Typical better keep my eyes on eBay then ...!

Oh and erm :embarrased: ... would someone be willing to receive some skates and forward them if the seller won't ship outside the US?

Sure thing Kami. I'll get them shipped off to you if you like. Just let me know.

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Originally posted by Kamikuza Oh and erm :embarrased: ... would someone be willing to receive some skates and forward them if the seller won't ship outside the US?

gotcha Kam, lemme know...

Awesome cheers guys!
... now if the eBay seller would respond to their frickin' messages :D

I went to goodwill, bought a size 7 pair of woman's roller skates, stripped it down to just the frame, bought some pretty awesome longboarding wheels, and am now fiddling with different ways to make it so that my friends and I can easily trade who is skating while using their own shoes. The current plan of attack has not been tested with a kite just yet but consists of a duct tape toe that will fit both my friend's and my own shoes. We basically made a mold of a shoe using duct tape folded over on it's self so that there would be no sticky part to get stuck to the shoe, and then taped the hell out of it on the outside. It works well for messing around on the street and held up well to the good old jam-the-front-wheels-into-the-ground-and-try-to-break-through-the-tape test. I've had lots of fun messing around with these and have gone from using Speedo brand crocs, tied down by shoelaces, to zipties, to baseball elastic belts and zipties, to the current situation using the duct tape toe and elastic baseball belt. Can't wait to try them again soon enough

Pics teelzy pics ... we don't believe you without the pics

Just tried them out today. They worked decently. Certainly not going to do any high speed turning or up wind runs, but they were great for my location. I had a half mile open stretch which was nice. I convinced my dad to ride his new Harley up behind me and he was taking some videos and pics so I'll see if the phone footage turned out. I'll certainly post some pics of the skates in a few!

That'll be cool!

Well, haven't got to check the father's phone just yet but here is a video I made tonight just to show you guys the skates. I'll put up some pics as well once I figure out how haha.

And here is my attempt at embedding the video-->

Alright, I don't want to put up links for all of the individual pictures of the skates but I will post my photobucket profile link --> http://s739.photobucket.com/albums/xx39/teelzy/




Kite Skates V4


Kite Skates V4


Kite Skates V1


Me With Kite Skate V2


I'm also in the process of working on a skateboard conversion using a crappy skateboard my friend found. I hope you guys enjoy because It's given me something to do when the wind has been crummy. :singing:

Ha! Those are mad - I love 'em

EDIT : you gotta remove the "?action=view&current=" from those links ...

Ah, thank you. All fixed up now. Now everyone can see my fake "mad dog face" along with one of the progressions of the skates. I preferred the looks of the skates in the fourth picture but the use of zipties nearly ripped through the entire rubber sole of the shoes. Still, I like the look of them there haha. I also have some more videos posted on youtube of some of my kite adventures if anyone cares to follow my progression lol. I'm just lovin every step of the way :wee:


EDIT: Hmmm, it seems that I have hijacked this thread. Sorry

Oh the big purple bow is a great improvement over the duct tape

The whole kite-thing ... it's a drug, we're addicted

EDIT : check out these things - these look like something you could build ...

^^ Those skates are slow as balls. The trouble with mine is I can't stop haha. I suppose that having a little more friction would be better in some cases. And the pictures up above are in the wrong order. They are listed in the following order: Version 4, Version 4, Version 1, Version 2. I know eventually I will have all kinds of homemade crud laying around such as skates, boards, possibly buggies, but that's something I look forward to immensely

yeah why are they going down a big hill and not hauling a$$...it looks like they are pumping to go downhill?

I'll have to try and get a video of me going down a neighborhood hill haha. Getting the video should be easy, stopping and not destroying myself or my phone will be the hard part. Gonna have to use some team work and get one of my buds to take a vid.