Where do you skate? Sidewalk, bike lane, or street like men?

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Lol :rofl:
This place is soft.

I ride skateboard in road.
(not off topic)

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I sháll use the fancy lettèring for the weâk of ankle or those with shallöw constitutiœn.

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Where ever is safest for me and others. Which is usually the bike lane if there is one and the road if there isn’t. Only really use the pavement if it’s free from pedestrians and would be dangerous not to do so.

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My neighborhood is surrounded by 55mph 2 lane roads so I only cross them all perpendicular like. Other than that it’s all park roads or better yet, no roads.

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There are no bike lanes for dozens of miles around me, and rarely any side walks or pedestrian crossings. People here average 50mph for the slower 35mph roads and 35-40mph inside neighborhoods. I sometimes fear pulling out from a turn just in my neighborhood.

I try to use some of the few sidewalks/bike paths to travel in the direction of hopefully more bike paths before they disappear. You cannot ride contiguous bike paths for more than a block without having to ride the road, so I ride the road to transition between bike paths and no bike paths when traffic is light. It seems here cars always have the right of way, even at the couple marked pedestrian crossings- you will see people standing on the side of the road waiting for 15 minutes for it to be safe enough to cross (irl frogger).

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These are the same thing.

If you have weak ankles you have brought shame to your family.

Reading through this thread- I am so fucking spoiled living in Portland. We have bike lanes everywhere.

Under Oregon law, skateboards have the same legal rights as a bicycle, so we can also just street ride and most of the city is limited to 25-35mph so I’m as fast as traffic in most situations. Bike lanes are often used just to pass traffic.

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Best part is drivers are so used to bicyclist traffic that they tend to be more aware/safer and generally will give you a very wide berth.

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How did you end up in such a horrible place?

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Stahp teasing us plebs living in Dogshitistan :pleading_face:

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I don’t know. We heard it was a nice place to live. I guess people’s standards for nice are a bit different between Denver and the Midwest.

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Nice looking familly you have there man… I just always thought you were a bit more Asian. :upside_down_face:

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You too? Being the OP don’t you set the mood on your thread? I was flagged on this thread yesterday and thought it was you, this being your thread. That’s weird, there is no [SERIOUS] tag in the title :man_shrugging:

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I enjoy carving on the sidewalk for a couple reasons:

  • Sidewalks usually 2x to 4x as wide as the bike lane so you can actually get a good carve on. I love those double wide sidewalks not in town.

  • Not 2ft away from spinning rubber wheels of death one fall away. (This is especially scary on a EUC/OW)

  • If you do fall on the sidewalk it is much less likely your board will make it into the road. Especially if there are bushes or grass between the sidewalk and road/bike lane.

The downside is you are responsible to not be a danger to pedestrians, so constantly observing surroundings while not hitting a massive sidewalk crack and having a smackdown.

@DerelictRobot we benefit greatly from the long standing bike culture in the PNW. My step dad is a bike rider for life and builds trails out in Capital Forest. I’m excited to maybe have a EMTB someday that I could keep up with him on. I might just have to make it a Ebike though.

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Sidewalks in England are hilarious. Some of them are older than the US constitution, no two look the same or are the same width or construction. It’s wildcard time over here.

I don’t ride on the roads or bike lanes. I drive my board to places I can ride on lakeside trails or in pedestrian/cycle area’s only.

Got nothing to prove to anyone, I ride to enjoy myself.

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I probably should get a car not too long after I finish building my esk8s…

I want to explore riding spots outside my city. Probably outside of my state soon here.

Right now I’m carless and boardless it’s so lame.
Build kit boards is shipping me some parts to throw something together tomorrow!

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I try to ride on the bike lanes whenever I can to be polite and not get in the way of cars speeding faster than me + to overtake them all in traffic. I only switch to the road when the bikelane is in poor condition / gone.

On single drive builds I stick to bike paths / the sidewalk, and make sure to slow down whenever I’m near people or driveways that a car could suddenly pop out from. Limited traction and power don’t make me comfortable sharing the road with cars.

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Here, the bike lanes are just between the sidewalk and the road, the limit between the road and the bike lane is a line.
Dickheads use the bike lane to overtake cars, they don’t look in the mirror to check if a bike is actually on the bike lane before they turn and some even park on the bike lane.

Also, fuckin city won’t ever clear the gravels with their brush sweeping brand new tiny cute car, except recently because election in 2020.

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Typically bike lane where they exist, but street whenever they don’t…

…Unless I wanna go the wrong way on a one-way road, then I go on the sidewalk like a maniac.

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I ride wherever I can aim the board and full throttle it. Preferably with no kids in the way… that would be bad.

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@City-Blade-101giphy

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