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scottishsurfer

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scottishsurfer last won the day on November 6 2021

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  • Location
    Scotland
  • Home Mountain/Resort?
    Snow factor/glencoe
  • Occupation?
    Professional driver
  • Current Boards in your Quiver
    Sg soul 159xt
    Lib magic 158w
    Lib hot knife 156mw
    Rome reverb rocker 155w
  • Current Boots Used?
    Vans infuse and custom vans implant
  • Current bindings and set-up?
    Rome targa
    Rome 390 boss
  • Snowboarding since
    2014
  • Hardbooting since
    Not

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  1. Is that hemel hempsted? riding hards indoors gets interesting looks
  2. I can turn without putting a hand down but i tend to do it as a balance aid and to also give me a reference of what snow is actually like due to not really being able to feel whats going on under my feet. I think there is a fair bit of difference between puting a hand down as a balance aid where its touching but not providing any sort of support to one where the hand actually has weight upon and your effectively tripoding around the turn.....
  3. Unless your riding duck stance id say go with either the flux or incline if your looking at the donek range. I personally have an Incline you can read my thoughts on it here and see some footage of me riding it. I dont have any experience of the coiler but they do have a good reputation that im sure others will be able to expand on.
  4. I dont know what the area you live in is like but Id suggest something more like XC or Gravel riding if you want to avoid cars.
  5. Defintely this . I also tend to climb in the highest gear i can manage to climb the hill, I know its not the most effiecent but it does wonders if your after sheer power and dont mind grinding your way up hills at a slow cadence.
  6. I'm of the everything tossed into a blender school(bit of BASI/CASI/Asian/Hard boot styles) of carving but my best bit of advice is to make liberal use of the youtube 1/4 speed setting and study good riders very closely and watch what there doing. The other bit of advice is that like everything repetion is key i've probably spent over the fabled 10000 hours practising and honing my turns. Have paitence it wont come overnight but delight in small gradual improvements youll see over time
  7. i hate that so many boards are essentially built for kids or someone built like the side of a sheet of paper when it comes to weight
  8. Id much rather hit those jumps on a bike thats for sure. In your vids they defintely look well made with a nice sense of flow which is what my local jump spot is missing
  9. I think it was instagram but i saw a vid of a lass hit a very steep dirt jump on one
  10. fixed it for some reason i typed winter instead of summer
  11. Got out for a Summer solstice ride last night probably one of my favorite solo rides this year. Heres a couple of vids to give you an idea of what the riding is like around my local area, I imagine its fairly different terrain to what most of you ride Lots of grass is defintely interesting in the wet
  12. I really like the Raaw bikes it and the Privateer were at the top of the list before i got the nukeproof mega but the mega was a deal i just couldnt turn down. One of the things i do like about them are that they are raw ally which ive always liked as a finish and is pretty much what ill do to my current bikes once the paint is tatty. Here's my old Meta 4x in the raw
  13. I have 2 bikes i tend to alternate between. Nukeproof mega 275(650b), this my general do everything bike its very stable and is very much the enduro bike that rides like a DH bikes on descents but is light enough to pedal back up if your not to bothered about how fast you climb. It was bought as complete but at this point everything short of the frame shock and forks has been replaced with my preferred parts. The other is my Commencal Meta 4x where the Mega is stable reliable and forgiving this is the complete opposite. I'll often liken it to a 1980s supercar with far to much power with terrible tyres in the rain, its an exciting ride but you really need to always be on your A game as it will get you into alot of trouble very quickly. Being a 26inch 4x bike it excels on being efficent when sprinting and hitting jumps and with its short travel(130/100mm) it makes an excellant hooligans trail bike for an experienced rider. It is the right kind of stupid so ill often take it for a spin if im riding with less experienced friends so i can alot of fun no matter the trail grade.
  14. A friend got it sorted for me awhile ago at a tradeshow when he spoke to them directly but dealing with union and capita by extention in the uk is not a fun experience
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