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Title: Hidden Trails Road
Post by: salad on April 20, 2009, 09:13:22 AM
Finally skated this puppy from top to bottom without a fall or bail.  .5 miles, drops 205 feet, max grade 18%.  Pretty much have the speed control dialed in, but there is a lot of traffic which adds a whole new deminsion.  I wore my gnarly work gloves and completely tore through the palm in one run.

Best part was the soccer mom that pulled me back up the hill at 25mph!
Title: Re: Hidden Trails Road
Post by: mungeclimber on April 20, 2009, 09:17:03 AM
did she know?
Title: Re: Hidden Trails Road
Post by: salad on April 20, 2009, 11:32:39 AM
hahaha, yeah she offered...
Title: Re: Hidden Trails Road
Post by: mungeclimber on April 20, 2009, 11:42:33 AM
 8)
Title: Re: Hidden Trails Road
Post by: F'ueco on April 20, 2009, 11:20:19 PM
hahaha, yeah she offered...

 Where were people like this when we were kids?
Title: Re: Hidden Trails Road
Post by: salad on April 30, 2009, 02:09:40 PM
stoked - got one of the guns from the gravity crew to head over to my place tonight for some downhill.  i have a feeling there will be uber speed tonight, picking up some depends on the way home!
Title: Re: Hidden Trails Road
Post by: mynameismud on April 30, 2009, 08:50:50 PM
Post up a report.
Title: Re: Hidden Trails Road
Post by: salad on April 30, 2009, 11:28:03 PM
just finished..  well, finished about 90 minutes ago, but been hanging out and doing some work.  best session i have ever had, we hit every single downhill in a two mile radius and nailed all but 1. full on circuit.   way more confident now that i have the slide down pat.  i can control my speed on almost anything!  hit hidden trails from top to bottom in style, with a lot traffic, sliding like mad and bombin the bottom.  felt like a teenager when at the bottom i took a hard right and skated under a gate into a parking lot.

got good and scared on this one super awesome steep downhill that levels out but is still downhill a bit at the bottom.  you just keep going faster and faster, deceptive.  nice uphill run out at the end.  slight speed wobbles, tuck harder and hang on!
Title: Re: Hidden Trails Road
Post by: mungeclimber on May 01, 2009, 08:08:13 AM
you got hemet and shoulderma pads?



Title: Re: Hidden Trails Road
Post by: salad on May 01, 2009, 08:28:08 AM
no.  if its gnar gnar ill where a glove for the stylee hand slides.