SunSurfer

Hot Blast arrived after travelling from United Kingdom to New Zealand. Board in great condition, well packed. Thanks Daniel, best of luck with the rest of your gear for sale. SunSurfer

Found a suitable board. 2004-5 Hot Blast SL 160

Kumimajava listed the Hot Blast slalom 160 (2003-4 Red model) on e-bay. I have bought it, so it should soon be making it's way to the Southern Hemisphere. Many thanks Daniel. SunSurfer:) Hot Snowboards Archives to identify various models can be found at http://www.hammersnowboards.com/Archives/site2006_2007/products/hotsnowboards/hot_archives.php

Have discovered my courier has two luggage pieces to bring home already so no "free" carriage of an extra snowboard. Recalculation shows that excess baggage charges(inside the USA, and from LA to NZ) + postage of board inside US is close to international economy freight price for a board to NZ. I'll keep a general eye out for boards I'm interested in. If someone is prepared to go to the extra trouble of freighting internationally, with the price below the $200 mark for the board, I'd be interested to hear from them. Cheers SunSurfer

Thanks for the thought Big Canuck. Currently NZ$2 buys approx. $US1, but cost of a hamburger is about $NZ=$US so I'm staying below US$300. I'll keep the Hooger in the frame. Got a Volkl offer by direct e-mal from another Bomber member. Awaiting a reply from Galen re his F2 Speedster SL, and the Coiler SL he has listed for sale at OES. Awaiting reply on whether red Identity slalom board is still for sale. Been offered an unused Generics IQ 162 as well via direct e-mail. So lots to think about, and very grateful to all the people who have answered the call. Cheers SunSurfer :)

Emailed by Skipatroll to say his Volkl has been withdrawn from sale. Thanks. SunSurfer

Hooger not able to ship till after SES. See later posts in the thread. Thanks for the thought. SunSurfer

Currently looking for a slalom board to suit 182cm 80kg rider. Scrolling through the ForSale ads on Bomber. Is this board still available for me to consider? Best wishes SunSurfer

Looking for a second hand slalom board to suit me, a 180lb (80kg), 6 foot (182 cm) tall rider. Bindings not needed. Looking for approx. mid 9 metres SCR. Looking for a board in North America, to be mailed to a Washington State, USA address, to arrive by 13th March 2009 at latest as my courier leaves for New Zealand on March 15th. Payment would be by PayPal. I am NOT looking for something costing US$300+. As an example, had my eyes on a yellow/black stripe Volkl RT SL 163 currently on ebay (nice board, barely used, currently at $76), but the vendor is only accepting bids from inside the USA. Am trying to track down "skipatroll" on For Sale section who has a similar Volkl board, more heavily used, still noted as available. Does any body else want to thin their quiver with the US winter coming towards it's end? Thanks for reading this far! SunSurfer aj dot mckenzie at clear dot net dot nz

Is 2004 RT SL 163 still available? have also sent you an e-mail via the address you nominated for Bomber with more details & Qs. SunSurfer

Thanks KJL. Much appreciated. SunSurfer:)

I have neither a TD2 or TD3 baseplate, otherwise I could measure it myself. There is however, a reason why I would like to know the distance the holes are apart. My best estimate from analysis of images I have gathered on the web is just over 50mm. I would be grateful if somebody who actually owns a TD3 could take a ruler, make the measurements, and reply. Thanks SunSurfer

What is the distance in mm between the mounting bolt hole centres for the TD3 step-in toe piece, and the TD3 step-in heel piece (if they are not the same)? Thanks SunSurfer

These guys sell F2 parts as far as I can see. http://www.wslc.co.jp/snow/f2/08_09/bin_spare_parts.htm My Japanese isn't up to the task. Found them by Google searching for F2 Intec Titanium images. SunSurfer

