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Fruit Boots anyone?

fromeast2west said:
If you're looking at them for exercise, the big problem may be finding anywhere you can use them where you don't spend most of your time dealing with crappy pavement and trails so crowded with people that you're constantly stopping.

Oh, and when you're starting out, hills can be a really bad idea ... so around here you're pretty much limited by your access to the various bay side trails... which have crappy pavement and are crowded...
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this is my biggest concern....roads and space.

The only place i can think of using them are Canada Rd. Thats where i see the 4 hot chicks who do this. This will get boring really quick.

Im not an engineer or a dad but I dont think hockey skates with good bearings will go just as fast.
 
heh, I used to skateboard, and I wound up getting a pair. its a sacrilige I know. but I was playing Hockey with em.

what I know, the Hockey specific skates look cooler and are actually cheaper than the recreation ones. they don't come with the stopper though, which you wind up not needing if you can skate well.

also, if you can't skatebackwards you will just suck and be dangerous at street hockey.
 
theAmazingKickstand said:
this is my biggest concern....roads and space.

The only place i can think of using them are Canada Rd. Thats where i see the 4 hot chicks who do this. This will get boring really quick.

Im not an engineer or a dad but I dont think hockey skates with good bearings will go just as fast.
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Roller hockey skates with the expensive bearings and good wheels will absolutely fly; faster than most people would want to go on pavement. There's nothing about these fruit boots that would make them faster. The key is in the bearings and wheels.

And, um, what days do you say there 4 hot chicks skate on Canada Road?
 
mid afternoon.. most weekdays when its dead there.
I swear two of them must be pro ice speed skaters. Bodies and skating form to die for.

How the fuck do i type N like the mexican "enyey" so I could type Canada Rd. correctly
 
revnort said:
I used to skatebaord (and still do, but it's not fair to say I skate). I couldn't buy a pair of these out of principal :x

I have tried them once or twice and they never seemed that much fun. Unless you are doing some roller disco and then you might get some props, but you'd need old school roller-skates.

Meh plenty of other ways to look like a douche if you ask me. Unless you are training for speed skating or playing hockey they are just ghey.
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Yakoo752 said:
worst part of "rollerblading"

is having to tell your parents you're gay
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:hand

Haters
 
I bought these back in December: (I'm still waiting for them to break in.) These are the entry level fiberglass boots. The higher end stuff is made of carbon and custom shaped to your foot.

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I've been training with a beginning speed skating team in Milpitas. It turns out that the chick that sold them to me currently holds the 300m world record. This is her a couple years ago before she took a year off due to injury.

[youtube]NRzVMiQwRQs[/youtube]

I started on a whim because my buddy owns the rink, and it's something I've always wanted to do. I'm having a blast even though 6 year old kids are passing me like i'm not even moving.

There aren't that many quality road races like there are in Europe. Over there, it's actually a lot like road cycling racing.

I'm hoping to do the Napa inline marathon in July with my coach: http://www.cora.org/2011NapaIM.htm This is probably the best event in Northern California every year.

I think you should buy the skates and do this event too. :thumbup

Fuck what everyone else thinks.
 
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And, this is what 39 mph on speed skates looks like. There's a thread on the speed skating boards where a lot of people talk about having fun seeing the looks on road bikers faces when they can't drop the guy on fruit boots skating behind them.

[youtube]fm3gZVJQEXA[/youtube]
 
That looks awesome, and much safer than road cycling racing. Specially crits.
wannabe said:
I bought these back in December: (I'm still waiting for them to break in.) These are the entry level fiberglass boots. The higher end stuff is made of carbon and custom shaped to your foot.

67168_467679892482_605697482_6184462_2072535_n.jpg


I've been training with a beginning speed skating team in Milpitas. It turns out that the chick that sold them to me currently holds the 300m world record. This is her a couple years ago before she took a year off due to injury.

[youtube]NRzVMiQwRQs[/youtube]

I started on a whim because my buddy owns the rink, and it's something I've always wanted to do. I'm having a blast even though 6 year old kids are passing me like i'm not even moving.

There aren't that many quality road races like there are in Europe. Over there, it's actually a lot like road cycling racing.

I'm hoping to do the Napa inline marathon in July with my coach: http://www.cora.org/2011NapaIM.htm This is probably the best event in Northern California every year.

I think you should buy the skates and do this event too. :thumbup

Fuck what everyone else thinks.
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wannabe said:
And, this is what 39 mph on speed skates looks like. There's a thread on the speed skating boards where a lot of people talk about having fun seeing the looks on road bikers faces when they can't drop the guy on fruit boots skating behind them.

[youtube]fm3gZVJQEXA[/youtube]
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By the way, the guy in this vid has something like 26 world title wins, and he's only 24. He just announce last month that he's switching to ice to try to get a gold medal in Russia in 2014.

While skating on ice requires a lot more technique than in-line skating, Joey's a fucking beast. I'm gonna be rooting for him.
 
This is what the inline racing looks like in Europe. The racing and tactics are quite similar to road cycling.

[YouTube]ABZHYltjKu4[/YouTube]
 
wannabe said:
I started on a whim because my buddy owns the rink
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Wait, so this is a velodrome that has inline speed skating in the middle?
That's AWESOME!

I played roller hockey as a kid and picked up a pair of rec. inlines a few months ago but haven't found anywhere to use them. I guess I could go through Golden Gate Park, that seems smooth enough.
When I'm cycling through the park there's a guy I see in a hockey helmet carrying a hockey stick doing laps of the park. He looks legit-ish.
 
Archimedes said:
Roller hockey skates with the expensive bearings and good wheels will absolutely fly; faster than most people would want to go on pavement. There's nothing about these fruit boots that would make them faster. The key is in the bearings and wheels.
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What makes teh fruit boots faster is the wheels, which are too large of a diameter to fit on hockey skates.:nerd
 
nismodan said:
Wait, so this is a velodrome that has inline speed skating in the middle?
That's AWESOME!

I played roller hockey as a kid and picked up a pair of rec. inlines a few months ago but haven't found anywhere to use them. I guess I could go through Golden Gate Park, that seems smooth enough.
When I'm cycling through the park there's a guy I see in a hockey helmet carrying a hockey stick doing laps of the park. He looks legit-ish.
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If you go to Golden Gate Park on Friday evenings when they close off the whole park to traffic, it turns into a rather large skate gathering.
 
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