Ouch! Just fell off my new....

[r04DiE]

So your role models are older...

They're called ole models.

 

[gavroche]

Stick to cycling, you are still young enough for that.

 

[winjim]

Tony Fab Foodie Hawks

Tony Hawks is the guy who hitch-hiked round Ireland with a fridge.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

When I were a lad we made us own, plank of wood and dismembered roller skate - actually worked really well.

We used to skateboard down the hill behind our house all the time, a neighbour came up to complain to my dad that 'every time I look out of my window I see your bloody kid on a skateboard', my dad told him not to look out of his window then!

 

[Julia9054]

Something I really regret not learning to do when I was young and elastic. My mum would never let me have one.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Something I really regret not learning to do when I was young and elastic. My mum would never let me have one.

I'm 53 .... Never quite too late....

 

[PhilDawson8270]

I went back to skating at 28. Ended up with 2 titanium plates in my arm an 12 screws.

 

[Julia9054]

I'm 53 .... Never quite too late....

Yeah, sadly, I do not have, nor did I ever have, any coordination. And these days I don't bounce as well as I used to. Spent today on the sofa with an ice pack on my shoulder after slipping on the stairs and aggravating an old rotator cuff tear caused by shifting band gear in the freezing cold about 10 years ago.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I went back to skating at 28. Ended up with 2 titanium plates in my arm an 12 screws.

My son's just had that .... He's 17!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Yeah, sadly, I do not have, nor did I ever have, any coordination. And these days I don't bounce as well as I used to. Spent today on the sofa with an ice pack on my shoulder after slipping on the stairs and aggravating an old rotator cuff tear caused by shifting band gear in the freezing cold about 10 years ago.

Fair point!

 

[tyred]

Perhaps you've reached a point where you need to find safer a safer hobby.

 

[midlife]

The Falcon Reps brought some skateboards over from a visit to the States in the mid 1970's ........I fell of one then and have never been persuaded to stand on one since!

Shaun

 

[PhilDawson8270]

My son's just had that .... He's 17!

The like is for the understanding not for 'liking' the injury. The 3 months in a cast was far worse than the surgery and the break itself!

 

[Fab Foodie]

New Deck has arrived at long last.... 34" :-)
Just need to transfer trucks from the old deck I lashed them to and then I can go and see if I can break some body parts :-/

Something for the weekend.

Son's feet for scale .... lanky 17 year old....

 

[srw]

Paging @GrumpyGregry. He's been there, done that, realised it wasn't seemly for a gentleman of reduced flexibility.....