Buell
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I think the kid only understands that someone was mad at something he did. They complained enough and he had to write a letter apologizing for it.
It is a start though and hopefully he will begin to understand sometime in the future.
I have seen it several times, and just cannot understand, the coaches don't care if their riders are endangering others on the hill.
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Everybody has an equation that gets them on the hill.
I have been really impressed with the civil tone and great responses in this, at times, hot button topic.
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I like groomers that are twisty, rolling, and fairly steep at uncrowded resorts. I really like banks on the sides. If it is more crowded, I like them more open so I can see the straight liners coming.
Warm Springs at Sun Valley is the best run I have seen. Three thousand vert and a little of everything!
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If you think about the accident itself, apparently longer than it has been since mine.
The time spent waiting to get repaired was pretty hard. I had to wait a day and a half for surgery. After that, you get to focus on moving forward and recovering.
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I have been there too. My overconfidence on a snowboard ended when I broke my leg a few years ago. The good news is it will probably make you a more skilled and focused carver when you return.
Good luck with the surgery, heal well, and do your PT.
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Love the photo with switched boards.
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Dan,
Take a look at the F1 and F3 thread under the boot sub Forum on Splitboard.com. AT boots are too upright for snowboarding in ride mode when locked in ride mode, especially for a lightweight.
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Spill it pokkis, let's hear how the Tinkler rides.
Rocker can carve fine. I think a rockered freeride board will probably out carve most of the freestyle rockered boards. I assume it has been tested but not picked up in the racing world. There might be an issue with nose/tail pressure at high speed or with rebound for pumping down the course that the builders could not resolve.
My fully rockered Tanker carves super well. It has a stiff nose and tail and is also torsionally stiff for a freeride deck. It could use a bit of dampening though. Being a freeride board, it can only be pushed so hard anyway without twisting off, so I don't know how rocker performs at higher speed or on steeper slopes.
I put a beginner, non aggressive, carver on a K2 Gyrator. It has a cam/rock profile like the board you have jtslalom, and he could carve it immediately. He had been having a hard time on a fully cambered board. It carves at super low speed, but will not carve at even medium speed (way too much rocker). He has now moved on to a custom metal Prior MFR with hybrid rocker. I cannot wait to hear what he thinks!
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Cramping feet are bad for your carving. Loose boots are also bad.
If you are riding deeluxe boots, the upper cuff does not fit skinnier legs. In addition to padding the inside, you can also cut out material where the cuff meets and drill a new hole further around for the side of the buckle that is easily moved.
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Like those new carbonlooklike Priordecks. Pitty you broke yours. Also that Kessler from Buel, looks like those boards can't handle stiff bindings/plates. I am very interested how many stress there will be on boards with for instance the new Boiler Plate. I am gonna use these dampers this season for the first time. Funny that I see no broken Coilers.
BlueB had the broken Kessler. That might have been what you meant to type.
From what people who have ridden plates say about them increasing pressure on the nose, I was waiting for that to happen. Especially with so many plates on boards not built for them.
Coiler's very rarely break. Interesting isn't it. Bruce seems to like durable boards.
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I think the term and concept of dampening has been misused around here lately; or at least the idea that a plate with a duckbill can add dampening. Dampening is not the same as reinforcing or adding stiffness to a board. Which is what a duckbill with a rigid bumper will do.
Seems like a bumper on the duck bill with the appropriate flex would absolutely dampen vibrations in the nose from hitting race ruts.
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Makes sense, so we can expect plate specific boards in the future with additional stiffening in the nose. Just another check-box on the custom order form.
On the mass/dampening theory, I wonder if they have its length tuned to reduce resonance somehow. From the other thread (different plate systems available), it's clear that they experimented adding length behind the rear binding also.
From a discussion about insert patterns earlier this year, Hans Kessler said he builds boards with a stiffer nose if they will be ridden with plates. It has been mentioned that Donek is doing the same thing.
Kessler also mentioned that he does not like putting both the 4x4 inserts and the plate mounting inserts on the same board. He is concerned about it creating a weak point.
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How would another contact point in the plate system promote additional dampening? Seems to me, the more contact the plate system has with the board, more feedback is going to be genterated. Its my understanding that the "nose bumper" is used to provide more leverage to the nose in a attempt to keep it from folding under. Also realize that this bumper system was not part of the origional design concept, it was an attempt to provide more strength and power to the nose of boards that were not reinforced to account for the additional leverage that a plate places on it.
Think Snow!
Are you not following along?
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How are you pretty sure it was used for dampening? Why not reinforcing? Or changing the flex pattern of the nose? Or increasing nose pressure on a toe side turn? Yes, bumpers under the duckbill are intended to modify the board in some way. All I'm saying is that by adding bumpers one side effect is changing the point which the board can bend around.
There's so much behind the scenes we don't know and only hear stories of. I've heard from several different poeple that JJA was constantly tweaking and altering his plate after every run. He obviously knows what he wants and how he likes his ride set-up. Why did he have bumpers - none of us know exactly, but my guess is his boards at that time were not designed specifically for use with a plate. A plate puts increased pressure on the nose of the board, as discussed elsewere, and he may have tried to compensate for it with the bumpers under the duckbill. Others have done it too, and plates have failed because of it. The duckbill was not deisgned to contact the board.
