(editor's comments in parenthesis) New types of boards: -The batmoboard? (Imagining different superheros skating is kinda fun.. and their boards) -How to make a skateboard from trash, like wheels trucks everything. garbage board: http://www.kraffftwork.com/projects-1/complete-garbage-board -Better rain board. Getting wheels to hook up when you rain ride and feet gripping on your board better. Make your own sky hooks for rain riding. -Musical boards. Like flip you board over electronic keyboard. Kaliope boards. Coo-coo clock boards. Hand held items that you hold against the ground to make noise. Like a cymbal. (or louder/musical slide pucks) Didgeridoo board. Flute board. -Ultra gay board. -Board designed for stealing things quickly. Get away board! -Hover board. -Board designed to get you laid. Board with built in pussy magnet. -Monocycle: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/mike.werner/BlogPics/MonoCycle.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pZB5fVFG4B4/RpyaFhEoZVI/AAAAAAAAAAM/OUJN84v7-2c/s320/Monocycle2.JPG apply that in some way to skateboarding MONOCYCLE BUTTBOARDING!!! -A skateboard that can just transform into shit. -Board that transforms into SUITCASE!!! (currently 7 folding boards on the wackyblog: http://wackyboards.blogspot.com/search/label/%7Dfolding%20boards ) That board sold on stoked that folds up. -A skateboard specifically designed for wheelchair people. -A BOARD WITH A SEAT AND HANDLES. -How small can you make a skateboard that's rideable? -A skateboard that can beat a bike. Transport boards, Cargo boards: -A legit beer run board, that has a place you can strap your beer/other to. -Board where i can move mass heavy objects. -Basket attachments to your board. -Easy to push uphill. -Some way to also even out the weight if necessary. -Skateboards are radder then bicycles right? So they should have radder cup holders and baskets as well and we need reflectors. -Do up a board with all actual bike accessories, the bell and horn and fenders and everything. -The skate basket could be detachable as well, so i can grocery shop. -Wheels/trucks with stash spots. -Secret compartment, double as grab rails. -Board w/ a drawer. -Board designed to be used at work/school, flip it over its got a note pad and place to store pencils. I could see architects skating around and taking notes. -Camouflage/multi-use approach to bring your board everywhere, like make it turn into a walker, wheelchair, or crutches. -Convertible stroller bike: http://likecool.com/Car/Motorcycle/Zigo%20Leader%20Carrier%20Bicycle/Zigo-Leader-Carrier-Bicycle.jpg -An attachment for skate dads. (There's the mamaboard: http://wackyboards.blogspot.com/2009/07/mamaboard.html ) -Skate trailer. Combining skateboards with other things: -Animal products in boards.. (for the anti-vegans) -Drugs in boards.. smokable boards. -Board with goat head on the front. -Swiss army board, with all the feature of a swiss army knife built in. -Board made with machine gun. Board with flame thrower. Switch blade. Needle-gun board. Blowgun board. Weird/new setups: -A 50' long skateboard with a 14" wheelbase. -Super slidy wheels in front, hard grippy wheels in the back. Decks: -Epoxy putty board mods, toe stops. Making whole new concave with putty epoxy -Kicktailed speedboard using an angled riser. Put a angled riser on top of the deck, do you think that would add enough extra leverage? If you use an angled riser you could have more leverage but no extra length. -Noseguard materials. -Adding concave and kicks to flat decks. -Using sheet metal as a veneer: http://www.silverfishlongboarding.com/forum/longboard-board-building/118943-other-planet-board-project.html -Instead of fabric print: leather. -Best grit sandpaper to use as grip tape? Sandpaper falls apart in water, unless you have wet dry, and not a lot of wet dry sandpaper comes in like 40 grit or whatever, or you can gloss it. -A board that has pockets but is topmounted. -A board and it a little dip where your feet go but everything else is flat it's like a little pocket bubble for your foot it has like concave in all 4 directions like this -----_--------_-----, and locking your feet in with double concave. -Board made from plastic or with plastic venner. -Board witth holes in it to drain water. Wheels: -Original venom wheels: http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb18/poolcarver956/4wheels2.jpg -Refrigerator parts, using freon to cool wheels, ice wheels -What would nylon or teflon wheels be like? Silicone wheels? Pure carbon wheels? -Is there any way to keep water out of bearings? Grindking rims. Like something you can tighten up so it compressed against the urethane and makes it air tight? -Well what if there were like soft mushy stuff at the ends of the spacers like silicon or something so when