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Michael Pukas

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  • Location
    Colorado
  • Home Mountain/Resort?
    Beaver Creek
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    I carve, therefore I am
  • Snowboarding since
    1995
  • Hardbooting since
    1996

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  1. Bomber 5mm Boiler plate alpine snowboard carbon fiber plate. From the original, 1st run of Boilerplates. Unmodified. With Wonderbar used for mounting and alignment. Used several times over a 2-3 seasons. Excellent condition. If you know, you know. If you don't know, then you don't need to know...
  2. Kessler 185 x 20 alpine race snowboard w/ metal top sheet. One of the original game changers. Bought used from a racer in about 2010, and I used it for free carving. Still some life left in the base, edges and camber. Available for local pick-up in Summit, Eagle and Pitkin Counties, CO. Shipping to US states is roughly $50.
  3. There's still been very little interest in this deck. So, I'll throw out an asking price and see what response I get - any one interested in this deck at $750?
  4. bumping this sale... very little interest so far, so I'm gonna leave it hanging out here for now.
  5. For sale is my original Madd 158 Slalom that I purchased brand new from Back Bay Bikes and Boards near or on Newbury Street circa 1998, just before I left Boston for the Rockies. I rode the board a couple of times in New England, and a handful of times in Utah and Colorado. It hasn't seen snow since about 2001. Probably not been on the snow more than 50 days total. Turned at a shop once, tuned by me a few times. Never any aggressive edge or base grinding. There are some cosmetic blems on the carbon, top sheet and base. Edges and side walls are all solid, barring a base gouge that needs filling. The inserts are the original brass, I believe but not certain, and are showing rust in some places. Since I have no idea of what the actual street value for this board is today, but I have an idea of what I'd like to get for it based on hype, I'm proposing this idea as a first shot at selling this board - sort of a silent auction. For the next week, email or PM me your best offer. If you really want this board, you can tell me you'll match offers up top a certain price. If a higher offer than yours in presented. I'll email you back and tell what that offer was, but not from who, and you can decide to match plus some amount, or not. If no acceptable offers are presented during the first week, I'll extend it for another week, in case some buyers did not have a chance to see the listing. If after 2 weeks, it still has not sold, I'll post a list price or best offer. Buyer pays actual shipping fees, and I'll ship it anywhere. If you live in Colorado, we can arrange to meet in person. I'll accept PayPal, check, money order, or cash if we meet in person. PayPal transactions will add 2.9% for transaction fee. For checks, I'll deposit the check and wait for it to clear before the board is shipped. Photobucket Library - more detailed pics. email me at: michael at mppdesignshop dot com Let me know if I can answer questions or would like other pics. Thanks for looking! mpp
  6. Rather than start a new thread, I'm going to ask the question here - how are UPZ RC-10 shell's sized? Do they run 24-24.5, 25-25.5, 26-26.5, etc. the way most normal plastic shell boots run? Is there any relation to the numbers printed on the shell of the boot in front of the rear heal block to the actual size of the boot? Cheers! mpp
  7. Asking to see if anyone has an extra bed in a room thet need/want to fill. I'm looking at staying the nights Saturday 02/05 and SUnday 02/06. Then later in the week on Thursday 02/10. The St Moritz has one lodge room left w/ 3 twin beds, but there is a four-night minimum, and I'm not staying that long at once. Thanks much! mpp
  8. Sorry QQ, been away for a few days... It is a sick ride - AMAZING!!! Yeah, those are TD2 base plates. I bought a TD2 2nd board kit when I got the SW's. Yeah, it's to reduce the stack height. Fin says the TD2 base plates save about 3/16" - 4mm. His BBP is so low anyway, that it's not really an issue... in the future we will see a new base plate design that's even lower and lighter, strictly for use with a plate. But we'll have to wait for that... and maybe, someday, SW step-in's... :p
  9. Ready or the maiden voyage! Got the Boiler Plate and TD3 SW's from Fin yesterday, Tuesday 01/11/11, got it mounted up last night and took it out for a few runs this AM @ the Beav. All I can say is, EPIC RIDE!!! I've had Sean's new Carbon board out for a few days so far this year, and haven't had a chance to blather much about it. It's a 186, 14-20-17 SCR, 4x4 + UPM. Today was the first day of riding it with Fin's plate. IMHO, this is Sean's crowning achievement in board building. After all of the proto boards he build and we test rode last spring, this final version is by far my favorite. When I asked him for a carbon fiber top sheet, I was thinking of it primarily for bling; but he said it would have a structural impact on the board and affect the performance, so he had to be careful what he used. What ever he did, it's amazing!!! Super smooth, very manageable, amazing edge hold, silky edge to edge transition. And I really like the 3-radius side cut - it allows me to tighten up a turn at the end if I need to, but I can just as easily let it run long. Call him up. Order one. You won't regret it!!!
  10. I love a little carbon on carbon action!!!
  11. I believe foot beds can do two things; correct posture - particularly of the lower leg, but then alignment works it's way through the knees, hips, waist, lower back, etc.; and provide support. Now let me clarify... I think foot beds only provide "support" in the sense that if you have a high arch, and you crank on your boots tightly, the boot will compress your foot from the instep down. An arch support can help reduce the amount of stress put on the foot due to this compression. I do not believe in "arch support" in general - the arch of the foot is it's own structure, and the arch itself is not supposed to bear any load directly by having a contoured surface under it. The foot is not designed to bear load equally across the entire underside surface - I believe arch supports get in the way of the foot flexing and moving and doing what it's supposed to do. As far as posture correction, that's very individual. The foot bed industry likes to say their foot beds put you in the perfect athletic stance, neutral, whatever each company likes to call it. And while I think there is some merit to that, I think that's more important for people that have real structural issues in their bodies. If you have a slight problem with your knees bowing in for example, I think it's much more effect to adjust the canting in your boots than to try to get your knees aligned by tweaking the tilt in your foot with foot beds. And even if you do have correct posture with your fancy expensive foot beds standing on them flat on the floor, if the canting of your boots is off for you, everything the foot beds are supposed to do is negated. All this being said, go with whatever works for you. There are lots of guys n gals in alpine & telemark skiing that don't even use foot beds in thermo-liners (Snowman for one). I even think Intuition says foot beds are not necessary in their liners. I've spent hundreds in foot beds for hiking, running, skiing and snowboarding foot beds over the years. I'm just trying to find something that's comfortable - I don't need or want arch support or posture correction. For the last couple of years I've been using some custom foot beds made for my alpine SB boots that use a two-piece product, heat molded to the foot with and inflatable air-pillow - they've been OK, but take a long time for my foot to get used to at the beginning of each season, and I still have a lot of pain in my feet. So yesterday I put in a cheap pair of $18 SoftSol foot beds from the local sporting goods store - almost no pain, and I can buckle my boots tighter which gives me better performance when riding. And I can hang out for hours afterwards in my boots without feeling like my feet need to be cut off. Foot pain and boot issues suck.
  12. Welcome back Fin - thanks for the aweosme report and pics!!! Now stop having fun and GET BACK TO WORK!!!!
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