Did anyone get round to trying one of these to get past all the speculation about the quality? Would they even make a half reasonable "rock" board or for cruising round more crowded, narrow trails and chopped up snow. The boards around seem to be all 164cm length. The construction picture and specs come from the current Freesport website. The board picture is from a Web based low cost sports equipment supplier in NZ who stock snow/bike/outdoor gear and sell top of the line stuff in other areas (e.g. Bike gear-Shimano/SRAM/Campag). I have no financial interest in either site. The boards don't appear to have changed from when Freesport made the Riot as one of their "race" boards. The Riot has become the name & topsheet pattern for one of their freeride boards, and their race style boards have a series of other names & topsheets but nothing else seems to have changed. SunSurfer

Just got round to loading detailed photos. Took this, a PJ 6.2 reg assym and an old Avalanche Chris Saunders 167 away for two weeks last NZ winter (Aug 2008) to Cadrona / Treble Cone fields in South Island NZ. Now nearly 50 (182cm, 82kg), I've slalom skateboarded since the 1970's (pre-urethane wheels) and had been trying to get the hang of carving after two planks got too boring. Was too chicken to try the Riot at first, but when I actually climbed on board it was the easiest of the three to ride. In 5 days I went from not being entirely confident of getting down the beginners slopes without a tumble to being confidently carving all the groomed slopes the fields had to offer. The board is very quick from edge to edge, and stable at speed. From measurements Nates calculator brings the sidecut radius in around 12.5m. Using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine - http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html Riot's old web pages talk about them not as a race board but as a tool for just blasting around at speed. Good carving boards are hard to find in NZ and hellishly expensive to import. I enjoy this one so much it is unlikely to be sold before I die! My 2 cents worth- If you get a chance to try/buy a Riot in good condition, take the opportunity, you're unlikely to regret it! And not all of them look like the one that Chubz has for sale.

Just bought this actual board (in NZ), and will plug the actual measurements into Nate's calculator when it arrives in a couple of days. Advertised as "Riot Supercarve 180 Approx 11m radius 240 tip 175 waist 235 tail This board is in mint condition has barely been used. Base & edges are perfect , Fantastic Carve/Race board for someone. Will suit an aggressive rider, Lots of camber & very stiff" Completely different top sheet from the Riot Velocity boards featured in Reviews and in other threads. Get to ride it in a couple of weeks!

"Drop a colour television set on the floor. It might work afterwards... but it's never quite the same." From a neurosurgeon I worked with a while ago who ran a Concussion Clinic, for people who just banged their heads, maybe didn't even lose consciousness. He saw a lot of people who were significantly but subtlely damaged by their head injury. They had long standing headaches, difficulty holding a train of thought (Just were did I get to in that column of numbers?), little things that aren't obvious from the outside but mean that you can no longer hold down your high performance, well paying job. In my own work, 12 years as an intensive care specialist and specialist anaesthetist, and a further 9 years just in anaesthesia (anesthesiologist, not nurse anaesthetist, for those of you from the USA) I have seen many people with severe brain injury from many causes. Most bits of the human body heal reasonably well with good care but the cells in the brain and spinal cord don't. This thread began with a description of a severe low speed head injury, from the description almost certainly caused by an extradural haematoma from a middle meningeal artery tear. Even going slowly, less than 10 mph, (less than 16 km/hr), or just an awkward fall while actually stopped, can generate enough force to produce a lethal brain injury from an extradural or other mechanisms. As the doctors and this guy's family clearly decided, there ARE fates worse than death. Please pardon me if I'm preaching to the converted, but if you aren't wearing a helmet for any speed sport you need to think very hard about why. You only get one brain, and brain transplants are not an option. A helmet will not make you indestructible, it will not necessarily save you if you smack into a tree or a lift pylon at 30 mph, but it gives you a bit more of a chance of surviving and having a life with some quality of existence. How much is your brain worth to you?

I know of the one in New Zealand. If you want to get in contact, send me an e-mail via this site. I am down in Wanaka from mid August, so my interest will wane from early August. Cheers SunSurfer (aj.mckenzie)