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Ive never seen anyone with the red ones. You prob. have to be one heavy Fcuker to have to use them.
I use them with the Track 700s and am 145.
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I hope that now some folks are seeing that this whole "health-care" bill is Far more about Power, Control & Taxation then it is your health.
AND it is being shoved down your thoats by the party of intolorance and greed!
Um, yeah, wow.
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I should probably write it as Snowboard mountaineering to give due respect to real mountaineers.
No kites for me, just one foot in front of the other, repeat.
I have often wondered why I have never seen anyone kiting up on of the volcanoes. It is pretty clear air with the right wind direction and aspect.
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Still going! I won't be doing too much more carving, but I do have some Kesslers to test thanks to Bola.
Snowboard mountaineering season starts very soon on the Volcanoes! Woohoo!
Top photo is the SE face of South Sister, Middle photo is the NE face of Shasta, and the last photo contains Middle Sister, North Sister and Jefferson as the prominent peaks.
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I hope you mean strictly in terms of lamination.
Obviously shaping and profile are major, but you should already know that.
My statement meant to exclude board improvements, which are significant, (shape, flex, camber profile, materials, .....) from my statement of not that much has changed.
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what is alpine carving going to look like in the next 5-10 years?
What's going to be the NEW "New Hotness?" Would you share your thoughts about the future of alpine carving in some possible areas:
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Technology<o>:p</o>:p
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Riding Technique<o>:p</o>:p
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Equipment manufacturing
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If you look back 5 to 10 years, from what I can tell, not that much has actually changed beyond the current board technology in the freeride world.
I would be incredibly impressed if boards can go through the level of design and materials improvements we have seen over the last 4 or 5 years. I would would be okay with it though. ;) I expect we will see refinements with a major improvement here and there.
Plates may become a bigger part of a freecarver's equipment, but they need to become lighter and cheaper for most freecarves to use them. Will bindings and plates become more integrated?
Riding technique will continue to range from racer technique to extreme carving technique and everything in between. There are so many isolated carvers making up their own style. I don't think this will change.
Alpine will continue to be a niche sport. Too technique based, physically demanding, and difficult to find equipment for most snow sports enthusiast. They may love to watch, but will never pick it up.
Hopefully something will change with our boots (but I doubt it). As BlueB mentioned, AT boots might be a direction to head for some of us.
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Technology<o>:p</o>:p
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A newschool BX board. Decambered nose and tail, long effective edge for its length, metal (many of them), all the goods of our newer hardboot carveboards.
Don't go too long because of the long effective edge and don't get too large of a sidecut for softy carving on groom (some of them are up to 14m). Many boards calling themselves BX are the older style much like our older style race boards and will ride accordingly.
Obvously there is Kessler, Oxess, and Apex. Prior apparently has one that is not on their website, Bruce might build you something (he did for us), or Donek (as he just posted) might have something and there is this thread.
I would not waste my time with anything else as a dedicated softy carver. Some people really like them in mixed conditions and powder as well.
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Good to know that's just how it is... I was starting to think I had OCD
:freak3:How do you know you don't? ;)
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I think there maybe a BUT here I 'll toss out --- if you took a poll of most of the riders here and asked them how many boards did they buy and sell in the first 4 years of riding to figure out what they liked and disliked..I'd be suprised if it was less than 8 boards.. Personally I have probably gone thru 2X that number over the last 7 years...
there is always the case of buy used, ride it, trade it , ride it , buy one, ride it, trade it, borrow one or two - ride it and then decide. I am just glad I rode a lot of used old style boards over the years..Cheap education and not much money wasted.
This is a very valid point. Rebecca and I had our 8 boards in the first year or two. You can buy and sell used old school boards without losing much money. Soon though, when there are enough used new school ones, and you will be able to do this much more cost effectively. At the moment, it just cost a little more, but, if you can afford it, it is definitely worth it.
