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oh, it works extraordinarily well. its really pull-PUSH though (not to be confused with extreme carving PUSH-pull). and also not to be confused with a series of quick turns (like on your basement floor with a skateboard). pumping: as you approach an irregularity in the slope (a sudden rise-fall with a duration of say 10 feet) just pull your legs in on the climb and then as soon as you clear the peak push as hard as you can on the downside. you will quickly accelerate away from anyone near you. its most efficiently executed when riding ptex flat (and dead straight) and when there are a quick series of these slope features in a row. parks and boardercross tracks usually create these slope features (rollers) on entrances to the park itself or on on approaches to big hits. think of it as a throttle. once in them you just "roll it on" by pumping (pulling-pushing) on the rollers. however, it also most effective with shallow soft boot angles where your legs are in a more efficient position for full, powerful flexions. it is exhausting though since it takes a really great PUSH to generate speed and it generates so little you really need to execute it at least 3 successive times to really feel some extra wind in your face. credits to my park rat kids though for teaching me this stuff many moons ago. sic

sobering story from Whiteface last week ..... One of their patrollers is now in a Burlington, Vermont hospital in a deep coma with massive head injuries. He was actually patrolling there when a boarder (on an intersecting trail) used the corner to grab big air and struck the helmetless patroller. So he's fighting for his life now. Been in the coma for a few weeks now. I got off the Cloudsplitter gondola, after hearing this from another one of their patrollers, tightened my own lid another notch and just thanked my lucky stars I was wearing one when I got cut down at Stratton a few years back. You just never really know when your number will come up. Sic

In the spring, when you find yourself riding straight and flat from tree shadow to tree shadow just so that you can make the lift without hiking, waxing makes all the difference. In these same conditions it also gives the board back its light and snappy feel. It also stops that "braking feeling" whenever you land the smallest jump. And that feeling to me is more exhausting than riding the sickest mogul field. That and what better way to clean a base than to hot wax it? Anyway, without hot waxing in spring conditions I'd honestly rather just stay home. Sic

Hunter Mountain last year..... "gapping the pipe; or die trying" Waiting for my turn in the pipe when I see this boarder come streaming down from the far right side of the slope. Apparently he was unfamiliar with Hunter and thought the side of the pipe (the outside of it) was a perfect table to hit. Before our eyes ramps into it like a madman, clears the flat hiking trail on the top and then does at least a 10 foot plus death drop right into the center of the icy pipe. Yeah, his legs did the snapping pretzel thing on impact and the medics had to sled him out. That was definitely the dumbest thing I ever saw on a mountain in 11 seasons. Its possible it was a real gap attempt. If that is the case it should have been on MTV Jackass. Sic

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Z, What size your 325's be? I got brand new (practically) pair of Burton Winds I don't use anymore (for freebees to you). Better they die a glorious life than just dry rot away in my garage. Size 9. Sic

YIKES !!!! Glad you are ok Zcarver !!!! Aggressive? Zcarver? noooooo... lol I've been snowboarding for 11 years and you are by far the most aggressive hardbooter I ever saw ride! And maybe the most enthusiastic too. If I were you I would replace your other 3 bails. This is metal fatigue. You ride hard, you ride fast and you ride a lot. You just plain wore them out. Again, the paper clip analogy as mentioned above. So replace the other 3 paper clips. They are all tired now. the old man, Sic

Those microscopic specs of plutonium that are in your lungs (and all our lungs now) were manufactured by man. Actually your body would be carrying more because you were alive (and breathing plutonium polluted air) during the period of all those above ground nuclear tests. Not something to be debated. This is fact. Harmless? Maybe, maybe not. Let us know how you make out. Sic

aluminum framed XFR Fish 35 years younger would be nice too, but I don't think that tech will be available for a while yet. Regards, Sic

