mr_roboteye

I'm old and I'm fat :) The mind is very willing but the flesh is weak LoL. Time to get back in shape, NOT the round kind :) I was riding my trusty old Rossignol 184 world cup race. Oh and Whistler was terrible today :)

Nice to meet you today darko !! Today was about as good as it gets. Have fun tomorrow on the Kessler :)

I have RC10's with the stock (flo) liners. I was curious so I put a bare foot in the shell to see where I was at. With my big toe touching the front, i would say I have less than 10mm between my heel and the rear of the shell. I've only worn them riding one day for about four hours, but I found them to be just fine.

Yes I realize that, but the aluminum was cold rolled to .4mm in the first place. At the factory where they make .3mm and .4mm thicknesses, is it not logical to deduce that they simply keep rolling the same stock they use to make .4mm down until they get .3mm? Therefore the only real variable is how the surface treatment will react to being rolled as far as I can see

Has anyone considered cold rolling a sheet of .4mm down to .3mm? I have no idea if it would affect the surface treatment that aids in the bonding process but it might be worth a test to see if it's a viable workaround.

If I'm not mistaken, that is the one and only Fin. Owner of Bomber industries, inventor and chief engineer of the trenchdiggers and the boilerplate

I don't know if you'll be there all week but Monday and Tuesday will be a bit snowy and starting on Wednesday (23rd) the hardpack conditions will be pretty much hero snow. After a day of skier and groomer packing with the cold temps (-10c) the groomed runs will be a veddy niice :)

The one massive advantage that the RC8's / RC10's will have over your ski boots is adjustable forward lean. If you run any sort of rear foot lift or canting it is an awesome adjustment to have for getting a comfortable stance

Thanks for the validation. It was a long time ago but I didn't think I'd gone that squirrelly in the head since then haha.

I think you should ride everything you can get your mitts on. It's the only way you'll figure out what you like :)

The one I had was like a closet door. Could have been a Wednesday board or an anomaly or maybe burton got some complaints about how the 169 was a little noodly and addressed it. Boris is right the Alp was replaced by the wire

When I used to live in Whistler I had an Alp 171 in 1999. I weighed a bit more than you do (170 lbs at the time) and rode (ride) quite aggressively. Long story short: I feel the 171 had too much sidecut for how stiff burton made it. Once the speeds started climbing I didn't weigh enough to be able to bend the board. If you don't want to do fast carves I don't think it will be much of an issue for you but a word to the wise: it's a fairly stiff and not too forgiving board. At least the one I had was haha. Good luck

Hi Boris, yes it's been quite a while haha. Had a lot of fun and maybe horrified a few people too. We'll see about Cypress man.

The road was bare pavement all the way. It hadn't snowed for about 4 or five days but earlier in the week I imagine it was "entertaining". Was a little icy when you got within ten minutes of Creekside but the rest of the highway was fine Traffic was a little busy, but moved along fine until I got into West Vancouver where it was an unmitigated friggin' disaster Do you want me to kill you a little more? haha Here's another pic from a few days ago and one I took about fifteen years ago This picture was taken with a 6x6 Rollei TLR on slide film

I went riding yesterday for the first time in about eight years. A combination of factors kept me off the hill for so long. Finances, bad snow years etc. I used my brand new UPZ RC10's that I had purchased many years ago (eight years I guess LoL) with the intention of using and never quite got around to it. My last boots were Burton fire's (smoked grey see through shell) which as I understand is a pretty stiff boot as they go. My RC10's are stock with the exception of a pair of stainless T-nuts on the two screws closest to the front of the boot. When I got the boots I just didn't trust how those two toe piece screws were just screwed into the plastic of the shell's sole. I was riding my Rossignol world cup 184, Burton race plates with aluminum discs. Conditions were hero hardpack with temps around -10c all day. With all my gear on I am about 190 lbs. I really liked the RC10's. At no point during the day did I think I needed a stiffer boot (forward flex or lateral) as I do ride pretty high angles of 60 and 57 for zero overhang on a 190mm waist width board. They were reasonably comfortable for what is arguably a full race boot. Would recommend About the only thing I didn't like about the RC10's was if you have to walk down a snow hill there isn't any heel to stand on so you will most likely end up on your ass so you learn to walk down a steep incline sideways LoL BTW I totally killed it. Haven't forgotten a thing. Fast low carves, lightning transitions and a magnet for the mountain safety crew. Unfortunately my legs aren't able to keep up with what my brain is telling them to do so I had to rest frequently. Such a beautiful day !!!!!!

That's ok, I'm glad to hear you already have some good gear. I see from the picture you have at least one ogasaka board. A little english lesson. When you are talking about "gear", even though there is more than one piece of "gear" it is correct to use the singular version of the word. If you want to say that all your gear is old and worn out referring to your pants, jacket, gloves, board, bindings, boots. You would still use the singular word "gear" "All my gear is ****ty and worn out" "Man, my gear sucks" I know english is pretty hard to understand sometimes because the same rules don't always apply to every situation.

Haha, it's true. Not much of a cypress guy. In all seriousness I only have one board that is really suited to riding at cypress. All the others are a bit too long to miss the moving meat pylons. :)

Hey Kaz welcome to the forum and New West. I can't help you with boots, but I have a board and bindings (yellowtop burton FP 167 and burton raceplates) you are welcome to use all year if you want. You are lucky to be in this area because there are some people that have a LOT of carving gear in their house that you can probably use for free. Haha. Where are you in New West? I'm in Queens park area.

I find it quite ironic that those who see themselves as guiding snowboarding into the future have become just as oppressive and inflexible as the ski culture was towards snowboarding when it was in it's infancy. The duckfoot issue comes to me as a bit of a revelation for me as well. Snowboarding was / is about freedom. Being able to adjust your stance and angles to suit your bio-mechanics, riding type, riding style and board is one of the really great things about it. Dictating that everyone must ride duck is basically akin to saying everyone must drive a honda civic with the drivers' seat at five clicks back from fully forward. It will not fit and suit everyone. good luck Boris, .

I vary stance angle based on waist width and bootout point. I usually end up with 60 front 57 rear on a board with a 180mm waist. Got small feet, haha.

Excellent job Boris, very impressive. About the only thing I would change if you can, is to move your white blocks toward each other on the board to the sets of factory inserts that are closest to each other (the farthest back on the front insert pack, and farthest forward on the rear insert pack). This would encourage the board to flex even more. You could also loose some weight by strategically drilling some holes in the plate with a hole saw and using titanium fasteners instead of steel. Once again, impressive. Thanks for sharing. Dave R.

I want to echo some other comments made here about the physics bindings. I think that the design is excellent, but the execution was poor. Because of the cost of production, the manufacturer was forced to use materials that weren't as strong as they should be. I have not seen another binding that has the stiffness to weight ratio that the race physics (speed hooks used) is capable of. I used them for a little while with aluminum discs and burton fire boots on a sims burner 188. Unfortunately I broke two of the plastic baseplates in two days. After that I wouldn't use them anymore. I miss them, but burton raceplates are fine for me now. later, Dave R.

Bad riding is bad riding, no matter what size the board is. Poor technique and improper execution will be punished by a stiff, mean board, regardless of the size. I would go so far as to say that metal construction probably hides more mistakes than a longer board. There's nothing quite like railing a badass 185+cm board in a nice wide open space. .

This board has been shipped to it's new owner. To all who looked and didn't speak up, you lost out. later, Dave R.

E-mail sent. Sorry, my computer's boot file has been corrupted so I can't boot up my machine, so I may take a day or two to get back to you as I have to "borrow" time on other people's computers. thanks, Dave R.