Yep, we built a half pipe, we are calling it the Kenton Circus ( secret location ) Its 4ft high, 10ft wide, with a 10ft flat bottom and the transition has a 7.5ft radius for a nice mellow transition but tall enough to make it interesting. As we live in Portland, we also had to devise a cover so we can skate in the rain, so made a pop-up tent that actually works really good out of PVC, the existing decks of the ramp and big ass tarps until we can build a permanent structure. I was gona do a time laps video of us building it but I forget so you will have to do with the images to give you an idea of how we built it.
Portland Oregon (and its surrounding areas) is surprisingly a great skateboarding town, PDX “is the first city in the world to have a comprehensive master plan for skateboard park development. SPS conceived of and advocated for a Skatepark System Plan in 2001. It was adopted by Portland Parks & Recreation's skatepark advisory committee and carefully applied to existing park sites over a 24-month planning and public input period, and ultimately supported and passed by Portland’s five elected officials, its city council on August 3, 2005” 1 City council supported and passed a plan for the creation of 19 parks in Aug 2005, But since then more have been supported and built in Portland and the surrounding metro areas. I have found over 100+ parks within 200 miles of Downtown Portland OR, where the majority of them are located, the furthest South West being in Reedsport OR, furthest North in Brier WA, And the furthest East in Ellensburg WA. A few of them are indoors private pay to s
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