This isn’t for the new larger format; although thats pretty cool too (thanks Rick!) sorry for the slower download times.
It’s for this !
Thats the first banked section! Whooo hoooo!
Looks rough now, but the were set to be polishing it for a while, they said… This was about 4:15 or so, getting dark and I’ve fiddled with the photo to make it clearer.
I’ll go back tomorrow and check. 🙂
Meet Duracrete. If you see them in a pub in Dundee, buy them a drink, and anew pair of wooly mittens. Damn cheerfull in that darkening chill. Rockon boys, we’re all counting on you.
This photo; less fiddled with, not too many minutes later.
We all owe this man huge skateboarderly hugs (and free drinks for life)for magnificently overseeing this project. We also owe another chap(not pictured) more of the same, for processing our “non-easy” designinto the numbers and drawings that the contractors needed. ALLHAIL TOM AND ALAN; LORDS OF ENGINEERING in Dundee City Council. 🙂
No foolin.
Yeah Dude! Unknown local performs a rather tasy frontside grind on a pieceof transition guide; used to shape the surface unto coolness.
That arc you see is a complete guide; all steel and super slick.
Fancy going bowling?
…soon.
Keeping the frost off for pouring tomorrow. …?
Cranked up the brightness a little, aren’t digi cameras great?
Ooops! how did that get in there?
Youcan go see this Dundee-born skater pick up birds in the Wellgateshopping centre, for the rest of the week, apparently. He has quite agood technique, and a laid back stance, as you can see.
Couldn’t resist putting one more in.
Here’s the progress map:
Sorry for this negative ending, but:
PLEASE HELP KEEP PEOPLE OUT OF THE SITE UNTIL IT’S COMPLETE!
DON’TBARGE IN FOR A SKATE, IT WILL ENCOURAGE THE IDIOTS TO GO IN TOO! (Andthey WILL wreck things out of sheer subconscious frustration that theydon’t know how to skate…)
Just for some perspective; I’ve been as punk as most, when itcomes to “illegal trespassing,” to session amazing, but technicallyout-of-bounds skate spots. This is different, obviously. All this hardwork can be damaged more easily than you think, if not given time toset properly, unmolested. Word.
Please please please. Be patient. It will be there for ever after, so you have plenty of time to enjoy it. Soon.
May your bearings never squeak.