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  1. My Quiver/stash is no longer part of the long term plan so I am rotating out several old rides. This is the carving board thread, it will be followed by the plate binding thread. Then I will be selling a series of original Hobie Dual-edge board packages. Each package will be a group of the different generations of construction, both a Carbonfiber and a Fiberglass package. This is a whole pack of fun, some boards have little time on them and others are in well ridden condition. All with good camber and storage waxed. Please ask questions or for different pics if you would like them. The PJ7 has been ridden hard, has a cracked top sheet at the front binding toe and long base weld, but it still throws down the turns. I am interested in offers, if I am not at market price. I accept Paypal gifts/USPMO and ship for $20 in the US. I'll get pics loaded asap! Rossignal AC 153 $100 Melhuse 159 $150 Burton RaceStock 160 $100 Brooklyn 160 $100 Killer Loop 167 $150 Regular Asym's M5 150 $100 F2WC Carbon 160 $150 PJ7 173 $100
  2. What length ya after? I got a size run of them.
  3. That Heli-cam rig has been used in OffRoad truck racing as well. I would like to figure out the kite aspect, however, having several in the quiver!
  4. Nice kite work. What size is that kite in the video? Looks beefy for flying on land! Makes me wanna get mine out and fly on my mtnboard.
  5. Try some stronger springs in the trucks to keep the board stable. It will take more effort to hold a turn but wont flop to one side or the other just cause you changed you balance. I have a vintage three wheel model that steers the two front with tierods and spindles by pivoting the deck. I like it much better than the MBS style pivoting skate truck designs, for dirt. It is hard to keep steering through a turn, at the radius you want, when the skate trucks are moving up and down with the changing terrain. Having a rear brake to skid the tail into a turn is added fun! I really want to try one of those two wheeled ones with the caster front since it actually carves the turns. I love dirtboarding but it has crash consequences that I would rather risk on a bike. Full armour: Helmet, wrist guards, gloves, knee and elbow, spine and chest protection is wise when actually descending at any speed on anything but grass. I have watched some bloody carnage when "tough guys", with no padding and just gloves, caught or tucked the front end and pulled a swan dive into superman slide on dirt and gravel, at speed... edit to add: I haven't tried the dirtboard with my kites yet, but I really want to. I have a 2m trainer, as well as 4m and 6m snowkites. They can get some seriously fast pull, with very little wind. My board is probably a little too short to be getting much speed anyway...
  6. No worries, I hit have a habit of hitting the quote button instead of Reply! If you cant tell, I have a thing for graphite. That was some of the finest paper I had seen and must have been additionally confused...:D
  7. ***edit to add: Sorry, OP said layman's terms. When used right, the board don't twist and release the edge during a hard carve or over rough snow*** Carbon is only bling when it is used as trim or in minimal amounts, then a marketing tool at best. When used for longitudinal flex control, it does require extra dampening to keep from generating a sine wave form(bounce or chatter). When applied correctly, carbon fiber monocoque provides tremendous torsional rigidity and a minimum of the bounce effect that incorrect layup gives. We are talking loaded edge deflection measured in millimeters, not inches like every other construction material and that is on a wide BX/freeride profile, not a race profile, which would be even less. I assisted in the development of the first all carbon cap construction boards that utilized the carbon twill in that fashion. These boards rip the living xhit out of the snow in a way that exceeds the best construction of any other material. To achieve the same torsional effect with glass, it would take such thick mat, that the board would be prohibitively heavy and the flex would be dead. It isn't any where near as damp as metal, rather, lively and responsive, better described as SNAPPY. I must ride a modern metal/carbon board and see how a decade of development compares to my trusty old sticks. I have yet to ride anything, carving board, race board, whatever, that doesn't twist like a noodle compared to my Carbon Dual-e. Donek is making a board that may have the benefits I speak of, I can't wait to try it! Don't see too many rockets or performance sailing (board or boat) masts made of anything else. Propellor and rotor blades, aircraft wings etc all take advantage of the light weight, torsional rigidity of carbon that no other material can match. It ain't bling when its engineered by someone who understands its properties and how to apply them.
  8. The skiers on track, the day I was timed, were getting just over 130mph. I see that the Sun Peaks Velocity Challenge is still running in BC. Back in the day, I wanted to get on the clocks there but they didn't allow snowboards. I wonder if that is still policy and why? Gonna have to investigate! BC is much closer than Europe and I love the interior snow! Man, it looks more like a boarder cross course with that big air in middle of the run!!! Check this footage of a couple runs on course...
