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Hyde Park, London, England
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On 5/22/2001
Toby
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Great meeting place for skaters and bladers. Nice tarmac promenade, next to Serpentine Lake. Quintessential English park.
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Atlanta, sort of
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On 5/22/2001 Duane
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Henry, if you are up for a drive, head up to Blairsville, GA for some of the absolute best pavement I've ever seen. Miles and miles of perfect asphalt, plenty of 40 mph hills, s-curves, 3 mile downhill runs, etc. Almost any road in the vicinity is excellent. Take 75 North out of Atlanta to 575, then becomes Rt. 5 to Blairsville. several parks in the area, too. 2 hrs. from Atlanta, and worth it.
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Oahu
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On 5/22/2001
Bob Swartz
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I love riding Tantalus. I hit several times on longboard and luge. Just be careful of the wet mossy stuff at the top. The coolest feature of riding here is that you can get a cab ride from the hotel in Wakiki to the top for just a few bucks.
bob
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Oahu?
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On 5/21/2001
Pat
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Used to live in Hawaii, but never skated there. Most insane run would be Tantalus... but any of the ridges along H1 near Hawaii Kai would have tons of hills.
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San diego
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On 5/21/2001 Bert
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Hey anybody, i want to find some huge hills with no cars near or around Southern San Diego where you can reach a good 45mph. any suggestions?
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Boston, Mass?
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On 5/21/2001 Jimmy Cleed
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Anyone know of some good spots in or around the Boston area? I need some help here folks. Thanks.
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Oahu?
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On 5/20/2001
SkateSquaw
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I am heading to Oahu with my Tahoe Longboards 62 Talac. Wondering if any one knows of any good carving spots on the North shore or anywhere else on Oahu.
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San Jose, CA near Los Gatos
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On 5/18/2001
cold ones
wrote in from
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I live at Camden & Bascom. The bike trail at Los Gatos creek trail has a few real small hills. There is a bank on the path that you can hit backside for regular foot that is right under where Camden crosses over the creek. Keep going that direction and there is a small but steep little hill that you can do and walk back up. On the other side of the creek there is a longer mellower hill that is fun if you start on Camden and push as fast as you can, just remember to move the gate beforehand. If you follow that path there is another small hill and then you can keep going to downtown Campbell where there is a park with basketball courts that has a good parking lot for carving. You can also hot the parking garage at the Pruneyard after that. It's not that great, but if you hit all these things you can have fun. It's about 1 mile between all these spots. Watch out for kooky spandex clad bike riders and joggers on the trail.
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San Jose, CA near Los Gatos
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On 5/17/2001
Pat
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David, I live right on Blossom Hill close to Camden. I just started to longboard and am still learning. Now that the weather is nice, would love to hit some small stuff to begin.
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Atlanta
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On 5/17/2001 Henry
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Anyone know of good carving hills around Atlanta?
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del purto canyon. patterson, ca.
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On 5/17/2001
jake dockter
wrote in from
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i am a bit apprehensive abotu turning you all into this sweetaction ultra bad spot. its been our local secret for a few months now.
the hills off of highway 5 in patterson, ca. are the sickest place to dowhill skate ever.
there is a car every 20 minutes so youcan own the road.
smooth road. hills ro bomb. a few weeks ago i went over half a mile, just crusing with no kicks. at about 17 miles an hour. just watch out for the one cattle guard. it is also ultra beautiful and peacefull. no buldings,excecpt for the occasional farm house. but you and the cows. beautifull little creek.
also, for you mt. boarders. the hills on the side of the road are sick action. we bomb them all the time. either steep and killer or long and sloping. i still have some scret places out there i am gonna keep to myself. you might find them. email and i might tell you. but please enjoy it!
jake
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San Jose, CA near Los Gatos
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On 5/17/2001
David Whitmyre
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I found some very decent hills west of Blossom Hill Road near Los Gatos--might actually be in Los Gatos. Good area to take beginners and still have lots of fun if you love to cruise and go fast.
Anybody else out here in this area?
