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So I believe that in fact, you have it backwards. I get it and you dont.
As for what you said about my posting, its something I already know: I spend waaay too much time trying to educate people that dont want to be educated, and dont listen to reason. Sorry about that, I wont try to teach you anymore. I wish you the best!
Kex, seriously dude. Do you know who Phil Fell is? I will give you hint. He is not some average joe carver on BOL.
I am going to go ahead and spell it out for you:
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USSA 2008 Domestic Snowboard Coach of the Year - Phil Fell
- USSA 2008 Snowboard Program of the Year - PCSBT
That means that he was the USSA USA coach of the year. That is due to his skill as an alpine snowboard racing coach. PCSBT is the Park City Snowboard Team and Phil was head of it in 2008 when it was given the honor of being the Program of the Year.
This may be the internet and there may be some cloak of anonymity, but philfell is Phil Fell and he deserves to be treated with a tremendous amount of respect.
Thanks, Buell
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USSA 2008 Domestic Snowboard Coach of the Year - Phil Fell
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Bump for a nearly perfect pair of women's top of the line Salomon soft boots!
Buell
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DjulezD, PM sent.
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Roy, detailed photos sent.
Buell
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Dupraz D1+ 6' in excellent condition - SOLD
This is the medium stiffness Dupraz in the 6 foot / 178cm length. Base is in great shape - a few minor scratches and one small bump under an insert (from a too long binding screw?). Edges are perfect. Topsheet has only expected binding marks and minor liftline scuffs.
Great tapered, big-nosed powder board for plates or softies. In powder, the board has outstanding float, turns tight when necessary, and has a surfy feel. Carves very well on groom.
Check out this recent thread about the Dupraz for a few BOLers reviews.
Length: 178cm
Waist: 256mm
Effective Edge: 122cm
Questions and requests for larger pics are welcome.
Thanks, Buell
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Which did you see ride first? Tinkler or Jim?
Who knows. They were tearing down the lift line of the Hood River Express on our first day at Meadows. Everything was ice except the snow on that lower lift had softened a bit.
Later in the day, after Mike Tinkler had left ("he was just testing a new board"), I managed to get on the chair with Jim and he let me tag along for a run. I wasn't any good at the time and, in hindsight, was surely considered a scary nuisance. We had carving gear in our hands within a month.
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If anyone is interested, as mentioned, I can bring any of this gear to OES. I will be there next Tuesday 3/3.
Just work out the details with Mercury.
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Any buddy passes out there for a couple of days. Thursday, Friday or Friday, Saturday??
I don't have any buddy passes (not a passholder this year), but if you can make it for Thurs, check out the Hookey Days deal ($29 Tues - Thurs).
Buddy passes on Saturday are still $50.
Just FYI, Wednesday/Day Zero will have a great crew, so if you can come earlier, you could get two $29 tix and hang with 20+ hardbooters.
Hope you can make it, Buell
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Merc, there will be some questions. I will add some detail and photos. In the base photo of the board, is that a mark in the base toward the nose or is it just on the picture?
Are you willing to split this stuff up Mercury? If so, do you have some more specific prices for each item?
The 27 mondo Track 700 boots were just purchased from Hardbooter.com. Ridden 3 times, never molded. They come with an also used 3 times yellow spring BTS system.
The bindings are last year's standard bail medium F2 Race Titanium. A great binding! They include (I assume) all lifts, cants, and screws. They were lightly used by me last year before Mercury bought them this season.
The board is a 174 Prior 4x4 that Mercury just purchased from BOL classifieds. The board is in very good shape. The specs from the Prior website are: 174 length, 21.4 waist, 10m sidecut.
As Mercury mentioned, I can bring any of this gear (or all of it) to OES next week to save shipping hassles.
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Early metals boards were prone to problems. Metal boards built in the last couple of years seem to be durable and strong. For all manufacturers.
The early Prior Metals had issues. They took a chance and provided production metal boards first, in hindsight, before the construction kinks were resolved. This is one of the reasons that metals have a bad rap, but I am grateful that they were available to ride. I really loved my 183. We actually owned 4 of them early on and had no issues with delam. At this point, I expect the new Prior Metals construction is much improved.
Coiler Metals have had no issues that I have ever heard of and we have had several. Bruce even said in this post that
..... last season I had zero warranty issues so you can't argue with that.
That is impressive! If you are nervous, go with a Coiler. Bruce would take care of you if the board was defective.
