Joke is on whoever put them there. This makes skateboarders hornier to rub their trucks on that. They can remove them at will and all that money and metal doesn’t stop them.
it might be one of the best way to commute around a city. I've see one youtube dude who is smooth as fuck through New York traffic. It really seems like the most competitive urban micro mobility is rollerblades.
but I wouldn't because I'd rather carry a board and keep my shoes on then have to change skates. just me though. I also like minimalist shoes and using my feet and ankles.
Out here criticizing skater intelligence but you can't even put together a coherent sentence.
Joking, but some of the absolute best concrete companies employ (or are owned by) old skateboard kids obsessed with using the skill to build parks. You should see their pool work 👌🏼
Lol
The end of your comment just enforces the lack of said intelligence...
They're not smart enough to know pools are supposed to have water in them.
Not skateboards
I understand completely.
A bunch of ignorant punks that feel it's OK to tear up public n private property with thier boards at others expense.
That ain't boomer kid.
That's ignorant
Lol
That's sad but true.
You can hire all kinds of guys.
But can't get much done with .most of them no matter how much you pay.
About 1 outa 20 new hires is a keeper
You meant to say
Props to the old heads that worked hard and got the job done and built a reputation and built a decades old thriving business and can't retire because there's nobody coming up that can/will do the work now days.
I understand your confusion because your probably one of them.
Haaaa
I know and have poured more concrete than the Roman's in the last 45 years .
Aunt never met a goober on a board in the crew where there's any work to do yet
Getting the right size torx drive and bringing it to this park at a time to remove all of them without getting caught and hope they don't just get put right back is a lot higher effort for most people than just... finding someplace else to go.
It's like the lock on your house. A good lockpick could get past it in less than a minute. I can't even lockpick and I could force my way inside in half that time if I was willing to cause damage on the way in. But it's enough to deter 99% of people because they'll just take the path of least resistance and shift their focus somewhere else.
Skate stoppers, they make them in a variety of styles and different mounting options. At the end of the day if we want to skate it we will find a way to take them off.
Yea because skateboarders famously hang around after getting injured on private property… That excuse is such bullshit and is defense #1 for bitch ass Karen’s that just don’t want people to have fun in ways they don’t understand.
Now if you would say “it keeps them from fucking up private property” that is an argument I cannot fight against.
Because everyone knows Skateboarding is a gateway to the criminal underworld, the dark web, and human trafficking. Skateboarders meet by smooth concrete edges to plan their next round of ballot theft. It’s a serious problem. Those kids should be inside playing video games damnit.
Yep, towns would rather have teens sitting at home playing video games, binging toxic social media, doing drugs, vandalizing property, etc. rather than a harmless sport.
There’s a cool page on instagram called knobbuster or something similar, whole account dedicated to a guy removing these from spots so skaters can grind them!
Right because skateboarders are famously litigious… Such a bullshit excuse that almost never fucking happens. Just say you don’t like skateboarders. Say you’re hate with your fucking chest, stop hiding behind convenient veils.
Buddy relax. I’m not a skater myself and never have been but I’ve only ever seen and heard good things about the skate community. I love that they’re around and me myself support and wish there were more of you lads. Get off your high horse and think reasonably ffs.
Dude you really got a nerve struck lol. I don’t think he thinks the skaters will sue, but their parents definitely will.
So emotional over Reddit comments, relax
Oh. I see them on a long low wall near where I live. The workmanship on the wall is so shtty no skateboarder would want to grind on that wall.
Now the one posted looks even, but rough. Some regular grinding will make it look better. iNsUrAnCe I’ll bet. Fear shuts down a lot of normal activity. Can I sue if I walk into a wall?
I poured a small retaining wall around the playground for my kids grade school. The principal asked me to do something to keep the skateboards off. I put 1 1/2“ chamfer every foot or so. I think at actually made it more fun for them
They are there strictly for skateboarders and roller blades to keep them off.
Ah. Very clever you guys are. Thanks.
Not clever! It's very frustrating! That looks like a yummy ass spot to bust a 50/50!
Yeah as a concrete guy and a skateboarder these make me extra sad, but also twice as determined to skate a spot
Car battery, jumper cables, welding stick and a piece of angle iron and you could make that a grind spot in 5 minutes.
Hammer, chisel and block of wax and you’re skating it in 10 minutes
Complete disregard for bodily harm and you could be skating it NOW
I do love the videos of people skating over the skate stoppers and stomping a grind anyway
Or you can just be epic and treat each as a chance for a 180 kickflip before you biff it on the last one!
