We just got a little practice time with 6' centers, on the lower third of the hill (where Tiger Williams' Hybrid course is). I now know enough to say, with certainty, that those guys that will be running the upper third of the hill are insane!! Heh heh!! This will be a great race to watch and should...

Silverfish Longboarding.com has teamed-up with La Costa Boys Racing to bring you an open, amateur Tight Slalom clinic at the famous Pump Station Road venue. It's Saturday, March 4th, 2006 and is open to all. No fee. Bring your helmet and come try out Tight Slalom! Tiger Williams and Lynn Kramer wil...

Did I mention that "Chicks dig it"?

You be the judge.

It arrived and everything! I had to bite my lip on the price, too, but I wanted it for a particular board we're product-testing at Silverfish. I can tell you this: it's very cleanly made. Nice stuff.

FYI, there are 18 of these left, as of Jan 31st.

How are the wheels coming along?

Man, that sure looks like a cool setup, Marty!

This video is a great DVD! Nicely shot, expertly edited and with a killer soundtrack. Nice work, Maria!!

The wheels appear to be well-made and well-thought in the design. They are not exactly like the HotSpot, are they ? ;) Well, no. Neither the Manx nor ZigZags are "like" the Hot Spot, which is a great wheel, basically a new mold of a "trimmed 3dm". If you go to the gun-totin' cowboys of slalom websi...

Rough story, and now that you've taken it to where you have, I suggest you get proactive and interactive with that Police Chief. Those rules that Chewning posted from the CSU are great, and are aimed at the legitimate problems that skateboards and bikes/scooters, etc can have on a college campus: da...

I knew the Avilas were coming out that way, but I just noticed that the duro is listed as 73a for the crystal-clear red. That explains a little about why I was tearing my Cambrias apart! That's a big hunk of 'thane! I gotta get me a set of the 70mm "Red Rider" Zig Zags to go on a board that needs bi...

Wrap the wheels in clear grip tape to get traction. It won't work for anything but that, but you'll grip on the slick wood enough to provide a great show to the IOC. Next up, slalom skating in the Olympics. It's all on you... no pressure, no pressure!! heh heh!!

If you have a slalom event, race or open clinic to promote, and are willing to provide an after-event article with photos, SilverfishLongboarding.com will gladly host your promotions and race reports. If you need help writing or formatting them, we can do that, too. Silverfish is the 2006 Media Part...

I've been using one of the rail kits for setups of boards we test on another website, and just built another up last night. It's when I use the kit that I am reminded what a KILLER product it is: first, it's easy to wedge at different angles; second, the wedges are designed with the minimum height p...

Ha ha!! Okay, regardless of utility, I still have an unreasonably soft spot in my heart for clear, red wheels. I even like the look of the clear, red Kryptos. The clear, red Cambrias look really good and ride very soft. The red is very Road-Riderey when you look at them from the side, and the emboss...

Hey, that Rocket lube is good stuff...but expensive. I guess since we skaters use less lube per shot than we mountainbikers...we get zinged at the checkstand. Heh heh!!

I used Finish Line lubes for years, and bet that the real thin, non-wax, stuff would be great for bearings, too.

I have the clear red Cambrias and also the clear red ZigZags. Aside from the different feel and performance from the different shapes, the colors are different, too. The 3dm wheels are crystal clear red and the Retros are darker red and not quite as clear...very much like a Sims wheel used to be, ac...

Ah, but the rails are also Super Convenient for dewedging the rear truck on a drop-thru...or the front. That crafty Bob...nice thinking!!

Jamie, do you lube your ceramics, and with what?

I have two ways to clean them: --in a "LaSonic" ultrasonic jewelry cleaner that I picked up at WalMart for $17. I use a heated solvent and leave them open-side-down in the basket. Time varies by what I'm doing at the time, but 20 minutes is about what I use. When I'm done, I rinse them with a squirt...

Chris Chaput brought the entire line of ZigZags out to Pump Station, yesterday, for an open testing/practice session with the SilverfishLongboarding and La Costa Boys Racing crews. It turned into a skatefest, actually, but we all had a chance to ride the ZigZags in on the Hybrid and GS courses. The ...

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I agree: killer shape for the Georgia Outlaw!!!! Great looking deck.

Greg, the "Revolvers" look just the same as "SiNSystems" bearings to me. They appear to have the same 10mm inner bore, and to use the same aluminum top-hat/spacer combo to fit onto near-8mm axles.

Thanks, Justin! Jack, in response to your one query, I actually know: --Ron has made rumblings on Concrete Disciples that he's looking into the Biltins idea. --Chris has repo'd a set of the ceramic Biltins I made, using what I call "KMart Ceramic" balls. He has reserved comment until he rides them m...

I did get the red one! My buddy and I didn't want to be TOO "twinsy", and he's got the black one coming. We went with the RT-s/RT-x setup, being new enough to slalom that the nuances of the trucks are likely to be lost upon me, at least. Certainly for a while. I've got a special bonus on the setup: ...

Several of us have been building our own hybrid ceramic Biltins, using ceramic balls out of the cheapest bearing sets we can score on eBay or balls out of the expensive "Rockin Ron's" ceramic bearings. They seem to work great, giving the high speed performance of a bearing that only needs the lighte...

Thanks to Lynn Kramer and Tiger Williams' Pump Station event in December, my buddy Malakai Kingston and I caught enough of the slalom bug that we want more. Thanks to Lynn offering to let us check out her AXE II, we also found the boards we're gonna jump in with! The concavity at the nose and the fi...

Some of us rank amateurs went out to try slalom at the first one, in December. If you want to read about what we saw and check the gallery of photos: go here.