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Obviously the real question you haven’t answered is budget. What’s the absolute most you’re willing to spend to buy board, bindings and boots? That’s the real question here (keeping in mind that alpine equipment is significantly more expensive than regular snowboard gear).
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Enjoy! I got a 163/28.3/10m last winter and other than occasionally second-guessing my request for Bruce to make it stiffer than he wanted to, I had a blast on it this winter! Zero boot out on softies with BX-type angles is pretty amazing.
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What did you order?
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I honestly don’t know why those guys don’t just get hard boots. They’re running super high angles anyway; it’s not like they’re hitting jumps or riding all-mountain with 30+ degree angles. This approach kind of confuses me but hey
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I looked at the Pentaquark last year and leaving their questionable “designed only for the real men” macho marketing aside, I think it had like a 260 waist with an 8.5 sidecut.
Those numbers may not be ideal for all riders; and it’s designed for all types of riding, not carving-specific. The big benefit of custom is to be able to tweak those numbers to fit your preference.
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Hopefully this is a good thing for everyone. I’d be curious about any long term erosion issues but many hills have been doing both for decades so that’s likely not a huge problem.
I went biking at Windham this summer and have never been there in the winter. So that’s pretty cool.
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What happened to that Casper guy?
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Eh, you stick a good carver on a mainstream board and they’ll rip it well enough.
Small builders simply allow the pleasure of tweaking to exactly what you’re interested in. “I wish this was a bit softer but felt more lively with a bigger sidecut.” Boom done.
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Hahaha, I have to ask…..is this wise?
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On 4/3/2023 at 6:03 PM, protocarver said:
FWIW #1: I know from experience that you can, in fact use a carbon XV highback on the CV chassis – as long as you use at least moderate forward lean. If you like your highbacks very upright, no go because of the positioning block location on the highback (lower on VX/XF, higher on CV).
Yup, I played around with this as well a while back to try and get the higher CV heelcup. I didn’t like as much forward lean on my front leg and I ended up with CV front, XV rear. It worked but I’d be a bit curious about longer-term highback torque stress from the alternate positioning.
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It would help to know what boots and bindings?
Some bindings have bails for certain boots like Mountain Slopes, and some don’t.
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Agreed. My Coiler has an 11.5m (?) sidecut, but when Bruce was showing me the numbers it was clear that 1) the sidecut at any given point on the edge varies quite considerably, 2) for these type of boards, the more important thing from a ride characteristic appears to be how the sidecut changes along the edge, and 3) board flex patterns can really emphasize these sidecut changes and work in parallel.
In comparison to my board’s 11.5m average, I think the actual sidecut is longer at the nose, much tighter at the front binding, a bit tighter at the rear binding, and way longer off the tail.
So 11.5m is useful, but for boards with variable sidecut (which I think is most of them nowadays) it doesn’t explain how two boards with the same average number might act quite differently in practice.
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Anyone use Zipfits with MS boots? Curious which ones fit with their height. The Sidewinder? I was thinking of trying Zips, but my local bootfitters don’t have much experience with them and they too expensive to be a guinea pig.
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What boots?
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Is that some type of custom dampener underneath the binding?
Those are the stiffer Intec interface which would help a little, but I agree that this introduces a shit-ton of lateral flex into the binding. Some people like that and some people don’t….Jack’s brain would probably implode
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What would be comfier than the SBC wraps with insole? Cheers
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Let me tell you they do colour clash like all hell with the Mountain Slopes
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They are edges…….
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Yeah, seems almost….physically hyperbolic. Like he’s actually over-rotating for effect. It’s super smooth but also unnatural. Very impressive though!!
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Quite the upper body motion there…..like a robot, impressive
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Needs more homeless-looking riders…
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There were a couple pairs in the For Sale section. I just got a pair a couple days ago for my MS boots, will mold them in the fall.
For hard boots the only issue with height is that the liner has to fit over my calves, which can be uncomfortable at the very top. Otherwise my legs don’t flex between my ankles and knees…..
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Looks amazing at least you held the camera vertical for the ‘gram!!!
Sell your snowboard. Buy a mountain bke.
in The Lodge
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I agree on Nakiska! But I’m sure the math must be fairly easy to work out, so it has to all come down to money.