Corey
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800'? I drive 2.5 hours to ride on a 350 vertical foot hill.
That's why I bought step-ins, they'll probably let me get 20% more runs in per day! LOL :lol:At least it sounds like they're opening this weekend. Sorry for your luck. :(
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I think the shells are injection molded, but they might be roto-molded. If they're roto-molded, an aluminum mold for each size would be around $20k if you went off-shore. Injection molded - more like $80-120k (off-shore again) as they'd have to be steel and a multi-piece mold with moving parts.
Then you need the machines, the process time, and a prescribed plastic formulation. Probably the biggest cost of all would be the liability insurance. :(
I worked in the plastics industry for a few years. It's a crazy business that's all about efficiency in huge runs. How anyone makes snowboard boots for such a small market is amazing to me! We had a $2-million manufacturing cell that made tubs and lids for cake frosting. Sixteen 16-oz tubs came out of the machine every ~4.3 seconds - 24 hours a day/7 days a week. That's a LOT of frosting!
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I'd probably just use duct tape - it'll likely stay on for a season if it's well stuck down right when it's first put on.
Also, you can add the 4th strap to the 3-strap boots. Just need the parts from Bomber and to drill out a couple rivets for the velcro strap. The holes are already in the boots just waiting!
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Awesome, thanks again Joel!
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Can you elabourate on the parking situation? Are you saying that parking is bad or even non-existant at the resorts?
Do you pay for parking at the resort? If you show up early (1 hour before opening time), is parking ok?
Are there lockers and/or a board-check service for 2nd (3rd, etc. ;)) boards?
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If you're feeling ghetto-fabulous and are handy with a box knife and packing tape, you could make your own from a bike box. Mine is a telescoping design, much like the SportTube. I sized it so that it just fits two boards with pipe insulation taped all around the edges. It took me two attempts to get the outer portion of 'telescope' big enough to slide over the inner part. Then I added a couple fiber-reinforced packing tape handles to make the baggage handlers' lives easier, and you're done. Total cost: $5 plus an hour or two of your time. I carry a shoulder strap from an old bag in my carry-on to clip onto the tape handles to make carrying it a little less awkward.
From the wear patterns so far it looks like it should last 10-ish trips with only minor re-taping of worn spots. What was supposed to be a temporary solution has turned out to be way better than I imagined!
One unintended side effect: While watching the handlers off-load all the bags into the oversized packages area, I noticed they basically tossed the items that were clearly skis or snowboards without any thought of damaging them. When they got to my non-descript box, they placed it carefully to the side of the pile of board bags! :) :lol:
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My wife had a relatively minor stroke about 6 years ago. It's quite traumatic so I can feel for what you are going through. The brain does have quite amazing healing abilities, just give it some time. She went from not being able to feel her leg/arm at all to feeling them to having limited control in a short period. Then she regained full control a short while later!
Of course every stroke is different. Best of luck to him!
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Wow. I was originally looking at flying to Aspen and staying there, but sticker shock set in...
By flying to Denver and staying in Glenwood I'll likely be able to stay for the whole SES instead of just 3 days!I'll be spending a little bit extra for a rental car, that way my wife can tour around if she doesn't feel like skiing one day.
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Wow, thanks for that info Joel!
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To play devil's advocate:
I've heard a number of times of people on these forums signing up for carving lessons and being disappointed when the instructor showed up in softboots. Are they wrong too?
I don't doubt that you could successfully teach a softbooter, but the whole process may start off on the wrong foot when they see you in what may as well be alien footwear to most of the soft boot crowd.
Personally, I'd want the instructor's equipment to be of the same basic type as mine.
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I'm 95% sure I'll be there. My second time ever riding with other carvers!
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Here the sale is Saturday and Sunday. Maybe it changes in different areas?
I bought one this morning. You can circulate room temperature air or two stages of heat.
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For the Canadians out there:
On sale this Saturday and Sunday for $39.99. It looks like you can turn off the heat for air circulation only - good for moldable liners!
Features*Perfect for snow and slush-loving kids as it takes on even the soggiest of boots!
*Simply insert a hose into each boot, choose high or low power and let the warm air circulate throughout
*Features 4 individual extendable air outlets with independent on/off switches; flexible tubes extend from 23 to 83 cm
*One-hour timer prevents over-drying
*Contains built-in ozonator keeps air fresh
*Safety feature which automatically shuts the dryer off if the fan gets covered
*Can be wall-mounted and is safe for all types of footwear
I'll be picking one up tomorrow!
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Head shape can play a huge factor too. I love the look of that Protec helmet but it just didn't fit. It was either floppy front to back in an XL or pinching the sides of my head terribly in a large.
