Fastskiguy
-
Posts
857 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
1
Content Type
Blogs
Gallery
Downloads
Store
Events
Profiles
Forums
Posts posted by Fastskiguy
-
-
When you're riding & listening to tunes don't you miss hearing the love from the lift?
That can be good stoke sometimes. :)
It all depends on how loud it is!
-
I'm thinking 1 degree base bevel and whatever for side bevel is the best.
-
If you ride at Sundown in Dubuque then I could meet you there and you could ride my 171 Donek FC 2 sometime, I'm hoping to get over there a day or two soon.
-
Straightrunning switch and not looking and you're the guy with busted stuff, sometimes life just doesn't seem quite fair. At least nothing was broken that can't be replaced. Good luck :)
-
Diamonds have a short supply and high demand. Asym snowboards have no supply, and next to no demand, who would want to make one other than a one-off? Pureboarding didn't make the #ONE very long before going to the pinstriped deck. Offshore racing boats aren't as much stocked as made after being ordered are they? I don't know anything about that. By the way- Your avatar caught my eye on MTBR, I see you ride 29ers too.
Can't wait to see Jack's opinion on this
Yeah, I got your sticker right here.. Sorry.. Couldn't help but do it.
Well, OK, I don't know anything about diamonds or off shore boats so maybe it's different with asyms....I was just thinking, stocking can't be the problem, they must just suck!
One thing for sure, your anagram is freaking hilarious!
Yes 29" wheeled bikes, they are really great, I don't feel like a gorilla on a tricycle with them. But I am thinking the new big thing in bikes might be the 26" wheel. Lighter, stiffer, stronger, and accelerates faster. I heard they used to use it in the past until everybody switched. I'm building up one of these bikes and will ride a bunch of time trials, 26 v 29 and will post a big ol'thread when I get some data (on mtbr). Might be just a fad but I'm going to check this little wheeled thing out :)
-
As much as listening to Miles Davis's Bitches Brew would be a surreal experience while hitting some great turns ... no way.
At one of our local hills a group of deaf/hearing impaired riders/skiers are on the hill every weekend ... the group has a special bib so people know that this riders/skiers can't hear.
IPOD crankers have no such bib to warn other riders of this limitation ... and thus put everyone at risk.
As for tinnitus, yeah, you don't want it. Keep the music low when you're on the lift ... and if they would turn it down at the base lodge too!!!
I usually play the air guitar and air drums on the way up so people behind me give me a wide margin :)
-
I think that there's definitely some genius to asyms, but it has to be a logistical headache. Stocking goofys and regulars, and manufacturing them without ending up with left overs or coming up short. Just getting the quantities of sizes correct has to be hard enough.
Makes sense but if guys can stock diamonds or off shore racing boats then they should be able to stock asym boards. I want to find a "bring back the asyms" bumper sticker LOL!
-
Your ankles are closer to your heels than your toes, so you are actually standing closer to your heelside edge. That is why you chatter only on your toeside edge and an offset sidecut (asym) will not fix that. Although, stiffening your boots can help.
Seriously? I thought I'd try softer...at least with my rear foot. I'll crank down my BTS's a little bit and give it a try.
-
You heard it here first-asyms will be back someday. There's nothing symmetrical about the stance on a snowboard.
But I chatter only on my toesides so there is something that we do not fully understand here
-
Wow, what language were those guys singing in the first video?
-
Satch never ceases to make me wanna ride like a nut.
Watching Professor Satchafunkilus almost makes me wish I hadn't wasted all of that time skiing as a kid and played the guitar instead!
-
Would love to get my disc.
I'd even settle for my 10 bucks back!
-
Yeah, when alone it's great on the chairlift. As for on the way down...not so much.
-
My first impression was "No way!" but now I'm thinking just 1" past the contact point at the tip and tail might make the whole thing easier....
-
I don't want to gloat....much....but Tyrol Basin had the white ribbon of death going Tuesday night and they're open again tonight with a lot more snow. It wasn't even incredibly death defying :) You guys are getting the real stuff, awesome!
-
Oh yeah, the omni prep pad, that's it!
-
Tired of doing it by hand and when you have to do several boards in the evening...
I thought It might be faster and help get rid of the microhairs on a fresh grind by using an electric car buffer?
You can get a rotobrush attachment with the pad that removes those hairs. If that makes any sense. Plus a drill. Then you'd be all set quick.
-
A little OT but if anybody out there has ridden the Blade, the Swoard, or other boards....how do they compare? I've only ridden a Blade.
-
I think the flex and sidecut are more important than the width but maybe I'm wrong. Still....I've got a 180 blade and it bends into a nice arc when tipped up on edge, feels really good. Plus floats nice in powder if you get skunked out of the cord ;)
-
iS THIS A PROTOTYPE PHOTO OR IS THIS THE FINAL PRODUCT? aRE THERE COLOR OPTIONS?
KR:)
Oh yeah, colors? Is it red only or can we get rainbow or tie dye or something? In my enthusiasm, I completely forgot about color...
-
Wow, what a wait and it sure looks like the suspense was worth it :)
-
My wife is pretty receptive to me handing her a box and saying "please give this to me for Christmas" so that is the route I'm taking. Actually...two boxes with the Fin-Tech heels :) Thanks guys! The TD3's and new heels look great :)
-
my brother is a tele god, every year we trade equipment for awhile and I've tried alpine carving gear and ski boards but he did great and I struggled to embrace the skid. Last year I thought I had him with my new alpine snowboard stuff. I thought I'd skid around and he'd flail, then get slammed a couple of times before giving up in defeat. However, he was arc-to-arc on greens right away, then managed some blues while I pancaked myself on the tips of his tele boards with my ski carving tactics, then meekly paratele'd the rest of the morning, hanging out in the back seat, feeling like a total loser.
So keep the positive attitude, tele to alpine snowboard can be a survivable (and fun!) endeavor :)
-
Doesn't really REVEAL anything.
What are you guys waiting for?
People are already lined up waiting to buy it.
Just show the whole thing already!
Makes just want to buy some TD2s so I don't have to wait.
Ah yes, this is great, it's just like when the didn't have enough PS3's at the launch and they said "well, maybe some of these people will buy PS2's" and it actually happened.
But wait....there are no TD2's anymore! Rats!
If you could go anywhere to carve, where?
in Carving Central
Posted
I'm thinking one of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn (might be ungroomed) but I can also recommend the 300 foot vert slope of Alpine Valley or 400 foot vert of Cascade Mountin (both in Wisconsin) on a WEEK DAY....serviced by it's their own high speed quads.