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Ok, if true, hate for local law enforcement.

Owned? dude you must have some hate for law enforcement. Unless you have been in a situation like that and know something I don't I would say those officers handled that situation appropriately for the time period that it occurred and luckily no one got killed. This is a perfect example of why law enforcement has had to change its approach to vehicle chases as the risk of additional victims increases exponentially every second a chase continues. I'm curious as to what you thought the officers should have done to not get owned? Pull a mad max and bumped him off the road at full speed, or pull out a rocket launcher and open fire? As for ColoradoKing, those classes, while boring, are to give you information that may save not just your life but the other people on the road too. The next time you read about somebody getting killed in a vehicle related accident, take a second to think about the effect on the victim's family, the parent that will never see their child again, the child that will not have that parent to see them graduate from school, to get married, be a grandparent, etc., the brother who won't have his best friend to hit the slopes with? Life is very precious my friend, and your at the beginning of it and your probably feeling pretty invincible, but all it takes is one visit to that edge of nothingness or for that to happen to a friend or family member to go over that edge to convince you otherwise. Drive safe. (All - Sorry to be such a downer but I felt it needed to be said.)

Back in 1989, I lived in New York City, lower east side, and I used to get up very early in the morning to head up to Central Park to get my training laps in, as I used to ride on a local USCF club. Anyhoo...On an August morning, round 7:00am I'm heading back downtown to my apartment, high gearing it (30 - 35 mph) and I enter an intersection with the light green, turning to yellow, get to the next intersection and stop because the light is about to turn red. I then hear a siren behind me, and the police officer gets on the PA and tells me, "to pull over". I'm now thinking welcome to the Twilight Zone. The officer walks up, asks for id, and tells me that he was sitting on the opposite corner of the intersection and that I ran a red light, and was riding too fast to boot. I explained that the light was green, and I was in the intersection when it turned yellow, not red, maintaining an appropriate speed to stay in the flow of traffic, and if I was so reckless why did I stop at the next light which was yellow turning red? He said go to court and fight it, so I did. So I go to court a month later, and what happens? The officer says that he doesn't even remember the incident and the ticket gets dropped. Now I ask you this...wouldn't you remember this type of incident if you were the officer and it was only 30 days later?

Can you use hard snowboard boots with ski blades? Just curious

Thanks for the advice. While I will be the first to admit, I was not in the best conditioning in my life, and may have been a contributing factor, I don't think it was a primary factor in the injury. I think that if I had been wearing a boot that was a better fit (I was wearing two thick socks, and contemplated a third as I could not get a tight enough fit that was responsive to carving in a soft boot) and that I was in a deeply angled toe side carve, on a very responsive board that turned very quickly, it probably wouldn't have happened (coulda..woulda..shoulda). But you know what, sometimes we all do stupid things and devalue the risks of certain decisions. I should have known better than to continue wearing a soft boot, that was pretty stiff overall (Salomon Dialogue), that was fine for everything else but was a little too sloshy inside the boot for hard carving. I used to ski competitively, inline race, and speedskate, and understood the value of a tight fitting shoe or boot, and ignored that instinct. I was doing the equivalent of trying to put a race car engine into a street vehicle and try to drive it like an indy car . So now I'll take my lumps, rehab, get into great shape, and use the right equipment for the right job. :D

Hi, First post, short time lurker. I recently ruptured my achilles tendon while carving on a soft boot setup. Did it on a toe side carve, boot wasn't a tight enough fit (very small feet and tough to find a small enough mens boot), heel slid up in boot, achilles got overstretched, and popped (no bone damage thankfully). Had surgery 5 weeks ago, in rehab now , and the tendon is doing well and recovering quickly. My question is, has anyone here had this injury occur with a hard boot setup, or is this type of injury generally a soft boot injury (more common than I thought after doing some research). 2nd question, anyone who has had this injury, what was your rehab recovery like, and have you noticed any future effect on your snowboarding? Going to be switching to an alpine board and hard boots next year, just got my Donek Axxess for next year, and can't wait to get on it. It's gonna be a long 8 months to have to wait, but I'm already psyched for next season.