Puddy Tat
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Ditto. Want something like this for AM riding. All-in-all I would prefer a conversion kit to upgrade my existing TD3s though.
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Gayebee,
If you want to sell them locally (within Calgary) try emailing Surlyguy. He's running some older Burton Winds and might be interested.
Dave
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You could ride Nakiska with us. We get up to Red Crow ASAP on a weekend, and four or five of us trench the crap out of it for a solid couple of hours. Then we stop at the bottom, grin and say "yep, they'll be grooming that tonight".
We figure we pay as much as anybody else to be on the hill, we're entitled to our fun too.
Yeah I say you haven't really carved unless the groomer has to make at least two passes to get rid of your trenches.
Dave
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My oldest daughter (she's 8) broke her arm in a Terrain Park on Feb 15th. Her cast came off the other day but due to the location of the fracture (near a growth plate) the doctor asked her to avoid any serious damage to it for another 10-12 weeks. She's looking forward to wakeboarding when the lakes around here warm up.
Dave
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Nope Fin took that with the softbooter segregation poll. I think BB's probably get's an honourable mention.
I voted yes based on how I can tighten or widen the carve radius by shifting my weight forward or back through the turn (board is a Schtub). Obviously this isn't a gross steering input, and is typically decided prior to me dropping into the carve anyways.
I'm an EE not an ME so I may be inadvertently violating the definition of steering here.
What about multiple radius boards, according to Jack's PGS shootout riding the KST 185 with your weight towards the nose, middle, or tail resulted in different radius turns (tight, medium and long respectively). Isn't this steering through a carve or was Jack skidding the KST?
Or maybe I'm confused and the definition of steering requires a more gross change in direction?
Dave
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Also, speeding in a slow zone is sort of by definition reckless. If you speed in your car through a slow children zone and hit somebody (an adult even), yeah, you are probably going to jail.
I'm with kjl and MUD on this one. The article actually indicates he was convicted of third degree assault. If the idiot had hit a little kid, instead of someone near his mass, the situation would have been much worse.
This guy was travelling beyond either his own ability, or the ability of his equipment, to turn or stop quickly hence he was out of control. He was in a marked slow zone which is typically either a beginner area or a high volume traffic area so at the speeds was travelling he was eventually going to hit and seriously injure someone.
Dave
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But the plate he designed is used in carving, a less popular form of the sport also known as alpine snowboarding.
WTF? Ok I know I'm posting in the racing forum but I think there are more carvers that don't race than racers.
Once again The media has no idea what they are talking about.
I'll go quietly to my tar and feathering now. :p
Dave
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Yeah I get tons of that sticky cr*p on the bases of my board when riding at Sunridge in Edmonton in the late season. Here it is particulates from the refineries that are nearby. I don't even want to think about what that is doing to my lungs riding there through the season.
Someday down the road some medical doctor will publish a finding that concludes that riding on hills with less than 200' of vertical drop will eventually give you lung cancer.
Dave
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Thanks Bob!
Just so you know I certainly wasn't dissing you, your gear or your riding style, or even cheaply looking for further affirmation that HB were better than SB. I was interested in the over all comparison that you gave of the feel between the three very different systems. As well as the difference in technique used. Having carved SB for the last 15 years, and modified your bindings to create your own set-up, you are way more qualified than me to talk to those points.
Keep bringing that stoke for riding that you've got,
Dave
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I've got to practice these next year. A couple of times this year I dove hard into a heelside turn, with my forearm down. My weight got a little far forward during the tur, and I had rotated my body a little hard into the turn, this caused the laid out carve to accidentally turn into a nose roll as the carve expired, it felt really natural and got some cheers from the lift.
I've got to practice the switch carving next year so I can gracefully continue riding (a la Kasper Carver) rather than flat spining a 180 to get back to my normal postion.
While we're at this is there any reason a high end free carving board couldn't be a twin tip? It would make this type of riding easier, at least mentally anyways. Actually I'm going to take that back I think as my HB jibstick I'd want something non-metal about 167 length with a slalom sidecut, medium to soft stiffness (for HB at my weight), 22 cm waist, and twin tipped for this type of riding. A long high end carver is going to be to stiff to lay a good long nose roll into anyways. Can be done, just requires way more commitment.
Dave
I just realized I described a BX board.
