Wednesday Woe (Oct 28)
ryanherron
- October 28 2009
- 54 comments
Looks like the District of Columbia is trying to kibosh the famous Gold Rail for good. Here’s a nice montage of the slams and hammers that have seen their day on the legendary rail. If skaters can get the cement monsters off Hubba Hideout, surely the DC skaters will work something out.
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washington dc’s gold rail knobbed for good with knobs welded to the rail. two decades of skating comes to an end. it was all started by mike carroll’s back lip back in the day
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October 26th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
=(
October 27th, 2009 at 7:44 am
0:14 is the worst fall!! You can hear his head smack the ground!
October 27th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
holy shit!!! RIP we'll miss you
October 28th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Whats the song!
October 28th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
i think the guy at 0:14 actually died from that fall
October 28th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
No Jackson Curtin? That dude nollie nosegrinded the rail. I think he may have even nollie heel noseslid it.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
ya dan mele killing it shouts out from nyc
October 28th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
curtin also switch front blunt?
October 28th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
its gotten kknobbed before
October 28th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
take them knobs off
October 28th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
wow really?
October 28th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
its just a rail!
October 28th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Its from Arcade Fire, not sure the name of the song though.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Cole also fakie front boarded it and Erich Bielefeldt did kf front nose. Mike butler either ate shit trying or landed 180 ng on the wall rail back in the day. Eric Johnson did front and back willie. Way more has been done but mostly in local videos. They knobbed it a few years back but I think they may have been screwed in not welded. DC boys know whats up with some dirt. I'm sure it'll be back alive and kickin soon.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
fuckk, im goin on a skate trip next wed. now theres gonna be no gold rail.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Not the exact title but "Black Wave" by Arcade Fire will find you the song.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Nooope. I'm friends with him. He's definitely still alive.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
yeah, dan mele. cool guy. he cracked his head and had to go to the hospital, but i've chilled with him since.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
MOCO!
October 28th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
tht sucks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andb_photography/
October 28th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
October 28th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Check out The Finest Skateshop video #2 cause ull see Dan Mele having the last trick on it.
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/finestskateshop2
October 28th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
wheres casey rigneys switch back noseblunt
October 29th, 2009 at 1:03 am
u cand dumb ass they are welded on
October 29th, 2009 at 1:04 am
damn sun i live in dc and that shit was tight its right next to freedom plaza
October 29th, 2009 at 1:27 am
casey rigney is regular….he just did a back noseblunt. and though thats still sick, switch back noseblunt would have been insane.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:39 am
i dont think casey rigneys back noseblunt was switch
October 29th, 2009 at 2:16 am
All the famous spots are diying, walenburg, carlsbad gad, china town ledge, pretty soon all the famous spots are gone!
October 29th, 2009 at 2:17 am
dobstaff skated it in "subject to change"
October 29th, 2009 at 2:43 am
well some pretty crazy shyt went down there fool. its legendary
October 29th, 2009 at 4:47 am
All you gotta do is get a senior citizen to say the knobs hurt them in some way. and they'll take them off out of fear of a lawsuit. And Bam Rail has come back to life.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Dan Mele is out here in florida now…
slam 14 geez he knocked some screws loose. still good as it gets though!
October 29th, 2009 at 5:47 am
poor video , and how about mike carroll
October 29th, 2009 at 7:04 am
that head slam was endersly loud and the tail 270 was flawlessly unreal
October 29th, 2009 at 7:35 am
With every spot that leaves us another one pops up. That's the beauty of developed countries.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Where's Carroll's back-lip? Nice rail and a lovely montage. I have to give major props to the kickflip noseslide and flip crooks. That's one hell of a big round rail and you can imagine your board just dying to slip out from under your feet.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
haha yea dan, killin it, got the gnar slam and ender!
October 29th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
big props to dan, i have some footy of that kid, grew up skatin with him. well deserving of the ender!! the only thing i woulda added in there, is jack curtains nollie heel noseslide. also kier johnson f-s 180 nosegrind. r.i.p. gold, i never skated it but i did do a nice amount of filming there..also i dont think i saw ropers flip back lip
October 29th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
ummm you realize this has been happening for over 20 years now?
October 29th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
its fucking gold. it aint just any rail.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
its an east coast rail fuck you sayin
October 29th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
jeez it was just a matter of time, im surprised it lasted this long
October 29th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
this rail was knobbed before but they took them off dumbass
October 29th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
damn your right
October 30th, 2009 at 2:07 am
still doable
October 30th, 2009 at 2:46 am
jesus tap dancing christ bobby worrest destroyed that rail.
October 30th, 2009 at 3:06 am
its been knobbed before but the difference was the old knobs were plastic and came off with an alan wrench these new ones are metal and welded on last sesh to go down happened last friday i filmed it but nothing got landed
October 30th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
i got a knob from gold in my room
October 31st, 2009 at 8:14 pm
FUCK SKATE STOPPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
assholes.
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:25 am
"it duj A Ra". Sure. Sure it is.
November 8th, 2009 at 1:21 am
awwww:(
December 13th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
thats a good fuckin idea