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Alex Luxat

Dear friends and customers, this is my last posting as a skateboard producer. (from now on I´m just a skater) Over the last 2 1/2 years skateboarding and building skateboards was the main focus of my life. My co-partner and me build nearly 100 custom ordered skateboards during that time, which I sti...

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Yes and yes!
(Karl: The hybridcore s-camber blank with light-blue dyed resin and texalium looks killer. Arne is going to shape it soon.)

Alex Luxat

Sam Gordon wrote: Now all I have to do is beat Luxat, Campbell and J-Rad.

It'll happen.

I´ll give you all a harder time than in Paris. You´ll see a new, non-hungover and sober Alex riding his newest toys!

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Yeah, Paris was a real blast. Great courses, perfect organization, lot´s of fun beside the racing (belgian Duvel beer really IS special). I really don´t think it was coincidence that Donald and me were racing in the tight qualification together. It was a good thing: It really helped pushing me and m...

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It now is 100% sure that I´ll be in Paris. Everybody is invited to testride the two hybridcore GS (with hard or medium flex) and my TS Foamy. I´ll also bring a freshly shaped "Hornet" carver that is not mounted cause it is already sold but a good example for our quality in glassed woodcore construct...

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Hey Heiko,

it was fun yesterday at Volksgarten.
Too bad you couldn´t make it.
The best thing was that Markus (of Kaliber) and me agreed on specs on how to build a joint-venture bamboo/foam/Texalium
KaFunk !!!

Yes, we´ll do that!

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Thanks

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Damn ... aren´t you already fast enough?

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I deleted some posts (of Joachim Leonhardt, Donald and myself) cause it really went out of hand. Sorry, if also some of my words were kind of harsh but I´m really bored to play the same games with the same people all over again. Ramon, I really hope to be in Paris. It´s 99% sure I´ll be there. Espec...

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Ramon, I didn´t understand your question as an attack and neither was my answer meant to be one. I think I have shown and explained that I AM changing the dimension of the shape constantly BECAUSE I´m learning from races and try to see what works for some. Even if some shapes seem to work for some o...

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Yes, the shape is basically very similar to the last GS shape I made. But you are not right concerning tail and camber: - I changed the overall width (more) - I made the Tail wider - I made the whole deck longer - The new deck is - as said above - a new construction and goes back to more flex (of co...

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Greg, Ron, and all thanks for the kind comments on my new decks. I appreciate that very much. The acknoldgement and fun of building is more reason for me to build decks than any money which isn´t in it anyway. It would be great to discuss the decks only. I´m glad about your support but I don´t want ...

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Thanks! Sure, wednesday and thursday are expected to be better. Where - Volksgarten or ESC? ESC, I think. Could you please bring me some more 1.25" and 1.75" hardware (one pack each)?! I´m not quite sure if I´m going to Paris. I think I´ll decide that last second depending on the weather. (You know ...

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Thanks Frank! Today, between the rain I had the chance to take it for a pumping run around some blocks in the city. I´m quite pleased with the result (flex, torsion, vibration dampening) but can´t wait to compare it with the stiffer one I took out of vacuum today. I decided to plain-grip it for now ...

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Donald, we all know how outperforming great and top-notch advanced your decks are. I know that you just constantly try to help with your paternal advice. I also know that there is not a bit malevolence in it. So thank you for your kind advice but I prefer to keep on building the way I do now. I like...

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So here it is. The deck I wanted to build for a long time now. I´s not super new in terms of shape and look but really different from the concept. [EDIT (especially for Donald)] different from what I did before! [/EDIT] It´s "core" consists of a single ply ash veneer (1.25 mm) and a 6mm Airex foamco...

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that is such a crazy idea that i actually like it a lot.

the looks of it is really surftastical!

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very sweet setup Karl! the only thing i noticed when i was riding the other one was that it needs plenty of wedge in the rear. i had the fat 11° g-truck wedge in rear and could have used even a touch more. but i suppose that´s a question of personal taste on how much steering you like on the rear tr...

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here´s a review of the Hornet from the US customer who got this deck. (the review itself further down on the page). Hornet Review on Silverfishlongboarding.com since the silverfish server is sometimes hard to connect to here´s a LINK to the review as a .pdf. (starting at the bottom of first page)

Alex Luxat

The world's first human-powered, push-free cruiser
No need to PUSH, just PUMP and GO

Now I finally understand what this pumping you´re all talking about is about.

OK - bad joke this early morning.

Alex Luxat

... I have always thought of the lines of most Turners as being the sexiest of any board! ... WORD we exhibited some of our decks together with other stuff at the PASSAGEN (alternative program with the intl. furniture fair in cologne) and i had a hard time with somebody to explain a deck design. --...

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... Steve Evans told me something not too long ago that pretty well describes the situation: a foam core board is like trying to glue paper to a piece of toast. The foam core is porous and in some ways crumbly and with resin you attempt to get fiberglas to stick to it. Then, you take this whole con...

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You putting together a team or anything for the next season? Hi Karl, nothing "official" - we're way to broke to crank out free decks at the moment. I'll try to be faster myself in 2005. ;) Of course I keep my eyes open for "available" talent. Of our local Cologne top-riders Heiko and Max are with ...