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nekdut, the last wax I applied to that board was the summer storage wax. It was either a warm wax or an all temp. It had not seen the snow since the summer waxing until you bought it. I find fresh snow to be particularly picky about having all wax brushed off the base.
It's funny because I just picked up a Dupraz that seemed well cared for as well. I brushed it super well with a wire brush and wax whizarded an all temp. After two days of painfully slow riding, I finally did a hot scrape, a hot wax and and the wax whizarded cold temp wax. Ah, finally works!
Buell
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This is a cross-post from the OES Gear Sale thread in the For Sale forum.
Hi y'all,Due to some good fortune/karma/angels/whatever, I'm going to be hitting up OES again this year.
I'm bringing everything and the kitchen sink that I can fit in the SUV. If you want a list now shoot me an e-mail and I'll send you an excel spreadsheet with most of the stuff and bro deal pricing. I'm going to play car salesman, this stuff has got to go.
Cheers, RJ
Just got the list for myself. If you are coming to OES and at all interested in Tankers and other boards that RJ carries, definitely ask him for the list of boards on sale!
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Hi y'all,
Due to some good fortune/karma/angels/whatever, I'm going to be hitting up OES again this year.
I'm bringing everything and the kitchen sink that I can fit in the SUV. If you want a list now shoot me an e-mail and I'll send you an excel spreadsheet with most of the stuff and bro deal pricing. I'm going to play car salesman, this stuff has got to go.
Cheers, RJ
Just got the list for myself. If you are coming to OES and at all interested in Tankers and other boards that RJ carries, definitely ask him for the list of boards on sale!
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Thanks Bryan, were still eating the left overs! Sunny and a bit crowded today. Good groomers off Rainbow, Sunrise and Skyliner until aboubt 11, then got a little choppy. coming down Marshmellow from Skyliner I get waved over by ski patrol. "slow down, or better yet stay off this run. I dont want to have to pull your pass" Weird cuz I had 2 skiers pass me will I was linking med speed carves, and 2 skiers straight lined past us while he was talking to me. Might be a decent pow day tomorrow:)
Marshmallow! The only time I have ever been hit by a straightliner was on that run. I have almost been hit from behind several other times. I have seen Rebecca almost get hit as well. I just stay off it most of the time now. It does have great banks on the sides if the snow is fast enough and no one is around.
See you guys soon.
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I picked up a pair of Scarpa F1s for my splitboard. It is a unique boot, super light, and so amazing to walk in (if that matters for you). If you are heavier or want a more substantial boot, do not get the F1 without seeing it in person.
The softer AT boots that you probably want for snowboarding are pretty rare in shops. I am near Backcountry.com and got to try on a bunch of different Scarpas and Garmonts. The difference in feel and fit between different models is pretty broad. If by some chance you can find boots that you are interested in at a shop near you, go try them on.
Splitboard.com has some threads on AT boots. Check here.
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If they come with the 4 cant wedges that my F2 Race Titaniums came with, you can stack 2 of those to make lift. Just stack them in a way that they cancel each other out. I figure that the heel lift piece makes about 4.5* of lift, 4 stacked cant wedges about 3*, and 2 stacked cant wedged about 1.5* of lift.
Not a ton of options, but definitely functional if you do not need too tall of cant or lift.
Buell
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Just a note for trikerdad.
The Prior you had was a 187.
Looking forward to seeing you at OES!
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and while were at it; can some one suggest a board size for some one who weighs 145lbs and is 5' 10"? no ever has the same dimmesions as i do when this stuff some up and i don't really wanna make a new tread for it lol.
I am almost exactly your size. You can PM me for more info or start a new thread giving us more detail about what you are after in a board.
Proper flex is going to be your biggest challenge. Most boards that are built for an average sized rider are going to be stiffer than you need (want). I am currently on Coilers custom built for my weight and riding style. There is nothing like having the right flex!
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snowboardfast, way to actually test an idea instead of leaving it at the "what if"!
For my riding I would expect all the same conclusions that you came to, but there is a guy here in Utah that just tears it up all mountain on the 4WD / hardboots set up. I watched another guy on a Coiler AM doing the same thing a couple of years ago. All kinds of preferences!
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But how interesting or educational would that be? Ooohh, pretty board! End of thread. Should we start a forum called "Look at my new toy and tell me how awesome it is, but don't ask me why I bought it!" ;) ;) ;)
fair enough! ;)
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Beautiful board Hans!
