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10 hours ago, Cthulhufish said:
tightening preload nuts did more for my heel side carves
What spring system are we talking about?
Photos of your current spring system settings front and back could be informative.
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56 minutes ago, Toast said:
bought some super feet greens. I know, not ski boot footbeds. Totally didn't work.
Not sure where you heard that but all the ski boot fitters here in Tahoe sell all the Superfeet footbeds. I got green G in my old 425's and green H in the new 425's. There Great!
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Feb. 3
Still learning and loving this Little Go Kart!
New boots have really helped me get infront of this little beast and now Driving It! Not just riding it!! Which has brought me and this board get to a new level of excitement!
I upgraded my old Deeluxe 425's with the latest version 425's and Wow.....right out of the box it was a performance upgrade....even without any footbed or heat molding. I had added BTS and Fintecs just like my old boots.
I now have gotten new Superfeet H footbeds in and the Thermo liners heat molded and will give it all a go tomorrow/Sat. at Heavenly.
Wish me luck!! Update to come
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Jan. 6th
Took the Little Red Corvette out for the 1st test spin today....aka Coiler Angrry 160 UPM F Plate
It was dust on crust in foggy conditions and I made some mediocre turns.....but Wow is it lively!
The takeaways so far are:
1- It tracks super straight off the lift....with no input from me! I'm just hanging on like being launched!!
2- It picks up crazy speed in a straight line ...more so than my Rev 163 or K168!
3- and in that micro second it takes to get to speed/mach 1 it starts pulling the nose off the track...like it's saying, Hey! let's go over there!
4- and as soon as you whip it around to that direction you feel it pulling the other way! No, we gotta go over here!
5- the transitions don't need any coaxing from me and really feel like the board is wanting/telling me to start the turn and happen lighting quick....and as far as inputs from me I'm just trying to keep up with this little Bandit!
6- but when your in those turns the board really looses speed and for a micro second time seems to slow down and then.....Wham! your headed the other direction!!
7- At the moment I'm just a passenger along for the ride! It will take a few more days of better conditions to Release The Kracken and Learn To Drive this go-kart!
8- and What's Really Scary is I've barely taped this little beasts potential....... sure hope it's not a Jekyll and Hyde and it just decides to pitch me in the woods!
More updates to come!
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So I upgrade my 6? year old (100+ days per season) black/green Deeluxe 425 Pro's with the new colorway of blue/orange 425's and finally got out on the hill today and even with the standard Deeluxe Speed liner it was a step up in performance!
Like on my old boots I added BTS all Blues and Fintec's. Even without a custom footbed the included new Speed wrap liner had great heel hold with it's sculpted internal ankle cups and felt comfortably snug from the start. The upper part of the liner felt a little to soft compared to my Intuition Pro Wraps but the Booster strap made up for the difference.
I'll probably stick with the Deeluxe liner for one more day before switching out to see if I can notice any difference with the Intuition Pro Wraps.
The liner is greatly improved from the original liner that came in my old boots. The buckles are redesigned and have some additional mechanical advantage that make them much easier to get cranked down. The flex seems much more lively than my old boots and the Booster strap seems to work better and actually have a designated slot/groove to sit in compared to just wrapping it around the shell/liner on the old boot.....which never seemed to fit/stay where I wanted it.
Overall very happy to have stuck with Deeluxe!
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2 hours ago, AJCdice said:
ever seen this before?
Never seen that before, but quite a lot of other Intec failures mentioned here over the years.
Intecs are great for the price but not anywhere the durability of Fintecs. I was tempted to try Intecs after one of my 5 year old Fintecs imploded but was too skeptical Intecs would survive my 5-6 day work week and 120+ days a season.
$12 part from Bomber got me back on the hill and they are solid as a rock again....Thanks Walker!
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9 hours ago, dredman said:
front boots are more vertical
Hey D,
Do you run aggressive front foot forward lean (to get back to vertical) because your running a 6 disk on the front?
If you went down to a 3 degree disk on front foot wouldn't you therefore need less forward lean on front foot???
Just trying to understand the concept....
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Plenty of calf deep days, numerous knee deep days, a handful of thigh deep days and only a couple of waist deep days and 1 Day Over My Head!....all here in Tahoe basin.
