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 For its new 2010 freeride skates, the NRK and the NRK Road, Fila reused a whole bunch of features from existing skates, but introduced one never seen before on freeride skates : Low Profile frames which fit 80mm wheels but have a height of 35mm vs. the usual 40mm. This is a feature Fila is [...]  Here is the result from the Hyb-Ride Custom dont vous êtes le héros topic : a Rossignol Descender with Seba Downhill frames. Definitely more than one downhill skater’s dream skate, but nearly impossible to assemble nowadays since Rossignol stopped producing the Descender around 2002. No modifications were necessary to achieve the frame centring seen on the [...]  I just love customizing skates, and I’m always thrilled when new high-end after-market parts get released. So when I saw the upcoming Seba Balance liners in the Seba catalogue earlier this year, my reaction was unsurprisingly “I want those!“. They just got released, I just got a pair, so I’ll share my impressions. First off, I [...]  Fila has officially entered the freeride skates segment this year with its NRK line. As a side note, I’m curious as to what NRK stands for, as I have no idea, unlike FSK which is an abbreviation of Freeskate. Maybe just brands wanting to sound hype. We’ll know once people are no longer able to [...]  I’ve just started testing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta, and I was really happy to see that the Minimal installation option is back at last. I know it’s always been possible to achieve something similar with RHEL5 and kickstart, or even something close enough by choosing to not install anything except the Base [...]  This is my first custom skate based on a Tecnica Crosstech. The only original parts I’ve kept are the shells and its buckles. The changes were straightforward, with the most tricky part being the frame mount spacing change from 188mm to the more standard 165mm. The photos detail all of the important tricks used during the [...]  I just got my first Apple iPod. Yes, me with an iPod. Don’t ask. It’s the latest Nano, the 5th generation, available since late 2009. It’s tiny, yet it packs 8GB of flash memory, a camera (for video only, not photo…), a microphone, an accelerometer, a relatively big screen, a radio… even a speaker. I really [...]  When fixing or customizing skates, a very common problem is having to deal with riveted parts. Rivets are cheaper than screws, and are a lot less likely to loosen up with vibrations, which is probably why most skates have some (most) parts riveted. If I had anything to say, everything would be only bolts and [...]  This is a hard shell skate from 1997 (guessing from the 1996 manufacturing year of the plastic shell), which is known to be a very good base for customisation. Here are some useful pictures of the skate’s parts, taken while disassembling this pair of Tecnica CT-1 size 10/29.0 (which should be 10 UK and 29.0 [...] 
Custom Seba FR1 Downhill Downhill is a niche segment in the inline skate industry, making it often hard to find good equipment, so it’s with great pleasure that we’ve welcomed the new Seba 995 aka Downhill frames. Here’s a slightly customised Seba FR1 skate with these frames. Detail :
 The Rollerblade Twister Plus is still by far my favourite skate, especially when it comes to customization. Yes, I already wrote that in my last entry… it’s just not likely to change any time soon. Here’s a couple of simple variations on the same base. The common part is a Rollerblade Twister Plus (2004) size 28.0 [...]  The Rollerblade Twister Plus is still by far my favourite skate, especially when it comes to customization. Here is a simple variation I’ve made, where the accent is on both aesthetics and details. The base is one of my Rollerblade Twister Plus (2004) in size 28.0 MP (43 EU, 10 US). At this size, the front [...]  I’m proud to introduce www.wikinline.net : Worldwide Information and Knowledge of Inline skates. A collaborative reference of inline skates focused on technical details. Something I had in mind for a very long time.  I was having problems with my home DSL gateway device a few months ago. It was an old-ish Netgear device which had been running fine for years. Since it supported only wireless A/B/G, I decided it was a good time to replace it for a wireless (draft) N compatible device as my latest laptop supported [...]  I’ve just wasted a couple of hours trying to get a FreeNX server working, but just kept getting this error : Cannot establish any listening sockets – Make sure an X server isn’t already running Not very explicit, not very useful, and searching returns many results about people having the same problem. The solution is simple, though [...]  It breaks my heart to see great old skates being thrown away. This is what was about to happen to these Roces LAX (Los Angeles) skates when their owner decided to buy new ones in September 2009. Because of their above-average potential, and also because they were my size, I just couldn’t let that happen [...]  Most GNU/Linux distributions include the proper mime types to be handled by Xine when it is installed, but not for DVD Video ISO images on disk. But it’s really easy to add. If the DVD button in Xine work for real Video DVDs, then just create the /usr/share/applications/xine-open-iso.desktop file with the following content, and you’ll now [...]  Here are some instructions on how to configure a computer using Fedora for image or video slideshows. The idea is to have the computer automatically run some fullscreen application on boot, which is typically what is wanted on public displays in fairs, hallways, stores etc, all this without running any window manager. To achieve this in [...]  The bazaar documentation is quite extensive, but not when it comes to setting up an ssh server. The solution for allowing bzr+ssh access to a server without a full shell access is nowhere to be found. But it’s actually quite simple… Just make sure the ~bzruser/.ssh/authorized_keys entries are as follows : command=”bzr serve –inet –directory=/home/bzruser –allow-writes”,no-port-forwarding,no-pty,no-agent-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding ssh-dss [...]  I just received the Sennheiser PXC 450 headphones I ordered online. One morning in the office, I just couldn’t stand the ambient noise of all the co-workers and decided it would be worth trying. It’s a brand new office with some serious acoustic defects if you ask me. They should be sorted out eventually, but for [...] |
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