Cleaned up nicely.
Evidence of those who can’t wait…
The park is NOT OFFICIALLY OR LEGALLY OPEN YET. (sorry)
Still pretty mucky with dirt and dust, so not very nice to skate yet anyway.
I have a meeting on Monday 30th, to organize proper, legal access ASAP!
It’s gonna be at least another week or more until we can get in.
Hang in there. I’m gagging to skate it too, of course…
-daryl
Nigel – your big soft wheels are of course more thanwelcome, but those joins in the concrete look FAR worse in these photosthan they actually are. Thes mud and mositure are exagerating them tocomic effect. In reality they are very smooth and flush. No ’ka-chunk’at all. Bring a hard set as well for light-speed runs.
Callum – It’s NOT a bitch to find. I can assure you. Look at the’Plans’ page for maps. It’s only a 10 min walk from city centre.
26-01-06***Ihave discovered that Dudhope Park does not exist in some map websites,including the overly-used Multimap. On Expedia.co.uk, MapQuest and MSNmaps it is listedas “Anderheim Park.” Never heard of it…
When you search for “Anderheim Park” on Google… nothing atall shows up. Not even the links to those map-websites.
V weird.
Annoying too, if you might be trying to find a map to the park!
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Sam- There’s alot of us that will be getting our Barbie Skates on.Plus our ’My little Pony’ elbow pads, and ’Barney-the-dinosaur’helmets.
Whoooo! Rock on dude!
Tell your Dad to start dusting off his board!
-d
PARK OPEN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, I HONESTLY DON’T KNOW WHEN. LEGALS STILL TO DO!
SOON!
30-01-06: I repeat: park open very soon.
Meetingtoday went well. Temporary signs will be made asap (3-4 days) and putup asap too! (even if I have to go do it myself) Temporaryfencing; to keep peeps off the mud will be sorted out soon too.Clachan expect to hand over site to Council asap.
***I wouldlike to openly appologise for not being here to keep a better eye onsome portions of construction: the steepest bits of theflat-bank-wallride are not as transitioned as the design, and thereforevery harsh / almost unskateable. There is nothing I can do now tochange that. They would all (council included) tell me to “go away.” (in less polite terms)
Clachanwere/are as accomodating and nice as they could be, but redoing even apart of that wallride-to-flat-part-blend would make them explode,probably.
MOSTLY fine, though. Generally a good job.
The wallride corner itself is, as expected, very tight. But fine. Just fine.
Sigh… nothing quite like the idea of fundraising to pay forripping-up and redoing large bits of NEW concrete, to depress me in quite thesame way…
Sorry y’all… I’m really really sorry…
More soon
-d
Tuesday 31-01-06: Clachan are rumoured to want to hand over the site to the council on Friday.
Thisin no way guarantees immediate access. Council signs and temporaryfencing are still an issue for legality. If it’s not open forthis weekend(4th,) it’ll be sometime during next week, or at latestthat next weekend (11th)…I think I can confidently say that.
Don’t hold your breath anymore. Start breathing, and do your stretches and knee-bends.
You’ll need all the spring in your muscles that you can muster to handle that far-gnarlier-than-intended flatbank-of-doom.
(er…sorry)
SEE YOU THERE VERY SOON.
-d
Wednesday 1-2-06: The signs (for legality) won’t be ready untilTuesday the 7th… so that OFFICIALLY rules out this weekend for thepark being open for usage. I think Clachan may still be be doing theodd thing or two on Saturday. No other news.
Nuff sed.
-d