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Strider

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  1. Hey Jack, would love to try an Apex, but don't have UPM. It's for an older Coiler of mine.
  2. 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!
  3. Hi Bob. Interested in the boots. Will send a PM later, at work right now.
  4. Looking for a back-up pair if anyone has a pair sitting around.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. My dad's not on here, but I'm 42 and he's 67 and still racing in our beer league on his Coiler.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. Still available? e-mail me at brett "at" nemke "dot" com Thanks!
  14. Yup. I was an early BTS adopter. In fact, it's my favorite Bomber product. With my feet as wide as they are, it is a common problem even in shoes. they always bust out the sides at the same point. I do wonder if the HSP's have harder plastic or something that makes them deform less when you do the lower buckles.
  15. Very interesting. There must be something about how the boots flex/close with the buckles that makes a difference as well. I have mondo 26.5 feet in EE width. I started on SB 124's in the 90's, rode AF's for one season, and am now in HSP's. According to the charts, the Raichle/Deeluxe boots should have been the most comfortable, but they always pinched my feet around the cuneiform to metatarsus bones (area at the beginning of the toes where the wide bony protuberances are on either side) and were painful unless I went up sizes to get extra width there. The HSP's are super comfortable at that point and have never pinched and I actually went down to a 26 mondo instead of a 27. I have used the same liner (thermo wrap model) in each boot so that means that there must be something different going on around the 6 through nine slices in each boot that has more to do with the pinching than just the straight measurements.
  16. I wasn't overly clear in my first post. The training is what exacerbated the injury. Here's some references (all from our research). Unless you have a good understanding of orthopaedics and bone growth regualtion it may sound like a lot of gobbledgook. The 3 papers cited together explain how it works in bone. We are currently looking at the same thing in soft tissue, ie tendon, ligaments. I can't give you any citations as the work is ongoing. Also, before anyone points out that rats are different than humans, yes we know and understand this. It is also being looked at in higher order mammals as well. 1: Sample SJ, Collins RJ, Wilson AP, Racette MA, Behan M, Markel MD, Kalscheur VL, Hao Z, Muir P. Systemic effects of ulna loading in male rats during functional adaptation. J Bone Miner Res. 2010 Sep;25(9):2016-28. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.101. PubMed PMID: 20499374; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3153405. 2: Wu Q, Sample SJ, Baker TA, Thomas CF, Behan M, Muir P. Mechanical loading of a long bone induces plasticity in sensory input to the central nervous system. Neurosci Lett. 2009 Oct 9;463(3):254-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.07.078. Epub 2009 Aug 4. PubMed PMID: 19647783; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3424266. 3: Sample SJ, Behan M, Smith L, Oldenhoff WE, Markel MD, Kalscheur VL, Hao Z, Miletic V, Muir P. Functional adaptation to loading of a single bone is neuronally regulated and involves multiple bones. J Bone Miner Res. 2008 Sep;23(9):1372-81. doi: 10.1359/jbmr.080407. PubMed PMID: 18410233; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2586809. You are correct on the pounding in moguls; however, it also has a lot to do with style. I have always loved moguls on skis and I ski it like you see in competiton; zipline, knees together and fast. This pretty much requires you using your knees as the shock absorbers that they are meant to be, but isn't kind to them either. I used to do the same line on the board, but now I ski them with a more gently flowing line and slower on both skis and board to save the wear and tear on the knees. With the way the knee joint works, and the function of the meniscus you actually get a lot of loading on the meniscus by lateral motion as well. If you are skiing and loaded up in a tunr there is an incredible amount of pressure on the meniscus and the ligaments in the knee, which is why when the ACL, MCL or PCL fail you usually see a pretty terrific meniscal tear at the same time as a result of whatever action caused the failure. As far as running, if a person can be a mid-foot striker rather than a heel striker you can save a lot of that pounding, pretty much what you said. Alas, I'm an incurable heel striker and tried to change, but just can't get used to it. Anyway, I have found other ways to stay fit and keep from going insane so running is off the table other than the occasional 5K with the kids.
