Skate board ramps for bashing?
 

I've been toying with the idea of buying several of those plastic skateboard ramps.
There are these for 8 bucks each: http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1...9110000P?mv=rr
Or these at K-Mart: http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_1...8110001P?mv=rr

Anyone use them? Do they hold in place fairly well? Is the one from sears good for backyard racing, or is it more of a trick jump thing? I'm more inclined to grab the style that K-mart has.

i think the sears one will give you more height as the k mart one is just an incline then drop. I have used the tiny hot wheels orange ramps before and they work great. If you find it to slide on the cement just put something in front to hold it. In the grass i never had a problem though.

I use this one and it does pretty well for me. Without putting anything under it, I get not much height, but plenty of distance.

For the price just try it. If you don't like it, just give it to one of the neighbor kids for their bikes. :-)

Both of those are too small for anything but 1/18th vehicles. You need something wider, like this: http://www.toysrus.com/product/index...ductId=1313336

That was one of my concerns - being able to hit the damn thing.

I was actually thinking of the opposite - stealing them from the kids!!!:lol:

jsut build your own out of wood it will be heavier but much nicer and you can make it whatever size and however steep you want it.

I had started in that direction. But I need something lightweight and preferrably stackable. We go camping a lot, and I need to keep the weight down in the truck if I can. And for the previous reason, and for storage at home, I'd like something stackable to keep its footprint down.

1 sheet of plywood cut into 4 pieces 2'x4' a few hinges, a few bungee cords,and a couple 2x4s will solve ur problem. Use 3/8" plywood to keep the weight down. Hinge 2x4s so that you can fold them to the top side of the ramp and they would store pretty flat, then fold the legs out for use and hold them together with a bungee

stackable? how many do you have to have? you dont have to build it very heavy out of wood and you can make it where is lays almost flat with removable legs. ill look for the pictures of the one i built.

I think I'd like to end up with about 4 or 5 of them. I was thinking it would be neat to use them to make a track wherever we are bashing at.

wow any ways if you still give the wood idea another thought i cant find a picture on my laptop might be one of my desktop but i drew a quick little picture showing you how its built.

you can make it 2 feet or 4 feet wide what ever you have room for or feel comfortable hitting with the MTs (mine was 4 feet wide)

here is what youd need (about 20-25 bucks and an hour to build it)
(1) 2x8x8'
(1) 2x4x8'
(1) 2x4x12'
(1) 4'x4' 1/4" piece of plywood (i used 3/8 but itd be lighter using 1/4)
(4) 1/2" bolts 4" long
(4) 1/2"wing nuts
(8) 1/2" flat washers

you can see in the picture that you cut the radius into half the 2x8 for each side, and use the 2x4's as joist with the left over 4' piece of the 12' board going to the Legs that are bolted on with the 1/2 bolts and wing nuts.

if you only wanted it 2 feet wide just leave out the 2x4x8' and youll only need a 2'x4' piece of plywood.

:yes: very fun ramp , i need to build another i ran over mine with my F250 on accident about 6 months ago and it ripped the screws out of one of the radius' and broke one back leg.

Wow, you got lucky - could've done serious damage to that Ford!!!:intello:

I am now subscribed. I forsee a great build toming along!

EASY now! your not the only one with work done to your truck, youve got me on hp but i got slight hair on you in Tq......lol that Banks intercooler kit allowed me double my turbo psi which really went nicely with everything else that Bryan's Truckshop did. I got about 28k miles since the rebuild (and buildup) at 231K miles. i wouldnt trade it for any new gas burner!

ATLeast we both have REAL trucks right...

you could make your own? thats what i did... turned out really well

Wouldn't trade it for a Dodge either right? My truck might not be a heavy weight oil burner but I have seen one put up against built up diesels in a truck pull in the street class, it held it's own considering it was bone stock going up against better tires, big turbos, and all kinds of other goodies. By the way, I drive an '04 F-150 w/ 5.4L that I got after trading in my Dodge

Exactly!!! I might have to go do another dyno run though. I'm now double stacked with with a Smarty programmer and a Quadzilla X2. On paper it should top 500/900 (but thats assuming some of the programming doesnt duplicate effort, which they do on some parameters). But I'm fairly certain I'd send tranny parts into the next county if I cranked them both up. Adding the second box really made the truck smooth, and cut down on the black smoke. I was really getting self conscious about fogging out every intersection even going easy on it.

Back on topic - you showed a curved ramp. Is that really better given what I'd like to do? Seems to me that if we were setting up ramps as jumps on a makeshift course, having ramps that induce back flips would be quite distracting!

I think I'm going to stop at Sears tomorrow and buy a couple of those. Maybe I can figure out how to join them side by side to make some thing this old guy can hit. Might be able to take a third one - and cut off the sides to use to join them together (use a couple zip ties through some holes in them).

the curve on my ramp is very mellow, you can do flips but it doesnt induce them just let off as soon as your airbrone and itll fly level. a flat ramp is no fun... and ramp like your thinking with alot of cuvre is not much good for other than tricks, that ramp is inbetween.

as for joining the the plastic ramps, cut one of the sides bottom lips off and then set it on top of ther others lip and the sides will be touching just drill a couple holes and use bolts with wing nuts. and with the sides touching you wont have that gap youd have just setting them beside each other. you wont need a 3rd one to join them.


last bit of off topic, we made 3 runs with my truck, got 390s hp an 840s tq im more than happy with it, and with the transmission they built for it will smoke the tires through 1st, 2nd, and then bark them in 3rd. and mine doesnt black smoke hardly ever, black smoke is wasted fuel....and like you said its not very appealing at intersections.

The Ten Eighty is nice but you really need 2 side by side. At 35 to 40 it's a small target unless a crazy spiral followed by a long cartwheel is what you are after. They stack well also.

I went a skate board shop and got two of these. I take them to the So-Cal bashes and guys do flips of them all the time, they are $28 each (I think) they work GREAT!.. Jnev has two of these too.

The measurements of the ramp are (24”w x 44”l x 12” high)



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Well that is what we ended up with so far. And yes, we had to put them side by side, which worked out ok. Looks like we need to buy a couple more though. These are of my brother in laws emaxx after I broke my Revo, and got bored with the stock emaxx. He's running a Novak 4.5 with zippy 4s.

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And he landed on his ass a few too many times.
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I need a ramp, but carrying it to and from the bash site is a problem; rucksack on back, truck under one arm, ramp under the other... I think not....

You need a little red wagon!
http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.c...r_2030_6430986