November 2005
Monthly Archive
Wed 30 Nov 2005
Fri 25 Nov 2005
I want to keep a record of my skating so that I can look back and see what I’ve done, without interfering with my main blog. To keep the admin easy, I set it up at Wordpress.com. They can do all the hard work I just keep it up to date.
Bigger posts and reviews etc will still go here. It’s just to keep track of where I go and what I achieve. If anyone else wants to get in and use it too, let me know and I’ll set you up as a user too.
Tue 22 Nov 2005
Went for a skate at Maclean park last night. Got given a lesson in how to ride a longboard at a skatepark. A guy was there jumping over the spine, among other things, on a longboard.
It wasn’t a standard setup. He had shortboard trucks and wheels, with no risers. Now I want to get a shortboard too so I can learn more tricks…
Mon 14 Nov 2005
One month on and I’ve worn out my first bearing. It’s starting to bind up a bit and some of the others are starting to get very noisy. I estimate that I’ve ridden about 300km (186 miles) this month. Mostly flat, smooth surface around the Wellington waterfront and the footpaths and roads near home.
I’m not sure how long a skateboard bearing should last. When I skated as a teenager I could get about a year out of a set of bearings. Are there any skaters out there that can recommend what I should look for in a reliable long-life bearing? Or is it more cost effective to just use cheap ones?