At any rate, used value on a hardly ridden metal Coiler is not much lower than the new price from Bruce.
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one question, how will you feel if your employeer finds that it might make more economic sense for him to reduce his contributions/delete your benifits and let you purchase it your own?
This was not going on anyway? Many people were having to pay higher deductables and more out of pocke per month, and getting less insurance for it. That trend is not / was not going away since the employer is only willing to compensate each employee so much and healthcare cost are / were taking a bigger percentage of that total compensation.
The idea that the employee is gaining additional compensation in an employer based healthcare system is mistaken. If the employer was not providing free / subsidized healthcare to the employee, the employ could get most, if not all, of the healthcare cost in additional salary.
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It is nice to see all the 'yes' responses! Yes, a beginner should have the most forgiving board possible.
Rebecca and I stepped on the infamous, Titanal topsheeted Prior Metals 4 years ago as more or less beginners. The ones we got were still a bit long for us, but they were so much easier for a beginner to ride! So forgiving.
The current board design is so much better now than 4 years ago. I have watched many responses over the last few years saying that you should wait to buy a metal board until you are better. It is great to see that changing and their ease of riding becoming much more accepted.
The tricky part is getting the board that suits your weight, ability level, aggressiveness, and riding style.
Enjoy
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I don't know everything, but it looks like a fine verdict to me. Actual consequences in a resort for reckless actions and causing injury to another rider? A mountain that pays more than lip service to actual safety on the slopes? Promising. This has nothing to do with anything a responsible carver or any other rider does while at the resort.
30 to 35 in a designated slow zone is reckless and it sounds easy enough to determine he was going well over a safe speed even if it was not exactly 30 to 35.
I would be happy to ride at Durango Mountain Resort, though I doubt I will ever make it down there.
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Shipping should be about $45 USPS Priority with full insurance. They have a Priority flat rate of around $35. The insurance is extra. You cannot get tracking for a package sent to Canada by USPS. Call them to confirm everything ahead of time but it is straight forward.
USPS is the way to ship a board to Canada. UPS charges a substantial brokerage fee to the Canadian buyer.
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the red one is a beauty! mine is 11.5 sidecut and 158 with a 23.5 waist. so very similiar. I am thinking 168 with same profile just exponentially bigger. maybe 12.5 to 13 on the sidecut and the extra 10 cms on the length. The rocker nose is the best part of the tech and the metal makes a very short board possible to ride in the chunky due to the dampness.
If I softy carved more, I would probably get about a 160 cm / 9m sidecut / 240 waist and a little stiffer. I cannot justify it even though this thing is incredible to ride. It has proven to be incredibly versatile. With a slightly longer nose (the decamber is already a long way to being a great powder board) and a little more taper than Rebecca's it should be a great powder board as well.
There are actually three boards with this outline. A stiffer prototype that is now in Washington state, this one and one exactly like it (different topsheet) that a friend has, also for softy carving.
It is great to see Bruce getting more excited about building this type of board!
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I was just on the lift with a buddy and we both have Coilers. I am a goofy foot and my logo is upside down for me and my buddy is a regular foot and his logo is upside down for him.
I think Bruce is just a practical joker.
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yeah bob its really a one of a kind animal for the moment. AS far as I know anyway! need a bigger brother to fill out the quiver
Not totally!
This one is 154 and built for Rebecca as her softy carver. It is 240 cm wide, has a pretty soft flex, 8.5 m sidecut, metal, and decamber. Long effective edge for its length.
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I just wanted to get the first post in this "I told you so" thread of epic proportions.
I'm glad you like them! Let's see some non-POV stuff next! :D
Edit: Damnit!
I typed fewer words.
+1 on the non-POV video!
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Uh-oh!
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I guess I'll have to prove that wrong again and go against all conventional wisdom and knowledge and thinking..
Going with a 16... with 1?.5m.. should carve great at high speeds.. and short enough to pop around on.. will see..
