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My experience too. And the nice thing with this ap is at the moment you stop so does the music (and it turns down as you slow down too). For a buck it's $.$$ well spent.

More towards speed and more towards sensitivity. Seems like about 1/3 to 3/8 up from the left side of the scale on both sliders.

hopefully it worked out for you John. I bailed by 11. It was a zoo! Northwest is the run to carve on, but it gets very busy by mid morning on a weekend which means lots and lots of stops to make sure you don't get straightlined from behind.

If you ride with tunes (and I'm not trying to make this one of THOSE threads), I strongly recommend checking out Adaptunes. Its a $.99 ap that uses the gps and acellerometer in the phone to turn the volume up and down based on speed and movement of the phone. Using the "skiing" setting, this ap is incredible. I can now have normal conversations with people on the chair while rocking out down the hill, all hands free. As soon as you stop the volume instantly drops. I've also got mine set up to be more reactive to actual movement of the phone (not just speed that the phone is travelling), so even though the chair ride is fast, the phone is relatively still so the tunes are really faint in the background. Pretty dern cool. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adaptunes-speed-based-volume/id319479071?mt=8

Oh that that were the sound that's being recorded. In reality its the sound of the gopro camera bouncing around in its plastic waterproof case.

gah... I got a trailer full of honey-dos and its the holidays and... blah blah blah. If I can get up tomorrow it would prolly be for a few hours in the morning... say 9-11 a.m.? I'll look out for a carvin' crew.

So I haven't posted a legit carving video on youtube in almost two years (owing to me not spending much time at a carving-friendly resort last year). Anyway, back in spring of 2009 I posted a couple of videos with the gopro facing forward. They were terrible because the camera gets packed with snow. However, in the past several months they've taken off and both have more hits than any of my other vids. Very weird! This is now my "top viewed" video. Its excruciating! I can't even stand to watch it because of the audio. <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Te24hzRUGI?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Te24hzRUGI?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

Hey Buell, you and I have ridden together on some of that steep and narrow terrain, so I'll throw in this two cents... I agree that a shorter board is more confidence inspiring for the cautious carver because it allows someone to use the "natural" turning radius of the board to make a turn in tight conditions. However, after becoming proficient, I strongly prefer something with a bit more edge length in those same conditions. It probably is an element of "masking bad technique" or something like that, but I feel like the bigger board has a bigger "platform" and isn't as sensitive to minor errors in body position. What it does take is some mental commitment to "muscle" the longer board into turning short RIGHT NOW. I'm not talking about the difference between 140cm and 210, rather more like 160 and 180. For me (160ish lbs) I really like the generally longer sidecut and greater stability that a board in the 180 range provides over the twitchier short boards. I haven't ridden anything super new-school in a short board though, so maybe my mind could be changed. Coming to Reno this winter/spring? :)

Man, where is scrapster... this board has his name written all over it.

Avalanche / Sanders? Pics like these in the back of Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding blew my mind in the 80s.

If any of you have ever ridden with James Ong you know that a light guy can throw down on tight steep groomers on a long board. If you have to keep your speed in check my argument would be that you aren't riding a steep enough run. On steeps carving boards are slow because we finish our turns. Getting run over from behind is the more significant concern.

This is a KILLER freecarve board that doesn't get enough love around here. Preferred to my dearly departed Coiler AM-T.

And with that you will find no disagreement.

LOL, dude, whacking it was not what I did first, nor does the linked article suggest it. If you read what I said, you would know that my ipod was "otherwise bricked." Bricked means no workie, no matter what. None of the other solutions worked. It was literally going to be thrown in the garbage. Then I saw the whack it idea, and guess what, it worked.

funny thing is that's EXACTLY what I had and this is a known fix for ipods that already seem to be bricked. http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2006/07/13/how-to-fix-an-ipod-with-the-sad-ipod-icon/

I had an old ipod video that wigged out and I tried every button pushing trick in the book to get it to work to no avail. Then right before I was gonna throw it out I read something about whacking it pretty hard with your hand. Sure enough it came right back to life after a little physical abuse.

LOL, "tact"ful! :) Really though if it doesn't work in the really cold temps that would be interesting to know. How cold was it?

I know that's supposed to be a joke, but IMHO it would still be undesireable because to get a good camera angle you want to get the camera as far to the front (or back) of the board as possible (gets more rider in the board). 10" from front binding would just get a whole lot a knee in the shot.

Interesting, dave. Did you heat the 3M vhb before sticking it, and then let it cure for a while? I've had tons of success with that stuff, especially if I get it super-gooey with a blowdrier for a while first. Granted, I've not tried to use it in "brutally cold temps". My temp range is usually 20F+. EDIT: my avatar is actually shot from one of the stick on helmet mounts (which I would not recommend trying at home) that I used the blow drier trick on.

My experience was negative.... dry, it'll stick pretty good. but if there's any moisture on the board, the mount will start to "skate" on the surface of the board, eventually falling off. I could never get mine to stay on for longer than a couple minutes. The semi-permanent surfboard mount is a way better choice imho.

I will respectfully disagree with anyone saying you'll only lose 1-2 mpg. That could be true for around town driving, but on long freeway stretches, it will be more unless you religiously drive 55. I'm a 75-80 mph driver in the west, and I've had a roof box on five different vehicles. The more economical the vehicle to begin with, the bigger the impact on mileage. I lost 5+ mpg with a box on my 1997 accord wagon. Similar losses on top of my wrx (plus major PITA with spoiler clearance). Honda Pilot, Nissan Pathfinder and Honda Odyssey all lost 3+ at highway speeds (and those are all sub 20 mpg vehicles to begin with). Which is not to say don't buy a box. Love it love it love it. But it's not without penalty at the pump.

Bang for the buck, the gopro HD is pretty darn good for $250. If you are looking for the absolute BEST HD resolution, probably not. But shooting in the r3 mode (720p, 60fps) the results are quite good. I'd say 90% as good as my canon vixia hf100, for half the (current) price. As for editing, I've started using imovie (mac) and it's pretty good for a moron like me. Apple actually converts every video into its own apple codec first, before you edit. So it can take quite a while to import videos, but once they're imported, they edit very well in real time. You can then export the videos into different formats. For editing on a PC, I'd look at a rig that's billed as a "gaming" machine. Core i7 with a 1gb video card should be awesome. A couple of samples of the gopro HD in action this summer: <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXN3UVFUzq4?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXN3UVFUzq4?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcOrJND20H4?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcOrJND20H4?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DMB1oGYoF4?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DMB1oGYoF4?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> When's it gonna snow?

With a big fat headstart on the dates I could probably twist some arms in the Reno crew to actually show up and ride with you guys too.

In the interest of explaining what I'm doing here... my HSPs have a set of size 10 intuitions in them now, and the fit is heavenly. These are the "plain old" intuitions... not the power wraps. I believe that the current model equivalent would be the alpine liner, though the ones I'm running in the HSPs are black, like the universal liner. My liners are a few years old, though, so I'm assuming intuition changed the liner color along the way. Anyhow, my snowboard boots are dialed with this liner and a set of footbeds. Never had a better fitting pair of boots. What I'm trying to do now is replicate that near perfect fit in a pair of Dalbello Avanti shells for skiing. This boot uses the same shell mold as the HSPs, so I just need to duplicate the liner situation and I should be good to go. So please don't tell me it won't work (I've done it already, it does work for me).