Ramp City closed down!

Rancidmaniac13

I heard rumours that ramp city had closed down, but now I know it's true...

I'd imagine it was related to the opening of the new skate park in Swords. Could they not have worked out how to make a profit from all the new skaters that started since the park opened!?
What do you think?

I do prefer to skate for free but Ramp City was a quality skate park and I'm gonna miss it...

JahEerie

But a skatepark closing is never a good thing

So which council is gonna step up & offer an INDOOR park?
With the success of all the decent parks (Bushy/Lucan/Greystones/Gorey/Wexford) it must be a relatively low risk now.

Monkstown are charging €3-€5 per session for their outdoor modular effort
- surely a well built indoor park could be self-sustaining?
There must be hundreds (if not thousands) of new skaters in the Dublin area alone - where are they gonna skate when its dark & raining?

Hopefully there's a councillor out there with a pair of balls.

We'll see,

JohnBoy

T-Maxx

JahEerie wrote: »

But a skatepark closing is never a good thing

So which council is gonna step up & offer an INDOOR park?
With the success of all the decent parks (Bushy/Lucan/Greystones/Gorey/Wexford) it must be a relatively low risk now.

Monkstown are charging €3-€5 per session for their outdoor modular effort
- surely a well built indoor park could be self-sustaining?
There must be hundreds (if not thousands) of new skaters in the Dublin area alone - where are they gonna skate when its dark & raining?

Hopefully there's a councillor out there with a pair of balls.

We'll see,

JohnBoy

Read through your post again and then decide if what you propose makes any sense.;)

jtsuited

why can't they put up some sort of inexpensive canopy yoke over say a park the size of Lucan?

shortys94

Excatly, a canopy would be great.

fionn001

some sort of open sided warehouse would be fine. farely inexpensive.we need a plaza or park to skate in sort of thing .not more parks. pity bout ramp city, but it was still ****e . i imagine lucan will start charging soon for the flood lights. any pictures of monkstown

T-Maxx

You guys are just unbelievable. Instead of being grateful for the new skate parks that were provided, you now want it roofed as well. Next thing would prolly be heating, and and and.....

Why didn't you support Ramp City when they still operated? Maybe then it wouldn't have had to close down...

smois

jtsuited wrote: »

why can't they put up some sort of inexpensive canopy yoke over say a park the size of Lucan?

chances are it would probably be burnt down. i tink the idea of an indoor street course with a mini and all the usuall crack would be the ****. preferable a bigger version of rampnrail (if mike keans reading). rumour has it the ramp city mini is being relocated

theshiels

If any park ever needed supporting it was Ramp'n'rail.
Decent setup.
Down to earth and incredibly friendly owner.
Cheap.
R.I.P

I really don't mourn ramp city going down the plughole. Bad layout, awfull management. Etc,etc,etc...

As for monkstown, personally i don't rate the place due to it's organisation in terms of layout or how you can use it, 5 quid because i'm advanced? no thanks.

pete4130

Yo, are you Pro theshiels?

theshiels

the one and only!

JahEerie

T-Maxx wrote: »

Read through your post again and then decide if what you propose makes any sense.;)

Yeah, just re-read that
Makes perfect sense.

If Ramp City was desighed & run properly (by people who actually gave a ****) it WOULD STILL BE OPEN.
Ramp & Rail (tho much smaller) was a much better park - unfortunately they had problems with their landlord & despite their best efforts it had to close.

Read that again

JohnBoy

wreckless

fionn001 wrote: »

any pictures of monkstown

http://www.goreyskateclub.com/gallery/irelands-skateparks

some pics here on page 2

sdLOVE

Ramp city.. if it was designed well I'd be a bit more sad. Like said before ramp'n'rail was the true tragedy.

And on the topic of monkstown... 5 euro to skate for 2 hours in a park flooded with kids flying around on their arse with the added bonus of stripey dunnes stores jumper'd commoners throwing bangers onto the course from the dirty field usually filled with joyriders.

NO THANK YOU, MATE.

T-Maxx

sdLOVE wrote: »

Ramp city.. if it was designed well I'd be a bit more sad. Like said before ramp'n'rail was the true tragedy.

And on the topic of monkstown... 5 euro to skate for 2 hours in a park flooded with kids flying around on their arse with the added bonus of stripey dunnes stores jumper'd commoners throwing bangers onto the course from the dirty field usually filled with joyriders.

NO THANK YOU, MATE.

Yeah, not everyone can afford designer jumpers - just like some people can't afford €5 for 2hrs...;)

DGPower

at the end of the day, only the government skateparks are going to survive. cause the insurance to have a skatepark costs near 1 million euro. wheres the profit in that.

Mimikyu

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DGPower

My church was trying to do something to attract people and some people requested a skatepark. Some people in my church looked into it and the found out bout the insurance. that was years ago, im just guessing its still around that much

Groe

for those people who were giving out about monkstown being €5 for 2hours are wrong. It says on the website that that is what it is but you could go in for the day on €5

shagman

If it was free they'd still be overcharging!

Groe

It is useless for anyone who is decent at skating etc but for learning it is good, you don't feel intimidated by people doing mad tricks because they know its useless foir the €5 they paid in and don't bother going

wreckless

shagman wrote: »

If it was free they'd still be overcharging!

:D:D:D:D:D:D

Kenjd

Groe wrote: »

It is useless for anyone who is decent at skating etc but for learning it is good, you don't feel intimidated by people doing mad tricks because they know its useless foir the €5 they paid in and don't bother going

The point is that Dun Laoire Rathdown were given taxpayers money and they built that abortion. And they have the balls to charge in!
Am i right in thinking its the only council skatepark in the country that charges in? I hope Tom Moulds is enjoying it.
The reason that they now let you skate all day for a fiver is that no-one is going there, its just not working. Hows the phrase go: Told ye so!
If you wanted to skate there 5 days a week it would cost you 1350 a year. Now thats really helping to keep young people off the streets hey? But according to one of my local councilors nobody would skate 5 days a week! Not with that crap on our doorstep!

Valmont

theshiels wrote: »

If any park ever needed supporting it was Ramp'n'rail.
Decent setup.
Down to earth and incredibly friendly owner.
Cheap.
R.I.P

I really don't mourn ramp city going down the plughole. Bad layout, awfull management. Etc,etc,etc...

As for monkstown, personally i don't rate the place due to it's organisation in terms of layout or how you can use it, 5 quid because i'm advanced? no thanks.

I bloody loved ramp'n'rail. I live in greystones and our new park is nowhere close to this place. Some of my fondest skateboarding memories are from there just when it opened and to when it closed. R.I.P. especially the flat sloping rail down the fun box. I could boardslide that all day

smois

i live in lucan and the park in lucan is my local. i skate there most nights simply because its 2 mins walk from my house and i think its a good park.i think that monkstown is a joke in the sense that u have to pay five blips in. although it does have some of the best ledges in the country but still not worth five euro. ive been to athlone park a few times and in my personal opinion it is the best park ive ever skated even tho its 4 euro in.
from reading peoples comments ive noticed that it really is down to personal prefference. ye sure everyone would love if all the parks were made of pure concrete(not just that modular concrete ****e that blanch and monkstown have) but its not workin out that way. ive heard people describe bushy as a world class skatepark but in my opinion its a big hole with a joke of a street course but sayin that some people i know its there second home. its all a matter of personall prefference,weather your into skating bowls,ledges,banks etc... you know what park is right for you.so just stop moanin and keep skatin
ps.the mini ramp in monkstown is a joke by anyones standards