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Skateboarding Stuff in Barnstaple, Devon*

Barnstaple, Devon Skateboard Shops, Skateparks, Skate Ramps, Waxed Curbs, Rails, Where to Buy Decks, Parts, Shoes

Skateboarding Spots

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• BARNSTAPLES GOTA STRONG SCENE GOIN ON LOADSA SKATERS EVERY WHERE, STREET SPOTS ARE SPACED OUT AND U GOTA DO A LOT OF WALKIN!!!!! THE STRAND:- ON THE RIVER FRONT SEEMS TO BE THE LOCAL MEETIN POINT ALWAYS A SKATER DOWN THERE ANY TIME OF THE DAY. THERES A BIG 2 SET GOT SUM COBBLE STONE AT THE TOP MAKES IT A CHALANGE.. OTHER THAN THAT JUST A COUPLE OF LEDGES ETC. N A LARGER SET OF STEPS . :-SRP SKATEPARK OVER POTTINGTON ESTATE INDOORS N A CHARGE 2 GET IN BUT HAS THE BEST MINI IN THE WORLD WELL WIDE STARTS AT 5FT GOES UP 2 8FT!!! WELL WORTH A CHECK. thE REST OF THE PARK IS VERY RAMP GOOD THO. ALSO HAS A GROM SECTION WITH LOADSA MINI LITTLE RAMPS EVERYWHERE THERES ALWAYS SOMEONE THERE KEEPIN N EYE ON THINGS SO EVERYONES SAFE............. :-THERES A NEW FREE OUTDOOR PAK ON THE WAY SHOULD BE OVERBY THE TARKA TENNIS CENTRE THINGS HAVE JUST STARTED MOVEING N ILL UPDATE ONCE THINGS ARE BUILT :-MULTI STORY CAR PARK NEXT 2 BEATS WORKIN SKATE SHOP 8 SET ON THE TOP AND A LEDGE TO THERIGHT HAND SIDE ON THE LOWER LEVEL. :-ANY OTHER INFO POP INTO BEATS WORKIN SKATE STORE
• the strand
• SRP is grate and try out the promnard but wach out for the cops
• Outside of Queen annes building, where da old bus station was!There are steps and stuff and the placxe is often filled with skaters and bikers!
• (Please leave out of message - please can you remove all www.skaterockpark.co.uk links as no longer exists, thanks) SKATE ROCK PARK IS BACK, 3x Bigger, you love it! sorry but the first SRP wuz not a pile of, it wuz wicked! The address for the new SRP site, which is Barnstaples one and only Skate park is www.srp.me.uk come in for videos and photo gallerys forum, and info... you can even check out 360 photos of the old SRP to judge for your self, Bo selecta, SOUTH-WEST SIDE! 01271 321027 dunt work no more btw posse... check da site for latest Barny skate info and party gos @ all times...
• well where can i start. Back of marks and spencers nearly every curb you see is waxed, with a great bluntside curb. banks everything. around the front of it is these little ollie pods and a small 2 set. good for practising old kickflips off. Next, Blue triangle aka docters. once again nearky every curb is waxed with great ollie gaps. Last butnot least, the strand. A big 2 set bout as big as a 5 set probs. smooth run up smotth landing. big ollie place.
• Multi story carpark, rock park skate park... NEW- The place with a fountain.
• Behind Greenlanes shopping centre can be good for a blat, good curbs, freestanding curb on runout of carpark.
• The Strand
• the new park and ride is a very good place to sk8 also baird wear with a whole range of things to conquer just use your imagination whoo hoo
• getting stoned then jumping over police cones on a skateboard in the pannier market was once described as the ultimate high
• North devon college is an all round good place to skate
• the ramps are gone. they have been for quite sum time
• wickes car park and tescos car parks have curbs and rails
• The park school has set of steps and benches
• About four miles outside Barnstaple is the village of Braunton. There is a very good skate spot in Caen Street car park. Course includes a six foot quarter pipe with eight foot transition, a four foot quarter pipe and a box. Braunton also has some of the nicest hills in the South West.
  If you would like to find these good spots, simply visit Mango skate shop in Braunton and ask Darryl or Emma where they are. They will be more than happy to tell you.
• Me and Chris Smith used to skateboard in the Panier Market in the evenings in the late 70's. Ah, nostalgia... Anyone there in Barnstaple remember me (Simon Powell) or Chris Smith? Email me.
• Loading bay and v low handrails at back of Brian Fords Foodmarket; a lovely wall and two steps at Museum; waxed freestanders at B & Q. Loads of benches all over the place. 10' vert ramp, wood. 4' mini Ñ also wood and splintery. We encourage visitors. There's also continued talk of the indoor place and things of that nature, making Barnstaple an interesting place from the skate point of view. Pilton Community College. Street spot with small bank which crumbles next to tennis court (crap). Various steps, hand-rails, humps, curbs.

Skateboard Shops

• BEATSWORKIN.....BEATSWORKIN.....BEATSWORKIN....BEATSWORKIN.....BEATSWORKIN..... OPENED JUST OVER A YEAR AGO, N DEVONS FIRST AND ONLY SKATER OWNED STORE. SHOP IS JUST OUTA TOWN NR THE BUS STATION ON QUEENS STREET SELLIN ALL STUFF SKATE BOUT 100 DECKS IN STOCK STARTIN AT £20.... MORE INFO ON SHOP OR SK8 TEAM CHECK WEBSITE WWW.BEATSWORKIN.NET OR TEL.01271 321111
• Again if u have a wonder up and down the high st and a look around green lanes theres plenty of surf/skate and sports shops around to look the biz...at a price of course. And if u have even more money to burn try a trip to Exeter where there's bound to be better selection.
• www.Jsurf.co.uk Braunton 01271 815444– Funky new shopoffering old skool, no skool, new skool, downhill and cruising skates, harwear and clothing. Distributors of Summit downhill sk8’s, Shaun tomsons ‘Solitude’ soulwear and Steely flats clothing. Tell us want you want and if ten of your mates say the same we'll get it!
• The one opposite argos!
• Kruzy Kites has now unfortunately closed but you can all get you skate dtuff from second skin at the bottom of the high street near argos
• second skin. Used to be a good shop called Kruzy Kites which we knew. they were good for us but all the little kids with their zero and blind decks went to second skin and kruzy lost its business. SAD!.
• second skin - best shop in barnstaple
• Kruzy kites near the pannier market
• Second Skin (good), Kruzy Kites (shite).
• no question about it Kruzy Kites is the sk8 shop to visit with everything u could possibly want. yay whoo hoo
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• Mango Skate Shop in Braunton. Now closed.

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