Snowboard rail...

WakeBoardingManiac · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 914 City: Montréal

Anybody has kindof an outline for a snowboard rail? I'd want one that I can move cuz I'd place it on mi frozen river and move it away before it melts.... If anyone has ideas, answer here!

Thanks in advance to anyone who has ideas!

w$r az style · Soul Rider Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 384 City: Arizona

just use a skate rail

WakeBoardingManiac · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 914 City: Montréal

Maybe you could be less precise? Not everyone in the world skateboards you know...

WRRide · Posted: Feb 26, 2003 10:32 am Post subject:

Use a piece of 2in PVC screwed to a 2X4 and make some t shaped feet fot it- as high as you fee comfortable. You could replace the PVC piping with flat sheet plastic- but that could be hard to come by. I would not put it on Ice though. If you fall it will hurt like hell. If you can weld you can do the same thing using either round or square metal tubing.

WakeBoardingManiac · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 914 City: Montréal

Lol don't worry, its not on plain ice, its got at least 40 cm of snow over it!

WRRide · Posted: Feb 27, 2003 11:09 am Post subject:

Man I was thinking- bouncing off of a rail alone hurts enough let alone onto ice after that- good thing you get lots of snow!!!!!

WakeBoardingManiac · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 914 City: Montréal

Lol the worst fall i had on a rail was on a kink rail... I had it all the way, but i Bubb Rubb in the landing and landed on the right part of my butt... There was about 2 milimeters of snow cuz it was the end of the day and the mountain had been packed... I couldn't sleep on my back for 2 days... Laughing

numbfoot · Posted: Jun 05, 2003 3:38 pm Post subject:

i'd just use a pvc rail.

wakeboarder · Addict Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 702

i would make the rail wider than 1 2inch PVC pipe. more like 2-3 2inch pipes

bmm · Posted: Jun 08, 2003 11:54 am Post subject:

is it just me or does anyone else think pvc is a bad idea for snowboarding?
won't the edge cut right into it on a boarslide?

bmm · Posted: Jun 08, 2003 11:54 am Post subject:

is it just me or does anyone else think pvc is a bad idea for snowboarding?
won't the edge cut right into it on a boarslide?

WIDE-A-WAKE · Soul Rider Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 370 City: Otis

Yeah, i dont think metal edges meeting pvc pipe would work out very well, maybe you should go with metal pipes.

WakeBoardingManiac · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 914 City: Montréal

ummm thats a good point... neer did really think about this....

cndwakerider · Newbie Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 21

my first snowboard rail was a 6" pvc pipe it worked great the edges never dug in and i jumped 5 ft on to it. but now i have a welder so i make them out of metal.

numbfoot · Posted: Jul 12, 2003 1:28 pm Post subject:

here's what i did, i made it for skating and it was 8 ft. long, but then i was using it for snowboarding and it works ok. just really short though. so make yours long.

numbfoot · Posted: Jul 12, 2003 1:32 pm Post subject:

here's what i did, i made it for skating and it was 8 ft. long, but then i was using it for snowboarding and it works ok. just really short though. so make yours long.

numbfoot · Posted: Jul 12, 2003 1:34 pm Post subject:

i forgot to say to put the plywood supports on the ends. if u want it higher just put it between 2 picnick tables or something. the rail is really stable too. i might make a new one soon. it won't cost you much at all to make either. very portable. i learned fs and bs boardslides on it, and i learned 50-50's and learned them switch.

Tyler T · Posted: Jul 12, 2003 6:32 pm Post subject:

um....you ollied 5 ft. onto a rail?

wkbrdr · Posted: Jul 13, 2003 5:15 pm Post subject:

steal a rail from one of thos things that hold shopping carts in a parking lot, Thats what we did,

Elevation · Posted: Jul 16, 2003 1:56 pm Post subject:

who wants to bother building rails when you can roam around outside find the reel thing. Why dont you go jib some big ole 20 set handrails

needmoney4weed · Criminal Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 84 City: NY

You guys def shouldnt use pvc, they kinda flex on the grind, even if u put mid way supporter you will feel it. You can drill galvanized screws threw steel pipe with a hi powered drill, so think about that.

Also, i was thinkin about walking away from the mountain with those rails they have lying around. Would they arrest you or kick you out if you tried that?

Webstertitan · Newbie Joined: 22 Aug 2003 Posts: 3 City: Fuh

Yo the pvc is al gucci untill it starts to crack the make up of it w/e get all Bubb Rubb up in the cold and it cracks an d breaks madd ez