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Title: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: hotdog on April 09, 2011, 08:48 AM
Found a few photos of the bowl we built at Bones skatepark,Stockport back in the late nineties. Bit of a big undertaking at the time,shallow end to deep end with hips - all out of  wood. To give you an idea,it took 9 weeks to build the bowl compared to just 6 weeks to build the rest of the skatepark.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/oo34/snapbacknarler/DSC_0182.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/oo34/snapbacknarler/DSC_0183.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/oo34/snapbacknarler/DSC_0184.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/oo34/snapbacknarler/DSC_0185.jpg)
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: bobafett on April 09, 2011, 01:02 PM

Cool pics  8)


Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: Hootski70 on April 09, 2011, 06:37 PM
Now that is some fine work there .
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: Peter J on April 09, 2011, 06:47 PM
Would have loved to have a wobble in that  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: Robbo on April 09, 2011, 06:53 PM
That takes a lot of skill, respect.  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: Betty on April 09, 2011, 07:35 PM
Would have loved to have a wobble in that  :daumenhoch:

You can Peter, its still there....  :daumenhoch:

Great pics btw didn't know it was that old
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: Peter J on April 09, 2011, 07:42 PM
Thought Bones had shut  :-\

But then i thought the tooth fairy was still real  >:D
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: Betty on April 09, 2011, 07:45 PM
Thought Bones had shut  :-\

But then i thought the tooth fairy was still real  >:D

Its called uk skate now, its closing next year (i think) they're moving premises

We'll have to have a lock in there before it closes...  :daumenhoch:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m48/markw33/bowlgood90_bigger.jpg)

Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: bof on April 09, 2011, 08:08 PM
Didnt Dave arnold buid the bowl at bones ?
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: hotdog on April 09, 2011, 08:35 PM
Not on his own ;)
Me,Dave and Ian Barwick.
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: Dark Diggler on April 09, 2011, 08:39 PM
Didnt Dave arnold buid the bowl at bones ?

Was that inbetween writing bond theme's  ???
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: Peter J on April 09, 2011, 08:40 PM
That sounds like a very good plan young Mr Betty  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: Redline on April 09, 2011, 09:09 PM
Great great pics man  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: hotdog on April 09, 2011, 09:12 PM
A scanner wouldn't go amiss ::)
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: dordymush on April 10, 2011, 09:43 PM
gotta be one of the best parks i ever went to.
we used to be in there every week.
now that was a proper bowl  8)
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: scott250 on April 10, 2011, 11:40 PM
Yer, I've riden that bowl, had a great oldschool feel to it, real nice to ride - I managed to do a good footplant off the ledge out the topend too up the wall.
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: griff on April 11, 2011, 01:09 AM
love the pics  :daumenhoch:

that bowl looks massive too, bet I'd never get out of that fooker  ;D
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: scott250 on April 11, 2011, 09:39 AM
love the pics  :daumenhoch:

that bowl looks massive too, bet I'd never get out of that fooker  ;D

The bowl at Boro is hard to get out of ;D - the big side feels like its going over vert at the top, the bones one is just right, not as mad as it looks.
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: Spen69 on April 11, 2011, 09:56 AM
I never rode in there when it was Bones, but can we ride bikes in there still and can it be hired out if it's called "skate" now ???

It's only in Stockport which I can do in less than an hour over the hills..... >:D
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: Mattdub on April 11, 2011, 12:06 PM

Cool pics hotdog  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: crazycraig on April 11, 2011, 12:09 PM
And here is Petequad showing you how its done in it

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c73/craigtheman/th_05052006013.jpg) (http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c73/craigtheman/?action=view&current=05052006013.mp4)
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: dordymush on April 11, 2011, 12:23 PM
Quote
that bowl looks massive too, bet I'd never get out of that fooker

lol its just like a proper concrete bowl griff.
not like that one in leicester.
straight in and back out again or your fooked lol.


i'd love another session in bones if poss.
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: griff on April 11, 2011, 12:54 PM
And here is Petequad showing you how its done in it

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c73/craigtheman/th_05052006013.jpg) (http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c73/craigtheman/?action=view&current=05052006013.mp4)
hmm with pete in it it doesn't look so big - hard to get an idea of scale sometimes from pics
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: scott250 on April 11, 2011, 10:02 PM
And here is Petequad showing you how its done in it

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c73/craigtheman/th_05052006013.jpg) (http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c73/craigtheman/?action=view&current=05052006013.mp4)
hmm with pete in it it doesn't look so big - hard to get an idea of scale sometimes from pics

thats the shallow end, the deep is about 5 foot deepish as i remember
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: dordymush on April 11, 2011, 11:42 PM
yeah that was just the roll in before you went into the bowl.
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: griff on April 11, 2011, 11:44 PM
that's ok then - at least I could get out by myself there  ;D
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: hunterdubber on April 12, 2011, 12:01 AM
It's deffo deeper than 5 feet ,,,,must be nearly 7 feet   :-\ I can't see out the top when I'm in the bottom  ::)

I hated the low metal roof braces there ,, fookin dangerous


I did like the half pipe that was awesome


didn't like the puddles though when we last hired it  :yahoo_silent:

must be 2 years ago at least now  :-\
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: hotdog on April 12, 2011, 12:18 AM
The shallow end is about 3 1/2 feet deep and the deep end stops short of vert at about 7-7 1/2 feet deep. 8 foot transitions in the deep end. :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on April 12, 2011, 07:01 AM


who the fooks that, cos it aint me, looks to northern, craig twin  ???
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: hunterdubber on April 12, 2011, 07:09 AM
The shallow end is about 3 1/2 feet deep and the deep end stops short of vert at about 7-7 1/2 feet deep. 8 foot transitions in the deep end. :daumenhoch:

I can see out of the shallow end ok , before any clever comments  ::) :P  :D
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: scott250 on April 12, 2011, 09:08 PM
Was ages ago, but it didnt feel like 7 foot, thats fair big - my 1/2 pipe is 6 foot and that feels big to me, haha.
Title: Re: Bowl building photos - Bones Skatepark
Post by: hotdog on April 13, 2011, 06:55 PM
A couple more shots.

Close-up of the hip section

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/oo34/snapbacknarler/CSC_0217.jpg)

The Vert ramp before surfacing

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/oo34/snapbacknarler/CSC_0219.jpg)

About a year after building Bones Stockport,we build Bones 2 in Bolton.
View across the midi,mini,micro ramps.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/oo34/snapbacknarler/CSC_0223.jpg)

Then we built a park in Manchester called The Pipeline.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/oo34/snapbacknarler/CSC_0225.jpg)
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