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I had that exact board only regular and a 160. New they sold for about 450.00. Bought it at a shop in Breckenridge. In fact that was the board I rode last time I was in Aspen. I don't recall the exact year maybe someone else will know what year that board was made.

I wil be at Vail from 2/11-2/14 and will be riding either a red Dupraz d1 with soft boots everwhere or a Donek blade 180 red and yellow on the groomers. Probably will start the week on the Dupraz and will ride hardboot if the snow gets firmer.May ride the Dupraz exclusively . I know, I know I should be at ses but It was way cheaper to use my 5 mountain pass and go to Vail and I want to get my 10 days this year. I couldn't afford to spend the extra money on ses this year maybe next year!

Sounds like you need to replace your soft boot board if the inserts are shot. talk to Sean I am sure that he could build something that would be suited to your size. continue to ride both setups and have fun! I like riding both and I think your riding gets better if you can ride both as you learn to carve both softboot and hardboot. when you go out west be sure to bring both setups so you can enjoy both powder and hard snow depending on the conditions.It is not fun to ride an alpine deck in powder.

back your angles way down. There is no need to ride 51/30 on a soft boot set up. I am riding 30 degrees on the front and maybe 25 on the rear and can carve well and i am not booting out. If you need to ride that steep to avoid over hang then you need a wider board. The mellower angles will give you more stabilty and better turning power and edgehold on toeside turns. It will also work better on bumps and steep terrain. Have fun with your soft boots! I am doing a lot more soft booting this year and am wondering if I will be riding hardboots much. I like the versatility and lighter weight. Save the steeper angles for hardboots and a narrow alpine board if you are going to do it.

Yes the Dupraz will work on groommed snow with plates but I don't see the need to ride it with hard boots although it is designed to be used with either type of boot. My soft boots are 5 pounds lighter than my hard boots which is another reason for using them. I don't feel like I need the extra stiffness and weight of a hardboot setup to ride in powder and or soft snow. I use bts on my hardboots so there is no walk mode. there have been posts about riding in walk mode and breaking your boots by doing so. Go read them. You are asking for trouble by doing this.

The Dupraz is a superb board for riding in powder and all mountain. I would imagine that the 5'5" would be good for you. I have the longer one but I weigh 185 and am 5'10''. the board is easy to ride and turny when you need it to be. I would reccomend using soft boots on a Dupraz. I rode mine yesterday for a couple of runs with plates and will never ride plates in powder again.That is not the fault of the board I just don't like riding hard boots off piste as they are too stiff and the ride is harsh.I think the Dupraz is more fun with soft boots anyway. I have ridden it both ways a lot and soft boots are the way to go. The board also carves well on groomers with soft boots. I will always have one of these boards as I really really like the way it rides! It allows you to ride with equal weight on both feet even in powder. No more loading your rear leg to keep the nose from sinking. Bola at all board sports in Boulder CO sells these boards. Give him a call at 303-415-1600.

Having ridden ski boots lemans boots and now the susaka boot you might try the sususka. Ski boots are only good for groomed snow only and force you to ride steeper angles unless you have small feet. Also ski boots do not work well if you want to ride mellower angles because they don't flex properly for snow boarding. When I was using the ski boots I was running 60 degrees on both feet. Now I can run mellower angles on a wider board and have more leverage and stabilty with the snow board boot. The susuka boot is stiffer than the lemans and will allow you to put more power into your turns. You can customize the flex and foward lean better with bts as well. The bts also lets the boot flex about the same in cold or warm weather. I think bts allows a smoother ride becuase of the shock absorbing ability of the springs.

Are you riding flat in the rear? If you are not using any rear leg cant it might be contributing to the shin bang. Also do you have the rear boot set up without much foward movement? Your stance could be too wide and you are pushing into the boot too hard . You will have to experiment with different setings to fix this. I have a lot of foward movement in the rear boot and more foward lean in the rear.

Go to all board sports in Boulder and demo a Dupraz d1 before you buy any of these other boards. It rules for all mountain riding and powder and is very manuverable and carves well. Bola calls it the quiver killer. I have ridden it with both hard and soft boots and now only ride it with soft boots. Call the shop at 303-415-1600 and talk to Bola about it.

What size boot do you need?

I will be attending this event! I will bring some boards for people to try and a pair of Head boots that are for sale and you can use them if you want.

Is this board still available?

I don't know how it could be done if you are using intec as the Bomber bails are installed with a bolt on each side and the Cateks are simply fit into a slot. It would take a major modification to make this work and if not done right it would be unsafe.I think people were doing this with standard bails-using a catek bail on a Bomber to give better clearance for ec carving. I think there was info on this on the extreme carving site. I have some Catek olympics and some Bomber td1s and I don't try to mix parts. I wouldn't reccomend doing this. With intec there is a slight bit of slop or wiggle no matter what. Just make sure that you have your bindings set up properly so that you don't end up breaking a heel.

I doubt that anyone will be copying the Dupraz as the design has a patent on it . Just save up your money and buy one from Bola at All Board sports in Boulder CO. He had one a while ago that was available for demo. I have one and I abouslutely love it! Just do It!

Talk to Bola at all board sports in Boulder CO 303-415-1600. He has several in stock. I doubt you will find any used for sale as they are an awesome board and anyone who has one will refuse to sell it. I know I own 1 and will be saving up to buy another as it is the best board to ride in powder that I have ever ridden! Can be ridden with either hard or soft boots. I prefer to ride mine with soft boots. will not be riding it with hard boots again. He had 1 that was available for demo a while back but I don't know if that is still true. it is an easy and fun board to ride and you won't regret getting one!

