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Multi Rider Snakeboard
Train of 20 or more skateboards linked in a line with riders working together to navigate a steep, curvy downhill run. | |
The lead skateboarder would steer the entire group but
the
skateboarders on the following sections would need to
anticipate and negotiate turns and banks appropriately
lest
the entire train get wiped out. Basically a group, multi-
section
skateboard
where everybody has to do their part
to keep the thing
going.
Could make a simple test of the concept by just getting a
bunch of skateboards and tying them in line with a rope.
I'd
be kind of surprised if nobody's tried that before, at
least with a couple of boards.
Might work with snowboards too.
In lieu of a drawing, here's what it might look like.
https://images.app....l/rcknk6Bt419LnXEj9
Best I can do Blissy. [doctorremulac3, Aug 27 2020]
With the spring version...
https://images.app....l/3RbLuXMQuBNj6kXD8
With the ability for the boards to move away from adjacent boards stuff like this might be possible. [doctorremulac3, Aug 27 2020]
Team snakeboarding.
https://images.app....l/8SPMZAgNFmaTKGkF8
Could be a thing. [doctorremulac3, Aug 27 2020]
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Bad physics. Crack the whip. |
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Not sure I catch what you're saying, bad physics as in it
won't
work or it'll work too well? If
everybody isn't
working together the thing's going to
crash. Each skateboard is individually
steerable, but that's part of the fun. |
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But if it's stable and difficult to crash that
would be even better. |
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With the snowboard version I could see everybody holding
up lights on a night run so you'd see a silvery light snake
winding down the
slope. |
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A cable that holds or tries constantly to form a fair curve might give distance between riders. Therefore giving the boarder more play to steer. |
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Which I think would be more interesting. Although
an arrangement that’s basically a snake with
wheels that I think Voice was alluding to would
probably pose a challenge to the riders as well.
Just standing on the thing as it twisted and turned
could be tricky / fun. |
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I used to love to skateboard, now I can't even go an
inch without falling. So I love the sport, wish I still
had the knack. This is an interesting idea visually. |
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I grant you a bun, contingent on a stick man drawing
of this, at some point. (I think of the famous hills in
San Francisco as a great place to try this out.) |
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This idea is dangerous, irresponsible, and has huge potential for causing serious injury or death for both participants and bystanders. |
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//I grant you a bun, contingent on a stick man
drawing of this, at some point.// |
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Hmm, I can try but I think you over estimate my
artistic ability. |
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Another version might not be connected together
with rope but rather by springs or bungie cords.
This would allow
the team to not only more effectively take jumps,
but to have more flexibility to draw patterns other
than just a snake, like zig zags or something. Then
if you really wanted to get crazy, you could have
each individual be able to control their rope length
on a motorized winder, maybe even centrally
remote controlled executing presets for various
patterns to be executed. Mmmmmn, naa. Getting
too complicated. I like the spring thing though. |
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And thank you for being nice kdf. I will of course
reciprocate. |
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// And thank you for being nice kdf // |
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The punctuation makes all the difference, of course. |
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"And thank you for being nice, kdf" is an expression of gratitude for a single action; the implication being that [kdf] is not generically "nice"*, but this is an acknowledgement of an exception. |
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"And thank you for being, nice kdf" similarly expresses gratitude, for the existence of [kdf] in general terms, with the adjective "nice" being applied generally. |
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"And thank you, for being nice kdf" has the same overall implication. |
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*Observational evidence suggests that this is the correct interpretation. |
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Most people's definition of "nice" is not being an asshole. |
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Let's stick with that one. |
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Blissy, I don't draw, but I put some representations of what
this might look like for you, hope that suffices. If it doesn't
and you take your bun down... I'll be sad. |
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// Most people's definition of "nice" is not being an asshole. // |
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But shirey, for some, there is literally such a thing as a... oh. No, let's not pursue that line of thought. It goes into dark places that.... EEEEwwww no that's even worse.... |
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<Thinks happy thoughts about kittens, spring flowers, geography teachers bound hand and foot, and the slow yet inexorable and relentless advance of an Aveling & Porter steam-powered road roller/> |
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But alas, I wrought your linkies, doctor.
They are very NICE. I
get the just of the idea, I believe. They are awesome
and wrought. Don't be sad...EVER! |
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[Bliss], you're only supposed to take one tablet morning and evening; two at the same time leads to ... well, just go back and read your own anno. |
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There's cheerful, and then there's chemically-induced manic ... |
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You keep taking whatever makes you charming Blissy. |
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If I had any desire to be charming I'd probably take a couple
of doses myself, but it's my complete lack of any desire to
be
charming that
makes me so charming. Don't want to upset the balance. |
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// keep taking whatever makes you charming Blissy // |
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Our guess is some of Harry Mudd's Venus drug... |
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Just taking pure physics for a moment. If all the boards have the same friction characteristics and the gradient is the same for all places in the line (both big ifs) then the weight differences in riders will cause problems of compression, expansion in lines. Loss of speed usually involves rider making turns. |
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Although, the boards could have brakes |
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You can brake to some extent on a skateboard by tipping
it upwards and dragging the back along the ground and
sort of scrape to a stop. You'd have to have some play
between the boards to do it that way obviously. |
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That's why I was thinking this would be interesting. How
would the riders negotiate going up and down a hill for
instance? The front rider tops the hill and gravity is
pulling him down, but not as much as the riders behind
him are pulling him back unless they're kicking enough
power into their run uphill to keep the whole chain
moving. So there would have to be some coordination I
would think, and that might be where the skill, and
associated interesting part might come in. |
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The the obvious next step is races. The team most adept
and negotiating obstacles together wins the race. As the
sport got bigger, the obstacle courses could get more
complicated and challenging. |
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Although this could start at standard skateboard parks
that already have lots of hills and curves, those would
just make for very short runs. But if this caught on, a few
kids would buy doctorremulac3's Snakeboard Link Kit, that
secures two boards together, learn some basic tandem
moves, then get another, then another as their team
grew. |
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Also be very easy to set up marker poles for and obstacle
course for the snowboard version of this. Then you've got
the whole side of a mountain to work with. Have the race
happen at night, each team wearing a helmet with
different colored lights on them so you see two or more
"fire snake"
looking things racing each other. |
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Keep in mind, one guy wipes out it would tend to wreck
the whole team's run which would make it that much
more challenging and therefore interesting. |
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Clean for 13 years. ( There are herbs and than there
are drugs, right?) |
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8th, you could always borrow some of my whatever,
whenever. |
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Just occurred to me, for the kit you'd need several
skateboard joined together otherwise the riders are
just inches from each other which would limit their
ability to use their arms to balance. |
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So you'd probably need say, five or six skateboards
per every two people. |
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