Fat Old Bastard

And thanks to TerryW for explaining what I meant. I guess I'll give it a try. Months to go till the snow... too much time to think

I've just set up my soft boot rig (Rad-Air Reto Lam LSD 164 with Flow Team bindings & Malamutes) with Gilmour bias and am wondering should I do the same to my hard boot rig (Hot Blast stiff 176 + TD2 SIs + Deeluxe Salt Lake City). John ? William Blake ? Bordy ? Jack ? Anybody ? P.S. Australia down here so I have a couple more months before the snow.

Of course when I say expenses it may take me a season or three to get back in carving shape and ready to hit Harakiri But if you all really want to know whether or not it's carveable then I'm your man ! :lol:

Which is pretty steep but definitely rideable. Just don't crash

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Thanks for posting that technique. Way back in my self-taught Burton Elite days I fluked upon discovering that if I "swept" my lower legs forward I could get the edge to bite in and they were the only carved turns I ever made back then. But later when snowboard instructors came into being and lessons became available nobody ever told me about this technique. They mentioned fore to aft weight shift instead. I must try this technique again. "Sweep the legs Johnnie !" indeed :D

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S-Flex is from F2. Many posts on about it right here on BOL. The others I never heard of.

Treble Cone NZ in 93 I thought I was pretty slick on my Hot Logical asym. So I was skidding sliding and scraping oops I mean carving downhill at a good speed on a moderately steep run when for reasons I can't remember I lost an edge or whatever and went up in the air upside down with board right up high. Then when I slammed back down the nose of the board speared into the hard snow and stuck their leaving my body dangling downhill from the board. I was uninjured but pretty uncomfortable and I couldn't reach the bindings to release myself. So I was hanging there upside down. :eek: I tried shouting for Help (how embarrassing) but nobody stopped so eventually I dug handholds in the snow and dragged my body up the slope until I could release my bindings. Talk about pride cometh before a fall (but in this case not after). :smashfrea

You know years ago I took my Japanese wife to Breckenridge for a snowboarding honeymoon but it did not make her happy. (I had to cancel the Jackson Hole part and go to Hawaii). How did you manage to find a beautiful woman who can ride a Tanker ? On a more serious note Harry and Atsu made me feel like a total gimp when we all went a Tankering a la 200 with softies. Indeed Harry seemed to be saying that my Burton C14s were too stiff. He was riding stock standard Rad-Air bindings. So I really wonder a little whether TDs are necessary. I know it's all personal choice but it seems a little bit overkill. But maybe your choice of boots makes the difference. I really wish someone would make an Intec compatible soft hard-boot.

Are you ready for speed ? No brains team Go big or go home ! (For the Tanker 200)

Fin has a website ? What's the URL ? Oh and who's this Fin guy ? :smashfrea

Reminds me of the 1990 Burton M6. Not to say it's the same just the concept is similar. A soft/hard boot carver. Please send me a free sample !

And best of all Petra Mussig. If only I could have absorbed half of what she taught us. Honourable mention also to Anthony Crute of Pro-Ride at Whistler. He rules in softboot technique.

I used to have a Nidecker Extreme SL 161. Think I got it around 1994 but can't remember. Very easy board to ride. I have a photo somewhere. Blue & black deck. Red & black base.

I never met Chuck Bolden. I only knew him as Dragon Fly Jones right here on BOL. In his posts he always gave good advice and had a good word to say about people. He was a class act. Vale Chuck Bolden. Ride on ride on ! Mick

That is way too much overhang. :rolleyes: Everything about your setup is wrong. :rolleyes: The best thing to do is ship your whole setup to me ! :biggthump Sweet setup. Drool......:lol: :lol: :lol:

I can't comment on the made in China Tankers because so far I have not been lucky enough to own one. (My only Tanker was an older one). But what I would like to comment on is Rad-Air. In my experience they are a good company run by very good people. I count Harry Gunz as a friend and know him to be one of the most fanatical (in a good way) snowboarders I have ever met. He is a dedicated and highly skilled Tanker rider and I cannot for a moment imagine that he would ever allow the quality of the Tankers to decline. I ask you "What would Harry ride if the new Tankers were no good ?" Aussie Mick P.S. I still know that the day that I rode with Harry was the day that I realized how much I didn't know about how to ride

I would love to be able to bolt some ultra-stiff softboot bindings on top of my Bomber Suspension Kit and the bottom half of my TD2s. But I think the "Bomber Softboot Binding" would have to use a different Base Plate. (Sorry if this is what you mean).