kickers

[phoenix71]

does anyone know how to make a good cheap kicker?

[Flip Boy]

yep get bricks and a thin strobg piece of wood
easily transportable

[flip sk8er]

we found the perfect kicker can e made out of a table we cut the legs off and used them as the stand for the ramp it was really strong and we solved the problem of the table edge being to high of the ground by using a for sale ign nail to the bottom of the table it creates the perfect transition from ground to kicker

[Bubba]

ya go to the local garbage dumps and dig through the wood piles and if u want u can suck up to the guy that works there to frab all the good wood for u!

WORKS FOR ME

[Bubba]

*grab

[Bubba]

i got a good haul yesterday from the dump i got some huge treated 2*4's its cool

[phoenix71]

kool iwill try it

[Mrock]

Whoa, whoa whoa. A kicker is curved...it is not just a picnic table leaning on one side. If you build a ramp that is straight all the way...that would be a shallow bank ramp. You can launch off one, but the best is always making a curved kicker...those suckers launch you and are easy to build! The best thing you can do for yourself, and your skateboarding - is to add some thin flat metal at the edge, so you can ride up it smoothly..instead of manualing onto it.

[Flip Boy]

actually i think u will find that both of them are kickers the name kicker is that of the ramp sort of kicking u up in the air so if it does that it is a kicker

[Mrock]

Maybe...but a short flat ramp does not 'kick' you into the air. If you get mega speed, hit a curved kicker, you WILL go higher, without even ollieing. If you go fast, and hit a banked kicker, you'll hit it, go up an inch maybe, and drop. Can't deny that, it's plain common knowledge. Whichever one you want to make is fine, but curved will definently launch more.

[phoenix71]

ok i will have a go at both "kickers" and tell u my opinion of them both...so far i have only done the totally flat one and i couldnt get much height off it(it was lower than my ollie off flat...what dus this mean?)so when i try the "launchin" kicker i will say which i think is better...l8r

[Mrock]

Even though phoenix doesn't think to highly of me..I agree. The straight one's are a lot lower. I'd definently make a curved one. My old one, I gave to a friend since I ran out of room...but I'll make a new one soon, and get full footage, and add it on the ramp plans of my site. (All I got right now is my step by step rail)

[mad man skate]

curved ramps are good but they are hard 2 makeright out of scraps.
and technichaly a kicker is any strait or curved ramp that has no box or other ramp touching it but u can have a "kicker gap" (which is like a simple box of 2 ramps and a platform with no box between them)

[Mrock]

lol....I used to think the same thing..kickers are hard to make out of just scraps. I spent 2 days working on one....and made a kicker out of scraps. It's rather nice...except for an error on my part, which was in the cutting of the frame. Money spent on supplies: $0...100% scrap. I just wish the actual ramp surface would have been longer. As for there not being a straight or curved: If the straight ramp launched you better (which doesn't at all)...don't you think companies would build more straight kickers (not connecting ramps- kickers). Either way...the curved version may be harder to make, and harder to use, but you'll get more air, which equals more fun!

[phoenix71]

when did i say i didnt tink 2 highly of u? ur one of the best on this site man!! if i offended u im sorry i just speak weird...lol

[phoenix71]

the curved ones betta

[mad man skate]

the curved ones are better and exactaly what m rock said just when building double check all meshurements.

[thrasher]

go to toys r us and go back to were the crappy mongoose bikes are. i saaw 2 different kinds of plastic kickers. they were 30$. my dad bought me 2 and they can connect to these tables. you can make a fun box.

[phoenix71]

plastic? wouldnt they break easy?

[thrasher]

no. the one i use is rated up to 250 pounds

[skate_boy]

dose it hard ?!
lunching of the curve one ?!

[thrasher]

the plastic kicker is good. i jumped my dirt bike off it and it didn't even flex. and if you get it wet you can power slide up and down it like no other.

[M_coley1]

hey...I made a kicker for like 20$ Im gunna get some pics soon

[sk8erpsycho]

allright Mrock, your my hero!!! lol, no need to offend you, but i thought that curved ramps were "launch" ramps, and a straight was a kicker, at least thats what everyone here calls them, you launch off launches, and kick off kickers, correct me if im wrong

[sk8erpsycho]

oh and you can just find a plain peice of playwood or normal wood, and a thicker peice of wood.... cut the thicker one diagonally so you haev two sorta triangles, nail the playwood or whatever into them, you might want to put a support peice of wood right through the middle......

Or if you are making a launch ramp (in my vocabulary) take a big peice of wood and get a skill-saw and cut it curved evenly to the angle you want it and make an identical peice for it too, take a paice of plywood and it should curve to the arc of your cut and nail it in <<be sure to curve it with the grain, meaning that the lines on the wood go side to side, not top to bottom, otherwise it won't bend>> and make a few support beams on the bottom.....

I have about 5 kickers and a launch, my launch is really close to being a quarter pipe but you still go off it not straight up, its psycho, i can indy off it :), and these all cost me...... 0$$$, i made it from scrap wood my dad has behind our shed

[Ramp]