Flatland, where is it in competetion

[ivan]

@unifreak7

Just do alittle sideline thing anyway. Nothing wrong with getting a few people together that aren’t doing anything and bust a flatland comp. That’s what will go down at FLUCK this year with the street riders. Will be a good time.

-Shaun Johanneson

I thought there was gonna be a street freestyle competition. What does that stand for, exactly? I assumed it was street.

[Uniman_3]

Just do alittle sideline thing anyway. Nothing wrong with getting a few people together that aren't doing anything and bust a flatland comp. That's what will go down at FLUCK this year with the street riders. Will be a good time.

-Shaun Johanneson

that sounds cool…so basicly we could get a mini comp goin on…

[Rocco]

@ivan

I thought there was gonna be a street freestyle competition. What does that stand for, exactly? I assumed it was street.

Yeah, street freestyle is street. I think they should change the name just to street though and I’m sure a lot of people will agree with on that one.

Amanda (on Rocco’s account)

[Spencer_Hochberg]

@john_childs

Yes. Figure out something to cover the edges of the BC plates and also pad them. Vinyl tubing or car door guard molding might do it. But it would have to be something that would protect the floor from getting dented as well. A BC wheel out of control can slam in to the floor pretty hard and dent it. That would not be good at all. A dent is worse than a scratch. So something should pad the edges of the BC plates as well as just covering them up. Steel plates would be worse than aluminum plates since steel plates are heavier and more likely to dent the floor if the wheel gets out of control.

As for the marking tires. Bike tires often have more than just one hardness of rubber on the tire. Often the knobbies will be softer and more grippy (and more marking) than the rubber used for the sidewall and base layer. So if you are shaving off the knobbies you might be down to a harder layer of rubber that is less marking. You’ll have to go to a gym and see how your shaved tire behaves. Try as hard as you can to leave a mark on the floor by doing spins and such. If you leave marks then the tire is a no go.

But even colored tires might leave marks. It’s just that white marks and other colors are harder to see on the floor than black marks.

Another angle. I wonder of there is something that you could spray on the tire before the competition to keep it from marking. My first thought was hair spray but that wouldn’t be ideal because it would leave hair spray residue on the floor. But there might be something that could be sprayed on the shaved trials tire to keep it from marking during the competition. Maybe. You’ll have to experiment on a gym floor and then run it by the event organizers. Otherwise you’re going to have to figure out a different kind of tire to use for indoor competition.

Ok thanks, my bc plates are aluminum (bedfords) but I still need to do something to them. I will probably use a combination of vinyl tubing and duct tape.
I have a trials tire on my bc that I am pretty sure would not be able to mark even on a uni. It is a luna so it is already a harder compound and it is perfectly smooth so less friction?
I also thought about coating my tire with something earlier. Do you think some kind of armor all would be good? There are kinds that make tires shiny but I don’t know what that would actually do to the tire. That could possibly suck because that could possibly cause the marking.

Do you think a tire will have similar effects on an outdoor basketball court as a shined up gym floor? I don’t really have access to a gym to test different things out, I also have never ridden in a gym.

[john_childs]

@Spencer Hochberg

Ok thanks, my bc plates are aluminum (bedfords) but I still need to do something to them. I will probably use a combination of vinyl tubing and duct tape.
I have a trials tire on my bc that I am pretty sure would not be able to mark even on a uni. It is a luna so it is already a harder compound and it is perfectly smooth so less friction?
I also thought about coating my tire with something earlier. Do you think some kind of armor all would be good? There are kinds that make tires shiny but I don’t know what that would actually do to the tire. That could possibly suck because that could possibly cause the marking.

Do you think a tire will have similar effects on an outdoor basketball court as a shined up gym floor? I don’t really have access to a gym to test different things out, I also have never ridden in a gym.

Armor All would not be good. It would make the tire slippery. Gym floors already don’t have much grip so adding something slippery sprayed on the tire would be bad. The idea about spraying something on the tire to make it temporarily non-marking was just a brain fart. I have no idea what kind of spray would actually work or if any kind of spray would actually work.

Waxed industrial tile floors (like what may be in your school hallways) are a good substitute for a gym floor. If the tire is non-marking on the tile floor it should be non-marking on a gym floor.

If you do make marks on a floor while testing your can remove the marks by buffing with a tennis ball. An easy way is to take a tennis ball, cut a slit in it, stick a broom handle in the slit and buff the floor with the tennis ball that way. Otherwise you just get on your hands and knees.

You really should get some practice experience on a tile or gym floor before a competition. A gym floor rides differently than smooth concrete or a smooth tennis court. A gym floor is also more slippery. The different floor could have a big effect on some moves and the way you do turns.

[Uniman_3]

gym floors are very different from concrete, i get to ride at a gym on Wednesdays at church and everything rolls soo much faster, the turns are slippier, and it feels really weird sometimes…