b0ardski
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different animals, If an eskate motor quits you slow down, If you push the onewheel past it's power limits you go splat. Eskate has a remote in your hand, onewheel is intuitive tilt the board and go. Maneuverability is incomparable, forward, switch, 180 pivots, curb hops, roots and rocks,; eskate wins on speed
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cold spring here but not missing the snow that much.
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Nice to see your progression over such a short time.
I'm a firm believer in pole drills and angulation!! you can carve hard w/out reaching for the snow!
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LUUUVVV SLOMO!!! Lateral acceleration ftw! Defying/manipulating gravity is dopamine inducing. Throwing your body down and transmitting the speed of that fall into the board and across the fall line back upright to do it again is the greatest most addictive activity I've ever done. And if I can surf big open pow the same day my life is complete.
I did a lot of downhill rollerblading/off-season ski training in the 90's too, making ski turns year round was awesome.
Now the onewheel lets me board year round, pavement not required. It aint layed out carves like hardshells on corduroy but it tickles the jones so I no longer dread the end of the season.
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heel lift is supposed to be a problem with boots
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I tried the Switch, liked how they worked but the supposedly stiffest Vans boots were squishy. the K2 skylords w/built in highback were as good as my driverX's but still mushy forward flex. Driver X with flows was the closest I could get to my Raichle 123s in performance.
stepins dont suck, laces suck, BOAs are just metal shoestrings, all soft boots lack the progressive flex offered by a hinged plastic shell
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I thought burton said stepins suck!!
still have some Device boot/binders from the 90s, liked them better than the clickers.
the toe locks on the stepons scare me!
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all mt boards are all I do
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4 hours ago, Mr.E said:
Hey, if you are having more fun on skis, go for it! You don't have to.prove anything to anyone. Any day on the hill you are having fun and not getting hurt is a win.
glisse is glisse
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10 hours ago, west carven said:
howdy
kram' s cookie cutter turns, nice and consistent … miss you this year ...
he has to put on soft boots to make a different turn
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softer tongues on the upz and flexier plate binders on any worthy free ride/all mt board. I'm 60 and been riding a set up like this for 30 yrs. Remember a few years ago when burton's slogan was "stepins suck"? they were right burton stepins suck (though the stepon/device is an improvement) Most soft stepins suck,
Get some softer stepin plates for keeping up (down?) with the family.
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they finally got the grooming up to snuff at 49%north tue. ribbon candy turns with uphill transitions on the steeps made for an awesome day!!
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NICE to see you posting here Dave
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vibration dissipation
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don't catch your thumb in those ruts!
I'm Thirsty
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size matters
terrain<=>boards... balance is good
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On 2/14/2022 at 8:51 PM, west carven said:
howdy
Olympics Ad (spoiler alert) … this is the future …
After getting strafed by 12 yr old no control straightliners in a wedge yesterday, thinking I may have move to Libby
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get there at 8:00-8:15 to get good Gateway lot parking next to the beginner lift (musical chairs) , it spins at 8, ski down from the car and take it back up to the village. good cell on the front side.
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regarding stance width and angles; I chatted with John on the old splitboard.com when he was developing the originals, a few of us longtime hardbooters asked for steeper angles in development to no avail. So I stuck with slider plates because 1-price, less than half the cost for voile. 2- I easily got 40*+ angles by off setting the toe/heel on the slider.
I had dynafit toe clamps at 1st which forced my front foot too far forward so wider than I liked.
Now I went with the voile STS touring toes to make space for my preferred stance angles and width.
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my asym prime and older eldo has that too, usable but time for an upgrade.
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I've had great success with boot fitters foam like the (out of stock) YYZ kit above!! Intuition makes a kit also. A strip on either side of the achilles and around the ankle knobs on the liner, maybe a pad between top of instep and boot tongue.
possibly combined with a wedge, any good skiboot fitter could help
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that inlay is awsome,
i should get on the build list
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no better place to put this; anybody else see the irony?
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One Wheel Carving
in Summer Carving
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yep, that xr in the pic is $1500 in parts and 3000mi. electronics, you can find used xr's for $1200-1400 on facebook
Becki's Specialized ebike was the same price as the GT
albeit with less chance of serious injury!