I found a Giro G10 that fit like a toque (knit cap for you US people ;)). Like Allee said, as soon as I put it on I knew it was the one for me.
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I have a strange mix of envy and a desire to hold on to summer a little longer. It's going to be 65 degrees F here tomorrow, I think I'll drive my S2000 to work with the top down! :D
Ski areas don't open here in the prairies for another month and a half, then it'll be -40 here by February. :rolleyes:
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If you take a good one off a boot, you can pull it apart with your bare hands.
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Does anyone else see the irony of participants of one fringe sport dissing another fringe sport? How would you guys react if this same discussion was happening on a freestyle snowboarding forum with the regulars making fun of alpine?
I don't think hangboarding will be my thing, but I welcome all mountain users that don't run into me!
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Now I understand what you mean corey_dyck from the vids. The Center Disk is a (relatively) thin cut and machined piece of aluminum. It is very hard to keep it dead flat. So the Disks do have some variance on flatness of a couple of thousands. However, we remove as much material as possible (while maintaining safety) to allow the Disk to go flat once installed. Once you tighten down those 4 M6 screws with the 5mm Hex Heads it all goes into compression and flattens out.
Thank you for clearing that up! It's really cool to be able to have such direct interaction with the people that design and make products.
And if you read the fine print, your warrantee is void if the bindings get wet :pNow THAT's going to be a problem, I already drooled on them a little bit. ;)
I passed them around work here (engineers/machinsts/etc.). They were all very impressed by the obviously purposeful and optimized design and nice machine work.
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center disks dont even touch the board...and...didnt Fin already say its all good?
I posted the video after Fin's post.
Maybe the lack of pictures/video meant Fin misunderstood my question. Maybe he understood perfectly clearly. Maybe Steve Dold has bad center discs that have been preventing him from getting the designed-in benefits of TD2s. Or maybe I managed to get some bad parts. Or maybe they're all well within manufacturing tolerance and it doesn't matter at all.
Which option is right? Given that we currently have a sample size of two that have actually checked for center disc curvature (Steve and me) and they are different, I'm going to call on Monday.
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It turns out I can't ride today anyway, the ski hill closed due to rain. :( I'll call YYZ and/or Bomber on Monday.
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Corey, the only problem I could see with your system is if the center disks aren't flat on the bottom.
The center discs are absolutely NOT flat, they rock from side to side as shown in the video above.
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Just saw the two posts above mine.
Brilliant system! That's a heck of a way to allow controlled flex in one direction.
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I guess I should have posted a picture or video to start, duh!
Bullwings - it'll be easiest to see with the bindings apart.
Video 1: http://members.shaw.ca/ckdyck1/bomber/HPIM2391.MPG
You can see the black center disc rocking relative to the cant disc in the first direction I'm pushing on it, then it's rock solid when pushing the other way. Both center discs, both cant plates, any orientation of the cant disc gets this same motion.
Video 2: http://members.shaw.ca/ckdyck1/bomber/HPIM2393.MPG
Center disc alone on a glass table. Does the same thing against a straight edge, the TD2 baseplate, etc.
Going into theory here:
Once the whole assembly was bolted down to a board, you'd have to compress the e-ring to get this same motion. In effect the cant disc/baseplate/boot would act like a teeter-totter that goes from side-to-side along the axis of the board with urethane preloaded under each side. I doubt you could feel this motion by hand.
Again, I'm not complaining! I want to make sure all is well before I put scuff up the mounting holes and make them mine forever.
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Hmm, 58 views and no dire warnings. That likely means that this is nothing out of the ordinary.
If this is a design feature of the TD2, I'm surprised it's not touted more. It would allow the cant disc/base plate to roll from side to side relative to the board to some small degree but keep fore/aft roll to a minimum.
That's why I bought step-ins, they'll probably let me get 20% more runs in per day! LOL :lol:
Poach, poach, poach, and poach again!
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Isn't that a viewer-submitted video? The video isn't Burton's, only the idea is. I definitely agree this is 100% marketing driven. They want to appear more in-touch with angry youth. And, at most it will only cost them $5000 to do because hundreds of people will be working for free trying to claim the big prize. It's bloody brilliant in that regard.
There is a large contingent of snowboarding that is more about posturing and looking 'bad' than about snowboarding. In my area I swear some of the guys only do two or three runs a day, the rest of the time is spent sitting at the top of the park proclaiming their bad-assness loudly. These videos may help to keep them in the latest Burton gear.
I think the one video that's been submitted thus far is funny but stupid.