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Sell and Swap / Trusted/Un-trustworthy sellers

« on: May 22, 2007, 08:34:31 AM »

TidoJackson is a good buyer. He sent a cheque and I sent him the sprocket.
Have no fear dealing with TidoJackson.
-Franky

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News / Raleigh, Nc Skatepark Design Meeting, Skaters Already Trying To Keep Bikes Out!!!

« on: May 11, 2007, 12:18:30 PM »

Skate cary was amazing but I just couldn't stand the people there. Ryan Barret was the only cool person I got to ride with there. It was pretty cool because I saw him here about a week ago at our public park in Nashville.

Eastwood was fun while it lasted.

And the box jump at Ryan's world was fun but the rest of the park lacked.

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News / Raleigh, Nc Skatepark Design Meeting, Skaters Already Trying To Keep Bikes Out!!!

« on: May 10, 2007, 01:17:07 PM »

I'd really love to see Raleigh get a bike friendly park, but I don't think the unity's there. I lived there less than six months ago. There's not a big push for park riding in raleigh. In Raleigh bmx racing prevails. Among the freestyle riders theres even less of a backing. Raleigh is about 60miles from Greenville, roughly an hour drive. I would like to see a bike-friendly park I can go home to and session every-now-and-then, but I don't think it'll happen. al the parks that've been in the Raleigh/surrounding areas that allowed bikes, only allowed them durring certain rare(horribly timed) sessions. It'd be on like a Thursday afternoon and it would end about 6:00pm, not enough time to leave work/school and ride. It was a catch-22 though, we'd get a session a week, so every biker crowds the park on that one day. When you pile that many bikers into a small park, people get hurt, ramps get destroyed fast, bad reviews of the park start emerging. When people get hurt the park can say "it was too dangerous to have bikes, ya'll are too big and go too fast", and then ban bikes without really having to explain too much to complainants. They force us to hurt eachother/the ramps and ban ourselves essentially. I'm sure this dosen't just happen in Raleigh though.
Good luck to raleigh though, I hope you guys prevail. I'd go support you guys but I'm no longer a resident and it's a ten hour drive on a work day. Can't pull that one off.