what ones best? old fashioned type or newer plastic type?


my mam bought my nephew a fookin ace one off ebay... looks very hi-tech, cant wait to try it!!!

any sledging stories/injuries?

i fractured my coccyx (sp) after one suddenly stopped dead and i landed on my arse

the pain came every few months for a week, lasted years!!!

 

old wooden ones with metal runners are well quick!

 

We have a good hill near my mums place and we got bored of just sledging down it so we made a ramp at the bottom.

A trip to casualty and a broken arm later for my mate who had first go meant the rest of us thought maybe it wasn't such a cool idea after all

 

Old car bonnet!

 

We used to use half a 45 gallon plastic barrel or a roadsign - whatever we could find really

 

i have an old bonnet spare

 

we used to use big plastic bin liners as long as the bit your going down is smooth and jesus you go flying

 

untill you slide into that tree stump thats snowed over and end up legs akimbo with a severe pain in your never regions

 

The kids round here nick the plastic recycle box's lids from peoples driveways and use them.

 

True, but if you know the bit your sledging on then its fine, unless you go off course!

 

very true, we had a fiesta bonnet, dont know where it came from but it was scary when we had a few of us on it! awesome fun!

 

"Team Sledging - vehicle of choice, an old Beantin bonnet with the vents acting as snow brakes"

 

We have got one of those big orange strechers that they use to airlift people off montains etc doubles up as a quality sledge it can fit 5 people if you all sit up its great fun car bonnets also make ace sledges

 

Only one sledge to buy if you wanna look cakey on da slopes

I present the Porsche Sledge

http://shop12.porsche.com/uk/product...8964E745B4D9E1

 

I've got one my dad welded out of tubular steel about 20 years ago like that porsche one only wider and coast about Ł3.

Lie face down and steer by pressing feet into the ground.

There are some mental tracks close to where I live and i'd say conservatively 40mph plus

I went clean through a holly tree on it when i was about 12.......my fookin face wasnt pretty.......altho it isnt much better now

 

my mate got an old crate, a pair of old skis and bodged one together! was fucking rapid lol

Dunc

 

Beer Tray

 

pmsl! how crampt was that! i want pics if u do it again lmao

Dunc

 

i rember that night it was class and the car bonnet and the ramp we made lol

 

for sale sign boards work pretty well