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Pierre Gravel

Hey Princess Mimi, call me when you will be back in MTL.

Here's what you missed aready, last sunday's session:
http://www.topchallenge.ca/videos/slalom_7mars2004.mov

See you soon,
-Pierre

Pierre Gravel

Thanks! We have some new ones coming soon...

Pierre Gravel

We are going for some cones on top of the mountain at 1pm today (sunday) we meet at the observatory in Westmount, JF, ian and jim will be there, Mia are you still in London?

Pierre Gravel

Here are the prototypes we made last fall, we are making some more with more shapes for 2004.

Pierre Gravel

2004: It's on!!

Mia, are you back in MTL ?

Found a dry clean dead end street, (Calixa-Lavallée) The street we park on when we skate Parc Lafontaine, gonna check it this week end.

Pierre Gravel

I'd like to see a race between
TK vs Noah
Gilmour vs Vlad
Dong vs Vlad
Dunn vs Holl
Arab vs Chaput
Civ vs Rob
Claude vs me, hey

...in Montreal

Pierre Gravel

Hey, Michael, i'm glad you finally decided to post a time at that "cone processing" cyber slalom, i started it on riderz.net for that purpose (and to be different from the other website's cyber slalom) i still think it's a good training and it's more fun!! I'm pretty sure you'll beat my time quickly...

Pierre Gravel

You're right, dunno why they used Garon... They almost made it in the last minutes.

Theodore was a skateboarder, i wonder if he still rides sometimes.

Pierre Gravel

Hey CIV, how are you ? Are you gettin ready for 04, i just did my first slalom session of the year it felt great, hope we,ll race again at th easter'n series. oh! and GO HABS GO!! (hope they will be playing until the slalom season is full on) http://www.goaliesarchive.com/canadiens/logo/logoaway.gif

Pierre Gravel

2004 looks really good already, thanks Claude and Mary-Beth for starting it up so well. I think we could be 4 or 5 guys (and Mia?) from Montreal for the Boston Race, so if you can pick us up at a conveniant location, it would be great. JimZ and i were there last year and we had a great time, special...

Pierre Gravel

I will look for a good location for Montreals race, i'll post the datails here as soon as get more.

Pierre Gravel

BTW, my Easter weekend is booked ! Can't wait to race

Pierre Gravel

Hey good news! Count me in, i'll try to find a good location and sponsors for Montreal and the serie. But i now have a regular job (yeah that sucks but it's good to get a paycheck, haha) i'll have to be quick and find some time. Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal that's going to be some intense ...

Pierre Gravel

Lets go skate today mia, it's 2:30.
You pick the location

Pierre Gravel

Hey Claude, Mary-Beth and Mia, it's sunny today i'm gonna make a course at Parc Lafontaine near the lake, i'll make a "Princess Mimi course" 6' straight with a couple offsets. The course will hopefully still be marked for a quick session saturday morning. I'll be there at 13:30

Pierre Gravel

I'm actually working on it John, it's such a good place to race,
garanteed crowds and good coverage. If you come to Montreal, let me know, i'd like to show you where on that street i'd like to race.

At the canadian gathering we talked about a 3 cities in 3 days race series, that could be fun too...

Pierre Gravel

Thanks for this info Paul, do you think the kingpin "rattle" is caused by a hole drilled too big? Did you try a new kingpin? Hope it can be corrected cause i hate rattle. I'm curious why they wouldn't use the RTS base as it's more suited for a back truck. I'm gonna try to get one anyway... According...

Pierre Gravel

I found a better picture of the Of truck at your website;

I think the move to Tracker baseplates is a good one the one in this pic looks a little "generic", will you use the RTS baseplate ?

Pierre Gravel

I found these on a Swiss web store, http://sk8shop.ch/index.asp?spr=e First generation Radikal look-alike: http://sk8shop.ch/pictures/silver_space_professional.jpg This offset looks cool: http://sk8shop.ch/pictures/noname_ostruck.jpg Carbon fibre base plate and shiny hanger! http://sk8shop.ch/pictur...

Pierre Gravel

Good, i'll be at the same spot in parc lafontaine at 13:30 (friday)
JF will be there too.

Pierre Gravel

Hi Mia, yes i did that last winter at the U of Montreal parking on Jean-Brillant, it's covered but still outdoors so it's cold and slippery but i couldn't find a better spot. There is a covered parking behind Imax in the old port too but we get kicked out quick, i want to ask permission to skate the...

Pierre Gravel

I know it's a little late for this but i now have another montrealer registered here: Mia!!

We'll be able to post here some sessions locations and times to meet.

I'll start:
If it's dry i'll be at Parc lafontaine tuesday oct 28 at 13:30
Come on Mia, i'll have that new kebbek slalom for you...

Pierre Gravel

Thank you for your support!

Pierre Gravel

Pierre Gravel

About our canadian "gathering": Claude can you propose some dates so we could start planning.
Maybe create a new topic about it. Can't wait to meet you all!

I'm free the following weekends;
oct 11-12
oct 18-19
oct 25-26
nov 1-2
After that, the weather will start to suck i think.

