Product Description
Now you can TRIKKE in the SNOW! It has arrived!! The Silver 2009 model includes a molded safety bumper, racing style handle bar, newly designed skis, and new foot-pad ready for foot-strap accessory.
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For those that like to shred snow on a snowboard, winter is fun, but for those that don't snowboard or have much of anything to do, it is usually spent feeling bored while locked indoors waiting for that blasted snow to finally melt.
Since you can't control the weather, and winter is going to come around regardless of how much you hate it, perhaps this year you can do something different and learn how to snowskate.
If you are active during the summer with skateboarding or some other boardsport, but when winter rolls around you go dormant, this year take advantage of the winter snow and learn how to snowskate. Or, if snowboarding isn't your thing, and you want something else to do during the winter months besides sit inside, give snowskating a try.
What is a Snowskate?
A snowskate is like a skateboard deck without anything attached, just the deck. There are of course a few differences, but in a nutshell, that is what a snowskate is.
There are a couple different styles of snowskates, but the Artec Bi Level Snowskate talked about here is the kind of snowskate that has a single ski attached under the deck of the board.
Other snowskates have four skis, which makes it ride more like a skateboard. Others dont have any skis and instead are more similar to a skateboard deck. This style has no ski or skis attached, so instead of a ski touching the snow, the bottom of the snowskate deck is what touches it.
How to Snowskate
Snowskating is similar to skateboarding, but since snow is slippery, it changes the feel of riding a bit. Snow is not at all like concrete.
The foot placement is similar to skateboarding, with the back foot on or close to the tail, and the front foot about one third the length of the board from the nose.
You can kick a snowskate just like you can on a skateboard. When you are riding, make sure to keep your center of gravity over the board, or you will fall. When turning, keep your center of gravity over the edge of the board that is cutting into the snow.
To turn, shift your weight in the direction you want to turn. Shift to the right side to turn right, and the left to turn to the left.
Once you master riding, you can try tricks. The ollie is what you should learn before anything else. Since you can do the same kind of tricks on a snowskate that you can a skateboard, the sky is the limit after you learn how to ollie.
Snowskate Video
Here is just a taste of how awesome and fun snowskating can be.
Artec Bi Level Snowskate
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Where can you buy the Artec Bi Level Snowskate?
You can buy the Artec Bi Level Snowskate from proboardshop.com by clicking the "buy" button below.
You can't get any cheaper than free! If you have been holding out on getting a bike because you don't have the money, then you have been waiting for no reason. It isn't hard at all to find a free bike. People give away bikes all the time, or worse, people sometimes even throw away their perfectly use-able bikes.
I live near a college, and at the beginning of every year, many college students will buy a bunch of stuff and then when the school year ends you'll find futons, TV's, chairs, bikes, and lots more of perfectly fine stuff piled in and around the dumpsters. Some students will even get a kitten or a puppy and then when the school year ends, they will abandon them. Check out this article.
Anyway, back on topic, if you want a free bike, the Internet has made it even easier to find one. These two web sites are my favorite to go to for finding free things. Even if you don't want a free bike, check them out, as you may be surprised at what some people will give away for free!
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Just like the Rolls Rolls could be called the "Rolls-Royce" of longboards, the Xootr could easily be called the "Rolls-Royce" of scooters.
What sets the Xootr apart from the rest? It's a well built scooter that is perfect for effortlessly gliding along. While Xootrs aren't necessarily made for freestyle riding, they are made for cruising the streets.
The wheels on the Xootr offer as little friction as possible so that when you kick, you can glide for a long ways. That means you don't have to kick as much, because you can go longer and faster with each kick
A Xootr would be a great scooter for cruising and urban transport. Currently, Xootr makes several different models of Xootrs that vary in style and performance.
To me it looks like it is very well made, and would be a really nice and FAST scooter for cruising and urban transport (which is exactly what they are made for). A downside I can see though, is I doubt the wheels would handle cracks or bumps very well.
What do you think of the Xootr? Rate how cool you think it is below and leave a comment!
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