SunSurfer

What's the distance between the outermost plate mounting inserts? I have a Coiler NSR with an extra pair beyond standard UPM pattern front and rear. I've just built a custom plate to make use of the extra distance.

I've put many inserts into a number of boards to create UPM pattern plate mounts. The P-Tex'd inserts I use are 16mm in diameter and have a 110 degree taper. The Wintersteiger special bits are very expensive but are not essential. I've used a standard 90 degree 16mm countersunk bit 'cause that's what I could find locally, but 110 degree bits are made. The Ptex on the inserts is rarely absolutely flat, and I've started gently hand sanding the P-Tex flat before I epoxy them into place. I mark out the inserts on the top of the board. I use a drill press for each step. Drill 3mm pilot holes from the top side. Use a 16mm brace bit to remove the P-Tex from the bottom. Use the 16mm countersunk bit to create the taper. Then drill the final 9mm hole in the top sheet to take the threaded part of the insert. Once the inserts are glued up and in place I place the board on a flat polyethylene sheet and hold it down with weights to press the inserts into their final position and minimise the amount of P-Tex that needs to be removed once the epoxy has set. Finishing off can be a base grind, or even just a metal scraper. On a snowboard the inserts are well away from the edge and not in snow contact when the board is on edge. On a skwal they will be much closer to the edge and a perfectly smooth finish is probably more important.

The photo illustrates something I've thought for a while. The AllFlex plate is longer between the axles than other isocline plates with consequences both for binding placement and torsional stiffness.

Great to be back in contact with a great bunch of people. Thanks Finn!!!! The new forum doesn't handle/display images in the same way as the old one. Also, looking at my profile I see that I already am way over the allowable storage capacity for images attached to posts. I see there is a Gallery area now. How does this work and is this a potential way to resolve these issues?

Captain's at Cardrona is a great place to ride, especially midweek outside of school holiday periods. It's the best of the places I know in NZ. That same trip on another run at Cardrona, Whitestar, I got taken out by a straight lining skier who didn't stop. Whitestar would be a great run to carve if it weren't for the traffic, both skiers & boarders.

Decide the theme for the Bomber party well ahead of time. I'm leaving NZ for Aspen on 29th January, so before then I can try and pack something (un)suitable.

Unless the instructor knows and teaches hardboot snowboading, they're likely to teach the standard "duckfoot" stance seen on the majority of softbooters. You, and your daughter, have the same problem I had when I first tried snowboarding many years ago. I wanted to have a forward facing stance, and my instructor wanted me to stand across the board. When I finally got a suitable boad and hardboots I ended up watching heaps of videos and teaching myself. Hardbooters are rare in Australasia. Looking at your daughters stance on skis, she should take to a forward facing stance on a snowboard and carving her edges like a duckling to water! If you are interested I have an Ogasaka MX Limited 154cm board (2006-7) I bought second hand, here in New Zealand. The specs are below. I picked it up as a board for people to try without being too intimidating. [TABLE=width: 740] <tbody>[TR] [TD=width: 80][/TD] [TD=colspan: 2]MX-Limited[/TD] [/TR] </tbody>[/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 740] <tbody>[TR] [TD] Size [/TD] [TD] Co.Length [/TD] [TD] Nose W. [/TD] [TD] Waist W. [/TD] [TD] Tail W. [/TD] [TD] Radius(m) [/TD] [TD] Setback [/TD] [TD] Stance [/TD] [TD=width: 50%] Concept [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=align: center] 164 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 144 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 24.2 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 19.2 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 24.2 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 9.97 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 0 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 42-54 [/TD] [TD=width: 50%]アルパインボードã®ç¥žé«„〠真ã®ã‚«ãƒ¼ãƒ“ングを追求ã—ã¦æœ€æ–°æŠ€è¡“ã‚’ç©æ¥µçš„ã«æŠ•å…¥ã—ã¦æ¥ãŸãƒ•ãƒ©ãƒƒã‚°ã‚·ãƒƒãƒ—モデル。レースボードã«ä½¿ã£ã¦ã„ã‚‹EVCプレートã¯é«˜é€Ÿã§ã®æŒ¯å‹•å¸åŽã«å„ªã‚Œã€ãƒœãƒ¼ ドã®å®‰å®šæ„Ÿã«ã¤ãªãŒã‚‹ã€‚テーパー0ã®ãƒœãƒ¼ãƒ‰ã‚·ã‚§ã‚¤ãƒ—ã¯ã‚¿ãƒ¼ãƒ³ï¿½*後åŠã§ã‚‚エッジãŒæµã•ã‚Œãšã—ã£ã‹ã‚Šåˆ‡ã‚Œä¸ŠãŒã‚‹ã€‚[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=align: center] 160 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 140 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 24.2 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 19.1 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 24.2 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 9.20 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 0 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 42-52 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=align: center] 154 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 134 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 23.8 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 18.8 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 23.8 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 8.57 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 0 [/TD] [TD=align: center] 40-48 [/TD] [/TR] </tbody>[/TABLE] http://www.ogasaka-snowboard.com/snowboard/snowboard2006-07-ver2.html The image is from online and is the match for the board I have. If you want more info about the actual board contact me at ajmckenzienz at gmail dot com The Bomber Forum mail system has been down for a while.

