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slippery rails

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WIfreeskier
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OK, i live in wisconsin, so there really are no parks around here with rails, so i am forced to build my own backyard rails. So yesterday, i drove 6 hours to go to Marquette, MI, and the first rail i tried, i completely fell on my ass. How do they make their rails so damn slippery smooth?
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Jackpot
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well, if a rail has a fresh coat of paint, or if it has never been slid, it will be fast on it's virgin slide

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22 years ago
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WIfreeskier
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yeah, but these weren't brand new, they looked pretty beat up but still slid damn fast.
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Lateralis
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when we first got our rails,the dude put tremclad on them and a year later they were just starting to be non sticky anymore



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22 years ago
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Baker
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Just use paint, a fresh coat of spray paint will make it super slippery.



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OReJow
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rails at the mt. have wax on them from everybody's bases who hit them.

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22 years ago
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K_2
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Yeah its probably a lot of was on the rail.
22 years ago
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Summit_punk
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Aren't slippery smooth rails good....so you can GREASE them?!?!?!?
22 years ago
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theBOSS.
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was your home rail on pvc? people say its faster than metal but they are wrong. I learned on my home pvc rail and the first time I tried metal its was slippery too. Just dedicate a whole day to learning good metal rails and you will have no problems after that
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bigairhuckster3
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dude...i live in wisconsin and there are tons of rails...you must not have looked to hard, we got rainbow, s-rail, c rail, kink, doulble kink, 40 footers, flat rails, single rails. ive never had a problem findin any




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22 years ago
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WIfreeskier
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/\ are you talkin about tyrol basin? i've never been there because i'm only 15 and none of my friends can drive either and my parents never wanna go. and by the way, whoever asked, my backyard rail is metal.
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theBOSS.
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Oh, then sand it down really good and give it a fresh coat of paint. Also the colder it is when you slide the faster it will go
22 years ago
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WIfreeskier
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WIfreeskier
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oops, wrong post.
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