theres a fine line between ridin like an ass and a "real" rider. (really no such thing as a "real" rider, i know that. its my opinion. thats all) some ppl know how to stay on the respectful side of it. cause its a fact that most cars dont know how to react with bicycles on the road. if your an ass you only increase your chances of being hit. i love how all these ppl who dont know me are coming to conclusions about me.haha and theyre not even in the scene so they dont understand.

[ROLLingKING]

Lol. Screw using a brake for safety. And fuck those guys riding on the velodrome, can't pass cars there!


I think you have a knack for being an idiot.

and btw your feet are the brakes dummy. a front brake just seems terrifying to me. cause then your not in control. if u know how to ride and anticipate u certainly dont need one. i guess u actually have to ride to understand.

2. i never said a thing about a velodrome. dont put words in my box!haha if u ride a fixie on the street the point is keeping your momentum. ie braking as little as possible. u clearly dont ride in cities

and if u ride and felt like i did, and almost wanted to hang up your fixie cause all these tight jean hipsters started riding their flashy bikes, then ur a real fixed gear rider. but theres a fine line between ridin like an ass and a "real" rider. (really no such thing as a "real" rider, i know that. its my opinion. thats all) some ppl know how to stay on the respectful side of it. cause its a fact that most cars dont know how to react with bicycles on the road. if your an ass you only increase your chances of being hit. i love how all these ppl who dont know me are coming to conclusions about me.haha and theyre not even in the scene so they dont understand.

[ROLLingKING]

You sound like one of those tools that I have to constantly avoid and put myself and other drivers in danger because you're riding like an ass.

yea i should of specified this. i have some friends who ride like an ass. but goig faster than traffic in the right lane, and moving to the center lane when cars are stopped when approaching red lights is not an ass.

I will say skitching on pickups always gets evil looks but there is a difference in riding with a purpose to get to your destination and being an ass. ive had friends pulled over by cops because ppl have called in their bike and wheel colors and their riding habits. they say we get complaints about u. ive never done that. im crazy but still respectful. believe what u want but your mad cause im going faster than your gas guzzler.hehe j/k

[87e30]

i love good ol debates like these
and couldnt agree more with the fixed gear bikes. i almost stopped riding mine once i saw emo kids everywhere riding em with front brakes!

if your not going faster than traffic, skitching pickups and hauling ass. go get a beach cruiser

Lol. Screw using a brake for safety. And fuck those guys riding on the velodrome, can't pass cars there!


I think you have a knack for being an idiot.

[chadthestampede]

i love good ol debates like these
and couldnt agree more with the fixed gear bikes. i almost stopped riding mine once i saw emo kids everywhere riding em with front brakes!

if your not going faster than traffic, skitching pickups and hauling ass. go get a beach cruiser

ive had 2 ppl get hit by cars trying to keep up with me. not bragging about it and its not a good thing. but they were both about 30yards behind me cause they couldnt keep up, didnt have the street smarts to look both ways before running the same red light. and both times i pointed to the direction i saw the car down the road on. if u dont ride to shred those bikes your a poser. and if your not going faster than traffic your defeating the purpose of the bike. f backwards circles. i can sometimes do em. but when someone has a fixie and theyre waiting at a light with their feet on the ground, theyre a clown

You sound like one of those tools that I have to constantly avoid and put myself and other drivers in danger because you're riding like an ass.

[ROLLingKING]

Haha, haters gonna hate ya know

yupp

racers hate on drifting. they say its the slowest way through a corner. but guess what, it comes down to your own individual style and how u like to express it.

[MattAvino]

Haha, haters gonna hate ya know

[ROLLingKING]

Jeez, this got tense really fast.

right. i have a knack at starting controversial topics!
this debate also goes back decades so im not surprised one bit

[MattAvino]

Jeez, this got tense really fast.