you tighten it it compresses, and creates zero play? and then the side part has just a little silicone tube the same size of the spacer. (this idea seems to be based on a lack of understanding of spacers? be nice to have spacers that would self-center in the hub though) -Extendable bearing spacers, yeah threaded middle unscrew to get bigger. -Wheels with three bearings. -Wheels with 4 bearings. randal comps already use 4 bearings -Wheels with one bearing. Bushings: -Triangle bushings: http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb18/poolcarver956/P2050016.jpg -Tire rubber bushing setup: http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/4325/11960454.jpg -Experiment with bushing shapes. (good amount of ideas in this thread: http://www.silverfishlongboarding.com/forum/longboard-skateboarding-trucks/123241-new-bushing-ideas.html ) -A bushing that is kinda like a barrel with a cone stacked on it. -Bushings that are just blown out in every direction.. like a 3 inch ball, except where the trucks are, it could be like 12a, the bushing actually touches the bottom of the deck. -Some insane pivot cups, like just put a spring in the cup holder instead. -uhmwpe bushings for the heavier guys. Accessories: -Experimenting with more skate fairing ideas, make a suit that has all these pieces of a puzzle attached so when you tuck it becomes a full body aero shell, egg suit. -Board that sprays cayenne pepper to throw off hound dogs. -A gun that shoots some material in front of you while riding. -A tv on the front on the board, one of those portable DVD players mounted on the nose. -Board cup holder. -Board bong holder. -Building a better boom cam. -DIY cases for your video cameras. -Street cleaning. Board street sweeper that cleans runs the first time down for later runs. (converting a car into a street sweeper..) -Riding with a leaf blower, it would propel you. -Have a leaf blower on the front of you board and on the back have GIANT broom to clean the road. -A trident broom with swivel power. -More materials to test as brake soles for yer shoe, a new brake sole. -Grippy soles in general to get rid of the need of grip tape. -Brake soles, slowing down as fast as possible, brake snowshoe soles.. -Detachable skateboard handle that folds like the roger bros ones Ramps: -Improvised skate spots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3JdkmfzhJw&feature=channel -Kicker with pole jam for dh runs or at the end of a slide hill, and you can light the kicker on fire. Racing: -ways to cheat at races. Tools: -Capabilities to pour urethane? -Building a better skate tool. -A wallet skate tool. -A sheet metal punched with a kingpin nut wrench. http://theskatetool.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/the-tool-skatetool-chrome-1.jpg -we need to have boards with tools on them that you can deattach. -Skate tool - swiss army knife style. Have all of the tools fold out and there will be a file that can pop out that you can attach to back pack and use as roller and a knife just in case. Things to do while riding: -Riding a board while carrying a mountain bike.. then biking back up the hill. -Passing the bong while DHing. -Skating the worst possible condition roads. -Car logistics, people need to practice those train math problems to make best use of thier cars park two cars at the bottom, everyone rides up in one. -DH with your board on fire. Other: -Videos making fun of other skaters. -Longboarders need a worse reputation. Keep skating an evil thing. Smashing mailboxes with a bat while DH. How can we look evil while riding around though.. goth and punk are played out.. it would be so evil to dress like Christian missionaries while skating. Being extremely polite, and holding old ladies hands.. while skating. Having a faux church of skatan that you pray to publicly before every event. -Lighting more #$%^&* on fire. -skateboards built by an @hole, ala emails from an @hole. ????: -Cheap and reusable. -Gear system in skateboards. -Food and skating. -Random weird trike: http://blog.makezine.com/18-Shift%20Bicycle.jpg Questions: -what are some dumb things you can hold while riding? -So what are some serious problems in the world of longboarding? Getting up hills. Legality. Dirty roads. Police. Things that need Michael Brooke's immediate attention. -What could make skating simpler? Taking away turning is one thing. Double lappers front and back for drop decks to get up curbs. Lapper: http://skateandannoy.com/features/ebay/2007/ebay053/images-big/bowman392.jpg http://www.kraffftwork.com/projects-1/lapper -We need a list of questions that get asked of inventors.. like how to keep water out of bearings. A list of questions to ask the brilliant minds of the world.. we get their answers, then we show them what exists already..and ask them again. |