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Mt Keira
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On 5/17/2001
Steen
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I'll say it again 10 miles of pure downhill, smooth, hairpins, straights, not many cars, taxi to the top, ride all the way home. sweet
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Cincinatti?
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On 5/16/2001 Baby Smooth
wrote in from
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i'll be moving to cincinatti in about 3 weeks for the summer- is anyone familiar with some places to ride??? not into those psychotic bombs (still recovering from a 35mph bail...) if anybody knows where some good ol' fashion soul carving can be found POST IT! thanks for the hook up guys.
stay stoked.
b. smooth
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Seattle
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On 5/16/2001
Deano
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Timothy,
I too am in Seattle and am looking for riding buddies. I know of some places in town, but am looking for people who want to make a trip a little ways out of town. (Highway 18)
E-mail me.
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Southern Cali
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On 5/15/2001
Colby
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A buddy and I are taking a road trip to southern cali durrring the june 3-10th week. It would be greatly appresiated if anyone could share some spots for us to ride or any fun things to do that are out of the ordinary disney, zoo, or sea world stuff. Thank you very much
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Donner Summit, CA
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On 5/15/2001
Tyler Buschmann
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One of the best hills in America to cruise a Sector 9, for sure!
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seattle
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On 5/14/2001 timothy
wrote in from
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i'm an old skool skate/surfer (34) who has recently started riding again after many years. been cruising my sector9 down my c.d./madrona area neighborhood hills (medium traffic but road conditions can change suddenly) but am looking for riding partners to find some fresh asphalt, long carvable hills, and do night rides this summer. growing up in portland i found many fun downhill spots and used to ride parking garages in the winter - need to find some spots in seatown and peeps to ride them with!
On 5/6/01 sarah wrote in from 209.245.xxx.xxx:
Just wondering if anyone out there can give me some tips on good places to ride around here. Ive been riding only a few months, and have gotten bored with what my neighborhood has to offer.
thanks
sarah
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Philly for Cam
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On 5/13/2001 mbhidel
wrote in from
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Is Norristown too far? Zip 19403. Paul V. Fly school
on Potshop (not kidding) Road. Lots of long,
low traffic hills with clear sight lines that dump into
the school parking lots. Safe for kids.
40 to 50 minutes from center city phila. Directions on the web,
search Paul V. Fly school.
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64th St, Virginia beach
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On 5/13/2001 mbhidel
wrote in from
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The State park entrance at the end of 64th has just been paved.
The only hill is right @ the entrance and the rest
of the street is a 2.5 mile up and down through the park with
several grind spots.
Low auto traffic, numerous blind curves.
A single track mtn bike trail runs next to the pavement
which offers several spots (dirt banks, sand traps, switch backs)
for off road skating.
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reseda blvd in tarzana, ca
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On 5/12/2001
jp
wrote in from
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the top of the hill is great for carve boards, the lower side and the neighboring streets are better for long boards.
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Humble, Texas
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On 5/12/2001
Jake
wrote in from
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Ok look. No one would answer my cry for help in the bulletin board section. I have to move from san diego to houston. Near Kingwood. Does ANYBODY out there skate. I would really like to know. Houston is the 3rd largest city in the COUNTRY so somebody must skate there. Please help.
Peace,
Jake :(
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Cherry Hill, NJ
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On 5/11/2001 GBJ
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Sorry, Repairman Cam, that I can't help you, but I can assure you that the very words, "Cherry Hill, NJ", can make most of us old, East Coast skate-geezers really miss the good ol'days!
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Cherry Hill, NJ
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On 5/11/2001 GBJ
wrote in from
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Sorry, Repairman Cam, that I can't help you, bit I can assure you that the very words, "Cherry Hill, NJ" can make most of us old, East Coast skate-geezers really miss the good ol'days!
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Philly/Cherry Hill area
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On 5/10/2001 Repairman Cam
wrote in from
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Anybody know of any spots in the Cherry Hill/Philly area where an 42 year old skate geezer and his young son can ride? My longboard should be complete by next week and I'd like to go riding somewhere where we both can start learning the basics...
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