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Can you confirm heel lift? 10mm?

Yup, understood, will take some more measurements to use as reference. I think NIdecker simply uses that for simplicity sake. Will look up the pubic bone measurement calculator to compare as well.

Thanks guys. I watched a couple Nidecker vids yesterday on stance, (the original and a revised version), and they use the distance from ground to center of kneecap as the base 'natural stance'. (vs calculation based on full leg length/inseam) They then add cms depending on riding style, as a guideline starting point. My 'Nidecker' natural stance is 18" or 45.7cm. Adding 4cms for 'freeride' still only puts me at 49.7 or ~19.5". I'll plan to experiment. Board was setup at 20.5". I'll widen another inch or so. I'll try 21" this weekend. This will be +2" (+5cm) over my alpine stance. Probably wide enough for my physique. My new bindings also have 2° inward cant built into the foot beds (Flow NX2 Carbon).

I'm going to bump it up, probably go right to 22" (56cm) which is reference stance on the board. This was also recommended by @Termin8tor who rides the Commissioners as well. I really enjoy seeing everyone's setup details in the Japanese ToyFilms clips. Lots of folks in the 55cm plus range.

I had my height in there originally, must have cut it out. I'm 5'6", pretty standard proportions.

I have gradually increased my stance width in last few years. IIRC, I was likely around 17 inches when I started and had gone to 18 inches in recent years. After getting my Coiler last year, and based on Bruce's advice, I am now running 19 (483mm) inches happily. I initially set up my softboot board with the same width but thinking I can probably widen it a bit further? I may be at 20" already after just checking. I may try going to 21" Ride Commissioner reference stance is 559mm (22") with -19mm setback. How much wider are you running softboots vs hardboots? https://www.jonessnowboards.com/content/313-how-to-set-up-your-snowboard-stance-like-the-jones-team-and-ambassador Jeremy Jones Height 5’8" (173cm) Jeremy’s High Performance Freeride Stance: Front +27° / Back 0° to +6° Width 22in (56cm) Jeremy’s Surf Series Stance: Front +27° to +30° / Back +6° to +12° Width 17.5-20 in (44.5-60cm)

I'm pretty sure they've since been sold. I saw them initially on a Canadian classifieds site and they're gone now.

@crackaddict has a 30% off promo code...

Agreed, looks like UPZ?

agreed with crackaddict. typical symptoms of boots that are too big. If there's enough room your heel is lifting on toe side and then on heelside your foot slides forward and your toes hit the front of the boot, they're probably too big unfortunately. so check your boot shell size first. you might be able to make them work with high volume liners (to take up the extra room) but better to be in a tighter fitting boot from the get go. your toes effectively should be touching the front of the liner, but all the time, in a static state where foot is held securely by boot/liner, not sliding foward and getting jammed against the front on heelside turns.

And sent, goes via snail mail. She should get it in a week or so. Thanks to those that chipped in. I hope it will be a nice surprise. Cheers

Two additional donors and we're to a round C$100. Thanks to everyone, will get that processed tonight.

I hope no beers were spilled during the vid. 'Still recording?'

This was yesterday AM at the local bump. Made for some great turns. Abs and legs were cooked by end of the day. Mild this week, without precip, but hoping they blow some before the 10mm of wet forecasted on Friday... Seeing ads for 'end of season' sales already! I expect it has been a tougher season for ski/snowboard gear vendors. Certainly didn't help we had visible grass over Dec holiday period. Hill had very decent coverage due to their snowmaking, but you would have zero idea if you didn't venture away from home.

@dragonrider

Week went by pretty quick. If anyone else is so inclined, please let me know by 8pm EST today. So far, I've got a total of C$67.32 to send to Dan's widow Annie in form of gift card to Petsmart.ca.

So glad I didn't buy them!

Lucky it fell out as it did and not lost forever somewhere out on a run...

Garmin makes a Varia rear light with radar... not sure if you use a Garmin head unit already @barryj. My friends that use them like them a lot. you could put one on your back somehow, attached to vest/harness and it would also alert you to stuff coming up rapidly from behind. https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/698001/

One left on closeout at https://upzboots.com/product/upz-wc-rcr-race-cuff-set/

@kibber can you share why you chose to upgrade from RCR to DGSS? Presumably familiarity from your Deeluxe and/or more travel? I had Raichle's (fixed forward lean) before my UPZ RC11 and I found the newfound flex in the UPZ somewhat too much. I upgraded to the stiffer orange race springs in the factory RC11 spring assembly and found that made a noticeable difference. I also was using a fair amount of preload on the race spring as well. I recently backed off the preload on the orange spring and am getting used to how that feels. I prob need to get used to more flex in the boot. Watching the video Pat linked above makes me realize how big a difference there can be in flex / range of motion, should that be desirable.

The TD3 / Fintec heels do work with the shorter 279mm sole UPZ boots but may need the toe bail flipped to accommodate. I'm happy with my setup. Walker at Bomber is working on an improved TD3 Sidewinder toe piece that is expected to work better with the shorter soles like UPZ.

Automotive paint protection film perhaps.

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/364707030333? Sidewinders and Fintec heels. US$500 or Best Offer

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