This is my question about a lot of Tinklers and some other customs that have been posted here, why such a short radius for such a long board? My 170 has 14.2m and it wants for no extra length. 15m would be found on a 180-185. What does going to 202cm buy you with a 14-15m radius?
I don't measure it, I just ride the sucker and have fun with it.fair enough!Can't we just leave it at that?
Those dimensions are not for me either, but most of these riders are very good to excellent carvers. I don't understand the need for justification if this is a design that they choose to ride. It is not like they haven't ridden other, more typical length / sidecut boards.
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BryanZ,
If you are reading some of these posts, you will realize that a lot of us have been hit from behind by straightlining skiers / boarders who thought they were in total control. How do you claim it is your right to put me at risk for your fun? Do what you want to yourself, don't involve other people.
You are the one who injured a guy because you could not stop and have claimed to feel no remorse because he should not have been on the run where you hit him. You will likely not be so lucky next time to suffer no consequences.
Your claims of recklessness and justifications sound really bad to this "old fart" and I don't even have kids that I worry about with people like you around. I am hoping that you are just playing troll and making all this up.
Buell
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Bryanz, You are depending on luck if you are jumping blind.
Just a couple of days ago, I checked a slope, it was empty. I started carving. I crested a rollover that I didn't even think anyone could be hiding under. Suddenly, there was an instructor and student 30 feet away, right in my line. I opened my line, went around them and yelled that was a horrible place to be. They moved, but they were there if I had sent the roller. Even though were in a place they shouldn't have been, I guarantee you that would not have mattered if I had injured one of them by sending a blind roller in a ski resort.
This is a story posted on TGR yesterday (a website definitely not for a pu$$ified America to use your words) about a 5 year old who now has a broken femur and was unconscious for a good while. You should read the thread. Sending blind rollers and expecting no one to be below them could easily get you in the same tough spot as the guy who hit her. Even if it hasn't happend yet.
From the OP on TGR:
The kids were snaking down Paradise bowl. A 28 year old guy visiting from CA was hauling ass/straightlining down the slope. I guess he was looking behind him for his friends, looked forward and saw that he was about to plow into a "pod" of kids. He swung his board sideways or whatever to avoid but couldn't and slammed into Ellie going Mach 1. One of the witnesses characterized it as "horrific". 200 pounds of dude and board met my daughter's body knocking her face down (and out) and snapping her femur like a twig. My daughter was unconscious for about a minute. To his credit he stuck around and was visibly moved. He stayed with her to the ER but left before I got there at least I think. After talking with witnesses and reading statements the cops called him and he agreed to be interviewed. Based on their findings and the severity of Ellie's injuries they placed him under arrest and charged him with felony assault on a minor. He's in jail tonight.From a reply to the OP on TGR:
a lot of us here need to think twice about this kind of thing and the impacts of going mach looney at public ski areas. I think this thread prompts a very good discussion about skiing safely at the resorts and hopefully people reading this here think about who's around and downhill when sending it. -
If somebody is completely stopped on the highway, after a hill, just sitting there relaxing in there parked car, and you hit them, who's fault is that? It's their fault.
The highway / ski resort analogy sometimes works, but it fails in a lot of examples so we should be careful.
How do you come to the idea that it is their fault? The accident is yours to avoid. What if their car is broken down? Is it still their fault or is it yours?
I certainly drive down the interstate assuming that there could be a wreck in front of me at any time and that traffic could come to a sudden stop. That does not mean that I do not drive faster than most other drivers.
On the ski hill, you had better expect that there are going to be gapers and kids sitting under the blind roll overs because often there are. I ride at a largely deserted mountain and I find that only adds to other people's feeling of safety doing stupid stuff. It blows my mind that they cannot consider the possible consequences of their actions, but that does not absolve me from blame if I hit them.
Kids in particular are notorious for trying slopes that are too steep for them and spending a lot of time under blind rollovers. If you were to hit and injure a kid, do you think anyone else would blame them?
Rule #1: Always stay in control, and be able to stop or avoid other people or objects.
The joy of hitting blind rollers at speed does not absolve you from following that rule and protecting the other people on the hill.
If you want freedom from the rules, do not ride in a resort.
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Actually, I am pretty sure that it does make him an expert in the physics of how to make a snowboard work well and go fast. This is not some theoretical classroom thing for Phil. This is what he lives.
Glad to hear that you are done educating the experts, because you have a lot to learn.
Buell