Board

Skateboard 
Well by popular request (one is sufficient) the skateboard I built over 40 years ago! I made the deck with a sandwich of fibreglass and wood, forming a concave curve to aid kick turns. Originally conceived as a flexible slalom deck, I switched it part way to make it more bowl ride friendly stiffening it with extra layers of laminate; a weighty measure. The yellow paint is as originally applied.

We spent one summer rider riding a private wooden half pipe in a cafe at the side of the A46 with "Island Life  by Grace Jones" on constant play from a ghetto blaster my friend still has. Heaven 17 were another boarder friendly band at the time.

In earlier years we took an hour bus ride to Hyson Green "skatepark"; a deprived red light district in Nottingham via an hour bus ride sandwiched by 20 minute slices of street riding. Helpfully my parents  knew nothing of the area!

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Originally fitted with wide  "California Slalom" trucks, I later swapped with a buddy for narrower "Tracker Midtrack" trucks as shown. It's original SK5 wheels complete the set up; very quick and slidy (an advantage depending on what you were doing).

That's plenty enough history...

Church Sound System
Visited a very modern more evangelical style church with an elder council member today. A live band with lots of video screens, very different as expected to our orthodox CofE church. A friend of mine was one of two glam dressed blond backing singers. It was good to meet the guy I'd been speaking to re their sound system; a world away from our needs with a £7k mixing desk!

Not our style at all, but some useful experience which we thought would be good to incorporate at our church; in our dreams!!!

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