Pierre Gravel

Bravo Claude!

Pierre Gravel

Henry, i just send you the survey via email but i think there is a dot that do not belong at the end of your email address.

Pierre Gravel

Hey good luck at the Worlds Claude, go get 'em!!
Ride hard and...
... many happy and strong pumps!

Pierre Gravel

Hi TK, what color were those wheels you tested?

Pierre Gravel

Good post Wesley but i want to add that there may be 300 registered users but as in my case in Montreal, i'm the only one whos registered but i slalom with 6 or 7 guys and girls. This is probably the case elsewhere, we only see the really obsessed with slalom in the forums but there are other who ac...

Pierre Gravel

No the speedboard event was run in the rain!! It think it was the firts time but all racers agreed to race (they came from 12 different countries) but we opted for the qualifications format of individually timed runs. We reached speeds of 70-80 km/h on a soaking wet technical course. Many falls but ...

Pierre Gravel

The follow shot was done with the wide at 35 all the way, camera was about 3ft high.
There is now a bigger version here:
http://207.96.250.98/videos/boston_slalom_bigger.mov (6.9 MB)

I'll try to edit and publish some more footage soon...

Pierre Gravel

I just put a small video in Quicktime here:
http://207.96.250.98/videos/boston_slalom.mov

Pierre Gravel

That Park Slalom was a great course, even tough i did not make the cut i had a blast riding it, Steve O'Hara and Terence did a great job. It was fun to practice with a timer too. And my buddy JimZ did really well (4th) for a guy who mostly speedboards and had his slalom board a week before. Did not ...

Pierre Gravel

Man if not for the mixup, i would have faced my buddy JimZ in the semi, would have toasted him anyway.. haha Thank you JG for a great race and for letting us sleep at your place, we'll be there racing next year. Was also really fun to put faces on those names, PVD, Mark Mc Cree, WesE, Joe (thanks fo...

Pierre Gravel

What's the entry fee? If it's reasonable i'm in for the park slalom.

Pierre Gravel

I'll be there along with Jim Ziemlanski, thanks for the invite Terence.

pierre@topchallenge.ca

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Pierre Gravel

I think i will be able to attend my 1st race, i want to know if there will be a longboard race too and if so, will there be a minimum wheelbase? We will be 2 or 3 guys from Montreal, Me JF and JimZ, we'll try Rye too. Later!

Pierre Gravel

Any canadian going to Boston friday?
I'm going, i hope to see some of you there, i will try the deathrace at Rye too.
Claude?

Pierre Gravel

Hey Claude, when are you comin' to Montreal?
Come ride my spots!!

Pierre Gravel

Man, am i slow! I need to practice more often with fast racers.
No JG i didn't sped up the clip, i should have done it in my run tough...

I'm in for a VT jam, JF and JimZ would come too i assume. PSR, put on a date.

Pierre Gravel

It would be very fun to set a date and place for us canadians and northeasters to meet, i have some great spots in Montreal but i could also travel a bit. PSR is getting something going in VT soon, i sure will try to go. The Gathering was just too far for my budget, but something within a 3-4 hour d...

Pierre Gravel

In case any of you are also interested in speedboarding, here's the website for the Montreal Top Challenge race:
http://www.topchallenge.ca

It will be a great race in dowtown Montreal, down the Mont-Royal with 7000.00$ in cash prizes.

Pierre Gravel

Here's the poster for the French contest at Trocadero! http://www.slalomskateboarder.com/events/2003/Paris/Paris_2003_Affiche.jpg And the link to the race forum (in French) http://www.riderz.net/viewtopic.php?t=4499&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= The race website: http://www.riderz.net/...

Pierre Gravel

Well there is Montreal's Jazz festival, Just for laughs, Festival des Films du Monde, The Montreal Grand Prix, Most of them have St-Laurent close for a while. We should try for a demo first and see the interest. There is also a speedboard race in Montreal august 10, it's called Top Challenge, down t...

Pierre Gravel

Man i was in Tremblant the same dates! I even had a slalom board with me but the weather was awful the 1st weekend. John did you notice the great hill that surround the area? Hmmm. About the Montreal street you talk about it's either St-Denis or St-Laurent both are full of cafes (and cute girls) if ...

Pierre Gravel

Claude, i don't really have travelling plans, i was counting on JimZ to drive there with me but he's going to a speedboard race in BC instead. So i'm considering taking my car but it needs repairs first. Do you have an available seat in your ride? I could contribute to your gas fund... Where are you...

Pierre Gravel

Hey Claude, slalom season has started in Montréal!
Tell me if you can come and ride, i'm freelancing these days so i can ride during week days.

Pierre Gravel

I have this great spot in Montreal, with a hill at each end of the course so you ride it both ways, rode it yestarday in the sun finally, Claude are you comin'? http://www.riderz.net/gal/635/longboardeur1050072684.jpg <font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Pierre Gravel on 2003-04-13 09:43 ]</f...

Pierre Gravel

The bowls were called "Les bassins" there was a feature about Mark Gonzales riding there in Thrasher mag around 88-89.

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