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Agree on the location of members under their avatar. Trying to figure that one one. nekdut: in the bottom left corner select "IP Board Mobile" under the "Change Theme" box. Gives you a version of the forum for mobile devices that is very leaned out and simple. It still works on your PC, which I though was pretty cool.

emd9494, First of all, welcome! It is generally an accepted opinion that ski boots and snowboard carving is not the ultimate set-up. The number one reason is that ski boots are just so very stiff. The softest ski boot is not where near as soft as the hardest snowboard hardboot. As someone who has seen this tried for the past 20+ years, I can tell you we lose people when they try this sport with ski boots. Now that said, you will find a few who do make them work. However, two things to note: they are VERY skilled carvers and the boots have (probably) been modified to be softer. And as you found out a ski boot also puts a lot of force not only into you but the bindings. Now of course my opinion is biased ( I make them) but the TD3 Sidewinder has been known make a ski boot tolerable as there is a lot of lateral play (side to side) and this is the direction where ski boots are just crazy stiff. Also, run with the yellow E-rings and plenty of cant. Or look for some used boots on the classifieds here. We also have some close-out Heads in our store here at a good price.

OK, we listened and have been working on some of the issues/feedback: TapaTalk is now working for the new forum. However, IP Board actually has a VERY good mobile version. And it is easy to use. Usually your mobile device will automatically change over to that mode once you go to the forum URL. If not, in the lower, left corner you can select "Use Mobile Version". I personally really like the mobile device version over TapaTalk, but check them both out and see. We now have a nice page redirecting from the old URL to the new forum As some of you have seen, PM is now working. I increased total size of file PER post to 500k. So for example, you could do 5 pics at 100k each in a SINGLE post. Also total space for pictures per user is now at 20megs. If you run over this, go to your Control Panel setting and select "Manage Attachments" and create more room. The only downside right now is you have to size and shrink your own pics. The old forum had a pretty neat function where it took large pics and auto shrunk them. Maybe in a future upgrade. We are charged for the space our forum uses so we have to be a bit more restrictive here. Sorry. Some one brought up: in your CP settings you can also change a setting so that you automatically subscribe to any thread you reply to. You can now add a picture to your signature Bryan: I agree, I also liked see where people where from under there name/avatar. I looked for this but had no luck. I'll see what I can find with some more looking. Please keep feedback coming and we will continue to tweak it.

Jackson, Lowell is a great guy and can certainly help. Nut right there in Beaver Creek is a guy named Richard Knapp. He is an instructor there and a fantastic hardbooter. He runs a lot of our clinics at the SES every year. Look him up at skischool. And a another great guy who carvers at the Beav is Larry Castruita. E-mail me for his contact infor. And if you ever come over this way, would be happy to go out with you to the Basin. Don't give up! We'll get you there.

ExcelsiorTheFathead is back! he fell into some forum black hole and we just dug him out. Still a few kinks we are working on folks so stick with us while we work it all out. But please use this to tell me of any issues you have.

Wow, that was an exercise in frustration and some stress. The story.... Our previous forum was with a company called vBulletin. We ran their software for the past 10 years and had a lot invested with them. However, about a year ago the forum started acting weird. We tried to make some fixed but it just seemed to make it worse and at one point the forum crashed and we where down for about 3 days. We got it going again but we decided to just not touch it and let it run for the time being. Well, about a month ago it got worse and started crashing over and over again. It became a pattern of it would crash and I would tell our host company to reinstate the entire site from a few days earlier. I am sure many of you saw this with posts you put up disappearing after a few days. Well this "recover the dead" cycle was unsustainable and it finally crashed big time. Now the entire time I had a technical support ticket in with vBulletin to help us. That was two weeks ago and I am still waiting to hear back from them . Side note: do not use vBulletin for a forum. At one point they where the 800 lbs gorilla in the industry and it shows in their shoddy customer service. It is terrible. We are now with IP Board and so far liking it. So I contacted IP Board, set-up an account, and was assigned a technician to help us migrate over the old database. Our old database was not in good shape and the tech had to spend some good time (and some cash on our part) to get it to work. But it now works! So a little getting used to the new format and some of the new options. If you bump into anything you think we should fix/correct/change, please let us know. Thanks for your patience on this and enjoy.

