“Tea and scone nowison” made me chuckle
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Genuine question, how do these dudes avoid getting serious speed wobbles?
Presumably there are a load of factors involved in terminal velocity riding down a hill. Wheel size, air resistance, incline etc. My only involvement with science is teaching it to 9 year olds so I might be talking out of my arse.
We always did a half turn tighten on the trucks…Most experience was late 90’s, so we’d have all been on 58mm wheels. That probably helped.
Speed wobbles give me the heebie jeebies, I think it’s all the time you get to contemplate the inevitable. Remember getting them down a slope between the upper and lower promenades near Blackpool. Only a short slope but steep, so it teased the possibility of getting to the bottom and riding it out but nope. Surface like a cheese grater.
lol, reminds me of the times we’d skate Chester Christleton park and ride and we’d grab onto James’ (pre-Leeds schoolboy to you lot) Volvo and see how fast we could get to before we got speed wobbles and shit our pants or just eat shit.
I had a proper plane crash bombing a hill around Hyde Park in Leeds one night and haven’t really done it since. Board hit a little crack and just stopped dead. My only proper hospital slam!
I remember bombing a hill in Leeds once, Stanmore Hill, which looking back I could quite easily have been properly hurt on. It’s not even that big of a hill.
I got mad speed wobbles at the bottom which I rode out, but a car pulled out fast from one of the side roads on the right at the bottom without looking and turned in front of me. Luckily there was enough space that I could go down the left side, but if they’d breaked, or pulled out wider, or if another car had pulled out from the left, I’d be pretty messed up, because I wasn’t stopping
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Lived on bottom of Stanmore hill during first lockdown. It had been resurfaced and was very fun to have it almost deserted of cars for weeks, but aye the cars coming out of the side streets can be sketchy. Seen a fair few nasty slams on there (and taken them).
From 3:00 to 4:00 on this video is a few pals doing it (and me in green hat). My old flatmate, the one who slams near van had a theory that once you get past a certain speed you dont get wobbles. Watching him fly down many yorkshire hills at the speeds he went, im half inclined to believe him.
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I lived at the top of Stanmore for three years. 2005 - 2008. Small world!
Used to bomb it every time I went to Hyde and I’m amazed I never fell off.
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That surface texture is what I remember.
Side note: There was also a huge pothole in the incline going up at the bottom and I once drove through it during a driving lesson and the instructor called me a fucking idiot
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What street? I lived at the top of Stanmore for three years from 2014, Knowle Grove. Like switch mutes video many of us used to bomb it several times a day for years. I used to get up for work at 6am so would bomb it super early and got really cocky after a while, one time a van pulled out on me and I had to go to work a pretty full on support-worker job on a 6am train covered in blood which was funny
Photo I shot of my mate Josh after taking his eyebrow off on a peak speed wobble one night. One of Stanmores many victims haha.
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Knowle Avenue for a while, but I lived in a few different houses around there.
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Can’t wait to see this!
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A kid, a board, a dream, a hat.
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That does look like it will be unintentionally amazing!
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He didn’t get the hat memo then
