Good Grom Friendly Dh Spots in Brissy

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Permalink Reply by Jordannn on April 26, 2011 at 20:32

Tim

Its fucking nuts, i was doing it today got honked at by numerous p platers.

Worst timing :(

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Permalink Reply by Linus Marsh on April 26, 2011 at 20:43

^nice

do you guys ever get honked when your like skating pretty much on the gutter?

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Skittles on April 26, 2011 at 21:45

Yeah, I left the gutter method behind after too many near misses and idiots coming as close as they can to scare me.

 

I have had people try and punch me off my bike and drive directly at me on the wrong side of the road.  Just a couple of things to watch for.

 

If you are skating a busy hill, learn the traffic patterns and if you can't go as fast or faster than the posted speed limit, it's probably not that great an idea.  Also, if you are going fast, take the middle of the lane.  Don't care what the cars behind you think, it's your life that might be on the line if they do something stupid, don't let them have the chance.  Both for bike and skateboards.

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Permalink Reply by Davin Gemmell on April 27, 2011 at 0:19

Tom,

Plenty of long technical areas on southside.  Try suburbs like eight mile plains, rochedale south, springwood, seven hills, daisy hill. Mt cotton, yatala, pimpama, waterford west.  You have to be prepared to drive around and do the hard yards to be rewarded.  It also generally the only way you're going to find out what the road surface and traffic levels will be like.

Tom Cotter said:

Nah im on south side :/ Already been to g5 quite a bit and is kinda getting boring

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Skittles on April 27, 2011 at 15:48

Where abouts roughly in Springwood?  Haven't managed to get out that way yet

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Permalink Reply by Tom on April 27, 2011 at 17:15

mm sounds good, any particular streets that you know of or just good areas to have a look around?

Davin Gemmell said:

Tom,

Plenty of long technical areas on southside.  Try suburbs like eight mile plains, rochedale south, springwood, seven hills, daisy hill. Mt cotton, yatala, pimpama, waterford west.  You have to be prepared to drive around and do the hard yards to be rewarded.  It also generally the only way you're going to find out what the road surface and traffic levels will be like.

Tom Cotter said:

Nah im on south side :/ Already been to g5 quite a bit and is kinda getting boring

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Permalink Reply by Davin Gemmell on April 28, 2011 at 13:56

I'll post up some street names and their suburbs tonight during my break at work. Suburbs like eight mile plains, rochedale south, daisy hill, springwood, seven hills have no rail access in the area so if you're unlicensed then you'll need to beg for a lift or endure the painfull process of the public bus network.

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Arbi on April 30, 2011 at 11:04

Southsde rules ya fools... hitting up g5 lazy in about 20

 

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Permalink Reply by Jordannn on April 30, 2011 at 20:35

Any runs in ashgrove/the gap?

Like long ones.

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Skittles on April 30, 2011 at 20:42

Just this one, but I wouldn't call it a 'Grom Spot'.  Not really that long, but fast and sweet.

Coopers Camp Road.

 

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?gl=au&sll=-27.445556,152.99205&a...

 

Gets hairy if you don't know what you are doing...

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Permalink Reply by Jordannn on April 30, 2011 at 20:51

Tim thats like a main road isnt it haha.

I was talking about side streets sort of thing.. Woonga drive is getting boring.

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Skittles on April 30, 2011 at 20:54

That's why is isn't a grom spot :p

You can time it with the lights and get enough speed to out run the cars anyway.  Just need to be sure you can take the right hander and the speed right at the bottom!

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