Potato, snorkel mask and cork screw, I've done more with less
hell yeah i haven't ever seen anyone add angle iron only remove the stops. you're a genius!
Just gotta bring the ol Tonya harding and pry bar
lol your old but so am I
Fellow VGG enthusiast? Or simply a man of culture?
Bit of both!
At least as a concrete guy/skateboarder we know how to easily remove and patch them ;)
Thrasher has a set of videos on concrete skate spot methods. Ardex feather finish is what they like.
Can you do a grindy thingy
There’s like 200 steps and the rail’s garbage.
Well, hey, if it’s too hardcore…
Joke is on whoever put them there. This makes skateboarders hornier to rub their trucks on that. They can remove them at will and all that money and metal doesn’t stop them.
You’re so right. God I want to rub my trucks on that
Vandals, you mean. Breaking public stuff.
It’s actually so homeless people don’t wipe their butts there.
Skateboarding is not a crime.
Damn, reading that takes me back to 1996. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.
Back to 1986 for me!
OG right here. Directional boards loaded with plastic to scrape up.
Depends on the old person you talk too.
Damaging shit is though
People still blade?
fruit boot'n
I had hoped Reddit had moved past this homophobic slur, but I guess not
hows that hopey changey shit working out for you?
Team Pup n Suds is doing just fine tyvm
No idea. I haven't since middle school. I know my son has a set and he is 25.
Maybe it’ll make a come back
rollerskating came back, so i'm sure people still blade.
Yup, its all back. Since right before covid, and it accelerated.
What like Beyblades?
it might be one of the best way to commute around a city. I've see one youtube dude who is smooth as fuck through New York traffic. It really seems like the most competitive urban micro mobility is rollerblades. but I wouldn't because I'd rather carry a board and keep my shoes on then have to change skates. just me though. I also like minimalist shoes and using my feet and ankles.
I see roller bladers in Portland. But you know, Portland . . .
Weird...
The blade never fades.
Yep. Did a job next to a skate park and probably 10% blades.
The hardest part about roller blading is telling your family that you're a pedo.
they should really put one big long piece of angle iron to make sure no one can skate any piece of it /s
As a skateboarder it’s really annoying
We call them skater-haters here.
Damn rollerbladers are more popular than BMXers over yonder?? Thats interesting:0
That $5 security Torx driver too hard to find for skateboarders?
they're usually epoxied in there
Nah They can't remove them. They don't have the instructions from tye screws or screwdriver.. They wouldn't know which way to turn them.
Out here criticizing skater intelligence but you can't even put together a coherent sentence. Joking, but some of the absolute best concrete companies employ (or are owned by) old skateboard kids obsessed with using the skill to build parks. You should see their pool work 👌🏼
My brother builds skate parks around the country, he’s been a skater for 20 yrs or so. He loves it.
Lol The end of your comment just enforces the lack of said intelligence... They're not smart enough to know pools are supposed to have water in them. Not skateboards
Wow this is so boomer coded. Pathetic. What is it with dumb asses lashing out at things they don’t understand…
I understand completely. A bunch of ignorant punks that feel it's OK to tear up public n private property with thier boards at others expense. That ain't boomer kid. That's ignorant
Old man yells at cloud!
Whats next??? "nobody wants to work anymore👴🏻"
Lol That's sad but true. You can hire all kinds of guys. But can't get much done with .most of them no matter how much you pay. About 1 outa 20 new hires is a keeper
Its cause old heads like you suck at leading
You meant to say Props to the old heads that worked hard and got the job done and built a reputation and built a decades old thriving business and can't retire because there's nobody coming up that can/will do the work now days. I understand your confusion because your probably one of them.
Shut up goober… Some of the best concrete workers are skaters because they build fucking skate ramps all day. Judgmental asshole…
Haaaa I know and have poured more concrete than the Roman's in the last 45 years . Aunt never met a goober on a board in the crew where there's any work to do yet
This is definitely rage bait, but skateboarders are more technically inclined than you or anyone you know lmfao
Lol You must be one for the proof of banging your head on the pavement too many times is showing lol
You can’t even figure out how to unsubscribe from emails my friend
Many of these kinds of angled skate stoppers are considered two hit specials lol. U bring a hammer or hit them with your board and they come off.
Damn counterfeit Chinese tapcons. If contractor wasn't trying to cut corners, That wouldn't happen
hahahaha good point.