  17. Not before the original accident, but I do now.
  18. The first injury was a combination of blunt force trauma to the knee in an awkward fall snowboarding while racing. The second one wasn't as easy to diagnose a single event, but meniscus tend to degenerate as we age, and as was stated in an earlier post, 60-70% of (active) people will experience torn meniscus at some point. We've also done a lot of research in our lab that has shown there is probably a sympathetic response in the opposing limb when you injure one limb. this can often lead to degeneration in the opposing limb once you're injured in one. The only thing that can currently be done to mitigate future degradation is to discontinue heavy load bearing (pounding) type of activities. Tops on that list was running, close behind is mogul skiing/riding which are unfortunately both things I love, but also both of which probably contributed to the injury. As with any overuse injury, the best fix is less use. I still do a ton of stuff, just think more about it now as I don't want to end up with a replacement until I'm at least in my 70's. Rehab may work to alleviate the pain, but if the tear is big enough it's not going to stop the other potential damage that can be done to the cartilage in there, which is more important for long-term joint health.
  19. True. We got the T2i on an amazing deal as the T3 had just came out, and we actually never even had the stock lens as we traded it in at purchase for a better one immediatley. The lenses onthe "kits" just aren't that great, but if you've never had an SLR before ( I had like 8 lenses for my old SLR back in the day) it will still kick ass over the point and shoot you're probably used to.
  20. I'd agree with Jack. We have a Canon T2i, so older version of the current T5i, and putting it into sport mode and taking a 50 picture series of my son in the race course has been great. The stills I pull out of video are never as good quality.
  21. Hello, I'm a little late to this thread, but maybe I can help you out a bit since I am an orthopaedic researcher whose specialty is ligament,tendon, and cartilage repair, and I have also had my medial meniscus removed in both knees. The first tear happened while I was training for a marathon, of which I had already done several. I knew what I had done based on the symptoms, and my primary doc confirmed it. I opted to run through the pain and do my race which was 2 months away. I continued to run and the pain only got slightly worse. After the race, I had an MRI and saw that I had torn the meniscus in 7 places, most of those probably from continuing to run after the initial injury. This meant that I had to have over 75% of it removed. Also, those torn pieces acted like sandpaper on the cartilage in the joint and after seeing the pictures of the cartilage on the bone surface taken during the surgery I could see that my cartilage was grade 4. The surgeon confirmed this as well. To put this in perspective, I was 40 and grade 4 would be expected in someone 70+. The best part is I work with this stuff on a daily basis and still made a stupid choice because I'd never had any type of surgery and wasn't keen on it. Cartilage degradation is the main cause of ostoearthritis, and eventual knee replacements since your joint is rubbing bone on bone. Joint cartilage is also one of the things in your body that doesn't heal or replace itself so once it is gone/damaged that is it. To date, no one has been very successful with replacement techniques or regrowth either. Eventually we'll figure it out, but not for a while down the road. The second knee had the same injury the following year and I had surgery within a week of injuring it. They only had to take out a small portion where the tear was and the cartilage in that knee looked pristine. I wish I had done it that way the first time. Now, some tears are so small, or in a place that they won't sandpaper the cartilage off and if you can deal with the discomfort maybe you leave it alone. However, if you've seen an orthopaedist, especially a knee specialist, and they recommend surgery I'd tend to listen to them as they should have a ton of experience with that type of injury and when surgery is the best long-term option as it may save you from doing more damage like I did. I hope she has a speedy and pain free recovery. If all goes well she should be back on the board by winter easily.
  22. The hinged top would be nice addition for the reasons you said. https://www.google.com/search?q=hinged+top+workbench&sa=X&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=FN0UU5PTMLHeyQHlnIGIBg&ved=0CFUQsAQ&biw=1202&bih=859 Most of these guys have them swing down to get them out of the way, but you'd just reverse the hinge. The hinge won't really need to be heavy duty and I assume you'll have the top rest against the wall when it's open. The full length hinge will work great though and not put the stress points all in one spot. You could also put a little gas piston in there to hold it when it's open. Plenty of cheap options at car parts websites for those.
  23. I would go about the top differently. Instead of putting the 2x6's across the top like you have in the picture, attach them inside about 1.5-2 inches below the outer edge. Pretty much at the bottom of that unpainted board. This gives you a recessed area that will catch wax shavings, but still look nice and be usable as a shelf. To support the snowboards when laying flat you just need a few blocks cut to the right height to place under the board where needed, and with your long boards the edge of the cabinet will do that as well and the extra space gives the bindings room to hang without tilting the board. Now, you can also cut a vertical slot in the sides that allows you to put the board on edge for edge tuning. there are several ways to get that "top" in under the board, but the easiest would be to cut it to size and brace it up against that unpainted board, then screw another board in under it to hold it in place.
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