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Sammy,

Great to have you on the team!!

Cheers, Tod

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Sean, I'll concur with the others here and send you to Sk8kings... You'll be able to tell Richy Carrasco your weight and other important aspects of your general style and he will wedge and bush the steering so it will be a couple of wrench turns from raceable right out of the box... Also, if you'll ...

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yup...... I'm going golfing

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Good luck Alex!!

Crap, I can't fabricate a lie let alone a monocoque??

Yo Lavin, I still have one of C-nova's books, "Successful composite techniques" by Keith Noakes.

I think it would be a great read...............if I could read.........

Nice pictures though!!!

How ya been?

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Loren, There's a slalom scene in the N. Illinois area... Hit the Chixill link in my sig... Chris Favero is the man to talk to... If you're looking to try some modern racing equipment we have a ton of it and we like to share, cuz we're true midwesterners...... :-) Don't be afraid to barge any of the ...

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Mike, I slalomed on a Sims 33" Superply back in the day, but that was then.... ;-) For me, there is no going back to a flat deck... all my flat racing decks have been modified with foam wedges to build kicktails and also to build up the rails to make faux concave... it's just flat out proven to be f...

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Mike, Here's a setup with some kick, concave and camber... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v644/todaoles/zepside2.jpg I just want to make sure you are seeing how the kick is used on a racing deck... NO KICK TURNS ALLOWED ;-) truck right under the tail... Glad you're interested in slalom again!! I'...

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Joe, Shriners at a skateboard race..........hmmm, I think a glyph in the Mayan calender predicts this would happen... We'll try and make it before 2012 Kara has the traveling bar customized and stocked, and we'd like to reserve the "Caveman Suite" at the resort... Hopefully it's in the opposite wing...

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Great pictures Noah, Thanks for putting them up!!

Pretty good article there......
I'm hoping to make it one of these years?....

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Justin,

I'm sure Seismic Dan will have a trunk load of 3dm wheels 4 sale at the race venues....

Take an extra C note

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Justin,

The ts race will be as tech as you'll probably see this year.... Cambrias were mounted up on some heavy hitters decks as well last year...

Skate hard and Good luck to you, Tod

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Hi Rob, Good to here from you!! Very glad to be alive, thank you... the tough guy bravado could of cost me everything... YES the golf course is my haven as of late... Kara even drives the kart :-) I'll be on my bike this weekend trying to get some fitness back (golfing is not so aerobic) :-) I've se...

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Justin, Bad news... Doc says to hang the slalom up for this year...He's keeping my blood pretty thin to avert anymore clotting issues. He's a cyclist so he's letting me slide on the bike riding... NO RACING or riding alone though... Whew!!! at least I can do 2 thing I love, If anyone needs me I'll b...

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Steve Pederson wrote:After riding Dave's new deck today, I didn't want to ride mine anymore.

One more fickle slalom skater....... Go figure

Dave, nice looking deck!! hope you guys are having a great summer, I should be up and running shortly...

Tod

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Jake, Here's a thread with some course setting diagrams... (you'll see alot of the features in these diagrams at races)... http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1149 Don't get all hung up about the spacings as that will depend on the steepness of the hill... Use the diagrams as a g...

Tod Oles · I'm in.....aged 45 yrs. February 28, 1962

I'm in.....aged 45 yrs.

February 28, 1962

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holy f*ck, just look at all this kum-by-a and love-me-tender going on in here....Of course, i could be wrong.....if i am, please feel free to find me at the Buckeye, hold my hand, tell me i'm loved and pat my backside Love you all Yours Truly BARA xoxoxox Damn, here I am cursing this F-ed up knee a...

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David,

Welcome to the "Walking Wounded" club (although I'm limping)....

Good luck with rehab!!

Tod

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.... What guitar???? I can't make out what's behind that pick guard....

Snazzy

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Thank you guys for the call of concern....

Topsider,
thanks for posting the vid. (makes the couch loafin
easier to take)....

Congrates to G and JBH... way to rep the racers camp, hope you guys have a good day tommorrow.

Later, T.O.

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I too would like to thank Mangels, Doreen and their beautiful daughters for making this race a weekend well lived for this old hack. There were some new faces indeed!!! Nick, my skateboards have found there true owner..... :-) Donuts and Elyse, it was great to see some fast new styles out there!! al...

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Greg,

What's your preferred setup in "park mode" ??

I love that shape!! Well done.....

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Well done Adam!!!!

Hope to see you in the USA at some point this season.....

Take it easy, Tod

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Claude Regnier wrote:I have choices now, as I've made myself independent.

