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Trying to revive grass skiing
Hi everyone,
I live in Australia where as you may know we have rather short snow seasons lasting at best three months and pretty poor quality snow. For the past few years I have been thinking how we could enjoy something that at least remotely resembles skiing and finally came up with a relatively simple design of skiing device that can carve on dry surface. I had earlier tried rolling tread based ski but it's quite demanding in terms of turning and hard with speed control. I guess in my younger years it would have been fun but I am a bit less crazy these days. I spent quite a bit on patent applications and building prototypes but I am not sure if I should risk more funding to make a few more pairs (short series manufacturing is quite expensive). This brief video shows how it works. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eiSip6J03Q I would appreciate your feedback which would help me to make my mind whether I should try taking it further or just stop here and just enjoy riding my prototype in preparation for our ski season. |
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On Friday, April 27, 2012 7:10:40 AM UTC-6, nosnowski wrote:
Hi everyone, I live in Australia where as you may know we have rather short snow seasons lasting at best three months and pretty poor quality snow. For the past few years I have been thinking how we could enjoy something that at least remotely resembles skiing and finally came up with a relatively simple design of skiing device that can carve on dry surface. I had earlier tried rolling tread based ski but it's quite demanding in terms of turning and hard with speed control. I guess in my younger years it would have been fun but I am a bit less crazy these days. I spent quite a bit on patent applications and building prototypes but I am not sure if I should risk more funding to make a few more pairs (short series manufacturing is quite expensive). This brief video shows how it works. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eiSip6J03Q I would appreciate your feedback which would help me to make my mind whether I should try taking it further or just stop here and just enjoy riding my prototype in preparation for our ski season. -- nosnowski I had friends that developed the grass skiing stuff in the 70's/80's (?). It was something they messed around with but didn't get rich off of. They were basically inline skates before they were called inline skates. Now my buddy that developed those Easy Up shades? He made some cash! |
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On Friday, April 27, 2012 1:49:26 PM UTC-7, pigo wrote:
I had friends that developed the grass skiing stuff in the 70's/80's (?). It was something they messed around with but didn't get rich off of. They were basically inline skates before they were called inline skates. Now my buddy that developed those Easy Up shades? He made some cash! How about your buddy that designed the Fast Change Adult Diapers? He's made a fortune just off you. Still waiting for the contact info of the SPD "lieutenant" you claimed was going to put me in prison. DIAPER UP!!!! |
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:55:06 -0700 (PDT), twobuddha
wrote this crap: Still waiting for the contact info of the SPD "lieutenant" you claimed was going to put me in prison. I'm still waiting for the contact info for your CO, weasel dumbass. Vote for Romney. Repeal the nightmares. |
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:44:37 -0400, down_hill
wrote this crap: dribbled more senility: I'm still waiting for the contact info for your CO, weasel dumbass. Hey Troll Do not hijack ski related threads you stupid jackass! Don't tell me what to do, dumbass. Vote for Romney. Repeal the nightmares. |
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On Saturday, April 28, 2012 5:44:37 AM UTC-7, down_hill wrote:
dribbled more senility: I'm still waiting for the contact info for your CO, weasel dumbass. Hey Troll Do not hijack ski related threads you stupid jackass! we do not care what you and the loon have so much in common get a room WE? Are you so ****ing stupid, so ****ing delusional that you think you and your fellow pathological liars own this newsgroup? Why don't you just go over to RSA.moderated and use that newsgroup for your private chats, asshole? Ooooops, forgot. You freaks are so ****ing stupid you couldn't even keep that ******** running. Hilarious. How humiliating for you. Hey, Troll? Do not hijack ski related threads to spew defamatory bull****, idiot. |
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On Saturday, April 28, 2012 4:23:13 AM UTC-7, (unknown) wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:55:06 -0700 (PDT), twobuddha wrote this crap: Still waiting for the contact info of the SPD "lieutenant" you claimed was going to put me in prison. I'm still waiting for the contact info for your CO, weasel dumbass. Stop lying. Never had a CO. I'm still waiting for a veriable ID, Huggies. You're bragging about being a coward again. |
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:02:49 -0700 (PDT), twobuddha
wrote this crap: Stop lying. Never had a CO. Bull****. If you went to Vietnam you were assigned to a unit. That unit had a CO. Caughtyoulyingagain. Caughtyoulyingagain. It's become a song and dance, lying weasel dumbass. Vote for Romney. Repeal the nightmares. |
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