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It's set up for BX racing. Dave

New Coiler just arrived today! NSR 185cm/14-17SCR/20cm waist. Ghost Green Topsheet. Built for a 215 lb rider. It's currently sitting in my living room, giving me the "you're not man enough" eye. I'm going to have to tie this one down just to get the bindings on it. My crappy photo doesn't do this board justice. Dave

Yeah this also annoys me to no end. Dave

What mounting pattern is on this board? I'm suspecting it is 4X4 or 4X8 but I'm guessing with the plate on it. Dave

Deeluxe and UPZs were the same size for me (mondo 28). That being said the Deeluxe boots didn't work with my foot shape (even after punching). I've ridden/ am riding UPZ RTRs, Deeluxe T225s, UPZ ATBs, and UPZ RC-10s all in mondo 28. Dave

Check this thread. http://www.bomberonline.com/VBulletin/showthread.php?40774-Local-gear And see about hooking up with BlueB (Boris). There's a really solid crew of carvers out on the coast. Best of luck, Dave

Yeah I'm in that boat as well. Getting my first weekend of riding this weekend. Then it's a few days on bumps here, followed by a weekend of backcountry, then onto GS sized carving decks. Oh my.

Maybe it is maybe it isn't I guess it would depend on your technique. I know the PureCarve guys ride with much lower angles. But perhaps they ride with more of a rotating,or rotated style? Anyway it occurred to my that if I tried to ride, with my style,with your stance angles my weight shift would be diagonally across the board rather than along it because of where the ankle joint in the boots would direct my center of mass as I flexed the boot at that joint. Incidentally don't let the angles of your bindings dictate what you can or can't do. The more you ride with whatever angles and equipment you like the better you will get. I consider myself pretty intermediate in hardboots but I'll jump turn the Incline (50F/45R) down off piste double black steeps I've taken the Schtubby (60F/55R) through moguls, and done nose rides on it. I've found as your angles steepen skidding a board, or flipping it around in a jump turn, starts to come from your rear hip. Definitely get out to ECES. At a minimum it will let you see what is possible. The first time I went to NES I considered giving up and going back to softies because the reality check was so substantial. I stuck with it, changed my equipment (softening my boots), and changed my technique (unlearning a huge number of bad habits that I wasn't even aware I had), and now I can actually hang with them when I go down there. I've still got a ways to go but it's feeling better every year. Cheers, Dave

Well I dunno. I've had, as Corey once described it, a spectacularly craptasic day when my boot cuff was hitting the snow and levering the edge out of the snow on heelside turns. My boot cuff is six inches above the board edge. Since that point I've used a box, or carpenter's angle, to ensure the boot is inside the board edge. Strangely no problems since then. Personally I was unzipping my rear pocket my forward facing hip in heelside turns last year. I also find the board tends to get pretty vertical to the snow especially when you cut hard on steeper pitches. Cheers, Dave

I thought that was probably the case but I had to ask anyway. Maybe Kurt can borrow it off of Gary now. :) Cheers, Dave

Is this board heading back to Calgary or is it still available? If it's still available I've got a friend in Edmonton who might be interested. Cheers, Dave

I'm not an expert on this by any means. And we are both thinking of shifting setback the same way. I've had this conversation with Sean (Donek) and he thinks of it the same way you do. That is to say "that the length of the board in front of your foot is a lever that you are acting on." That viewpoint is counter-intuitive to me so I think of it as below; which gives an opposite result. I could definitely be wrong here (and I think Sean has a much better ability to describe this than I do). The Carver's Almanac seems to agree with what I'm saying. I think of it as how easy it will be to get my weight forward. With a shorter nose (less setback) I can more easily get my weight onto the nose and initiate a turn. If it's easier to get my weight forward I can too easily get my weight to far forward and fold the nose. If it's hard to initiate a turn I'm having a difficult time getting my weight forward because my stance is set too far back. Dave

