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jburk

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jburk last won the day on November 12 2021

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  • Location
    Portland, OR
  • Home Mountain/Resort?
    Timberline, Mt Hood
  • Occupation?
    Fintech coder
  • Current Boards in your Quiver
    Thirst 8RW, Thirst XC, SG Full Carve 170, SG Soul 159, F2 Silberpfeil 168
  • Current Boots Used?
    MS .951
    Deeluxe Daemon L3
  • Current bindings and set-up?
    SG, 62/60 goofy
    Flow NX-2 Carbon
  • Snowboarding since
    88
  • Hardbooting since
    '92

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  1. Welcome from me as well. At your height and weight, you'll probably want to go with either Bomber or SG bindings, F2s will likely be too flexible. Shameless plug alert; I have a set of SG bindings for sale that will fit your size boot, as long as the boots are UPZ or Deeluxe. Mountain Slopes boots need a lower heel bails than standard, something to be aware of if you go that route. I know there are people riding MS boots in Bombers, it may be that they're able to lower the heel bails since they're threaded, ask on the Carving Central board and you'll get an answer pretty quickly.
  2. jburk

    FS: SG Bindings

    Second set sold, one set remaining. $325 + 1/2 shipping costs from Portland, OR. Paypal preferred, CONUS only.
  3. jburk

    FS: SG Bindings

    Sale pending on one set.
  4. @pow4ever In the same boat as you, I got back on a SB setup for the first time in 30 years this season, and in 26.5 boots as well. I picked up a set of 26.5 Deeluxe Deemon boots from @Rastaman and paired them with a set of medium Flow NX 2 Carbon bindings, and they seem to be a great match. I did drop in a set of Intuition SBC liners, they fit well in the boots. It looks like he has another set of the same boots in the same size for sale, shells only. Good seller, I'd buy from him again. I also use the original strap from my .951s with the soft boots, wrap it around the liner inside the shell, allows me to firmly close the shell.
  5. For "how much preload?", Roberto suggested that I always set it so that there was 10.5cm from outer to outer on the springs.
  6. What I want to know is who's the 10 year-old kid? Impressive.
  7. TL;DR, softboot carving stance is 4 cm wider than hardboots. I'm 5'8", and ride a 48 cm hardboot stance. I've experimented with stance widths up to 51 cm, and keep coming back to 48. Anything wider feels too restricted. This season I got back on a softboot board for the first time in almost 30 years and had no idea what stance to go with as a starting point, just knew that 48 would be way too narrow. The Flow bindings I picked up came with an insert that advocated the "natural stance" (makes sense, think they're owned by Nidecker), and I went with natural + 0 = 52 cm for a SB carving setup. Figured 52 cm would be a starting point, but from the first minute and still after 4 days it just feels dialed in, no temptation to adjust.
  8. Hirama has to be one of my favourite SB carvers to watch, he's always rock-solid. Check out the switch moves at 4:10 and 4:27, the latter is so smooth and quick it's easy to miss.
  9. Was on the hill this morning, lurking at the base of the Mile lifhthouse to ask what time they were going to open (West Leg Rd is a nightmare at 9am on weekends), and after the lifties checked out the Thirst 8RW I was on, they offered to let me ride up a bit early, so it was me and Patrol up there for the first run. Magic Mile has coverage, but upper West side is showing a few more rocks than usual, so pay attention over the rollers. East side was only groomed one cat wide, so I gave it a pass. Fast and firm but not icy first thing, softened up over the next hour with the sun. Bottom of the Mile was good. Everything down low was a weird mix of firm but not icy, and sugar. Good coverage everywhere except the bottom pitch of Uncle John's Band, right above the base of the Flood chair; that pitch has been scraped clean, and was a mix of scrub showing through firm and sugar. Rode it once then skipped it for the rest of the day. Jojami and Kruser off of Flood were both great.
  10. If you're looking to stiffen up the boot, swapping the stock UPZ black tongue for the stiffer silver or darK gray ones might be more effective than a spring system. Swap the tongue to change fore-aft stiffness, and the cuffs for lateral stiffness. But it sounds like you're more interested in fore-aft.
  11. If you're wanting to stay with that board with the 3-hole pattern for another season or two, and want some bindings that have lift & cant options and will be compatible with your current 3-hole as well as future boards with a 4-hole pattern, keep an eye out for some used Bomber TD3s with the toe bails rather than the Fintec stepin heels (TD3 Intec won't work well with your 26.5 UPZs). They'll likely come with a 4-hike center puck, but Bomber online shows stock in the 3-hole adapter as well, so pick up a pair of 3-hole adapters and you'll have some bindings you can use with your current board as well as something newer you might purchase in a year or two.
  12. TTT bump, shipping included within CONUS.
  13. This table is the one I've found to run true to size for UPZ boots. I'm the seller of those boots listed in the classifieds, and the 287mm shell size was what was sold to me by the UPZ distributor. Still have the original box as well, shows 26,26.5 as the boot size, and the original UPZ 6.5 liner made it fit as 26.5.
  14. For a US size 10, you'll want the Large; I have a set of the Mediums, and my mp 26.5 boots are at the limit, even after adjusting the highbacks and cables to the rear positions. Check the size chart at https://www.flow-bindings.com/en/men/1028-8437-nx2-carbon.html#size-chart For adjusting the highbacks to better center the boot in the binding, this 10(!) year old youtube video show how. The details are slightly different with later model years, but you'll find that there are two sets of holes for the highbacks and cables.
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