[ROLLingKING]

i love good ol debates like these
and couldnt agree more with the fixed gear bikes. i almost stopped riding mine once i saw emo kids everywhere riding em with front brakes!

if your not going faster than traffic, skitching pickups and hauling ass. go get a beach cruiser

ive had 2 ppl get hit by cars trying to keep up with me. not bragging about it and its not a good thing. but they were both about 30yards behind me cause they couldnt keep up, didnt have the street smarts to look both ways before running the same red light. and both times i pointed to the direction i saw the car down the road on. if u dont ride to shred those bikes your a poser. and if your not going faster than traffic your defeating the purpose of the bike. f backwards circles. i can sometimes do em. but when someone has a fixie and theyre waiting at a light with their feet on the ground, theyre a clown

[Eecen]

srs bisnass ITT

[delatlanta1281]

He didn't make fun of it, he came off in a way that made it sound like skateboarding is the highest echelon in alternative/street sports, and that longboarding doesn't have their respect. Sorry, but that's how it came off to me.

I called rollerblades "fruitboots", because again, that's what everyone around here used to call them, and it sounds funny.

I made a joke. He tried to make it sound like skateboarders are better and have more respect than everyone else. I can't fucking STAND that high-n-mighty attitude from skaters. Hopefully, that isn't the case with you, Delta.

Please stop trying to catagorize skateboarding.... It sounds silly. It's skateboarding. I accept everything. If I don't like it or respect it I keep my mouth shut. Until it's time to prove a point. You called it fruit booting to make fun of it. I made you feel bad because I attacked something you liked. Granted, it was more aggressive, but it got the point across. I don't respect longboarding as a mainstream thing (which it is now). Or fixed gears for the same reason. I respect those who do it as a passion, and not as a n experiment in fitting in or looking cool. I started skating at 10 b/c my cousin did it and it looked like fun. No trends about it. He gave me his old board, and I wanted to learn. I fell down, got back up and practiced. Not to be respected, but because I didn't want to give up. Still do it to this day. Except I am re-learning every time I step on one due to my age and motor memory.
It is what is is Josh. Skateboarders took shit so rollerbladers and other off shoots could exist. Same as snowbaorders. They took shit for mini skis and snow skates, and snow bikes... there are those that blazed a trail and those that followed. I can't help it if my passion blazed the trail, I most certainly had nothing to do with it's popularity, I just never left.

[ROLLingKING]

Meh< I am 38 now, skated for ages, can even manage to still do a kick flip in the driveway once in a while, but honestly, I wish that I could still skate. What Josh says is a concern of mine as well, I mean I will still get paid, but I have kids and a wife to take care of... ikr' tl;dr but to the point...

more difficulty in keeping a board under you, not attached to your feet...

also, I have a whole lifetime of bias against "fruitboot's" lol...I ain't changin nao.

thats pretty much what its always been like blading. ppl hate it just cause its always been hated on. they just jump on the bandwagon. and ill have to respetfully disagree with u on the difficulty. i used to skateboard and can still do a kickflip, heelflip, shoveit, and landed a trey flip messin around in my friends driveway!haha the trey flip shocked us both. i got lucky. but thats with NO practice. soo u tell me whats harder. lemme see u put blades on and grind a little p-rail. just a little square skateboard rail. next thing u know youll be looking at the sky

but the attached to the feet part making it easier is backwards to me. on a skateboard u can run off on your feet. aka not fully commit. on blades youre committing every time and cant affoard to be off balance, not 100% committed or "not want to land". you will end up geting rocked.

I grew up snowboarding. we made fun of skiers cause they go side to side, look silly and look even SILLIER when they fall and have to climb back up the mountain cause their skis fell off for pretection.haha snowboards dont pop off so falling can be more gentle. shit. falling is supposed to hurt and be uncomfortable. thats why u try harder to land. to me its a similar concept.

u gotta start off with whole hearted intentions of landing.

not kicking your board out and saying, ooh i hit a rock. theres no risk when u fall that way. its a lot harder falling down a set of stairs with blades then it is a skateboard. and mind u we dont do rails we can just tap and land on the ground. im talking kinkers and 20+ stair rails where if u dont make it your on stairs still homie!

Look ppl, i know blading is hated on as it has been since it came out. a lot of it has to do with the attitude the early bladers had. weve been trying to fix this forever. i guess ppl will have to open up to trying something new first. but like i said i used to skateboard before. maybe thats the only reason i respect both.

many ppl are to ignorant towards things of difficulty. its like saying I hate salmon and youve never tried it. you just dont know