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this is the Hornet, a Super-G-ish carver http://www.mynetcologne.de/~nc-luxatal/WeFunk/pics/hornet_view.jpg it´s specs are: 870 x 223 mm or 34.25" x 8.8" double wheelbase of 655 and 685 mm (25 4/5" and 27") 5 ply ash veneer core, glass, texalium, carbon stringers http://www.wefunk.de/design/pics/ale...

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hey ben,
sure i would build you another one. (do you mean the one with the natural look or the black one?)
i put up general info about our pricing here:
viewtopic.php?p=23485#23485

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which deck? the GS or Karl´s S-camber TS?
i put up some general info on our pricings here:
viewtopic.php?p=23485#23485

cheers
alex

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3.7 MB AVI clip of my sister tatjana.

first season of cone riding.

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@ Sam: thanks for the hint: i added measurements in inches. just wanted to show this pic: left to right: my sisters hybrid/GS and TS boards, my TS board http://www.slalomspot.com/wefunk/pics/3decks.jpg we now got our grippins and they really rock. 84/81a for the rough cologne roads is just right for...

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so then you should check out "Señor Coconut" and the album "El Baile Alemán"! very cool, electro-latin versions of Kraftwerk hits. the absolute highlight is the merengue version of "Tour de France". just saw them live at the Ringfest in Cologne. also the cha-cha version of Smoke On The Water just ki...

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thanks for all the compliments on our work. @ Sam: yeah, i know it was not sooo wise to ride a new setup at the race. but it made not a big difference cause i hadn´t had time to train TS the weeks before the race. racing with you was fun and a pleasure. i hoped to continue this in antibes but my fam...

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these are our new protos for tight slalom: http://www.cruisin.de/cr_ui/cruisin/u_100/8524_2314.jpg http://www.cruisin.de/cr_ui/cruisin/u_100/8524_2315.jpg http://www.cruisin.de/cr_ui/cruisin/u_100/8524_2316.jpg http://www.cruisin.de/cr_ui/cruisin/u_100/8524_2317.jpg the specs are: size: 750 x 215 mm...

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thanks to dominik kowalski now there are even more pics of the event to find at: http://www.wefunk.de THEN GO TO NEWS > ESC 2004 pics i had to scale down and use heavy jpg compression to fit the pics in my webspace. please mail to "ALEX at WEFUNK dot DE" if you are able to host 10MB of jpgs (includi...

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yeah - it was a terrific weekend! thanks to axel and the rest of the team to make it all happen. a great possibillity to meet some of the people i just knew from the web before. to my shame i really took too less pics (just of our booth and my sisters first race) our decks: http://www.slalomspot.com...

Alex Luxat

Hey Donald... Of course I expect you to wear the Bahne tee whenever you are out skating! i can affirm that he does! - instead of wearing a "wefunk racing" shirt - which he is printing for us :( in fact he came all bahne last practice session. i also have to say that for a non-glassed deck this seem...

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ok - here are some more pics. http://www.silverfishlongboarding.com/forum/files/2x.jpg http://www.silverfishlongboarding.com/forum/files/perspektive.jpg http://www.silverfishlongboarding.com/forum/files/camber_120.jpg http://www.silverfishlongboarding.com/forum/files/grip_780.jpg http://www.silverfi...

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This board looks similar to the Airflow C-81. Could it be that the idea originally came from Airflow? the wheelbase and the length are the same cause they are functional. the shape, width, camber, concave and weight is different as you might observe. and no - the idea to build a deck with a differe...

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i think now i got it just right: this one is just slightly but essentially different from the first one: - thinner core: now 10mm - no carbon stringer (it really stiffens) - same glass-layering as the proto - 6mm plywood inforcements for the trucks - 4mm longer (more pointed nose) - two wheel-(truck...

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me too!

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... its good, that i am not the father of these young guns .... hey sven, it´s even better that you are not MY father. in my teenage i was a regular at the emergency station. (also for reasons not always skate-related). now i´m 33 and my father is still dickering me "no unneccessary risks!". though...

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I think the guy who produces the G*truck bushings will sell his stuff at the european championships in Cologne, Germany. He lives in a small town near Cologne. He also makes the "wing" wheels. They exactly look like Abec11 Stingers and flywheels. Gerd Elfgen? hmm ... maybe I can score some wheels ....

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Hi alex, are you already producing and selling those boards ? If so what would be the price of a nude board (no trucks or wheels). Is it fit for somebody weighting 80kilos (I dont really like much flex on my boards) ... And by the way is it ok to ride this board with Avalons and or Avilas with a si...

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IMO this annoying sound (like "cruck cruck cruck") comes when the bearings are not 100% lined up to each other and/or move around (some fractions of a mm) inside the core. there are way to big tolerances to the standard axles and tolerances of the core to bearing+spacer. my theory is that if the spa...

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Thanks, Yeah - the core is pretty thick and the flex is exactly that of a slab of granite. but I wanted to make sure that the first proto would last for a few rides. I was way too anxious. Surprisingly it rides very nice in gs.: very direct and the higher frequency vibrations are all dampend out. An...

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hi, first i want to say hello to all, introduce and apologize for my first posting to be some advertising. my co-partner arne and me are product-/industrial-designers and are building custommades since last year. we do slalom-, downhill- and cruising-decks. you can check our last years work on our w...

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