Carveaholic

Carvejunky and I will be heading up to Cockaigne this friday and I wanted to invite you all to join. First chair is 1pm. $24 lift ticket ('til 10pm.) If you want to meet us up there post back here and we will figure out a place to meet. http://www.cockaigne.com/ -matt-

Carvejunky and I will be heading up to Cockaigne this friday and I wanted to invite you all to join. First chair is 1pm. $24 lift ticket ('til 10pm.) If you want to meet us up there post back here and we will figure out a place to meet. http://www.cockaigne.com/ -matt- P.S. I will post this in the NY forum as well. I don't think we will get many responses from Michigan.

I think the blades would do a number on the top sheet. I think for the time being I will stick to my Raichles.

I'm a snowboarder and I used to Short Track Speed Skate. I guess in a backdoor way that means a snowboarder could. I however used to use fancy shmancy skates, I don't think it would work well o a board.

I had the opposite experience this year. I have sz.14 feet and as a result was trying to ride 55° and just deal with bootout. This year I widened my stance by 1 set of inserts, and put 6mm heel lift on, also upped angles to 60° (No more bootout.) Now I feel like i'm ridding a whole new board. I feel like I'm really able to pressure the edges. This may be a symptom of finding the sweet spot of the board, but I also don't seem to have the issues I was having with counter rotation. Only been carving for 3.5 years, but I think I might be in to something (at least for me) I look forward to trying this on the donek, when the wallet permits. Play around with your stance with and heel/toe lift. You might surprise yourself and find a cherry setup.

I'm new to this forum, though I've been carving for 3.5 years. I started out on my buddies Prior ATV with soft boots. I then fell in love with this sport. I was lucky enough to get a set of Raichle SB314 boots on closeout from bomber (they were no longer being produced). I found a set of Snowpro bindings on ebay for insanely cheep (looking to upgrade now, any sellers?). So for a year i rode my buddies Prior with this setup and loved it even more. I ended up damaging his board and that was the end of me riding it (repairs done). I was then left with me meager blue collar salary to try and find a board to ride. I searched and searched for a used board within my price range, but to no avail. I was making less than $20,000 at the time. Then just by happenstance (with ebay's help) (look the ebay guy still has some for sale http://cgi.ebay.com/Snowjam-Snowboarding-RIOT-RACING-Long-Snowboard-164cm_W0QQitemZ200359325715QQcmdZViewItemQQptZSnowboarding?hash=item2ea658b013I ) found a website for a company called Snowjam/Freesport. Much to my excitement They had an alpine board for sale. The ebay posting was for $200.00 or so, but I called the company directly and they offered to sell me this board for $89.00 plus S/H. I suspect most of you are now thinking "This board has to be crap." Yes that is true to some extent. I had to have the base ground straight from the factory (to get it flat), there was not one spec of wax on the base (which was extruded:nono:). They also only made it for one year (guess it didn't sell well). That being said, this was the perfect board for me at the time. It allowed me to continue advancing as a hardbooter. I still own this board and use it for early and late season. Last year I was perusing ebay and saw a Donek Blade for $400.00. I have very large feet (size 14), so the extra waist width was very welcome. This board is now my pride and joy. When I first got the Snowjam, very inexperienced as I was, I couldn't tell the difference between it and the Prior (nothing against Prior, i rode the same one last year, and it was light years ahead of the Snowjam.) The technology and ride of the Donek sends shivers down my spine. I guess in summery, I would say that I was lucky in the way I was introduced to our lovely sport. I had a friend gracious enough to lend me equipment, then got a steel on closed out boots. I have a firm appreciation for the technological improvements available with new equipment, but It would be nice to have a larger selection of inexpensive equipment available for newcomers. Just to be clear I'm not arguing to steer our sport in the direction of cheep mass produced crap. It would just be nirvana if a wider range was available. Thanks for listening to my $.02. I look forward to riding with some of you this season, also I'm trying to swing it to be at ECES. -matt-

What's the waist width? How's the camber?