SalemLongboarding will be hosting a GreenSkate event on the 18th of April at 12 noon. GreenSkate is an event that promotes the use of longboards as an alternative mode of transportation. We will skate around town promoting the use of longboards as a mode of transportation similar to bicycles. Stay tuned for more information and a flier that is eluding my expertise to be able to post it up. Check out Greenskate.org for more info.

First off its PDX DOWNHILL SERIES #2!!

Bust out your top-mounts and wet suits!

The second race in the 2010 season will be held at the beautiful Mt. Tabor. This race will be an old school theme just like last year. If you weren’t there last time then here are a few things you should know:
-Must be on a conventional top mount (no wedges or drop-thoughs).
-You have to do an “old school” tuck.
-We will draw a chalk circle on your board to show you were your feet have to be.

Make sure and stick around for the Switchbacks Race on Sunday.

Then! OH YEA!!!

RIP CITY SWITCHBACKS RACE!!

Rip City Skate and PDX Downhill are proud to announce the 2010 Switchbacks Series. Once a month a race/event will be held on the Switchbacks Course in Washington Park. These Events will be open to all experience levels of riders, and are guaranteed to be a lot of fun for all. Entry will always be only $5. Rip City Skate will be guaranteeing a cash prize for each event totaling $175!! Champions of the Switchbacks events will receive cash: $100 for 1st, $50 for 2nd, and $25 for 3rd. All participants will receive 1 ticket for the raffle of all additional prizes. Additional raffle tickets will be for sale at the events. All money raised at these events will go directly back to PDX Downhill for the purpose of funding additional events here in Portland. So bring you fellow skaters, your friends, your family, and your neighbors to support you and the rest of the Portland downhill community at the 2010 Switchbacks Series!

Is now stocking Concrete Wave.

Sincerely,
Your friend on the inside (Aubrey)

CALLING SEATTLE, PORTLAND, SALEM, CORVALLIS, OLYMPIA, CALI, CANADA AND THE WORLD!!!!
Alright here’s the deal.
-Meet 11am. – Sat, Januar 23rd (sunday if sat is rain) – Salem, Oregon – Meet at Derby hill, Bush park

-$5 to enter

-Bring or eat your lunch ahead of time. AT THE LATEST, after practice we will start the first spot by 12 NOON. Give or take 15min practice, 45 min session each spot. 3-4 spots??

-We will meet and carpool to the spots. Most (maybe all) will be in west salem.

-Format: similar to other slopestyle events put on like this in canada and cali. We skate different spots. Some long, some fast, some turny. You skate, you walk back up, and you watch. You have fun (required). At the end of the day, you get 3 votes. Vote for style, consistency, difficulty, whatever else you make up. Top 3 win…money probably haha. Maybe prizes for best “trick”, longest slide (standup), worst crash, etc…

The Bicycle Transportation alliance has generously invited local longboarders to join their float in the Festival of lights parade.

The Basics:
-All riders must have a helmet,
-All riders should have lights on their boards or themselves. (the more the better)
-Under 16 must ride with parents. (sorry)
-NO SANTA SUITS! They only want one Santa in the parade.

Link to the BTA post.

http://breakfastonbikes.blogspot.com/20 … drill.html

If we can have a huge skater turnout that would be fantastic.

Be at the  Construction Zone around noon on October 31, race starts at 1 o’clock and costs $1 to enter. All entry fees will be given to the winner as a prize.

Ben’s Race:
Race Day:  Saturday, the 24th of October.  Meet at construction at noon, we will reschedule if it’s not wet/rainy.

Entry Fee: $1

Rules:
-NO RAIN WHEELS, IF THERE ARE RAIN WHEELS ON YOUR BOARD YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO RACE
-If there’s more than 20 people, we’ll do 4 man heats, top two advance. If there’s less than 20 we’ll do three man heats, top two advance. Random heats.
-We will be doing the very last corner, exact same course as the battle for box canyon.
-All the entry money will be given to first place.

Jacobs and Chance’s race has been moved to Saturday:

Location:  Corina S-turns,  meet at Park across from Leslie middle school at 6 o-clock, entry is $2.

Wooooo! That was fun! This years “Fun Ride” Was very sweet! Everyone that showed up made it just super! The Top Three are:

1)Nathan
2)Jed Johnson
3)Casey Morrow

Everyone is looking forward to next years event already!

I’m going to be frank with you guys, our website’s photo hosting sucks. Just saying.

Anyway, I created an official Flickr photostream for SLB. On this page either Aubrey or myself will post new pictures from races/events and such. There is also a Flickr group page for SLB where anybody can join and post any SLB related pictures. I strongly recommend that everybody start using Flicker now. Its really easy too. All you need to do is go to Flickr.com and login with your Yahoo ID, or create a new one, its that simple.

And yes, we will have it again next year ;D

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