Joe, Excellent. Have demos this weekend at Copper but will drop you a line next week and we can discuss. We do have a line in with our hosting company who claim experience with VB, but we'll see.

As some of you know our Forum crashed big time last spring. We brought it back but it has been limping along for quite some time. Several of the functions here just don't work and the worst one is new members are NOT getting a notice to activate their account. We have tried several avenues to get this fixed but we have bottomed out as far as finding someone to help us. So is there anyone out there in Carve-Land who has experience installing vBulletin?

Bob L. Yea, no issues there. Any step-in heel will work with all TD series binding in regular (toe clip) form. All back compatible.

Agree. Now that we are switching to every other year we do need to blow this one out! Great conditions has always been the #1 factor in a good SES but since we can't really control that we'll see what else we can do. Always open to suggestions?

Geoff, I would use any water proof grease and you should be fine. Any bike grease will work great like Park "green" grease. Use it here all the time. I did not bring up here, but we/I do grease all my fasteners. You get a tighter torque, and they come apart like a dream. Never had one come loose but you must tighten as I described above. That in mind, I do NOT grease the mounting screws into the board inserts. Again, the grease might act up against the boards laminates. Missed you this Summer Geoff for the "Big Ride" with the east coast gang. You gotta come play with us.....

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The biggest two things you can do to keep a screw tight is: 1) the order and progression you tighten them down. For example, if you fully crank down the first baseplate screw (one pass only) on our TD3, there is a big chance the other two screws will not line-up with the slot 100% and you get a false tighten with them. I tell people it is three steps: pass 1, just snug down with almost no force, pass 2 60% force, pass 3 100% force. 2) after a day or two of riding, go back, and retighten and check. You don't have to do this again at this point. But never hurt to check no and then. You do these two things (at least on our TD3 series) you will have NO issues with them coming loose. Loc-tite: this is a petroleum based material and thus will start to eat away at the board and laminates if it is applied wet around the inserts. Best way is to apply to the screw threads, let sit unit dry, THEN install them on the board. Every now and then I get a set of bindings sent in for "repair" because someone took the entire binding apart, reassembled with RED Loc-Tite, and now they have a binding with ever screwed fused in it's spot and all/most of the hex heads stripped out due to attempt at removing. No on the red!

Where you at Lee!? Bow-wow

Looks like your dollars will be coming back to Colorado as it is :D

So sorry to hear I_LOVETT. Looks like a great friend you had there. Mother natures best design other than a cruel longevity period.

North Wave: Yea, we thought about this as well but two issues 1) hard to get a hold of one 2) not really a modern boot that is even remotely available. This boot has been out of distribution for close to 15 years. Yes, racers feel this is the only boot they can use to win in but it is not really a boot that you can even get. lonboardin: that is a good dimension to have, I agree. hard to interpolate from our cut up sections. What I think would be better would be to create a tool that could go into a complete boot and make that measurement. Like a bore or snap gauge. One issue you will always. have is as you move up a boot the parts become more flexible and part of the collapsing aspect of the boot. The top cuff is the most variable here. So there couple be some guessing here. Sunsurfer: Agree, the sections of each boot are not perfectly lined up relative to each boot model. This would have been more difficult to do. Your best bet is to take the graphs and offset them to match more perfectly. But this was the best we could do with what we had. I think the shape aspect does actually make sense: yes, the inside of your soot is more straight but it has more "undercut" due to the arch. So i think that is where you see more of a curve on the bottom measurements. Zoltan: measuring the top cuff of the boots proved VERY difficult and extremely variable. There is just too much flexibility and variance there. It is more a function of how long and short can you make the straps to fit the calf size going in them. And most of the boot issues we see are based from the fit in the lower section, so we stuck to that for that test. snowmatic: changed the sole lengths to correct size. thank you for pointing out. have different number of slices due to different sole lengths and other variation in the boots. We started cutting 1" from the rear most point on the point. Just how it turned out. Nothing we can do about the various differences in shell sizes for a M27. We have to pick a standard at sometime to get this started. M27 is the classic mid size for all boots, so that is what we went with. This is not meant to be the do all, say all test for these boots. There are WAY too many variables in boot fitting to say that this test is the ONLY thing to determine what boot will work for you. So treat all these numbers as only a tool to help make the final decision. They should never be used as the only method to decide.

