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What are the specs? Age? Flex-appeal? :)

I'm a complete noob here and I was easily able to recognize the parody of "team 32" and the participants. I feel a judge would/should reach the same conclusion. On the other hand... Bobdea... well that's a toss-up.

or a lift kit? The photo in question. I'm a noob to hard boots but those sure look different. Go AST!

Southern Indiana represent. <cricket cricket>

Not mine... just too interesting not to share. :D

It's true and they have an alternative address listed on the page link. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/biorkman.asp

@Fastskiguy- I hear ya'! If I didn't have step-ins I'd never be able to even keep up with my 10 year-old skier! I step-ins, especially on a small hill! But really choice of bindings is my easy decisions. (Gotta be TD2 or TD3 or Cateks or F2 Intec step-ins... just looking for a good buy.) The hard decision is the board. What to get... right now I'm leaning towards between 170 and 185 GS Race boards with less than ~13.x SCR... obviously if I had the cash I'd grab metal but that's not going to happen. So I watch and wait... Thanks!

Hooray... Boots (check-see below) :D Bindings (SI) and Board (stiff) left to go! I want to thank all of the BOL group for all of your help, thanks! Now that that's over On with the show.

Is this still for sale?

Still have the boots?

He won't ship it... :(

Not mine... Just FYI! 167 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110453139809 162 http://cgi.ebay.com/Sims-Snowboard-Burner-162_W0QQitemZ110453242583QQcmdZViewItemQQptZSnowboarding?hash=item19b786bad7

http://www.thundercloudmarketing.com/FreePage22.htm The website is odd though.

I've been soft booting since 1986 and I'm trying to get a hard boot setup going. :) I've been interested in trying a hard boot setup for some time now but I've never seen one available for demo or rent at any of the places I've been and I've been to quite a few. Add to that the complexity of hard booting (not a problem for me ) and there are some serious hurdles to overcome. There are some fantastic web resources, of which BOL is one, but these are for the already committed not the fence sitters. IMHO, It will take a real push by the Olympic team, as say a traveling show, to go around and show what can be done with alpine equipment and have a demo contingent in tow. Even with all that one can not realistically hope that it will ever be anything but a smaller side market of the whole like telemark, ski blades, longboarding is to surfing due to the ease of soft booting and the overall lack of true alpine terrain for the majority of the world. Kids all over can grab a soft boot setup head to the local sled hill and board & jib... that's not going to happen with an alpine setup. Thanks again BOL community for your help.

No supply and I really don't feel it is a threat to me. I would have my son (10) get it but the doctor said no as he has an egg allergy. We know they have a non-egg built vaccine but there is very little chance it will get here before the season is way past peak. Washing hands and keeping them away from our faces. :)

Thanks for all the responses! @Phil- It sure would be nice if the industry developed a measurable stiffness index so it was less how it feels and more how it actually moves. I too have broken more than a few bindings and it always sucks, big time! @Scuff- I’ve been looking at those classifieds every day, thanks. @Puddy Tat- I so agree about the step-ins… I wouldn’t be able to keep up with my ten year old without step-ins! @bobdea- I’m willing to wait (I’m in Indiana so no early snowmaking here), thanks. @Gtanner- Thanks. Only step-in bindings for me, please… @Jack Michaud- I can carve and I think I’ve read everything on this site including all the classifieds. Thanks for the welcome note. @Phil- Watching & waiting @Scuff- Good to know as I have a wide foot! <o> </o> Since I brought it up I’m curious who is the biggest hardbooter around?! :D

I’m a big guy (6’4” 245lbs. sans apparel or 1.93m 111kg for the metrically inclined and my boot size is 30) looking for some advice about my foray into the hard boot side of snowboarding. I’ve boarded since 1987 and I surf and skate as well. My son, a ten year old skier, had been pestering me to do the NASTAR races with him. I did and I really enjoy it… So my current boards are a Rad-Air Tanker 167 and a Lib Tech Grocer 180. I currently use O’Sin Boots and O’Sin step in bindings. Yeah, they are old but I HATE sitting on my butt to strap in. I’ve done a LOT of reading about setups but most of it really doesn’t pertain to people of my size or situation. What situation? I live in Southern Indiana and predominantly board on a really small hill (Paoli Peaks) that has less than perfect conditions the majority of the time. I need a setup that will allow me to step-in, board in icy & rutty conditions and allow for racing that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. There is no demo of Alpine snowboard equipment anywhere nearby nor are there any shops. I’ve only seen one person hardbooting one time and I was not able to talk to him. So I will be buying my equipment online, preferably used and I’m looking for some recommendations. As a side note are there others my size lurking here? :lol: Thanks! :)