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EDINBURGH
1) Bristo Square: Bristo Square has been the meeting point for skaters for bloody ages. The whole thing's built on a slight incline and is made up of ledges, a monument and steps . Local shops sometimes bring ramps down and you’ll usually find some plywood or a pallet or something to make things with if you so want. The recent skating boom has meant that the place is mobbed at the weekends.
2) The banks by the Lumiere (Royal Scottish Museum): These things are great but they're quite steep, so BMXers tend to go there more. They’re symmetrical and they’re hipped.
4) Fountain Park: There are two well-long concrete ledges here. They’re a bit low so they’re good for practising stuff on. I’ve never had any bother here but Harry says that every time they’ve been along, they get chucked off immediately.
5) Telfer Subway (down the side of Fountain Park): There’s a flat bank here that used to be really nice: sloping run-in and even a deck of sorts. Unfortunately, some swine’s gone and had the curb moved, so now you have to hop up onto it instead of just being able to roll up. Swines.
6) The Sheridan/Festival Square: One of Edinburgh’s more popular street spots. This place is really open with ledges, rails and The Dragon. The Dragon is a kinked red marble ledge which travels down a bunch of steps. Slaying the Dragon marks the passage into manhood. There’s some steps and stuff round the back too and if you take the path that goes round the left of the building, there’s a nice fat rail.
7) Flat bank to wallride at the Uni campus off Tollcross: Nice flat bank to wallride. It’s all on the corner of a building, so if you want you can stall it or whatever takes your fancy.
8) Flat banks down the side of John Lewis (BMX): These are great and are probably the nearest you’ll get to one of those flood channels that you’ll get up here. It’s long, relatively smooth and it’s on a slope.
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