Trials / Street Practice Obstacle Ideas?

Looks good to me.
I'd have more pallets at different highs tho.

If you start off with only a little to practice on, just move them round
to suit yourself.

I'm looking out for wood at work to bring home for skinny practice. Also
wanna make some sandwich boards.

Good luck, and post some pics/video when you get it together,

Joe

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Cheers joe. I've got loads of materials cos my dad kind of hordes wood &
stuff. The ground isn't as flat as in the drawing either, so once its
all levelled and set up properly the distances between palettes
(vertically) will probably be more than a single palette height. I've
got a design for a movable skinny beam that i'm working on at the
moment, i'm going to get it built over the next couple of days...

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You should jave some way of taking stuff apart and moving it,because
once you do somthing a million times,it gets easy and you might want to
make it higher/farther/harder.

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looks good to me , i agree with the last post, it should be removeable
so you can change teh set up and heights.

man you must have a big back garden, this sorta thing would never fit
any where in my garden, plus the fact my parents would never allow it.

thanks for the design though you have inspired me to make some of my own
obsticles.

thanks

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Cheers for the comments, I'm going to make it out of pallets mainly, so
they'll unscrew and move about pretty easily... Plus theres a lot of
room up there, so i'll be able to vary is a lot, from easy warm up stuff
to things way outside my current skill level.

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A tip:Use wedges.Cut the ends off of scrap wood into wedge shapes,use
them whenever somthing wiggles or isnt stable enough(like pallets or
anything)It works great.

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Cool, cheers 😄. I was thinking we might need some, since the ground
isn't the flattest in the world...

Was also thinking of staking some of the pallets down, to keep the whole
thing more together.

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i've never had to screw pallettes down/together, always seem to be
plenty firm enough without. You will quickly get bored aswell, so its
nice to be able to jus pick them up and put em somewhere else/the other
way up or whatever.

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YEah,same here.If they wiggle or wobble put wedges under the edges,works
PERFECTLY and you can move them around whenever you want.If you have to
screw 'em together,use a nail or two,its easier to take apart.

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You did that quickly in Paint?? Great job! The course is nice too. I
love the skinnies for grinding and riding along, and with a bit of
practise you can ride up one, turn the 90 degree corner, and down the
other...that's fun!

If you want to work on trials as well as street, maybe you could add
some more technical gaps in there. Sandwich boards would be
appropriate...they're very versatile. There are some sandwich board
building instructions at www.unicycle.2ya.com .

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Or a neat thing to do is put two pallets together up in an A shape,sorta
like a giant sandwich board.YOu can link it up to the pallets stack
flat.

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forrestunifreak said:

*Or a neat thing to do is put two pallets together up in an A
shape,sorta like a giant sandwich board.*

Comme ça...

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Oh yeah, and some posts...posts are fun!

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Yeah that hah😄 .I think thats were I got the idea from.

Oh yeah,and, whats "Makita"?

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andrew_carter said:

*Comme ça... *

Tu parles bien le francais? Are you speaking french well?

Didnt know it

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I'm guessing I could understand most parts of most conversations. I did
5 years of high school french. I'm no good at speaking french though.
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Loosemoose said:

was wondering if you
had any ideas for obstacles I could use to improve my overall street
ability.

There are some ideas for simple trials props here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/props.htm

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What materials should I use, and would covering the wood with
something like carpet increase traction & save me injuries?

Carpet is a bad idea because generally the tufts (is that what you
call it) are directional, so you have a weird constant pull to one
side if you ride on carpet.

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Klaas Bil said:

*Carpet is a bad idea because generally the tufts (is that what you
call it) are directional, so you have a weird constant pull to one
side if you ride on carpet.*

True, and you might lose a bit of height in your hops on carpet because
it's got more give in it than plain timber.

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Cheers for the replies, I'll have to see what I can manage to fit in the
space i've got... After looking at it last night I've got a lot more
space than I thought, so some sandwich boards, V pallets and posts will
definitely be in there. Just need to get a fence post or two, that
should be big enough for hopping on & off.

A Makita is a make of power tool, I don't know if you get them in
America but over in Blighty its kind of the last word in electric
drills, jigsaws, sanders, all that stuff. I use makita instead of
electric drill, kind of like using hoover instead of vacuum cleaner.

I'm going to build a skinny tonight, after getting my dad to show me
where the wood I can use is, as well as the screws & glue. Should get
something like this done tonight with any luck. I was thinking of making
a few, then placing them next to each other to practice skinny-to-skinny
hop transfers.

Loose.

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