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A new way to go down? I think we need a tunnel....


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OMG! I have GOT to get me one of those!!! eek grin


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WOW! What a rush...!!!

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GREAT VIDEO!! But inquiring minds want to know if it's legal to pass without signaling. Also, what are the "brakes" like?

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One question, who's going to carry the stuff up?


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That would be me. crazy


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Originally Posted By Dave A. R.
GREAT VIDEO!! But inquiring minds want to know if it's legal to pass without signaling. Also, what are the "brakes" like?

Dave R


Roller blades on the aft brakes keep the toes from performing effective signaling but the fingers on the forward brakes could probably signal quite expressively. On curves you can see that the brakes perform a steering function, too.

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And NO POTHOLES on their roads....

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Good point Mark, but a pothole in a Swiss road has yet to be discovered. :) BTW, I know this road over Grimsel Pass very well as it used to be my favorite bike riding place (bike as in bicycle). Kurt

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Whoa, that is a rush!

Reminds me of my four brothers and I using roller-sleds on the streets of San Francisco in our crazy young days. After the "all clear" yell from traffic-watchers, we would rocket down the steepest hills in our neighborhood.

It was absolutely a rush...until we wiped out and left our skin and blood streaking down the streets, and we did it without helmets, gloves or any other protection. What kids do!

Not too long after, San Francisco outlawed the roller-sleds. Too many kids paid the ultimate penalty.

I must say, it was a mighty rush, but getting our skin to grow back...well, that's another story.

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Crestline and the Flexible Flyer...

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In the Owens Valley, the gorge parallel road has about the best conditions. Good maintenance, one and a half lanes wide, no traffic except W&P, rock climbers and fishermen.

I was driving up to the middle power plant parking one day as a skate boarder was coming down with a support vehicle following. It was impressive how big the whites of his eyes got before I pulled off the pavement and stopped to let him pass.

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I researched this some more... It's real if you had any doubts (I sort of did)...

Guy's name is Jean Yves Blondeau.

Here's another video:

Rollerman - Jean Yves Blondeau

Way cool!!!

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Wayne,

You TOTALLY reminded me of my younger days in San Francisco riding my Flexi Flyer down the hills and crashing in a gutter somewhere! WOW! This video reminds me of that "rush" feeling again. Oh to be young and dumb! grin


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