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should I post ramp and grind rail?
should I make an instructable for a nice DIY bike ,skateboard, roller blades, ect. ramp and a simple sturdy skate board or roller blade grind rail?
1-3 are of the ramp obviously that i made quite recently.
4 is of the grind rail its like a year and a half old so its really beat up it was a lot better new ,and i figured out a better way to build it.
here is the ible so far tell me what ya think https://www.instructables.com/id/EHRS1JAFGB0X664/
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12 years ago
are you soupposed to just ride on the rail?
Reply 12 years ago
mmhhmm its a grind rail. so yeah.
12 years ago
how come the instructables doesnt show up on your main page?
Reply 12 years ago
I never published it yet because I never finished it.
Reply 12 years ago
i can stull go to the link though. why is that?
Reply 12 years ago
because I sent you a direct link that any one can get to it with.
12 years ago
Heck yeah! Some of my friends and I are making a couple of ramps this summer a big one, and if we use your idea then we could scale it up to make it bigger.
Reply 12 years ago
yeah you can make one 4 ft tall with my guide.
12 years ago
only two feet! i have a flat ramp that goes 3 1/2 in. of the ground and i can get three feet of air.
Reply 12 years ago
without seriously bunny hopping and I never over estimate I all ways say a little less than I think it is.
12 years ago
Yes! Looks pretty nice. I suppose I could wait for the 'ible, but how did you curve the plywood? (I'm looking to make something for my RC car to jump. I bet my RC car could grind the rail, too!)
Reply 12 years ago
well it takes a lot of screws and a special technique of mine. leave it out in the rain all night on your patio or drive way and then wait for the sun to dry it and then you pick it up you will see that the back is damp that makes it possible to bend it.
Reply 12 years ago
Okay, I think I may wait for the 'ible. Put in 20 votes from me ;-p
Reply 12 years ago
I finished with the votes in an hour people really want this one.
12 years ago
Yes, looks good, I was thinking of making a linear one, no curve for a specific purpose... I'm going to jump something in my street, only it may end in death... Also kiteman's law applies, thou shalt post, I'll dig out the link...
Reply 12 years ago
lol don't die on us.
Reply 12 years ago
Well one involves about a twenty foot drop and the other is about 10feet edge to edge, with about a 30 foot run up, I might be able to get the speed, I cna get shifting pretty fast but...
Reply 12 years ago
yeah you would need a bigger ramp lol is it just a hole in the ground?
Reply 12 years ago
no it's off part of a block of flats...
12 years ago
posting don't need any more votes.
12 years ago
yes, just do it already!
Reply 12 years ago
ok
12 years ago
Yes.
Need I say more?
Reply 12 years ago
yes you must say more. ok one vote for yes we need 10 votes to decide.
Reply 12 years ago
Eh hem. He means look at Kiteman's law.
https://www.instructables.com/community/Notes-on-specific-Laws---the-Zeroth-Law/
Read and learn.
12 years ago
I just reviewing your pics and in looking at the last one....I thought for a moment you were going to add a handicap hand rail to it LOL then I realized where it actually goes :-)
12 years ago
Often one of the stumbling blocks to living a simpler life is our inability or unwillingness to change how we play some of the games that got us into these complicated lives in the first place. Elaine St. James in other words: what Kiteman said.....
Reply 12 years ago
ok so thats a yes right? 8 votes needed for me to make the ible.
Reply 12 years ago
I could vote 8 more times maybe :-) So, you are saying, if 7 more people want you to, instead of 8 more, because you are one short, you will deprive those 9 people and the rest of the world from your instructable?
Reply 12 years ago
well no if there are 6 votes then I build if there are 5 votes and 5 no votes I still might but if only 4 do then I most likely wont .