Texas Longboarder

Gravity’s Shane Hidalgo. Cool video.

Another good short vid from Gravity, with the boys ripping up some ditches.

A very cool little promo video from Gravity for their Blazer wheels. These wheels appear to be slightly taller versions of the Gravity Burners, which are great wheels for sure.

Here’s a quick pic of me skating a ditch…photo by my friend, the great Dan Wilkes!

Went out last night for a quick downhill session. Rode the Gravity Kalai and the always reliable Gravity Minicarve. I often daydream about going out on a normal street board and practicing some ollies and whatnot, but always decide that it is more fun to just go skate the hill.

My friend Ronnie runs DIEHARD Skatezine. I got some stickers. Now my FSM is more fit to ride.

If you haven’t seen this, you need to. Intense.

Went out to the hill today and it was nice and windy. Topped out at upper 20s. Fun riding.

Downhill from Bob Loftin on Vimeo.

I took a few hill runs today. Really nice wind. Counted seconds between a couple of street lights on the way down going fast, then a couple of runs in the car to get the speed between them — faster than 25mph — probably but less than 30. Best guess, conservatively, is 27mph. With a stronger wind 30 – 32 is for sure possible.

Took a couple of runs on the Gravity Kalai, and it handled really well at that speed. No problems at all. Took the other other funs (total of 7) on the Comet Pagan. Both were read. Really different, but rad.