It's a home built plate and mechanism that I've described in other threads. E mail me at ajmckenzienz at Gmail dot com and I'll send you a PDF file with all the details. The messaging service on Bomber is not working at present otherwise I'd have contacted you via that route. Another option is to take your courage in both hands (and a drill press) and put extra inserts in. It's something I've now done a number of times.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BxOLZ1CjGcj4T2ZGU2h5emJnNDg&usp=sharing In NZ free-to-air television had limited coverage of alpine snowboarding at Sochi. PGS was mostly the 2nd runs of the finals. (I have some of the ladies qualifying that I haven't processed, but could on specific request.) PSL was just the finals. I have managed to extract the coverage from my Sky decoder unit at DVD resolution, 1024 x 576 and have uploaded the results to my Google drive. When I tried loading on YouTube the first video was "blocked worldwide" because of IOC content before processing was finished by the site. There are two files in the shared directory. PGS & PSL

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BxOLZ1CjGcj4T2ZGU2h5emJnNDg&usp=sharing In NZ free-to-air television had limited coverage of alpine snowboarding at Sochi. PGS was mostly the 2nd runs of the finals. (I have some of the ladies qualifying that I haven't processed, but could on specific request.) PSL was just the finals. I have managed to extract the coverage from my Sky decoder unit at DVD resolution, 1024 x 576 and have uploaded the results to my Google drive. The ads have been edited out, and the final .avi files compressed as each was around 25GB! When I tried loading on YouTube the first video was "blocked worldwide" before processing was finished by the site. There are two files in the shared directory. PGS & PSL

BC, Fascinated by where the front binding is positioned in the photos above. Was that where JJA recommended you position it? Or is there some other reason for having the front plate axle at the same point as the rear set of mounting screws for the binding?

The long shot, with the rider dwarfed by the slope behind him and straightlining down reminded me of watching videos of surfers take on giant swells at Jaws.