I weigh 185 and am using blue springs on the top and red on the bottom as I don't want the boot to flex backwards during a heelside carve. This is on the Susaka boot. There is a lot of range of adjustment with this system from lots of foward movement to hardly any depending on how it is set up. You can also adjust foward lean as well. This year I am going to ride hardboots on groomed snow only and soft everwhere else as I am liking a soft setup for all mountain and powder. I think the blue springs are soft enough for me since I will not be riding off piste with hardboots any more. I like the rear foot softer than the front. It is not a good idea to ride in walk mode as you can break your boots! Sounds like BTS would work well for you.

You might call Bola at all board sports in Boulder CO to ask about these boards as he does have some in stock. I don't know if he has the models you are talking about in stock or not.

Don't be suprised if you snap a board with those bindings because without bumpers the pressure is not distributed well enough to keep this from happening. Even though you are light weight you still might be able to put enough pressure on the bindings to snap a board. Go to the hardbooter.com website and watch the video size doesn't matter and watch Billy Bordy snap a board when he rides the Bomber binding without the bumpers. The bumpers keep you from having too much leverage on the disc and rocking the binding backward or fowards when you are turning the board. I would reccomend not using these bindings as a safety issue. I know I have had snow pros explode and a nasty wreck because of it!

I would Strongly reccomend that you purchase a new pair of bindings rather than mess around with these. I would reccomend a Catek or Bomber binding while not being cheap are better than getting hurt. the other problem with Burton bindings is getting spare parts- not so with Bomber and Catek. I know I have ridden plates for 20 years and have broken numerous pairs of snow pros becuase the they were plastic and would shatter in cold weather also the wire bails would break because they were too thin. That was all that was available at the time and so I would have to put up with the problems. If you can come over to Summit county to ride this winter arrange to demo some bindings at Bomber. They will be able to set you up with the right ones and it won't cost much. Be sure to email them before you do this so they will be available to do this for you on the day you want to do it. A lot of times they are not always open so let them know and they will be there for you. Are you in Grand Junction? I used to ride at Powderhorn back in the late 80's and early 90's in hardboots there. That mountain is fun when the conditions are good. Skimping on bindings is asking for trouble!

Any suggestions for a better liner than the Chinese thermoflex? I know that the europe thermoflex is supposed to be better but where can you get them? What about injection foam? My liner is chinese thermoflex and doesn't fit well. Maybe Billy Bordy can give us an update on the liners he had made for his indys a while ago that were injection molded and were expensive. How are they working? Mine are packed out and I need to do something to improve matters.

Why bother with an alpine all mountain board if you are riding soft boots? You will be spending more money for nothing. The prior atv is selling for 800.00 this year. There are lots of directional free riding boards for soft boots that will carve superbly and are way less money. Ride makes some good decks and Never Summer and there are other companies as well. You could ride a longer board to get more effective edge and have better float in powder. I ride hard boots mainly because my feet hurt too much in a soft boot set up but you can carve well with soft boots and it is cheaper for the gear. I wish alpine gear was cheaper but it costs more to make it and less of it is being sold so the price is higher. It is amazing how much soft gear is avaialble and for cheap prices.

I think one can carve better in a hard boot set up than soft provided the person riding has the abilty to do so. However you can carve pretty well in soft boots these days due to the fact that the gear is good quality. I prefer hard boots because soft boots are too hard on my feet and are more uncomfortable and I get more performance in a hard setup on steeper terain and harder snow conditions.I enjoy riding my Dupraz d1 with hardboots in powder. If soft boots were adequate for carving and racing you wouldn't be able to buy hard boots because soft boots are cheaper and it wouldn't be necessary to produce the more expensive hard boot set up. Of course now it is possible to buy hard boot gear that is more versatile and better for all mountain riding. Hopefully the companies that produce snowboard hard boots wil continue to make them for a long time so that we can enjoy the comfort and performance that a hardboot provides.

Would have to agree. I switched to a wider board last season-Donek blade 180 and like it better than a narrower board. It has a smoother ride and is more fun for free carving.I did not buy it to EC. I will probably never EC due to the fact that I have dislocated and had to have surgery on both shoulders and am not interested in extending my arms out on the snow. The swoard guys have a good idea with the wider board and maybe more people will ride hard boots again. I don't know if i will ride my race boards again because I like mellower angles and BTS. I can still carve well and a narrow board is designed to turn quicker in a race course but I don't need that because I don't race. Also it is less of a change going from the Blade to my Dupraz D1 because the boards are similar in width and I ride the same angles on both of them. We will see if this wider board thing catches on or not. I have ridden lots of stuff as this will be season number 30. I hope we will be able to buy wider boards for a long time as this is what i am interested in. I used to ride a mistral 159 asym everywhere and it worked pretty well due to the width. I could even ride it in bumps at snowmass years ago.

Any one ever ridden a Checker Pig g6? Is it similar to today's swoard or Donek Blade? Or is it super stiff? I was thinking of buying one on ebay to ride early season if it is similar to the above 2 boards. I know i would have to t nut it as it has no inserts. Where can I buy t nuts with ptex on the bottom of them? I am assuming it is wide waisted like a Donek blade. Anyone know specs?

Shredder Jen Let me know when you might be coming to Summit in Nov or Dec as I might be available to go riding then as I have a few vacation days left to use up. Had to use most of last season to recover from shoulder sugery. Am ready to have a good year this year. I have some heels from Bomber that are made out of polyurethane that you can try. They are supposed to absorb more shock than the standard plastic heels that come with the Raichile boots. I will not be using them as I like intec and not standard bails.