North Wave: Yea, we thought about this as well but two issues 1) hard to get a hold of one 2) not really a modern boot that is even remotely available. This boot has been out of distribution for close to 15 years. Yes, racers feel this is the only boot they can use to win in but it is not really a boot that you can even get. lonboardin: that is a good dimension to have, I agree. hard to interpolate from our cut up sections. What I think would be better would be to create a tool that could go into a complete boot and make that measurement. Like a bore or snap gauge. One issue you will always. have is as you move up a boot the parts become more flexible and part of the collapsing aspect of the boot. The top cuff is the most variable here. So there couple be some guessing here. Sunsurfer: Agree, the sections of each boot are not perfectly lined up relative to each boot model. This would have been more difficult to do. Your best bet is to take the graphs and offset them to match more perfectly. But this was the best we could do with what we had. I think the shape aspect does actually make sense: yes, the inside of your soot is more straight but it has more "undercut" due to the arch. So i think that is where you see more of a curve on the bottom measurements. Zoltan: measuring the top cuff of the boots proved VERY difficult and extremely variable. There is just too much flexibility and variance there. It is more a function of how long and short can you make the straps to fit the calf size going in them. And most of the boot issues we see are based from the fit in the lower section, so we stuck to that for that test. snowmatic: changed the sole lengths to correct size. thank you for pointing out. have different number of slices due to different sole lengths and other variation in the boots. We started cutting 1" from the rear most point on the point. Just how it turned out. Nothing we can do about the various differences in shell sizes for a M27. We have to pick a standard at sometime to get this started. M27 is the classic mid size for all boots, so that is what we went with. This is not meant to be the do all, say all test for these boots. There are WAY too many variables in boot fitting to say that this test is the ONLY thing to determine what boot will work for you. So treat all these numbers as only a tool to help make the final decision. They should never be used as the only method to decide.

Just want to take some time here to thank two guys who have made a HUGE difference in the alpine snowboard world and more specifically, the youth side of the sport. The first one is Karl Koehle, otherwise known as “Coach Karl”. (*I apologize for the lateness of this one as Karl retired after last season and I am a slacker). Karl was an amazing force with the famous G-Team out of Minnesota. He was with that team as their youth coach for many years and was the force behind their strong alpine snowboard racing program. I have never seen so many little race rippers come out of one single program. Every spring at Nationals we would see Karl work tirelessly all week with his ever growing group of kids. And of course the kids loved him! Karl is moving on to work more on his working (and paying) career. Next is Sean Keough, director of USASA Maine Mountain Series. He has just announced he is stepping down from this position as of the end of this season. Sean was another hero who spent tireless hours working to grow and progress the alpine snowboard side of the sport. He was always an advocate of our discipline when we needed it the most. I know for a fact Sean put on more than 200 events in his time and always made sure hardboot disciplines where a part of everything he had his hand in. Both of these guys did these jobs as semi-volunteers because they loved the sport and enjoyed working with the kids. These two men had the pleasure of seeing our young athletes grow to become contributing members of society, and have seen many go on to achieve success at higher level in events such as the Jr Worlds, College Nationals, Nor-Am Cup, World Cup, X-Games and Olympics. Both of these guys have told us great people are coming in to take their place but it still does not change the fact they will be missed and the carving world will not be the same without them pushing the programs in their respected areas. Thank you Karl and Sean for all you have done over the years for our sport.

Sorry guys, the forum database is still messed up. Last time we tried to fix it we almost lost the entire thing. We have some other ideas but nothing solid right now. Have to stick with it for now until we find a solution.

jwhitt, Welcome! We are just down the street from Keystone in Silverthorne and have more carving gear then you can shake a stick at. We also have a full demo gear fleet that can get you going and trying. We are at the Nationals event at Copper this week but will be back full time next week. Drop us a line (info below in signature) and we'll help you all we can.

energyrail, I will sell separate as well. E-mail me directly and we can chat.

Pogo sold - others still available.

OK, price drop to give these three amigos a home: $1800 for all three.

FYI: we do actually sell just the plates: http://bomberonline.3dcartstores.com/Power-Plates-Only-set_p_182.html