Chevilly la Rue ramp (2007/12/16)

Cold winter session (0°C), Champigny vert was too much frozen, so we tried Chevilly spine ramps. No ice, but lot of dust and some water..... The coping of this ramp is very nice and wide, so nice grind seesion and transferts!!!!
Santa was here also with his skates!!
Swann took all the picts:

New wheels

Thanks to my friends, I have 2 new wheels sets to ride:
-Rainskate Hornets 65mm 98a (1kg for 8 wheels, 1.15kg with bearings and spacers, 10mm spacers), hard core, 100% Ketchikan, Alaska product.
-Cortech disc 60mm 98a (700g for 8 wheels, 10mm spacers), gravity molded at ambient temp: hard disk core is bonded at molecular scale!!!!Wheels are lathed to 60mm and come from Sidney, Australia!!!! Brand Cortech from 1978 by Tim Dawe.
For comparing, Powell Bomber 68mm 85a are 1kg without bearings (10mm spacers), Powell Bowl Bombers 64mm 95a are 1.35kg with bearings and spacers (10mm). All these wheels have bearings centered, Powell ones don't have core!!
More news after 25 december.....
Here is how they compare (in shape) to the Powell Bowl bomber 64mm, PF:

Dreamland

A really nice animation made by my son Swann, "how he see his father..." . Note that it's sidestance rollerskating ;-). Made with a whiteboard and an erasable marker pen, shot with his digital camera and edited with The Gimp. Enjoy:



Other animations:

Session LeSPOT, Skatepark, Le Mans, France

Cool 4 hours session with Will, Barnabé and Joanny. Tried to gain speed and learn new curves: slides last much longer and fun too!!!! Quader was there too and enjoyed the park too

Champigny (1/12/2007)

Session with William and Major, my skateboarding buddies. The ramp was like a swimming pool in one corner. Lukily we could empty it by removing dust from the evacuation holes with our screwdrivers... then cleaning tools and the 12°c temps with 5 BF winds dried it in half an hour!!!!! This let us to ride from 2pm to 4:45pm time, closing time in winter (sunset time too ;-)) It's so good to rip vert!!!!
Here are some vids and picts: