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Patio Mendino

well Tom...
from the responses(or better yet, lack of responses) I've gotten, it'd just be me and you...and maybe wesley sometimes.
not worth getting any major plans together. oh well.
you have my email, just lemmeeno whenever you want to meet up and ride whatever.
You know I am into it.
p

Patio Mendino

okay, looks like sunday is good. does anyone have any sundays scheduled(as in, 3rd sunday of the month is scouts, golf, whatever?) rick, will sundays work for you? it'd be cool to run cyberslalom with a timer and all... I'll post to my message board too, so we can get a feel of what the other GA peo...

Patio Mendino

hey wes, didn't mean to write you off...we're all in this together. I just figured that if some of the guys within a 1.5hr radius got it together, we'd certainly welcome more company from out of the area. I just know it's a long drive. as far as which days, that's what I am trying to get a feel for....

Patio Mendino

okay... me, GaTom, 66, steve, steve2, Low-J, all live within 1.5hrs of each other. we all have slalom rides. I'm sure we'd all like to practice and ride with others from time to time... it'd be great to get together and do some cyberslalom, hills, whatever. just to hang out and ride. (if anyone's in...

Patio Mendino

hey wes,
I have a nice oak rocker I'll trade for an easy chair...if you can spare one.
I was really hoping to get a nice LA-Z-Boy, but I got a new jeep instead.
I have a REAL saying...
"too many people overvalue what they are not, and undervalue what they are."
p

Patio Mendino

BLR coming to Athens?
CLUE #1; I saw "RED" on their tombstone on ye olde other site.
CLUE #2; they tried to write "Y'all".
damn califoreigners.
paid off with M&M's. cool.

Patio Mendino

hey Tom... since the last session ever at Vans ends at 7 on saturday night, we're figuring on heading back to athens after skating...we'll be back by 8ish(45min drive), and ready to join the already drunken revelers. I really think the slalom deally and the vans session will already be more skating ...

Patio Mendino

okay, as race weekend approaches, here's how it's lookin...(from my crosstown viewpoint) *********************** friday, meeting with JohnnyB and JohnnyRad and whatever other travelers want to grind at Junior's Ditch around 5/5:30. from Junior's, there's the 7:00 Texas outlaw race at Huntington Hill...

Patio Mendino

alright... so I went back by the hill and rolled down on my longboard with flashback 78a. sweeeeet. so thanks for getting me out there to wheel-test, 66! you bastard. now I'm more confuseder than ever. any wheels will work. harder/faster/rougher ride. softer/slower/smoother. aw mang, now whattamm I ...

Patio Mendino

turner needlenose with cambria 86/82. felt comfortable. rolled smooth...slight vibration. Energyskates.com birch GS deck with stinger 88/84. a little more "wheel buzz", but with the big hub, you'd expect it. park board with cut down NoSkoolz 94a/65mm. actually rolled okay. grip was very good. an att...

Patio Mendino

It ain't cheating unless you get caught.

Patio Mendino

dang, I gotta practice da'conez too. seems like everytime I go skate lately, there's transitions and coping in the way...
looks like peoples from 16 different states signed up for the race. VERY impressive mr.66!
P's outt

Patio Mendino

how come sometimes you can delete an entire post and make the next guy's response look like he's talking to himself, and then some posts you can only edit?

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Patio Mendino

hey, why'd ya hafta' bring up the H-word?
oi!
well, if it happens, we gots someone to blame it on now.
heh heh heh
looking forward to meeting y'all.
p

Patio Mendino

http://www.mindspring.com/~artcat/pfphot3b.html

here's a photo of mine, getting done with the tire warming process...
(I did a little extra for the camera...)

Patio Mendino

Juniors ditch is ready to rock. lips have been weedeatered and wes took his lawnmower to the grass along the edges, so it's all clear and fresh-cut! we've been laying down heavy films of aluminum on the lips yo. it's grindalicious. Glowing Rock Skatepark is resurfacing the other side of the spine ra...

Patio Mendino

Just wanted to get this question back out in front of those who may be able to
answer.

Patio Mendino

Chuck, you can get it how you want it at the "V"! chili-cheese-slaw-pimento cheese dog if'n you want! ******************* is the original Bones Brigade the mystery guest for the race? or is BLR coming to show that the west is best???? come on, can't someone come up with some good gossip? if I read i...

Patio Mendino

I saw that a "mystery guest" is coming to the Athens GA race.
could it be that Wentzle Ruml IV will be coming to run cones and serve seafood?
will there be no need for a Varsity run afterall?
how do onion rings go with steamed clams?
damn I'm bored.

Patio Mendino

http://www.thevarsity.com Chuck, As of today I have gone into training. At noon I had a cheeseburger, chili-cheese dawg with onions and an order of onion rings. At 2 I skate in a ramp/bowl contest. ***5pm UPDATE*** I took 3rd in the contest and suffered no blowouts or anything. I need to fine tune t...

Patio Mendino

Friday; 5:30-7:30, Junior's ditch. Fun for all…slalomers and transition riders. Find it, grind it, watch the viddy, then rewind it. some folks will be driving in from the north, straight to the ditch... Directions to Junior's Ditch; Eastside athens. Get off loop 10 at College Station Road. Head uphi...