  9. Cool info! Thanks for the heads up on the fastest one. Watching the video shows some sketchy moments during his descents. He needs a profiled base to smooth that out. I attended a speed ski session in the late 90's and broke the beams at 97mph. The skiers were surprised that I had razor sharp edges since they detune the full length to keep from catching. The board was a custom Dual-e on the bottom of a 175 race of some kind. I borrowed an aerodynamic helmet and speed suit to make the runs. There was plenty of track up the mountain above where I started, to increase trap speed, but I didn't get to try it since the conditions had changed and the wind was blowing too much. I'll have to dig out the photo archive and see if the shots from that day are in the file. I still have a Landingham speed helmet and Burton 185 with a Dual-e with NACA duct in the base that was made for straight line speedski course work. I haven't taken the chance to run it through the lights. Guess I should break it out and head to Les Arc one of these days and see if it we leave a mark on the books, instead of the snow... Unless there is still a speed event in North America that I don't know of, any suggestions?
  10. Hobie carbon dual-e 162 freeride has been my love affair for over a decade. I saw the twinkle in her daddy's eye, her birth and confirmation and celebrate each passing birthday. I ride her with reckless abandon, at every opportunity and I mount her the hard way, with heavy iron from her day, Bomber TD-1's. She'll carve every turn like we we're on rails. She is strong enough to punch through the roughest crud, she'll chew though any mogul I point her at without getting torqued, yet she's soft enough to finesse the driest powder. I can lay her over to 90* on any corduroy slope until my armpit drags, for turn after turn after turn, and she still begs for more. Even after I am totally out of breath with heart pounding, knees shaking and thighs burning. I am thankful for her full figure with broad waist-ed bulging hips since she floats so well when the going gets deep. I am even more gratified with her carbon top and bottom since she'll never loose the amazing spring in her step or get floppy and droopy with age. I have only a couple more copies of her and loath the day when she gets too old and her skin is too dry or creased to slide on her bottom, anymore.:( Do I really love my board?
  11. I'll be rolling my carbon freeride boat, today. I am tempted to bring my Steel carver, just in case, but will probably leave it in the quiver. Base of Sunrise for me this morning. My 9y/o hardbooter is still getting a feel for edge lock and Marshmellow is a good warm up for her. Where is all the Expressinin' gonna be happenin'? The Powderoy or Trees?
  12. I have loaner gear as well, just posted it on the loaner thread. Get in touch if any of it is needed for the instructor demo. I expect to be there on the 8th for sure, and maybe on the 13th
  13. I'll pass around the dates, 3/7-13, and see if I can shake a few Platers out of the eaves for that week. I can attend at least a couple of days and will have my grommets in tow. Maybe even get the older one to finish a turn and make transitions before the event... Don't forget the $29 Mt Bach club card that fixes the price of day tickets at $50/day. @ $60/ticket, 3 days of tickets and your even, but @ $70/Ticket, its only 2 days of tickets and you are ahead.
  14. Good call on lift-op limitations in the later season, MikeT. Can't be funneling the session down one run with a cheap mountain and no lifts to choose from. I had a truck load of fun on Ed's the last time I got to go carving. What are the favorite carving runs on Bachelor anyway? #1 Summit- Beverly hills***Favorite*** #2 Outback- Ed's #3 Skyliner- Cliffhanger #4 Pinemartin- Thunderbird(busy with skiers cutting bumps in the groom)
  15. March 19th through 27th is $70/day, spring-break, "holiday price" for Mt Bachelor. Maybe(cause I am poor) we could consider the first weeks of April, as well? Charity ski weeks are mid week, M-F, April 4-8th and 11th-15th. I am on the list for charity tickets ($25 all lifts, all day) and can request MANY of them if I know they are all getting redeemed. Usually there are about 2500 charity tickets available for the period. I will check how many they will let me collect to see if I can get up to 50 of them(10 guys, for five days?) Regular pricing includes, Sunday through Friday, an afternoon ticket for Sunrise express. It is only $25(my favorite ski ticket price, from back in 1985). Just food for thought. edit to add: I am not suggesting a change to April, just dangling the "cheap" carrot and seeing if that is factor for our consideration.
  16. I have a couple Freebee's I can throw in the mix. They are 2fer1 for Friday nights at HooDoo from US Cellular. Unlike the Shell tickets, these are only good for HooDoo. Email me since I don't always login when I lurk here.
  17. I usually miss the boat on these "expression" gigs. This time I'll be keeping an eye on the calendar and, so far, March is looking good! I have at least one board that will shock the locals and maybe even a carve to justify the shock:AR15firin edit to add: I have several fellas I could invite that would love to share a chair with other plated carvers. So, lets nail down some dates!