It is a guess. As has been said, it does not seem like a good idea to try to stop the nose from bending too much by introducing a small surface area contact point at the nose of the plate.
I would love to hear some of the real story. Paging Loo Sports or Apex Insider.
I do assume though, that if they were going to design a plate specifically to compensate for a board that has too soft of a nose, they would have just had new boards built and design the plate the way they wanted.
Edit: Too many irons in the fire. I had not read scrutton's post. Thanks for doing a little research.
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I am pretty sure the extended nose with bumpers of JJs was used for dampening, not to create another point for the board to bend around.
He did win gold with that design as well as raced on it (the Canadian team also) the entire season. There might be a better design but they push their equipment far harder than we do. How can it be argued it doesn't work?
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Appreciate the compliment and if you feel it necessary for me to ride like a arm swinging ape and pound my equipment into submission to be "credible" I can accomodate, definately not my riding style preference as you have seen.
Think Snow!
You are not at their riding level. No way, no how. Sorry.
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This is a very inaccurate statement. This design concept has been around for some time. Apex by no means "invented" this plate configuration.
Think Snow!
My underlying point is the same. Someone developed this stuff first and it sure makes it easier when the path has been laid.
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Really, 22 years on plates and 100+ day seasons for most of those years, I think my bucket holds water. I don't need your approval to voice my opinions and I think my credibility is more than ESTABLISHED!
Think Snow!
As I clearly said, your opinion counts. No, you do not need my approval to post anything. I might respond though.
The claims you have made in this thread are pushing it further than your riding and experience will allow.
When I watch video of your riding style (smooth and skilled) and then I watch video of the WC racers in a course just hammering the piss out of their plates and gear, it is clear that they know plenty about plates and strength of the plate.
Yes, you know more than most of us here about plates. Because you were involved with testing product for Fin and Donek does not mean you also know what went on during development of the Apex or any other plates out there. Fin and Donek have created, what seem to be, great products. Lucky for them, and us, they had the benefit of Apex and Co. doing the initial concept, design, and testing.
What is a cubicle? :rolleyes:
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Yes, your opinion counts. You are pushing your credentials beyond credibility though.
It seems testing plates on the WC race courses probably pushes them hard enough to determine if they will hold up. Other plate designers probably have more experience and know more than you.
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While all of my info is second hand, I believe it to be credible albiet unconfirmable unless JJA and Apex want to share their numbers which I seriously doubt happening. I think I seen just about everything in the plate world, failures and successes alike.........
Come on. I appreciate that you have had more time on some plates that few on BOL have had a chance to ride and I appreciate you being able to offer your thoughts on those.
But, really. You have not seen "just about everything in the plate world." I guess that Apex and JJ could not have seen more than you. Or Benjamin Karl, or Hans Kessler, or Sigi Grabner, or any of the people working on and testing their WC caliber plates. I wish Fin and Sean the best, but the plate development world is much bigger than Colorado.
I would assume that JJ might have damaged some early plates but it seems pretty clear they got it figured out. Even if you don't think it is possible, they have shown it is.
Countering Apex Insider with your "unconfirmable" (and I bet incomplete), second hand information is pretty much guaranteed to leave you partly wrong, if not entirely wrong.
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I for sure can say that I would have prefered if hardware had failed and board stayed in one piece. ;)
Yes, still having the Kessler would probably be better than continuing to be right.
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Small by what means? Footprint is wider then Donek's 4x4.
Anyways, now it's proven plenty strong - in catastrophic crash, board broke before the mounting system failed.
I have no idea if it is strong enough or not. I don't think you can yet say it has proven itself plenty strong after limited testing and one significant crash. Mareials do not always show how they have stressed.
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Nothing new. A number of them might be riding 0 or +3* and it just looks duck to those of us who ride very forward angles.
Duckfoot increases range of motion for some things like landing jumps. It also allows a more ambidextrous switch riding.
There are very few here who ride duck, ever.
Hips with binding angles I understand but I am not sure of any advantage to having your hips aligned with the long axis of the board.
Congrats on your first day of the season.
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It is same material as base. Snow does not stick so easily, you can even wax it with rapid wax easily. Plus if you get sctratch or marks there you can fix them same way as base. And then just grind it.
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The non-titinal topsheet Kesslers use Ptex as the topsheet. According to Hans, it adds quite a bit of dampening over his titinal topsheet boards.
Need a tight tree powder board
in The Lodge
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I love Prior powder boards and, between Rebecca and myself, we have owned quite a few. Most have also been ridden at Bachelor.
Hybrid rocker Khyber should fit your needs. I really enjoyed the cambered Khyber at Bachelor. The new one should be even better.
The Spearhead is not a good carver, even in soft snow. The Khyber was much better.
I do not know about the Fissle. I can say that I love the Spearhead in Utah powder but not so much in Bachelor powder. Too much unnecessary nose in the heavier snow and the Fissle surely has even more. I know it seems odd since they are produced in Whistler.
Edit: Rebecca has a few days on her hybrid rocker Khyber split at Willamette Pass on powder days and is loving it.
I also had an Undertaker and found it needs tons of speed to turn. Definitely an open bowl board.