Author: Duncan Clarke

OK guys, this may not seem related to skating but I think it is. Consider the slam that Roll Kings’ rider Adrian Wallace took at the Boneyard Jam at the weekend (hoping you’re feel better soon fella) and what could have resulted from such an immense impact. Also note that this came to me through local legend Mr Kyle Murray, so I think it’s thoroughly appropriate.

So, what am I going on about? Well, basically helping Kyle’s far better looking other half to raise money for Aspire, a charity dedicated to supporting people with spinal cord injuries. Want to help out? I’m sure every donation would be appreciated. Get yourselves over to the Just Giving page and give whatever you can for this worthy cause.

If nothing else, the web page has a picture of Hannah in her bikini. I’m not saying that’s a reason to check it out, but if it helps…

The recently released Nick Lomax profile from Let It Never End. Put out there as a celebration of Nick’s Pro Classic Throne launch by USD. It shows not only what a great skater Nick is, but captures what skating with him and the Manchester boys is like.

Oh yes, it’s been clogging up my brain for a week or so, but I’ve finally sorted out a nice way to add image locations and Google maps into the Urbanlines.net gallery. Now, if I’ve got around to (or even can) add a map location to the image database for a photo, then you should be able to see where that image was taken.

I’m going to take a break from the PC now, but I’ll get around to adding a load of image locations over then next well, when I can be bothered. So far I’ve tested using the 2 most recent gallery sections:

Be warned, there may well be errors in some image links for a while until I integrate the code completely, but hopefully nothing to affect your browsing of the site. Please let me know of anything that causes issues.

A short edit, filmed and edited by Jordan Maders, of TRS rider Steve Swain at Bay 66 in London.

I’m sure there’s loads more about, but I found a few wheels in a box in the spare room.

1. Cozmo anti-rocker wheels. 50mm and 85A. Not the best to be honest. All the issues of anti-rocker with the added bonus of grippy wheels in the centre.
2. Realm wheels – 58mm and 90A. As were standard on some of the Oxygen range. I only have 2 as I loaned out the others for a day, 8 years ago, and never saw them again.
3. Exile wheels – the blingingest wheels there ever was. You could choose the colours of your wheels and the style of your hubs separately, then just replace the urethane parts.

A new look for the site. What do you think? Please let me know in comments (below) or in the forums or wherever. Many more updates to come soon.

After some recent changes to the site and having seen the issus that came with people registering, you can now post without having to be logged on to the site. Members will still get the benefits of email updates on news items, notifications when people reply to you etc. but it is no longer a requirement for using the site. I’ll see how it goes for a while and maybe adjust the access at a later date, but for now, get on the forums and get things moving again…

In an attempt to keep things tidy, remove spammers as well as to reduce the amount of unwanted email that this site is sending out, I’m going to basically delete any accounts that have not logged onto the site for a few months. If that’s you, then where have ya been? Basically, either log on today, or come back and create a new account. Nothing personal.

I was only there for the last few hours, but the atmosphere was amazing. The skating was insane and as always at Rampworx the facilities were impecible. Look forward to many many more media sources but I’ll just link up my own photos (check in the Gallery) for now and one of the best edits I’ve seen for a long time, courtesy of Rampworx and Simon Mulvaney:

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Right, even though my laptop is currently out of action, and my desktop is slower than a slow thing with a limp, that’s asleep, I’ve managed to work through some processing to bring some new pictures from the past week. Two locations last Friday – Starting off at Bones/UKSkate for a chilled session (BTW the new section looks amazing). Next was short hop over to Rampworx to catch the end of the Ladies’ Night. Fimally was my usual Tuesday evening at Boneyard.

Get yourselves into the Gallery to check out the new pics.