  18. So, how was practice? I don't recommend angling soft bindings past about 30-35 degrees. The support of the highback is helpful for holding the edge on a heel side. Did I forget to mention forward lean adjustment on your binding high backs? You will want some forward lean to make the heel side board lean angles easier to work. If you ask the board to lean to 90 degrees, it will. 162 carbon Dual-e at about >that< many degrees:
  19. Those logs claimed the life of my buddies DH MTB helmet a couple seasons ago. Very sneaky they are. We had just dropped into the upper woods section and bumped a couple, undersnow. I thought it was lava and stopped to check my base. My buddy snagged his tip on one just above me and got thrown down, head first into the next one, behind me. Crushed his brand new Giro fullface helmet. By the sound, I thought he was dead, but, he didn't actually feel a thing... TFG:eek:
  20. Lots of little leaps: 1990 Bought dayglo pink Kemper Aggressor 170 with little sidecut and three strap bindings. Added skiboot liners to my sorels so I had a padded tongue to lean on. Since it had a square tail, it must be a race board, right? 1991 Saw my first German Eurocarvers, at Snowbird, on custom clip-tail Asym's and hardboots. Decided I must have boots and a board with sidecut like that to make those pivot around palm, Vitelli turns. 1992 First hard boots (Burton Megaflex) and plate board (PJ7) I flogged the dog on that get'up for the next couple of seasons until I got to the point that I could both ride the board fast enough to get a turn out of the sidecut and hold the edge long enough to make the turn. 1993 Tried every binding angle the board allowed to get my heelside turn to stick. Finally got it, by sitting with my butt to initiate and carry a turn. Scored a second hand Nitro Asym 154 to try the new tricks. 1995 Met some goofball with a 4 edge, double based freeride board, hello what's this? Turns out the board was a Dual-e prototype, to be built with carbonfiber, for the following season. I got to do some test riding on it and I LIKES!! Secured contract to ride said boards and tour with Demo van(complete with my first set of Bomber Trench Diggers). Up until now, I thought I was some kind of BigBoy freecarver. I knew the racers could out carve me any day, but their carves didn't have the soul that mine did, and it showed. BIG BREAK THROUGH: 1996/7 on tour in Vail,CO. I saw some instructor dude, with Boone printed on his Vail name tag, riding a Rossi Throttle mounted with TD1's, using SKIPOLES, with little plastic irons mounted on top!!! On closer examination, I noted that he had the strangest wear on the butt of his pants, and one knee had the same scorched wear pattern as the butt... I figured he knew something I didn't and went to bug him. That was when I saw him pole plant, drop hip, lay out a ripping heelside with his little plastic iron gliding on the snow, and before the board even had a chance to recoil after the turn, he swung over the top of the board, hooked up and layed out the toe edge. Totally sick carving, I think to myself, and really get after this fellow. We end up meeting at his "office" at the top of the video analysis course for a little bull session. After some introductions, we turned it into a full blown EC session. He liked my board and I liked his style. He shared many little tips and tricks that tightened my overall package to the point that I could throw down, anywhere, anytime and feel like I knew exactly what I was doing... Thanks Mr. Lennon!! Edit to add: Haven't ridden any of the new stuff, however, still on high angle skinnies and Dual-e carbons from the 90's. With the new Tech boards and ergonomic setup concepts, I gotta learn how to do it all over again.
  21. Cause my favorite freeride board hasn't been in production for over 10 years and the industry is just starting to catch up to the technology it utilizes. Then my carving board quiver is just deep enough(I am the guy with all the cheezy asym's in every size and the super skinny mid 90's WC stuff...) that I can almost stay satiated without a METAL in the mix. Not to say that I wouldn't want to carve metal, I just happen to carve carbon and can get away without it. When I can justify the expense, however, I will be buying metal, just for a little taste... Then I'll have to upgrade the boots since they won't cut it anymore, then I'll have to upgrade the bindings, since they won't be just right either, then I'll have to upgrade the wax iron and the wax(no cheap wax and 1950's iron on the metal board!), then I'll get sucked into the temptation to get a plate, then I'll want to run a gate course on the clock to see how it all compares, then I'll want to follow the USASA circuit because I have qualifying times, then I'll need a coach since my times will have to improve, then... where does it end??? Best not:AR15firin upgrade!
  22. I hunted for a light weight boot for freeriding for years. I just scored a pair of Scarpa Denali's and, after the first ride, am VERY pleased with what they offer. They sure aren't as heavy as my raichle's and they flex different, but I am figuring a work around for the lateral flex. For a non race snowboarder looking for hardboots, can't beat going into REI and getting fitted!
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