Getting the right size torx drive and bringing it to this park at a time to remove all of them without getting caught and hope they don't just get put right back is a lot higher effort for most people than just... finding someplace else to go. It's like the lock on your house. A good lockpick could get past it in less than a minute. I can't even lockpick and I could force my way inside in half that time if I was willing to cause damage on the way in. But it's enough to deter 99% of people because they'll just take the path of least resistance and shift their focus somewhere else.
Skate stoppers, they make them in a variety of styles and different mounting options. At the end of the day if we want to skate it we will find a way to take them off.
Battery powered angle grinders.
Looks like you'd just need a security torx screwdriver.
Yeah, maybe, but there’s different types of these things, some are built in.
_Skaters uh break free. Skaters uh expand to uh new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously uh. But uh skaters find a way._
Hostile architecture. Skater haters
I don’t think it’s strictly for hating. Could possibly be reducing injury liability on whatever property it’s on.
Yea because skateboarders famously hang around after getting injured on private property… That excuse is such bullshit and is defense #1 for bitch ass Karen’s that just don’t want people to have fun in ways they don’t understand. Now if you would say “it keeps them from fucking up private property” that is an argument I cannot fight against.
That tree is so straight
Because everyone knows Skateboarding is a gateway to the criminal underworld, the dark web, and human trafficking. Skateboarders meet by smooth concrete edges to plan their next round of ballot theft. It’s a serious problem. Those kids should be inside playing video games damnit.
Everyone knows skateboarding is a gateway drug to tax evasion, embezzlement and insider trading.
Skate stoppers, fuck 'em
Grinder minders
Skate deterrents
Anti-Skateboarding things.
Anti skate architecture.
Yep, towns would rather have teens sitting at home playing video games, binging toxic social media, doing drugs, vandalizing property, etc. rather than a harmless sport.
Skate stoppers. Such a bummer.
You'd think cutting a few grooves would be cheaper, easier, look better and can't be removed, but these metal things seem to be popular.
lol there is other designs that do that, skaters just fill in the grooves. When we want to skate something, we figure it out.
Design the edge like this... /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ Where each peak to trough is 4 inches. Beat that skaters
Bondo/steel stick will take care of that real quick
look like a great fixing to weld a rail to
The gnar dogs back smith right over them. 🤙
You obviously have never been a rad ass dude
There’s a cool page on instagram called knobbuster or something similar, whole account dedicated to a guy removing these from spots so skaters can grind them!
hostile architecture. geared towards skate boarders.
That’s what boomers install on edges they don’t want the skateboarders to grind on.
Skateboarding is not a crime.
Sure but having people fall on your property and sue you is annoying
Right because skateboarders are famously litigious… Such a bullshit excuse that almost never fucking happens. Just say you don’t like skateboarders. Say you’re hate with your fucking chest, stop hiding behind convenient veils.
Buddy relax. I’m not a skater myself and never have been but I’ve only ever seen and heard good things about the skate community. I love that they’re around and me myself support and wish there were more of you lads. Get off your high horse and think reasonably ffs.
Dude you really got a nerve struck lol. I don’t think he thinks the skaters will sue, but their parents definitely will. So emotional over Reddit comments, relax
Nope. Those are “fun stopper” related
Mostly due to Karens
They zap napping homeless
Oh. I see them on a long low wall near where I live. The workmanship on the wall is so shtty no skateboarder would want to grind on that wall. Now the one posted looks even, but rough. Some regular grinding will make it look better. iNsUrAnCe I’ll bet. Fear shuts down a lot of normal activity. Can I sue if I walk into a wall?
Oh boy. Here we go.
Nothing a grinder can't fix.
Lol I can top soul right over those. Nothing a hammer can't fix
They are there to keep skate boarders from having a good time.
It’s hilarious because you know they spent over a thousand dollars for those skate stoppers to make the concrete look like shit ahyway
They’re called skate stoppers
I poured a small retaining wall around the playground for my kids grade school. The principal asked me to do something to keep the skateboards off. I put 1 1/2“ chamfer every foot or so. I think at actually made it more fun for them
Ahh yes, one must remove those to be a good person
Antiskate protectors
Nofunsies hardware
Dont understand why they dont just add a long piece of angle to sweeten up that spot.
Looks like security bit set and drill and wax be skating in 5 minutes.
They're to make kids vandalize everything around that area
They are something lame-ass normies put up to stop skateboarders.
Team Pup n Suds yo.
Hostile architecture!
Calm down Karen
More skateboarding, less Karens.
lol
A lot of skaters work with concrete. Needless to say if they wanna skate it, they’ll pop them off and skate.
It’s their property they can do what they wish
Username checks out… When your entire identity is “owning the libs”… Genuinely pathetic.