Saturday 11 April 2009

Slegoon Extreme Sports Sled by Spike Reid [Full-Contact Sledging For the 21st Century]

Admittedly, the Slegoon, conceived of and designed by Spike Reid, is not
a new concept - its been around since 2003 apparently - but the moment
we cast our eyes on it we knew that we should feature it here on TFTS
not least because Slegooning, as Spike calls it, is apparently yet to
take off as an extreme sport and, frankly, we really cannot understand
why (Don't know about you, but we'd jump at the chance for a go in one
of these).


Slegooning is a new winter sport in which participants travel down a
snow-covered slope in single person sledge-type crafts, called Slegoons,
in full-contact races. They can continue even when overturned.

The Slegoon won first prize in the UK IOM3 Design Innovation in Plastics
competition 2003, sponsored by Bayer AG, and has received international
press, from magazines like Blueprint, UK to the SinChew Daily, Malaysia.

There's no word as to how much one of these Slegoon extreme sports sleds
will set you back or even if they're in production (we assume that they
are) but interested parties can contact Spike Reid directly via the
credited source and we don't doubt he'd more than welcome your interest.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Can someone tell me how much this sled costs

Trikk Ryder said...

I don’t think these ever made it to production. I too think their neat. Check out this new sled that is available for purchase. The Snogo. Sno-go.us is the website. They use real mountain bike frames with 3 skis. Watch the videos and I think Youtube has some to.

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