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SBS (Bob),
I agree with Jack when he says that you picked up the carving easier because of your 15+ years of carving in SB. But I've also taught SB riders to ride HB who didn't get it and couldn't adapt because they were essentially unable to get over the feeling of having their ankles locked. So I also suspect the transition may have been easier for you because your modded bindings (third strap and immobilized highback) create an exoskelton for your softboot that brings the riding style closer to hardboot riding.
I realize this is alot to ask but I'd be really interested in seeing an article or long post from you comparing a standard SB binding, your SB set-up, and a HB set-up. It would be even better if this comparison could be done on the same board (maybe someone could loan you a Prior ATV, or there are a couple of boards that were produced this year that seemed to be intended for both worlds Sword Dual?). It would be extremely interesting to see side-by-side comparison pictures or video of the body postions in a carve. Again to late in the year to get into this type of project but maybe it could be organized for next year.
Cheers,
Dave
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Last year on a old 1994 f67 (167cm 21 cm 10m) and soft as butter. I couldn't allow the board to build up any speed as it felt sketchy and the nose would want to fold. So lots of slalom sized, "quick hip touches" to keep the whole thing under control. I'd like another board like this that can handle what I'm throwing at it.
This year I got a Schtubby (173cm, 21.5 cm, 13.4) built for my weight. Wow I can rail at higher speeds to make a GS? sized turn or dive on the nose and tighten it up and kill my speed quick. The ride and the type of turns feel completely different depending on the speed I am carrying and what I am feeling for that particular turn. I'd be interested in trying something with a variable sidecut to really experience the changing radius that weighting forward or back could have on the size of turn and the speed you were able to carry in it.
I agree with you though. I like riding continuously without breaks for stopping, just enjoying the sensation of carving. So when the snow softens up such that cranking it hard is dumping most of my speed I go look for something steeper.
Cheers,
Dave
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Hmmm I need something stiff and slalomy to go with my Schtub. How will this handle my 210 lbs driving it hard into a turn?
The old f67 I've got (which is soft as butter) folds like a pair of twos in a poker game.
Dave
Oh and shipping north of the 49th?
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I feel like I just witnessed an event of major proportions that define a generation. Someday I'll tell my grandkids, yeah I remember exactly where I was the day SBS rode plates.:)
Hmmm the force is stong in this one but his conversion to the Darkside will soon be complete.
Thanks for giving plates a run again.... uh hang on this isn't one of the seven signs of the apocalypse?
Keep on posting it's great to see your opinions and they mean more coming from you because of your background. Oh and +1 on a non-pov video.
Cheers,
Dave
Wow this is totally random text. I just feel all giddy for some reason.
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My wife is taking the kids (and unfortunately the car too) out of town this weekend. I'm going to catch a bus down to Rabbit Hill on Saturday and trench the slush on Baystreet and Avalanche. If you're stuck in town this weekend come on out.
Cheers,
Dave
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Puddy - you have to know that there is a long tradition of people stumbling across TGR, posting in the first thread they find instead of looking at all those letters and words below that - as if they might mean something like categories or something - and then getting hazed a bit. It did start off rather benign. There is virtually no moderation for content. Spammers are not allowed. Violent threats ( if deemed real ) and posting up people's personal info are just a couple of ways to get banned, but you have to try real hard.
If you don't have a thick skin, no reason to go there. But with 25K plus forum members it's attractive for depth of resource and good folks all over the country. Attractive to spammers too so that's why they get hit a lot.
I have tried to get folks from Bomber to go rafting with me for years. Hooked up with a couple of maggots ( TGR members ) last year for a Middle Fork Salmon trip and had a ball.
Actually I'm not all that sensitive. There was just nothing going on in the thread at all. It's interesting, when you see sites like that you start to realize how good we have it here.
We have a variety of personalities here, like anywhere, that sometime clash, but it is generally kept within reasonable bounds, and when someone comes in fires off a post they generally get a coherent answer. Sure we have heated arguements and administrators who troll (cough) <COUGH>. But overall the admins and the members do a great job keeping the board focused, organized and under control.
Honestly had the first thing I saw on BOL been like that TGR thread I wouldn't have bothered hanging around and getting to know who people were on here. It would have been too much work to dig though the chaff to find the info.
Again props to Fin, Michelle, and Jack (and any other admins I don't know about) for keeping a loose rein on this place.
Also in spite of having bumped heads with SoftbootSailor in the past, I think having varied opinions on this site is healthy for the overall community. His leaving would be a loss to this group.
Dave
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Holy cow and I thought you guys were kidding about TGR.