Claude, I'm glad you like it!!!....Freedom reigns here at Chixill...

Best of luck to you, Tod

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CHIXILL....... It's such a practical choice...

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John, Larger wheels have more gyroscopic inertia when spinning and thus have a tendency to resist changing direction... wheels designed like the Seismic Speedvent counteract this by using a lighter inner core to mold the heavier urethane around....so they do feel more agile given they're 77mm size. ...

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Chris Barrett,

You need to go there at least once in your skate career...... and hurry!!! if that place gets
popular, I can see it getting major police heat in the future....... hell, it already does.......

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Thanks Chris.... Just a little word of warning regarding ABQ......You WILL pay a price learning the ins and outs as the learning curve in ABQ is steep and unforgiving.... I got Ditch slapped 2hrs after stepping off the plane...(inlet hole) Being in shape and learning to be comfortable with LOTS of s...

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See below

T.O.

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Ben, be nice to the Viking fan................

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Looking good Marty!!

See ya in St. Louis..........yes?

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Shes got that look like Kara gets when I take gas money outta her purse....

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I think she could take me....

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justin collins wrote:haha what's this "diaper duty" you guys speak of???

Lets just say, it's worse than cleaning puke outta the floorboards of your moms Beemer.......

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Diaper duty cured me of my nail biting and I have an incessant habit
of washing my hands B4 eating popcorn....

Give it 25 yrs, and the rose colored glasses of time will have you wishing
for these days again... Good luck

Tod

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Tyler,

I swapped out my trimmed clears for the White Khiro Bitch bushings... I get 2 sets and use the 2 bottoms as a set in my front Rad...no fuss no muss, works like a charm...

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Yep, That how mine is set up... (only 90mm in the back)

Looks nice Ben, I hope it works for you.

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Leave it to Wes to inadvertently start a DH truck thread on SS.com ;-) I'm loving the Radikal Talons that Cfav is graciously letting me use and race in New Mexico at the end of April....noisy, but they have that familiar accurate feeling like my Radikal slalom race trucks... Radikal has the precisio...

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Wes,

I'm no expert, but all of these "reverse pivot" types of trucks seem to be efforts to
improve on the Randal design by eliminating the less than stellar QC issues Randal
has with their cast trucks...

You looking for a set of wide carve or DH trucks??

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Justin,

I really want to hear what you think before I start pontificating about a deck that
I "BETTER" like...

And not to Hi Jack the Hollien deck thread, I love that blue..... Reminds me of the
bicicletta Gios racing color...

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Justin,

Sounds like you're doing good!! glad to hear you're able to practice out that way.

Whats the wheelbase measure on that little thang??

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justin collins wrote:You boys are in trouble!

I've made a living taking care of trouble....bring it!!

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The older red Turner and 3dm Avalons were 74a...

Check this out...... pretty good price too.

http://www.milehighskates.com/catalog/p ... cts_id=885

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Paul, Hopefully I'm funnier in real life..........

I'm heading to Abq for the Ditch Slap and then St. Louis will be the next one...If I live...

Justin, Your rounding out a nice quiver there!! Hope they all work as nice as they look.

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OK, here's the deal....... By the time the post reply page loads, I re-type the main point I'm trying to make several times Cuz I can't type, then wait again for my dial up to reconnect after I get dropped a few times, preview my meager opinion on the subject at hand and finally feed it to you wolve...

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Stephen and Ben, I'm glad your liking the deck... The idea with the rear of the deck was to have it be rockered out like a S-camber to the 9th degree. This is why I was running just enough wedge/riser to get the rear truck angled flat (35* Splitfire).... Now I've gone a step further and I'm experime...

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Stuart,
Did eveything work out alright??

I've gone so far as to make the front mounting holes on the baseplates a little oblong with a small rat tail file.

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Ben,

Lets hear some feed back.......

Paul, I'm with ya on the Thin Mints... and like a Zepplin I'll be steering clear of all
forms of ignition.

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H O O A A H ???????? I hope that's topsider speak for >FNA< I LIKE IT???? :-) And Paul, when's the last time you bought a hammer??????? Thought so............time to put a nice new styly one in the tool box......hehe I've set mine up with a Rad front at +15* and jacked that up w/ 1/2" of riser... Th...

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Stuart, This is a common problem... Try getting all four bolts thru ALL the wedges and truck holes first. (this may require using longer bolts than necessary on the front holes) Then try and tighten everything up from there. In some cases bending the front bolts a bit to the nose of the board will h...

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