Hi, English speaking Skike and cross skating fans

[thefewfew26]

Hi, if you have any questions or comments please post in this area.

[Frank Röder]

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[Frank Röder]

Hello skikers from Finland,

we know, that, there are some skikers in Finland. Please report your experiences, your tipps and your ideas here in this forum.

Thanx and best geetings to finland!
Frank

[daguilarh]

One more non-German-speaking skiker greets you all from the Basque Countyry, Northern Spain. I was thinking myself about posting an English Skike Forum when I found this thread. I hope skike users all over the world find here a good place gor interchaging knowledge, experiences, trails and routes, ...
KI will do my best.
And thenks to the administraor for open ing this English area. I suppose that it should be a donkey-work, but it should be useful if some of the forum users can make a short translation of the items that appear in the forum. I don't speak german, but I can try using some automatic translator and re-writing that awful translations (It can be done with a little imagination ) I will try to post here any information I find in Spain, but here a skiker is stranger than a Jupiterian.
Thanks and greetings!

[nacholegaz]

Hi there,

Hello from Southern Spain, I just got into Skiking and I am getting really addicted, even though as daguilar said: skiking in Spain is being an alien.

Hopefully I get some friends to start skiking with me....I'll let you know.

By the way, I have a question...have you ever tried to put ABEC 7 or faster bearings in the SKIKES?

I come from in line skating and I feel really slow when skiking, I was wondering that implementing a faster bearing on my wheels would make skiking easier to ride, I have to push quite a bit since my weight is 100kg or so.

Is there any tecnical disadvantage in doing that?

Danke schon for your support.

COngratulations for the english Forum, using Google translator is OK, but some decisive info get lost often.

Bis spater

[Frank Röder]

It seems, that the spanish skiker-community is growing very fast. Isn't it?

Frank

[raindancer]

Hi nacholegaz,

concerning speed: Have you taken care of the air pressure in your tires? The impact on the speed you can reach is really amazing. You should use a good pump with a display of the pressure. 7 bar is what you can use for skiking on roads. Maybe this helps.
But you will never make skikes as fast as inliners. The reason is that the resistance is much higher because of the air-rubber-wheels instead of hard plastic wheels. The advantages of the wheels are obvious, however. Have you ever tried in-line skating on a wet or gravel road?

Enjoy skiking!
Sigrid