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something to do when the slopes are nothing but flat hardpack Sic

sit on a mogul without twisting your knee out of socket. Sic

I was really hot on the Buell's, some years back, and jumped on a test ride of an S1 Lightning. Shook like a mother at idle but once it hit the business range it was remarkably smooth and strong. Pretty annoying bike to ride though: twitchy handling, engine too torquey, wheelie prone, extremely cramped. It reminded me of a large single cylinder enduro bike actually (nervous and wheelie city) more than a serious street bike. I'll bet the Buell works nicely in the 2006 Ulysses model configuration because that is what it really wants to be anyway. I'm sure a lot has changed for the better with them, but one thing sure hasn't: Buell's depreciate like falling rocks. I would not go there unless you are really sure this is the bike you want to keep for a VERY LONG TIME. sic

Maybe next we could get Orange County Choppers to build a Ducati "theme chopper" to honor this legendary marque. Maybe weld a desmo valve train to the side of the frame for visual effect. How cool would that be! Stuff it burton ! lol

He's very lucky. The bike's rotating chain and sprockets wanted spode boy's pony tail REAL BAD. Sic

Just because the Bomber binding is strong and inflexible does not mean its compatible with the intec heal. In fact I would tend to think just the opposite is true. It is known the binding is very hard on certain types of boots and boards. It is also known that its difficult to find the exactly right adjustment (between being able to click in and being too loose when riding). Is that a factor that overloads the heal piece? Well, sad as it is, I guess that this is part of the fact finding that will go on now. Hopefully it will all come out with good science. Not. Sic

"and I did three and a half twists on the wreck that resulted." Oh, that turns my stomach. Sic

We seem to be on the same "injury timetable". I tore up ligaments in my right hand really bad (distal transverse arch) when I folded the nose boarding with EricJ at Mountain Creek last January. Then 4 months later (Father's Day) bobbled in the rockers and snapped the end off the radius in the same damn hand !. I'm all healed up again and can finally jump the bike again. We'll see how we make out this Sunday. Anyway, the time will go fast. Daydream about "your lines" in the meantime. It will make you faster when you get back on the bike. Works every time for me! Sic...

"Countersteering" is considered a basic street motorcyclist skill. So basic that if you can't perform it, at will, you should not even venture out onto the public roads without your instructor/mentor in tow. Actually, if this were a street motorcycle website then countersteering could be probably be found under a tech article entitled something like "the norm". Not trying to be a wise guy but that's seems about the level this would rate on a website dedicated to street motorcycle riding. And that article would be one of the most important written on that site too (just as "the norm" is here). What gets interesting about countersteering is not what happens when a motorcyclist initiates violent countersteer from a vertical position, but rather the second countersteer from a radically leaned over position. For example; you countersteered violently to miss the leaping deer. And now, from a highly inclined position, you have no choice but to countersteer again in order to miss the telephone pole on the side of the road. This is the one that kills: cause you may fail to countersteer and hit the pole, and/or you countersteer too much and miss the pole but high side your mount down the road (most likely option). Or you thread the needle and live to ride another day! practice practice ! Sic

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Wow..... !!!!! I'll tell you though. I live on a water ski lake and hang with the slalom crowd so that story kind of amazes me. But you know what? slalom is small potatoes compared to the other big buck professional sport on our lake: bass fishing. I have always watched those boats out there and wondered about all the ingenious methods someone must have come up with to cheat. I mean, they have plenty of time and it draws the creative mind (you know, types of lures, colors, smells, water temps) and the stakes are screaming high. But its water. What could one possibly come up with? Guess I'm just a bit more informed now after reading this thread. sic

If I were to pick the perfect wave for myself it would be that sequence you have above. Grew up the surfer in Seaside Heights, NJ. Awesome time you had there! Still vacation every year in Hatteras, sic

Just saw the trailer WOW !! I'll have the wife get it for me for Father's day. sic

Rest assured that things will proceed a lot faster for someone with the athletic conditioning and drive that Holly has. I see it all the time in my summer sport (for both men and women). Actually, last Sunday one of my dear friend's died 3 feet in front of me (only 45 years old). Heart attack, handlebars of a YZ450 in hand during an expert moto, I saw him fail to power out of a berm and slow almost to a stop, then pass out and slump over to his left. That was the end right there (even with 2 ambulances and 6 EMS personnel not more than 150 feet from him they could not restart his heart. So its been a tough week for me. In the meantime, wishing Holly a strong recovery over the next few months. Ken....