Background: Small prolapse at Lumbar 4-5 disc became symptomatic in August 2012. Symptoms gradually worsening over next 4 months persuaded me to get a steroid epidural in January 2013, about 3 weeks before I flew out to SES 2013. Rode 15 days straight in Aspen without issues. Symptoms returned at a lower level in April 2013, but essentially disappeared without further treatment around July 2013. I'm a anaesthetist (NZ equiv. of anesthesiologist). I work regularly with a spine surgeon doing discectomies and spine fusions. Despite that, or maybe because of it, I NEVER want to find myself lying face down on an operating table with my spine surgeon friend's face looking down at me! ______________________ Discs are pads between each bone in your spine, and the give they provide is a major part of what allows your spine to move through a range of movement. Remove one and join together the two bones on either side (spine fusion) and the amount of movement required by each individual joint around the fusion, to produce the same overall bend, is now increased. When we bend forward both our spine bends as well as the pelvis tilting forward. If the muscles on the back of the thighs are tight then the amount of pelvic tilt is much more limited and more movement has to come from the spine. The more movement from the spine, the more squeeze load on the discs and the more likely they are to prolapse. As we get older our discs get less flexible and springy. The general advice for spine health is to make sure that the "core" muscles are strong, i.e. the muscles alongside the spine itself, and the muscles in the front wall of the abdomen. There is plenty of information out there about building strength in these muscles. For me, working on these muscles has significantly reduced the frequency with which I get lower back muscle spasm, and when it does happen it settles down much faster than it used to. I have very tight muscles along the back of my thighs and have since I was a teenager running/training for middle distance races & x-country events. I also have long legs for my overall height. Watching me trying to touch my toes with straight legs is an LOL experience! Many stretches that are used for these muscles seem to put strain on the lower back at the same time. I isolate the stretch to just these muscles by lying on my back on the floor in an open doorway at home. Then I rest one foot as high as I can manage against edge of the doorway frame, the other leg resting out straight on the floor. The leg on the ground helps to hold down my pelvis and isolates the stretch to predominantly the thigh muscles rather than my back. I need to be better at maintaining a long term stretch programme, because there is no short term fix to these sorts of issues. I second Neil's comment. The other simple way of reducing the stress on your back getting in and out of hardboot bindings is to get Intec/Fintec step-ins. I've been using step-ins since just after I started, having struggled with standard bindings and getting recurrent back muscle spasm from the movements required to bend down to get them done up.

http://www.bomberonline.com/VBulletin/showthread.php?42825-Experiments-in-boot-binding-amp-plate-setup Yes. Have ridden 10 days this year with front boot locked in position with Deeluxe 5 position adjuster, while rear has BTS (blue springs) set pretty much as loose as possible. The thread above reveals other heresies I am practicing. Check out the Video section "Carving Captains at Cardrona" to see the setup in action.

Probably AJ Muss and Richard Wilkes as in the video below. If I didn't already have ten snowboards, including a Kessler, I'd be after this one. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Yl9p-kFH4Zs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Pat, Bomber Boiler plate, 4mm, 4x4 mount, fixed axle at the front, with boot/binding positioned so that the ball of my front foot is just behind the axle. The board is a Coiler AM wide, WC construction, 177cm, 7.6 stiffness. The other board I had on this trip was my Riot Supercarve, 180cm, which is too narrow to take a Boiler without overhang. It has a SunSurfer plate all of it's own, similar setup.

Nothing turned up yet. Ajmckenzienz At Gmail dot com

Been away a few days. Just checked my personal e-mail & notifications on Bomber. Nothing in either place. Checked my Bomber profile settings and my e-mail address is correct.

Love that F2 picture & have used it as a desktop at times. The chosen snapshot was just a close up frame from the GoPro's wide angle lens.

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From a recent trip to the Central Otago ski fields. The Captain's Basin at Cardrona Alpine resort is a fun place to carve. Mike Watson was a complete stranger until he asked me whether I minded that he'd videoed one of my runs with his GoPro Hero3+ (original 1920x1080 @ 60fps). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpLOxzHolNg Video re-edited & stabilised and processed in GoPro Studio & VirtualDub + Deshaker plug in, Cineform codec. Newer version uploaded to YouTube. Post edited initially due to the new forum not embedding video the way the old one did. To embed now just copy and paste the URL into the post. IP Board does automatically detect the site. DO NOT format it as a link. If you do that you just get a link.

The ski pole tips are useful for chipping ice build up off boots or bindings.

Used the armour on my recent trip to the South Island. Found I was happiest when I had the straps connected to my gloves. Meant I could just pop out of the armour at the end of a run and activate my Intec cable without any chance of losing the armour. The armour was the subject of an almost endless run of questions from my chairlift companions, and pretty much everyone got the idea quickly. I had both hard boot and soft boot snowboarders admiring them, and was able to film an experienced Japanese snowboard school principal trying the armour out. The video of his trial run is uploading to YouTube as I write this, and I'll post the link as soon as it's finished processing. In this cropped screen capture from the video you can clearly see the track the armour leaves as Sam's hand touches down.

Have a leave pass from home, have booked the accommodation, just getting the riding up to speed this Southern winter.