I won't go if it's over knee deep any more! If you go down or run out of speed in the flats for any reason you are in for a serious workout....if not a life threatening experience!
The Over My Head experience was earlier this season, night riding at Boreal after we had had 9ft of snow in 18 days. It was great waist deep riding ...until I decided to go up for one more last! run and I misread a contour in the night lights and actually just fell/sat back and totally submerged into the white room! I was in shock how far I submerged just by being tossed off to the side on a contour! I shot my hand straight up and barely could reach the surface. Thank god I could reach my TD3 SW SI release levers at the top of my boots! I'd still be there if I had to bend over and unstrap/unbuckle with traditional bindings! As I was not on the main runs
and off on the fringe of the night lights And Riding Alone they wouldn't have found me until months later in the thaw of 2023!
Needless to say I clawed/dug my way to the surface but it was bottomless. I had to hold on to my board like the edge of the pool and mantle up on top of it to get out. Then swim/paddle out surfboard style to get back to the tracked runs to get back up on the board..........all of that was/is a Herculean effort not to repeat!
DEEP Pow lessons: You can't fall! Don't ride the pow alone!!
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45 minutes ago, dredman said:
, first two photos front boot
I always thought you wanted your front boot more vertical. What does forward lean on your front boot help you with?
I would think any preset forward lean on front boot would take away from your toe side turn ??
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6 minutes ago, dredman said:
Here ya go.
D, Can I assume the first two photos are your front boot?
...and if the last two photos are your rear boot, the way you measured, from the bottom of the BTS it looks like your averaging over an inch for your rear boots
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1 hour ago, Carvin' Marvin said:
gonna have to take me on a date first.
Really, ok, ......sit by your phone. When it doesn't ring that will be me!
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Curious as to what everybody's rear boot forward lean is on your boots for some Hard Charging Carving and what the average is these days??
On my rear boot I got my BTS short spring compressed about 1/4 inch....or 3/4 inch if measured from bottom of BTS.
What you got??
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22 hours ago, Corey said:
Yeah, that's a rock you dumb &$#%!
That's a good one Corey!
Speaking of boards flying away, there's also Don't Be Stupid!......Was riding up the lift at Boreal for 1st lap night riding and it's a deep pow night and for some reason I decide it's imperative to check I'm solidly attached to my front TD3 SW SI....so what do I do......In a brain fart moment I pull the friking release lever and in shock and embarrassment I see my board drop like a bomb and nose over an auger in nose first in the ungroomed steeps under the lift towards the top.......and disappear! Gone, Vanished.
So I get to the top and just casually walk off the chair and the lifty just stares but doesn't say a word. So I start walking sliding, wading back down to where I last saw the board and spend a hour+ digging here and there for buried treasure until I was about to give up and actually sat down on the tail of the board! All my pit digging had drifted me downhill and away from the groom, so once I got the board out the real work started.....it was so deep to get back out to the groom I had to lay on top of the board and surf paddle out of the pow. I was so spent from all that when I finally got back down I was toast and just went straight to the car! Not even one!....and Done!!
On 1/26/2023 at 4:19 PM, Eboot said:I looked down to find both bindings still firmly attached to my boots.
Yikes! That's scary beyond belief E! You one lucky dude!!
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1 hour ago, Quentin said:
Moss PQ 160 EX
Hey Q,
Welcome to the Moss Powder Squadron!
I love my PQ60 and I still say if I had to sell all my other boards and could only own 1 board this would be it!
It is a Swiss (Japanese) army knife! Loves the pow, wants to carve the groom...and all on the same run!!
It's a surfy, pumpy ride unlike anything else out there! Enjoy!
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Some of you may have read my"Fintec Debacle" post where I have been sidelined from riding/work since one of my Fintecs imploded internally last Sat. Jan. 20th.
I had already had a order for a new set of Fintecs on order since Jan. 9th but that order has been "Delayed" aka: lost wandering from one FedEx terminal to the next all over CA and NV it seems.
Anyway I contacted Walker about a new order for just the Fintecs parts to fix my blown pair and that the original order has never arrived. He immediately offered to (re)send the lost original Fintec set order plus the new Fintec parts order together overnight Express at no cost!
