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Canting is important because it is responsible for locating your knees. Knees are nice joints, and generally considered useful for pretty much anything.
To give you an idea of what proper (and improper) canting can do, try standing with your feet around shoulder width apart (or whatever feels comfortable). Now try bringing your knees together while keeping your feet apart, and try to walk. If you're adventurous, try jumping or bending over. Repeat with your knees apart.
That is what improper canting can do to your riding.
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38 ;)
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If you're in the North East, come to Sugarloaf and request a hardboot lesson. We have a number of instructors, like Erik [beckman] and Fuzzy, who ride hardboots almost exclusively. Erik even uses ski boots himself.
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I might have a room available. I'll have to check with the housemates first though.
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It looks to me like your hips are turned pretty far towards your right. Try to keep your hips more aligned with your front foot. You should find that you have better control over weight transfer this way, and also that your back (right) knee is more free and useful.
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So if the ISF was so much better, why was it abandoned?
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Seems pretty clear to me that the riders overwhelmingly chose the FIS.
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That website is about a thousand times better than the old one. Good work!
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What can I do in softboots that I can't in hardboots?
Well, two things come to mind immediately:
1) Pick up girls
2) Act like I'm heterosexual
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Step 1: Go to SES
Step 2: Go to ECES
Rinse, repeat
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i read the other day that the loaf will have free wireless access this season.
They had it last season, too. It works well and isn't in-your-face like some wireless hotspots can be.
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I hiked to the top yesterday and there wasn't any snow anywhere! On the other hand, lift lines were short.
Even the superpipe didn't have snow. Use the people for scale:
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I just checked, and there is still no snow on the mountain.
Pictures to follow soon....
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I was born in NY, where we don't redefine "winning" when we keep losing.
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You're not embarrassed to be rooting for a team which celebrates being the first loser?
WOOHOO! WE "WON" SECOND PLACE! YEAH! O-DOYLE RULEZ!!!
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I've used them before. They're fine for basic stuff but it's easy to out grow their software. A few of the local Ferrari guys have been using them to make spacers so they can fit COPs inside of their 355 motors.
Prices are fine for prototypes. Lead times are "meh." The only real nice thing about the place is the realtime quoting.
If you really want stuff made, your best bet is to go through the phonebook and take a look at what's local. You'll get the same (or shorter) lead times without any shipping delays, the price will be about the same, and you can use much better software. If you already have a solid modeler, use that. Otherwise, Alibre DesignXpress is cheap and slow (it's Java), but it will get the job done. It's nowhere near as good as WildFire or FlacidWorks, but it's also something like $50/seat instead of $3-4k.
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The Landing, duh! ;)
I usually stay off of that trail anyway because I don't like carving steeps.
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So, uh, which trail should I avoid for that week?
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But, yes, if we did use Ti on say the big M8 flat heads you would want to be very carefull witht he wrench, one of the reasons we stayed with Stainless for those.
Ok, just making sure. I was considering swapping out all of my hardware for Ti hardware, but wanted to see if you were using some sort of trick to keep the two metals from eating each other.
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If so, I'm curious about how the fasteners have held up. Looking at my chart, I see that using Ti fasteners in Aluminum pieces ranks right up there with shooting yourself in the foot.
Have any of you guys had problems with this, or is there something special about the Ti fasteners that Bomber uses?
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I also love my mac, i wish it had more wintel apps such as acad, rhino and other pro software i cannot use on the mac :(.
Acad makes baby Jesus cry. Wildfire and Solidworks both work surprisingly well in VirtualPC on my 2x1.4Ghz G4 desktop though. OS X also runs great on my Dell 700m. Can't wait for Apple's official OS x86 release.
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Yes! That was it. Looked kind of fun, but I did notice the rider was wearing a lot of pads...
Anybody tried one?
Derek
What sort of padding?
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The basic rule for snow tires is that they are all better than none, and all are roughly equivalent to each other. The exceptions would be "special application" tires like various 'hardcore' snow tires from Nokian.
It's funny reading tire reviews on the internet. Manufacturers change compounds, construction, and tread every year, yet people are "reviewing" tires based on their experiences with them 5 or more years ago. Everybody likes to pass opinion off as fact.
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I could not tell the difference between an '05 and an '06 in any non-cosmetic ways.
If it's like the LGT, the '06 isn't available with a stick.
You want winter tires, especially with an AWD vehicle. Tires let you turn and stop, AWD just raises the speed at which you hit things.
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2006 EAST COAST EXPRESSION SESSION
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Remind me in a month or two. ECES is the same week as the USCSA national event, so I might be housing some folks from my alma mater.