Five messages in and I was thinking "come on give the guy a hand"
Ten messages in and it was "are you kidding me?"
After fifteen I blacked out --- apparently my wife found me in the fetal position mumbling "Find a happy place... find a happy place"
Dave
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Someone please buy this, so I don't have to contemplate taking out a second mortgage. ;)
FWIW I've been dreaming about this board since reading Jack's PGS shootout.
I'd love to step up and buy it but I wouldn't get a chance to ride it before my wife killed me.
Dave
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I notice that a lot of newer boards have a stubby, blunt nose. Being that it's getting toward spring and the snow is often softer, does anybody worry about stuffing the nose more easily riding a board like that? Do they cut through the crud as well as a board with more nose?
They cut through better. Most of these are decambered (see Jack's Article or His PGS shootout for more on this) so when the board is on edge and decambered there is no shovel nose to get deflected by crud. The board simply slices straight through it.
I was riding a Coiler Schtubby 173cm, 21.5cm, 13.4m and ripping it in slushy snow at 8C on Saturday. My clothes were soaked after a couple of hours of this. I love this board.
Dave
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Surfing...Long vs. Short
Skating...Free vs. Coneheads
Skiing...Bumps vs. Sl, GS
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Love this. Contents could have included "Why is Fin Trolling?" :D
Dave
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BTW I'm still extremely amused that this whole giant p!ssing match was started by Fin.
I'm sure he's looked at his innocent little poll a couple of times over the past two days and thought WTF
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For what its worth I voted yes and say give them a sub-forum. Softboots and sidecut are basically a gateway drug which present a more socially acceptable way to get your buzz.
Eventually you move into hardboots and start wondering where all your money went, then you find you can't remember those days that occur between carving days. You get antsy and irritable in the summer when you can't get a real carving fix.
Give them a forum... BOL is a way for Fin to attract people to HBing. This entire site (Facebookfor carvers) is a way for him to grow the alpine world. Somebody else said it the level of physical fitness and technique required to ride a hardboot carving board is way beyond what your average SB'r can muster. I let a friend who throws 540s try plates he lasted about an hour and a half before he was exhausted. He was completely unable to get over the locked ankles feeling. In spite of being a decent rider and an ok SB carver, he won't try plates again. I think he was frustrated by the learning curve. My gut feeling is a huge number of SB'rs feel that if they could throw on a pair of HB's and an alpine board then they could instantly lay out a carve.
I started a thread earlier this year about the accessibility of our sport. There just isn't any. And when most of the SB world refers to skid turns as carving you're going to have a tough time expanding without somewhere to educate the masses. SB'rs need somewhere to start.
Dave
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I think the forward heel position is a really stupid marketing ploy targeted towards people that don't tip their board past about 45 degrees. It doesn't make the boot any shorter at higher lean angles as the cuff and heel still hit before the heel lip does.
I completely agree with you here. I'm riding the UPZ RTRs with Fintecs. I also can't see a point to it and had a similar problem with the cuff hitting about where the walk mode lever was the first day I rode with these.
Additionally with the step-ins heel it actually makes it more difficult to walk around the lodge in the boot (less stable) due to the heel piece being placed so far forward. When my foot hits the ground the metal of the piece hits and wants to skid. Apparently this is UPZ's way of hinting that I should be spending more time on the slope and less in the lodge:)
I was getting pressure points from the tongues on the outside of my shins so I also ditched the flow liner and installed the deeluxe 141 liner. It made it pretty much effortless to get into the boot, though it softened the boot up so much that I installed the grey tongues to compensate (I'm 210 lbs). Currently I've got some issues with the extra volume of this liner putting pressure on a couple of places in my feet (boot fitting is helping). As an aside I've got screwed up completely flat feet so I've had a large portion of the lower portion of the boot blown out.
I like the responsiveness but am having some issues getting the boots to be comfortable for a complete day of riding. I'm looking for a softer boot for AM riding so I'm going to try a set of deeluxe 225s next year, if they fit my feet better, maybe I'll switch these to track 700Ts.
Dave
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boots? Anyone.... Bueller?
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NHL fans?
in The Lodge
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ABC Cheering - Anybody But Calgary. On the other hand I think the Oilers have managed to mathematically eliminate themselves from the 2011 play-offs.
Though the HABs are way down on my list of teams I'd normally cheer for. When it's north/south I'm for the North. Though last time Calgary was in I chose to quietly pretend nothing was happening ;)
Dave