Patio Mendino

alright...7:30 tonight. if things aren't too blurry by then...
then 6:30 tomorrow night.
P's outt

Patio Mendino

hey tom...I think he was talking about the friday night before the race. he's gonna have a tour of hills and an outlaw setup at the hunn for the non transition people, and I'm gonna have a tour of skateparks. actually, the tour of skateparks might end up at the hunn outlaw deally since the athens sk...

Patio Mendino

hey wesley, Sorry it didn't work out. I know what you mean about skating alone. Although there's a handful of skaters here in Athens, I rarely have anyone to ride with. It's hard to push too much when you don't have an "emergency driver" or anything. especially with driving stick-shift. Lately, I've...

Patio Mendino

so where's the tales of exit foteysixx?
inquiring minds want to know.
p

Patio Mendino

well, a record turnout. I was the only one who showed up.
support grass roots slalom...yeah.
I hope they hurry up and build the skatepark. maybe I'll be the only one to ride it.

Patio Mendino

my folks will be visiting the weekend of the 12th, so I'm out.
or else I'd be the one to bomb it yo.

Patio Mendino

I thought these posts I've made about the athens sunday slalom and stuff were to invite other slalomers to come ride and hang out. hmmmm.... Tom drives 120 miles and is one of the few to have shown up! We've got a handful of skateboarders in Athens, but no interest in slalom apparently. and how many...

Patio Mendino

I'll be up under the bridge again this year...coff coff coff

Patio Mendino

awwww, come on. the Georgia race was run in an alternate venue, just like Folly Beach was!
it was not rained out.
you showed up. "tag, I'm here" and took off to go see the college football game.
The race ROCKED!!!
p

Patio Mendino

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Patio Mendino

agreed.

Patio Mendino

I guess I need a shop-vac with a larger attachment...
heh heh heh

Patio Mendino

REAL men grind pool coping.
*******************
slalom is to skateboarding as fly casting is to fishing.
*******************
you're being just like that "indy guy".

p

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Patio Mendino

if I post here again, does that make my preference more convincing or something? but I guess I am just a "bobby piercy wannabee homosexual" or something.(freekin a r abesque kook) I like girls. they are curvey like the courses I prefer. p [ This Message was edited by: patio mendino on ...

Patio Mendino

I like a crazy hippie surfey snowboardey course. straight cones, nah mon. flat course, nah mon. so fast and on edge that you'll get seriously hurt if you fall, nah mon. 6' centers on a nice slope, yah mon. a section of straight cones, then some wild offsets to throw you, then back to straights to ga...

Patio Mendino

dude, sounds like the best thing you can do is get yourself offa' this stress wagon you've been riding and get on your skateboard! hell, it's only like 5hrs drive from your house to KONA...hop a ride with someone and go smile for a day! forget racing, just go enjoy rolling on concrete. don't forget,...

Patio Mendino

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Patio Mendino

I think a "program" would be a really good idea at races; *maybe a little bit about slalom racing(history, etc) *a list of competitors with a little bit about each of them...perhaps with a picture *a description of the various events taking place at the race *a schedule of the events taking place(ye...

Patio Mendino

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Patio Mendino

I was looking at Rad Pads...they are 14deg for the rear and 8deg for the front.(?) I always thought you would want the front to have more wedge than the back has de-wedge. I want to know what wedges people run for different conditions and all... I am having wood wedges made from 2.5deg-15deg in 2.5d...

Patio Mendino

I am told of a 6/21 practice session near portland.
I'll be in that area at that time, so I'll try to hook up with y'all there.
thanks for the replies!
Patio

Patio Mendino

at last year's Athens GA race, I brought out my old "flea market" Hobie Hotdogger. acs 430, original(slow) power paws with KOYO bearings, 24" fiberglas deck with no grip tape. VLAD got on it and flew around and beat me in a slalom duel. (me on "modern" stuff) then again he is fast and I am slow. but...

Patio Mendino

if'n you read your histree books, you'll see the truth... The Manatee was a gentle creature that grazed in the sawgrass fields and orange groves, walking around, munching...these were the creatures that ruled the south. then came the Spanish explorers who took the feet from the Manatees, they used t...

Patio Mendino

During my triathalon/biathalon days, these type helmets were banned. in a local triathalon race (Stone Mountain, GA), a top racer wrecked on his bike, fell backwards and the point on the back of the helmet caused his head/neck to twist and put him paralyzed from the neck down. top racer to chair rid...

Patio Mendino

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Patio Mendino

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Patio Mendino

my '73 Charger with a big block 400(with Edlebrock/Holley goodies) is for real...it goes really fast, brings home big trophies from the dragstrip and gets about 3,000 miles outta' the rear tires... and yes, a 1,500lb Honda civic with nitrous will give it a run... power to weight ratio is what it's a...

Patio Mendino

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Patio Mendino

support grass roots slalom?
I tried.
oh well.
good thing skateboarding's not a team sport.
solo I have ridden.
solo I will ride.
hope folks show up for the race.
later.
p

[ This Message was edited by: Patio Mendino on 2003-07-06 19:02 ]

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