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Premium Member Comment by Skittles on April 4, 2011 at 18:00

I only say full pads and full face helmets because that road eats you up and spits you out.  If anything goes wrong (hospital visit because of injury) the news will swoop in on it and give bad press.

 

and there will be stacks, lots if people have never raced on it before.

 

It sucks that it can only be closed to the gate though!

 

Have you got your essay writing on for the requests you have to write out? :p

Comment by sammy T on April 4, 2011 at 17:05

sounds rad

Comment by Aidan Heijnen on April 4, 2011 at 17:00

"Aidan,

 

I have received your request to hold a long boarding race day on Mt Gravatt Mountain.

 

Prior to the QPS considering your request the following would need to be addressed:

• Authority from the owner of the road to have it closed;
• Name of the organisation operating the race;
• The logistics of the event including safety & staffing, parking etc;
• Parking and spectator arrangements for event;
• Impact on local community and their involvement;

 

 

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions

 

Thanks"

 

this is the email i got from the police.

and to Tim, we'll only be able to close it to where the gate is at the bottom, radios are obvious but i think it should be the riders choice on what they ware. 

Premium Member Comment by Skittles on April 4, 2011 at 12:55

A couple of things (not meaning to take over this or anything)

Get the road closed all the way down until gosford street enters it.

Make it full face + pads only, leathers advised

Haybales, don't really want to hit a rock wall or metal guard rail

Race from the first hairpin as mack said before.

and for the love of god, get radios to contact from the bottom to the top, plus spare batteries, I have two that may work...

 

I hope this all works out, keen as anything to get it happening!

Comment by Michael English on April 3, 2011 at 23:13

skateboarding is rad so i'll come

Premium Member Comment by JamieGwillim on April 3, 2011 at 20:57

Cover your ass and get the riders to cover theirs.

Comment by Jack on April 3, 2011 at 20:45

People are free to choose whether or not they want to suit up, unless it's specified as a leathers only race. Ideally they would go up and assess whether or not they want to be racing on the hill without them.

Premium Member Comment by JamieGwillim on April 3, 2011 at 20:38

we racin or what?

Comment by Jack on April 3, 2011 at 20:27

@at all the groms asking for speeds and shit: for you, it's fast. And you absolutely NEED to be able to shut down slide comfortably as there is no run off for this hill. That being said, you probably don't need leathers but it's rougher than hillclimb in some of the corners and a fall there could result in some gnarly road rash.

This is actually not a hard hill, if you can slide it out you're sweet

Comment by tom Crane on April 3, 2011 at 20:25

dude, get in contact with someone from brisbane who has organized an event before, a bit of experience could help make this thing real

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