If you are on hardboots, the 10.5 to 12 is much less relevant since the hardboots can power the bigger sidecut. For softboots, except for rare individuals, I expect that is the max for freecarving.
Looking forward to the creation Shred.
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I never heard any mention of decambered noses...( I assume the kesslers have it? )..do other BX boards embrace this advancement? I tried a short F2 BX years ago ( eliminator maybe?) and it was squirelly and stuffed the nose too easily...
When I finally go metal I think it has to have a decambered nose....
I am pretty sure decamber is a necessary part of the super long effective edge relative to the overall length design.
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Why would that be Jack? I don't see BX boards as specifically designed to carve with softies on groomers. There's usually only 4 or 5 carved turns on a BX course, and they are drawn out AND banked.
They basically seem, to me, to be designed with a long effective edge and large sidecut radius (by softboot standards) in as compact a size as possible to combine good edge hold in those long banks, stability at speed, and manoeuverability in the bumps, jumps, hips, and rollers.
For me, 12 - 14m sidecuts are not fun to carve on groomers in softboots. But I'm sure they are great with the levarage of hardboots and can't wait to give it a try next season.
This is my impression.
The BX courses and the turns riders make down them on the current BX boards is nothing like the path a carver takes down the slope. The current BX boards have a huge sidecut for freecarving on groomers in softies. You just cannot bend a board in the same way with softboots as hardboots. If you get one with a smaller, roughly 9ish meter (10m if you are a larger rider) sidecut, I bet they are incredible in softies.
I will add that I have not tried one of the new big sidecut BX boards and could be wrong. I have ridden a long effective edge for its length (154cm with a 132 effective edge), 8.5 m sidecut softy carver built with full nose and tail decamber, metal and rubber and the thing rips!
The Madd BX is nothing like the current crop of BX boards.
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bj... of course. You are right in the big picture sense. But this particular idea is going absolutely nowhere.
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I also agree completely with what kjl has been saying.
We see stuff like this on a periodic basis on BOL. Maybe this one is different, but it is always talk, no action. The ideas are almost always too far fetched, not needed, and not practical giving the surrounding hardware infrastructure. This one is even more interesting because the proponent has never hardbooted and does not understand hardboot / binding basics.
Alaskan, if you do get far enough and actually try and test this idea, be incredibly careful. A failure could lead to significant injury.
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TGR is not that bad if you are paying attention. I have a number of posts on there and no one has said a negative thing to me. I had read it for a couple of years before ever posting though. As Carvedog said, provide stoke in the main forum, that is what it is about.
This TGR thread is worse than normal because the OP said some really stupid things early on and has continued to be an idiot as the thread grows.
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Thanks John.
You have listed 3 post by Snowman (certainly there are quite a few more) which fits my request and 1 by Cuban Carving Gooding. The other one by Snowman is simply saying that he does not like softboots but says nothing about softbooters. You can find some anti-softboot rhetoric from Dano as well. Overall though, not many people. Snowman is the most obvious and vocal. We all know that and even he writes that no one needs to go anywhere a couple of times in his many posts.
Again, the reality is that very few people here have advocated ridding BOL of softbooters and softboot discussion. The focus on such a small number of posters (yes, one of them very vocal) to claim that BOL is anti-softboot is a very narrow reading of this thread.
Here is a recent one from Snowman:
Nobody is telling anyone to go somewhere else. What is beeing so eloquently said is: this is a website the was origionally started to give people who ride hardboots a venue to discuss all things hardboot. If you are coming to be part of this site, acknowledge this very basic and evident premise. Hardbooting is what we talk about, do, buy and sell, manufacturer, race, ride powder on, ect, ect. If you gonna cry in your soup about us (the Hardboot Taliban)don't. This thread has gone very awry. People are getting offended and upset, and the powers of keen grasp of the obvious are not being used.Don't let Bomberonline loose its orgional heart and soul.
Think Snow!
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What boots have you been riding?