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  3. Why does my Virus hate me?

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    Was that you I saw at COP last night? Someone was on the hill on a hard setup, looking like they were having a tough time ...

    Seeing as you were taking a park/freestyle course, did you wander over with your softboot set-up and ask them why their board didn't have a rounded tail?:)

  9. BENT or BROKEN

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    Point taken.

    Well, to preserve the future of the sport (me) I guess you should pass on those Fintecs and stepin receivers.. It would be a shame for me to destroy my knee at 18..

    Hey if Fin ever gets the SI Sidewinders out you can have first dibs on a pair of TD3 SI cheap. :biggthump

    This is getting way OT but speaking of the Sidewinders, I wonder if the fact that the toe and heel blocks roll laterally with the boot actually might help prevent the type of releases you guys are mentioning. Because of this lateral roll the toe ledge of your boot would put even pressure across the toe lever as the boot canted over. This action actually might help prevent releases.

    Considering a standard binding, with 5mm or 6mm bails as the boot cants/twists in the binding, you load one corner of the toe lever perhaps making a release more likely?

    Would be interesting to see somebody more mechanically inclined than me chime in on this.

  10. BENT or BROKEN

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    I take that back, I know why, the bail blocks move when I case landings.. I have since gotten a big ass handle on my hex wrench, but haven't cased any booters since getting the extra leverage. Stepins wouldn't really fix that problem for me.

    At least in the case of intec/fintec actually they would. If you visually ensure the pins are engaged, the binding is basically fail-safe. The only way out is to pull the cable, or physically depress the pins. That is to say short of your toe or heel block moving the centimetre to allow the toe bail to clear the toe ledge of your boot, your toe can't come out of the binding. And even in the unlikely event of that failure your heel is still held captive by the pins.

    In the case of Fintecs specifically the shell of the heel, or the steel heel receiver would have to physically break to allow the pins to break free, or you'd have to rip all four screws of the heel retaining screws out of the t-nuts in your boot. If any of these occurred I think the violence of the wipe out would ensure that you had other more serious injuries to worry about.

    In fact the fintec/intec heel mechanism is fail safe in that the pins in the heel are spring-loaded such that additional pressure has to be put on them to make them retract. Therefore a failure of the internal heel mechanism leaves you locked into the binding, requiring the use of ski poles to depress the pins and get out (happened to me once). I suspect an internal spring could break and this could cause a release, but I have yet to hear of this failure mode occuring. Anyways the springs aren't cycled excessively so metal fatigue isn't likely to occur on this sub-component.

    I bolded if above because it is quite possible with TD3s and Fintecs (or other step-ins) to have snow build up under the heel of your boot, or on the toe block of the binding, which prevents the pins from fully engaging, this can result in "premature ejectulation" as you load the binding up in a turn. As this has happened to me twice now I visually make sure the pins are engaged every time I step-in. I really wish Fin would anodize the Fintec heel pins in red or some other colour so they easily stood out from the heel receiver once engaged.

    Since I've started visually checking the pins after stepping in I have yet to have a binding release.

    Cheers,

    Dave

  11. BENT or BROKEN

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    ...when I came down from a jump and bent the tail of my board so much as to pop out of my rear binding...
    The big roller on chair 7 at summit. I pop my back binding jumping too. No clue why

    One... no make that two more reasons why I ride step-ins.

  13. Kicking Horse - Carve and AM or just AM?

    in Canada - Alberta

    Posted

    Wow another amazing day. Definately worth a trip to this place if you like rockin' the steeps off piste. Hiked T1 this morning and then dropped through knee deep into super bowl. Couple of more runs and then a hike into Super Bowl again. Legs gave out while I was sitting at the top of a black diamond mogul pitch with 3/4 of the mountain left to go...

    From that point it was basically a controlled fall until I hit the greenish blue groom at 1/4 height, at which point I took a break before finishing off an epic weekend with some nice carving.

    I can't say as I would ever bring a pure carving deck here. Pretty much AM or softies (if softies are your thing)

    Dave

  14. Kicking Horse - Carve and AM or just AM?

    in Canada - Alberta

    Posted

    I brought my Custom Donek AM stick with TD3s set to 50/45 and my UPZ ATBs.

    I hooked up with a local who works here on my second ride up the gondola. Clarke's a really great guy who carves a softboot board really nicely. He took me down blacks and double blacks from 9:30 until 1:30 at which point I had to cry uncle because my legs were totally giving out. I basically said I was holding him up. I think I made one more run which amounted to 3 minutes of riding and five minutes of laying in the snow repeating ad nauseum from peak to base. Legs are completely cooked right now.

    Amazing hill had a blast riding here. So many steeps. Haven't ridden anything like that in at least 15 years. Going to go pass out on a couch somewhere. At the gondola for 9AM to do it again.

    They're going to need the jaws of life to seat me out of my bus seat after the 6 hour drive to Edmonton tomorrow evening.

  15. Pic on MC website

    in Southwest Northeast

    Posted

    Yeah Ken, evidently I got some crazy feedback on MountainCreeks facebook page about those angled bindings. It's funny how some snowboarders will criticize some things they know nothing about.

    Probably because you can see only one binding in the picture they all assume that is the front foot of a duck stance.

  24. BX board (my Palmer Crown)- can i plate it?

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    Here's the Bomber Power Plate (for softies)

    http://bomberonline.3dcartstores.com/Power-Plate-System--available-late-January-2012_p_181.html

    If you want to go hardboots and ride higher angles the UPZ ATBs would probably rule for that. They are really soft front to back so you can suck up a landing, but laterally stiff enough to carve. I tested them out at NES last weekend and found I could carve respectably, I'll be riding steep off piste this weekend at Kicking Horse, so I'll let you know how that goes.

    Cheers,

    Dave

  25. New New board porn 2012

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    Our a group was hanging out at the top of Nakiska on Sat, and a ski racer kid blew right through the middle of them, and ran straight over Freddy's Kessler.

    There seems to have been a lot of that going on this weekend.

    I know on Saturday Zoe (age 7) was frustrated because a skier had bumped into her board at the top of Silver chair. And she was in tears at the bottom of the same run because another skier had run right over her board coming into the chair as well. For reference her entire board is 110cm long so the idiot must have passed within 30 cm of her. Whoever did it at the bottom is lucky I was bent over undoing my binding because if I'd seen them I probably would've killed them.

    You can say I should've been closer to her but I like to give her a bit of space because she is riding really well.

    Cheers,

    Dave

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