Street Gliders' collected links

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Local skating weather: The Finnish Meteorological Institute: Rain and cloudiness (6.11.2000); The Finnish Meteorological Institute: Helsinki (6.11.2000); Foreca Oy: Helsinki (29.10.2000); Vaisala Oyj: Current weather in Vantaa, Finland "Reliable." weather data from Vantaanlaakso, 15 km north of Helsinki (30.5.2007); Weather Underground: Europe (7.1.2001); Helsinki Testbed Detailed weather data and radar images from Helsinki area (9.8.2005); Ilta-Sanomat: Sadetutka Finnish radar images with one-hour resolution and rain forecast for next eight hours (3.1.2008)
Teams and associations: Finnish Speed Skating Association (16.5.2002); Skating Club Tampere (18.5.2003)
Skating events: Pari-Roller (Paris) (22.10.2000); Helsinki Roller Marathon (3.2.2006); Berlin Marathon (2.8.2000); Wednesday Skate New York (24.6.2001); Friday Night Skate (Tallinn) (10.6.2002); Tuesday Night Skating Frankfurt (17.5.2005); Nightskate the world webring (18.1.2008)
Skating routes: GeoSkating – Automatically generated maps in the Netherlands (3.2.2006)
Maps for measuring your skating distance: Helsinki area outdoor map Helsinki area (22.9.2006); Citizen's MapSite Whole Finland (22.9.2006); Map24.com Europe and USA (22.9.2006)

Skating basics

Basic information on inline skating: SkateFAQs: Wheels, Bearings and Hop-up Kits – Maintenance instructions for skates (23.9.2002); Bearing Up: ABEC = HYPE? (23.9.2002); Inline Skating Legal Issues

Acquiring skates

Skate importers in Finland: K2 Skates Delta Skate Oy (9.2.2002)
Skate manufacturers: K2 Skates; Roces; Hypno; Salomon (12.11.2000); Rexton (12.11.2000); Rollerblade; Fila Skates (15.7.2002)
Skate sales in Finland: TotalSport (7.8.2006)
Skate sales: DB Sport & distribution (12.11.2000); Yak Research – "You should know about us. We'll save you hundreds of $$ on top-brand wheels and accessories. Wholesale only."; Skates away; SportStop USA (18.1.2008); Powerslide Sweden (16.4.2005); Inline Warehouse (30.5.2007)

Skating sports

Slalom skating: SkateFAQs: Techniques - Slalom (3.4.2000); FFSS - Finnish Freestyle Slalom Skaters – The best Finnish slalom skaters (17.7.2006)

More skating information

Link lists: SKATECITY; Yahoo: RECREATION-SPORTS-SKATING-INLINE-SKATING; Skategrrl – Kathie Fry's skating site (18.1.2008)
Magazines, articles and Internet directories: The New York City Inline Skating Guide; The Rec.sport.skating.inline FAQs; SkateLog.com – Kathie Fry's skating article site (10.11.2002); Skating.com; About.com Inline Skating Guide; Tokyo Inline Skating Guide The site of the Japanese FinLine skater Yukio Masuda (7.6.2007); Inline Skating Resource Center (18.1.2008); Amsterdam Skeeler (18.1.2008)
Newsgroups, Internet forums: rec.sport.skating.inline (28.5.2003); rec.sport.skating.racing (28.5.2003); SkateLog Forums – Kathie Fry's skating forums (2.10.2006)
Miscellaneous: LondonSkaters – Comprehensive uncommercial site: photos, articles, videos (29.4.2002); Roller Numérique – A Parisian site in French (1.11.2002); PanuWorld Inline Skating Mileage indicator and brake light for inline skates (3.2.2006); Again, to Finland Irina Megorskaya's report on skating in Helsinki (17.11.2003)