29 October 2012

Skateboarding Wee Jasper style

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The magic of YouTube brings us this gem of high speed on road skateboarding posted by jumpninja001 with this note:

Raw run down a favourite hill near Canberra with the C.D.D.H. crew.

Anyone recognise the bit of road?

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I recall someone being killed doing something similar on Mt Coot-tha in Brisbane a year or two ago. I’m sure natural selection will work its slow magic, eventually thinning these dimwits from the herd in various agonizing ways.

I just hope that nobody else gets hurt in the process.

daddy said :

Make them pay rego if they are going to use the road

You realise that you are asking for (some) Pedestrians to pay rego ?

KB1971 said :

Heavy maybe but not high speed. I would be interesded to see where a B double would be heading through WJ. If it was a logging truck from out near Tumut would be 19m long anyway, which is no different to a normal semi…

I imagine the only B Doubles going anywhere along those roads are very specifically going two or from jobs on farms out that way. Even logging trucks from the pine forests on the Tumut side of Wee Jasper are only going to head that way on very rare occasions – it certainly isn’t a short cut from/to anywhere unless you are going a whole lot faster then a B Double (high speed not withstanding).

daddy said :

Make them pay rego if they are going to use the road

Hahahahahahahaaaa

Make them pay rego if they are going to use the road

p1 said :

howaka said :

…to have high speed B Double trucks stopped from using Wee Jasper Road…

High speed B Double Trucks? Really?

howaka said :

There are Council signs prohibiting this activity at the top and bottom of this section of bends.

Really? Haven’t been along there for a while. While I agree that coming ’round a corner to find one of the guys on your side of the road would be upsetting, I would rather that then some local in a landcruiser on my side of the road… and that also happens a little more frequently then I would prefer.

Heavy maybe but not high speed. I would be interesded to see where a B double would be heading through WJ. If it was a logging truck from out near Tumut would be 19m long anyway, which is no different to a normal semi…

howaka said :

…to have high speed B Double trucks stopped from using Wee Jasper Road…

High speed B Double Trucks? Really?

howaka said :

There are Council signs prohibiting this activity at the top and bottom of this section of bends.

Really? Haven’t been along there for a while. While I agree that coming ’round a corner to find one of the guys on your side of the road would be upsetting, I would rather that then some local in a landcruiser on my side of the road… and that also happens a little more frequently then I would prefer.

eyeLikeCarrots11:31 am 30 Oct 12

howaka said :

The residents of Wee Jasper and Mullion have just spent months petitioning Council, the RTA and the NSW police to have high speed B Double trucks stopped from using Wee Jasper Road – why? Because it is an extremely dangerous road and in very poor condition.

We thought we’d seen the last of these clowns too! This is a truly ridiculous activity that is nothing short of suicidal. The section of road in this video includes numerous blind corners and potholes and in some spots there are drops of over 100m on the outside corners.

There are Council signs prohibiting this activity at the top and bottom of this section of bends.

We all appreciate the need for a bit of adrenalin but when you come around the corner with a car full of kids and one of these morons in heading towards you on your side of the road… that’s just crazy. Find somewhere else, find somewhere that is safer to the public. We don’t care what you do to yourselves but don’t endanger our lives as well!!!

(The other danger is the idiots filming these events who dart backwards and forwards across the road, I nearly took out two on two separate occasions in two separate locations)

I’ve never seen anything bigger than a cement mixer on the Wee Jasper Rd past Cavan station.

The residents of Wee Jasper and Mullion have just spent months petitioning Council, the RTA and the NSW police to have high speed B Double trucks stopped from using Wee Jasper Road – why? Because it is an extremely dangerous road and in very poor condition.

We thought we’d seen the last of these clowns too! This is a truly ridiculous activity that is nothing short of suicidal. The section of road in this video includes numerous blind corners and potholes and in some spots there are drops of over 100m on the outside corners.

There are Council signs prohibiting this activity at the top and bottom of this section of bends.

We all appreciate the need for a bit of adrenalin but when you come around the corner with a car full of kids and one of these morons in heading towards you on your side of the road… that’s just crazy. Find somewhere else, find somewhere that is safer to the public. We don’t care what you do to yourselves but don’t endanger our lives as well!!!

(The other danger is the idiots filming these events who dart backwards and forwards across the road, I nearly took out two on two separate occasions in two separate locations)

GordonResidential9:54 pm 29 Oct 12

“This video is private”

Looks like a lot of fun, but surely one bad pothole and it would be curtains? The wheels don’t look much bigger than usual skateboard wheels so I’d imagine could get stuck in a hole pretty easy! Anyways gutsy stuff! Great vid.

eyeLikeCarrots said :

Just like some of the motorbike riders I see in Canberra wearing shorts and thongs, I worry that these guys are going to come off and lose a lot of skin.

Someone is wearing leather…

Keijidosha said :

p1 said :

There are no unbroken lines…

Not sure if trolling or stupid.

A little from Column A and a little from Column B.

p1 said :

There are no unbroken lines…

Not sure if trolling or stupid.

Aeek said :

Not to mention being on the wrong side of the road – but they’re not wearing lycra so that makes it alright.

There are no unbroken lines…

Not to mention being on the wrong side of the road – but they’re not wearing lycra so that makes it alright.

eyeLikeCarrots3:00 pm 29 Oct 12

Just like some of the motorbike riders I see in Canberra wearing shorts and thongs, I worry that these guys are going to come off and lose a lot of skin.

This is the corner in the video still above. It is on this bit of road, as Keijidosha said.

The idea of those pot holes on a board scares me a little, but it is a great bit of road.

Anyone recognise the bit of road?

Wee Jasper road (running West to East) at the Cavan end.

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