Oh ok that makes sense. It also gives another reason why the board looks comparatively "short" (beyond you being 6'3" that is :rolleyes:) . Do you still pass the Fuego test with your binding angles on that then? When you get a chance you should jump on something narrower. Maybe around 21-22cm. Narrow waisted boards make ridiculously fast edge transitions. While I wouldn't recommend you jump on a 18cm waisted board with a mondo 31 boot; with my mondo 28s I was on a 167cm Sims Burner with an 18cm waist one time that felt like it switched edges at the speed of thought. Made for an amazingly fun ride. If you can get out to an expression session. Here's the link to ECES on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/East-Coast-Expression-Session/174167805963323). Getting to ride with people at NES who really knew what they were doing changed my entire outlook on the equipment and technique I was using. It was a huge eye opener and completely changed the way I ride. Cheers, Dave

Honestly I'm not sure I agree. I think LDP on a skateboard is a sport of ongoing tweaking. I'm a free carver and have never raced I'm 6'2 and 220+lbs riding mondo 28 boots. I use TD3 SIs with 3 degree cants front and rear. For me I generally center my 20" 'ish wide stance on whatever board I'm riding with the toe and heel lifted and outward canting until I'm comfortable. I'm bowlegged and without outward canting I get shin pain. Then I set my angles such that they are just inside the board edge using the Fuego method (http://www.extremecarving.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7172). Then I just go out and ride. I'll only adjust setback after that if I'm folding the nose (too heavy for the board - increase setback), or completely unable to initiate a carve (too light for the board - decrease setback). Generally speaking any board that I've purchased from Donek (Sean) or Coiler (Bruce) that has been built for my weight I've just set up with a centred stance and it's ridden like a dream. BTW how are you getting away with stance angles that low on an alpine board? I'm pretty close to your height and in order to keep my boots within the board edges I have to run 50F/45R on a Donek Incline with a 24.5cm waist. On a 21cm Schtubby I'm 60F/55R and on a 19.6cm Prior WCRM (R.I.P.) I was using 65F/60R. Cheers, Dave

FWIW I seem to recall my daughters went to the Feelgood smalls 125cm board at around 60 (something) pounds. Both of my daughters were pretty tiny so the board was closer to their eyebrows in length when they first started riding it. Neither had any difficulty even though they were slightly under, or at the bottom of the weight range for the board. Both could already ride snowboards when they went to those particular decks though. The weight range of the board was something I thought about though it didn't seem to have as much of an effect as was worried about. Dave

One of my daughters only used the chicklet for maybe half a season, and then I got her on a flat based board. The other one started on a flat based board. Both girls are currently riding Burton Feelgoods in 125 and 135cm lengths. They weigh 74 and 85lbs respectively. I found with the convex base that it was a little easier for the second daughter to learn, but she rapidly out grew the boards capabilities and when she came into the flats at speed the board would saucer out from underneath her as should couldn't get an edge in. This would invariably result in her catchi her edge at speed. We also didn't use the single strap bindings from Burton, but went to K2 Kat bindings. Both of my daughters are using the Gnu Park binding this season (I had to special order a 3D disc for it though). Sorry didn't notice that this was in the WTB section. Dave.

That is a huge pile of decently priced gear! Dave

Dude, NES? Jan 10-12. (Fri-Sun). Say it ain't so? Dave

I think Bruce builds his NSRs to a 14-17 meter variable increasing towards the tail. Dave

It might get more love on the BomberBX site? Dave

Do you have a link to the eBay post? I have a friend who might be interested. Dave

Never been to Castle. I personally spend most of the winter up at Sunshine. Most of the carvers in Calgary go to Nakiska, which is phenomenal for carving on, especially mid-week. If you are in town you should definitely come to Naskiska for NES on Jan 10-12. Dave

Cinamon buns and beer. The heavier I am the easier the board bends. Dave

I sent back that I'd send him money if he sent me his NSR. :D

This explains why I've seen Greenpeace blockading Nakiska during the early season.