I searched skateboarding on this forum and it pulled up zero results. I got my old inline skates out yesterday and took them on the bike lanes on a wide road near my house (in Lakewood, Ohio). The bike lanes are wide enough to skate completely in them and I was going 15-20mph the whole time on a 25mph road. When I got home, I told my parents and they asked if I knew it was illegal  :wtf:. I looked up the laws and was shocked to find in Ohio, inline skating and skateboarding on roads is illegal. You must ride on the sidewalk, full of hazards from people to business patios to signs and planters. Not to mention Lakewood's buildings are so close to the sidewalk that I'd have to go 5-10mph to be safe and still have to slam on the brakes at every intersection (every 500ft). Better yet, skateboarding/inline skating in "business districts" is illegal which if you know Lakewood, are impossible to avoid (and I live in one). Is this another one of those "protect the kids" things? Am I crazy to think that on 25mph roads it should be legal to inline skate in the road? In Michigan it's legal on every road but the highway. I can maybe understand skateboards because stopping is very difficult and losing control is easy but it sucks for inline skaters. You are in control in some ways more than a bicycle.

 

Both activities are such great exercise yet the laws make it extremely difficult to do them. Basically my only option that's 100% legal is to drive 10 minutes to the Rocky River reservation and enjoy the paths there or put my rollerblades in my backpack and bike there. What a pain.

 

I'll be calling the local PD sometime soon and will post an update here. It's a state law so the best thing they can do is say they'll turn the other cheek.

Here's some Cincinnati and NKY action:

 

it's gratifying to see how much youth culture has "evolved" In Painesville since the medieval times when I was there?

 

 

Edited April 24, 20196 yr by eastvillagedon

^part 2 - The one advantage of the vast parking space in Painesville that was once occupied by actual buildings is that it now serves as a studio lot for such dramatic productions as this ongoing saga. If this doesn't sweep the YouTube Awards then there's no justice  (and while I'm at it I might as well just apologize to jeremyck01. It's been a while since I've been back, but he's right, that block is a real eyesore--lol)

 

 

could it be? Go Skateboarding Day already??  hmmm...the graphic on this poster looks suspiciously like the skyline of Cleveland, which only goes to show that Painesville is becoming the skateboarding capital of NE Ohio. I think. ?

 

 

Generation Z -- saving Painesville one skateboarder at a time ?

 

 

Edited July 6, 20195 yr by eastvillagedon

If you're really, really into skateboarding you'll like this (maybe 🤔). It was filmed in and around Cleveland (except for that rugged terrain at the beginning and the end--wtf?) , although I found specific locations a little hard to identify, except for a few brief glimpses of University Circle, Erieview, the Flats, some Painesville. 🛹 

 

 

 

"Winter Games" skateboarding event tomorrow in Painesville. No mention of an age limit 

 

February 25th we will be hosting an indoor event with skating, contests, cash/product prizes, and live music! Our neighbors will be hosting the space with ramps and obstacles set up to skate all day and we will do a by entry bracketed game of SKATE with a cash prize for 1st place. Our friends at @nemethslounge will be throwing an after party with live bands and skate videos playing into the night. Shake that winter time blues and come have fun with us at 2:00 Saturday February 25th