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Hey Jack, would love to try an Apex, but don't have UPM. It's for an older Coiler of mine.

Hello, Just missed out on the last one to pop up. If anyone has a Boiler Plate Lite ( also known as V2 I believe) I'd like to buy it. PM me if you have one. Thanks!

Hi Bob. Interested in the boots. Will send a PM later, at work right now.

Also interested in the boots if you have them.

Hello, Interested in your boots, also sent a pm. Brett

Looking for a back-up pair if anyone has a pair sitting around.

As a coach, and also a racer (on skis and board) I was wondering the same thing, as were the pacesetters and guys who run NASTAR at our resort. A couple of years ago prior to my knee surgeries I was running platinums on both skis and board and I actually thought I was "faster" compared to everyone else on the board. Over the course of a couple days I brought both skis and board to the hill and ran several runs on each on the same day. Amazingly, at our resort I was almost exactly 10 points faster on the skis. So, for my resort it works, but I'm sure at others it isn't the same. I do know that when we get an easy set I can smoke it on the board and pull very close to the ski time. It's on the harder sets where the difference is at the 10 points.

Bubble varies on terrain and how many people are out. Here in the Midwest the runs are short and sometimes really crowded so by default my bubble is pretty small. This means you really have to be aware of what others are doing. I always try to time it for a "break" in the crowd, and once I start rarely does anyone catch up./ That said, we had a perfect reminder of why looking uphill is a great idea before making a huge arcing turn. One of our HS racers who was out practicing the other night made a huge arc at the bottom of the hill and got t-boned by a skier straightlining into the lift line and snapped the boarders femur. The skier was unhurt, but it could have been worse for both of them. As it is this kid was on the short list for State Champion this year and now his season is over. While technically the skiers fault, he had the same excuse that he wasn't expecting to see that kind of turn. Better to be riding defensively and looking around than to get taken out.

How about shoulder alignment? If you're dipping your inside shoulder towards the hill when you're really trying to put a lot of pressure on the board it will slide out from under you and could feel like you're booting out. Hard to tell what it could be without seeing you ride. Have someone take a short vid of you and you'll learn a lot.

One of m,y friends, I think he's Midwest Carver on here, rides a lot at Alpine. He's usually on a Burner and is really good. I'm sure he'd talk to you if you stopped him out there. If you ever make it over to Tyrol Basin there's a lot of us here, especially on Monday nights when the beer league and high school racers are out,. On any given weekend there'll be 3-20 of us on the hill. We've actually been building up the high school race league and we've got about a dozen kids on alpine gear that you'll see out on weekends too. Everyone is always friendly and happy to talk to other hardbooters, high schoolers included.

My dad's not on here, but I'm 42 and he's 67 and still racing in our beer league on his Coiler.

Hey Jerry, Glad to hear you're back at it. We plan to make it out again next season and I'll definitely stop by the gallery. Still wishing I would have picked up that picture of the fire over the river last time. Excelsior...what you said about it having the steepest greens and blues is so true. Don't give up on them. Once you get comfortable they are a blast to carve on. Seattle ridge is really nice, now that it's open you'll really like it there.

I've ridden at SV 3 times over the last 5 years and absolutely love it. Jerry is awesome, rider and photographer, and was a big help my first time there. He pretty much fixed my heelside after one run. I've kept going back because it truly is never crowded as long as you are happy to move around on the mountain when one side gets crowded. I've also never had anything but good comments on the hill about the HB setup. The only snicker was from the NASTAR guys, but once you run a gold they kind of shut up :-) It's also interesting, but things labelled blue there are often as steep as blacks in CO, and I've thought that the average ability and skill level of the people on Baldy is far above anything I've encountered anywhere but Jackson so you pretty much don't have to worry about people mistaking your line.

I have Head Stratos Pros in 26.5 with either the original liners, or a pair of well used thermo liners that can still take another molding. They have been cut to accept the Bomber BTS, but would not include the BTS. Would sell cheap. If interested e-mail at brett "at" nemke "dot" com

Still available? e-mail me at brett "at" nemke "dot" com Thanks!