I'm curious: does anybody still use rollerblades for transportation?
I sometimes rollerbladed for distances of 1-2 miles my first couple years of college - that was nearly 15 years ago. I assumed that rollerblades stopped being cool, though when I visited Vancouver BC in '09 there were a bunch of people using them, and here in Wisconsin, they tend to be all over the trails (usually falling over and with skinned knees and elbows.)