There is actually no "overnight" Express service to Tahoe but it only took 2 days to get here and I should pick up the parts this morning and be on the hill with my team riders this afternoon!
Thanks Walker!!
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2 minutes ago, skhil said:
mark the desired position
Well, way back in the day I just installed the BTS and played around with settings until it felt right and now I just emulate those settings on every BTS setup I do, but there's got to be better steps to discerning your perfect lean positions. Seems like it ought to be easier/clearer to find those "desired positions" Otherwise how do you know how, where to start?
9 minutes ago, skhil said:the video by Sean from Donek about forward lean.
Actually it's that video where he states you need aggressive forward lean on the rear foot for locked in heel side turns that got me thinking, there's got to be a flow chart or video on what to look for, how much is enough and how do you start to get there?
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10 minutes ago, skhil said:
It's all there in the manual:
Yes, I know that video, which is mostly about how to install them on your boots, but very little on what goes into how much or little lean to put on each boot or where to start. That video assumes you already have an idea where you want your boot cuffs to be from riding/using the oem 5 step forward lean/walk mode mechanism. I know for me and possibly a lot of people the 5 step lock never got me even close to where I wanted, therefore one of the reasons to replace them with BTS.
Additionally I would not call the one page print out that's on Bomber's website, which is the exact copy that comes in the box a "manual"
I'm a kinaesthetic/visual learner and surely there has to be more than only these two instruction options!
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Curious, as I have a new set of BTS on the way if anybody knows of a BTS setup video? I have always just vaguely gone by the included instructions and set ++ forward lean on the rear foot and neutral on the front foot.
aka: winging it!
Anybody got a better setup explanation??
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26 minutes ago, bigwavedave said:
I found the REV more lively and fun.
Ditto!, I totally agree! I sold my awesome K168 because the Rev 163 is Seriously more lively and fun!
26 minutes ago, bigwavedave said:I've got an AF UPM plate made for that board that I can sell ya.
Ha! Now, you should know by now, I'm the UPM Plate Meister I have a couple of Donek AF's I could sell you!!
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8 minutes ago, snowburn said:
stiffer backs
...and bad shoulders/broken collar bones/torn rotator cuffs!
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UMP Rev 180!, Damn! That's A Lot of Board For The Money!
I would need to put on my Big Boy pants to ride that!
Sooo tempting! Thank goodness I just got a new Little Bandit to focus all my attention on!
Good luck with the sale!
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I don't want to learn/start all over with a new discipline.
Nuff said............
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1 minute ago, Rob Stevens said:
probably thinks I’m joking
No.. I believe ya. Just not for me.
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The chimes photo is from our house in Northern NH of our back fields.
The building shot is looking out from my apt. to the quad and parking from work in Olympic Valley, CA.
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Alpine Injured List...Again! Going in for surgery for a Complete Tear Of My Conjoined Tendon!!!
in The Lodge
Posted · Edited by barryj
So...been having some soreness/tenderness in left butt check which I felt mostly when in my hardboots on the mtn. It got worse from riding that Really Deep pow of a couple weeks ago trying to pull my board to the left in the deep stuff....but it mostly had dissipated as of late.
Today was out and made 1 run...and it was my best run/lap to date since the collision!...I actually felt like I was driving the board with power and agility. From the run/excitement I came into the ropes a little hot and had slowed down quite a bit before the ropes but needed to counter rotate hard to the left to avoid a rope wand and when I did I felt a Pop in my left butt cheek and it felt skeletal like a dislocation! Fortunately there was nobody in the ropes so I slid/skated up to the chair and assessed the pain.
It felt sore and I couldn't touch my front foot boot without much effort and pain but no pain just standing there. So I rode the lift up and knew I could not do any hard charging but could do lazy S turns back to lodge but I could feel the tenderness all the way down.
I went straight to my car and my Chriopractor. My gait is better now but I feel it walking. No problems walking, sitting, standing, bending but it is tender to reach my toes but I can do it.
I got a lidocane/Icy hot patch on it right after the Chiropractor and took 3 Advil....but I'm really bummed I was just getting my Mojo back and now this!!!
Looks like I'm off the mtn. the rest of this week at a minimum! UGH!
What do the Sages say?????