STOKED: a proper skateshop has opened up in Dundee!!
Here’s a (slightly enhanced) photo of the place:
And in case you are wondering about a fast walking route from the park:
Go support these guys!!
Lowriderz
81 King Street
tel / txt – Bri 07707 219930, Rod 07935 717318
email/msn = lowriderz(at)hotmail(dot)co(dot)uk
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SATURDAY! let’s try again eh?- weather looking not esp. brilliant, but we’ll give it a bash.
This trophy had to have a rightful first holder: (think Highlander…”there can be only one”)
Besides… St. Pannit ain’t gonna seranade you with ACDC from the pit of the wallride if it’s raining.
-D
I’ve still to do a proper explanation of the background infoto this, and why the design came down to this…but here’s a sneaky peek at Dundee’s latest concrete park:
only a meter deep.
This is an illustration of what the park will be like.
To cut the long explanation: there was not enough cash for sprayed concrete, so I got more area for the money instead ofone tiny set of quarters or something.
At least I saved it from being overpriced metal ramps etc… which it came damn close to being!
BTW: the skaters etc. are prob not scaled exactly right so it prob looks a bit odd… I.e.: tiny.
That slappy-kerb in the back, near the bank-block is going to be 4 metres long… doesn’t look like it there, I will admit.
Stay tuned.
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Response to comment: Mr. Douche -I REALLY HOPE you are being sarcastic…
because if you think you could do better for the limited budget and get a 420 sqm concrete park out of 50k… step on up to the job. (Dudhope, all in, cost 230k and was under priced by the admission of the builders)
And of course I AM a skateboarder…
And just for the record: the money was scraped together from the Community Regeneration Fund by the residents of Linlathen, and the kids who will use it are mostly BMXers… I think for all the problems associated with not being able to pay for proper transitions I’ve done what I could to make a fun park for skaters… give it a chance. It isn’t MEANT to be another ‘big’ facility… or some x-games panty-wetter, just something for the local kids to mess around in. Ok?
Besides – if you’d have seen the first bowl I’d designed and really tried to get built for this, you’d not be whining…. BUT WE COULDN’T AFFORD IT!!!
If you stumbled across this as a ‘ghetto’ spot, like a drained paddling pool etc – you’d be very stoked.
I CHALLENGE YOU TO GO AND SKATE IT, AND TELL ME HONESTLY THAT YOU DID NOT HAVE ANY FUN…
thanks,
-d
Answers for Euan / Ross :
No ‘coping’ anywhere…but the pink lines you see are metal edges on the kerb-blocks and on the wembly-gap-block-bank thing… plus of course the flat bar that sweeps round the end.
That rounded end at the west with the curved flatbar was supposed to be mirrored at the other end so there was more flow all around, but it had to be chopped off for lack of cash. I had a funky mini-plaza designed for the north side where that aforementioned bank/block thing is… but guess what???
The bowls are basically flat banks with a 1 metre radius ‘sweetener’ at the bottom and inside corners. (the wallride at dudhope has an 800mm radius ‘transition’) The banks are different angles… the back on you mostly see is 40 degrees (like ‘Wallows’ at Dudhope,) the one opposite that is only 20 degrees. the others are mostly 25 degrees for launch-ness.
The lips are all ‘sharp’ to allow a grind for as long as the edges hold out. There are also those slappy sized kerbs put onto the top (see image) in places that would stop the flow at Dudhope!
The middle is slightly lower than the outside edges for ‘oomf’… it’s just a simple driveway.
Go ollie over it and enjoy the minimalism.
-d
Answers for Greenhell:
It’s being built in Linlathen, not all that far from ‘The Factory.’ Go find Fountainbleau Drive and you’ll find this…
But give it another 5 weeks or so eh?
-d