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Very very interested! Are you willing to make it shipping included to Quebec City? And do you accept Paypal?

Très très cool le vidéo!!! Mat, est-ce que tu rides avec un fullface et un manteau beige? Wassup Martin! Hope to see you at a race this summer... :D

Félicitations à Louis Ricard (aka RouleRicard sur Bomber) pour sa 2ième place dans le GS de la Coupe Québec Cora!!! Louis n'en est qu'à sa 3ième saison en hardboots (il ride en soft aussi souvent). Il s'est pointé là seul, sans aucun entrainement, sans même jamais avoir mis les pieds dans un tracé de snowboard, et avec une planche vieille d'une quinzaine d'années (un Hot Logical asymétrique, je crois). Louis est un des meilleurs au monde en slalom skateboard. Y faut croire que s'est un excellent cross-training pour la course en snow...

I've been driving manual Subarus wagons for the past 18 years. First one was a Loyale 4WD, and now I'm driving my second Legacy AWD. I have bought them all used and they have all lasted me a long time. I will NEVER go back to a front or rear wheel drive for winter driving. The Legacy wagon does have a roomier (longer) cargo area than the Forrester. I chose the Legacy over the Outback because parts like tires and brakes are cheaper around here. You can travel 3 persons comfortably with gear and several boards up to 185cm. I love Subarus...

Pretty good! I'll send you an email as to not hijack your thread. Very nice Kessler, by the way...

Snowcoach, is your name Mark? If so, I think we may have met at the 2007 World Slalom Skateboarding Championship in NC... :)

Very very cool BlueB!!! It's pretty similar to a Fullbag slalom board. Main difference is that I keep the front concave constant all the way to the back where the back foot toes rest, to have the gas pedal effect. Then the back foot concave kicks in to create the spoontail. There's no flat surface anywhere.

I know. I was just stating that the slot thingy has been going on for a while. ;) I might even add the main reason that type of mount (or better said, board shape) was "invented" was to avoid smashing and delaminating the fragile tips of drop-through boards when hitting a curb, and not to slide the trucks in. The baseplate and hardware take the blunt of the shock, which is not necessarily a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

SC8, from France, used to do the slot/dropmount a long time ago.

Spltfire R3 is my favorite all time slalom truck! You have it pretty much spot on. I ran the 35° base with 10° to 15° dewedge. I use the 28° now. No need to flip it and it was not designed for it. Tracker Stims, Venom Eliminators, JimZ bottoms.I use different mixes of the following bushings, depending on the type of course and speed of the hill: - green Radikal (90a) reshaped like JimZ bottom - black Radikal (95a) reshaped like JimZ bottom - green Venom Eliminator (93a) - pink Venom Eliminator (97a) Keep in mind that I'm very very heavy. Combo I use the most is the double black Rads. Basically, stepped bushings work the best. But you need to find out what duro works for you. They can be made to feel pretty similar at regular slalom speeds (35 - 45 km/h). But the R1 is the only Split that gave me speed wobbles at very high GS speeds (65 - 70 km/h) so traded it for one more R3.I saw some of your slalom vids. Very cool to see an active slalom scene in BC again. It is cool to see Malcolm back on a slalom board. Say hi to him for me at your next session.

One more vote for the Burton Driver X.

Mig 180 (my own shape and specs) Length: 180.5 cm Waist: 26.5 cm Sidecut: 8.95 m Effective edge: 144 cm Edge contact: 139 cm Taper: 6 mm Stance: 53.5 cm Setback: 2, 4, or 6 cm OR Dupraz 6' D1++ with Burton Elevators Stance: 54 cm Boots: Burton Driver X Bindings: Burton P1 Angles: 27° or 30° front - 9° or 12° back

And a couple of vids from the race (to keep this thread on track :lol:) featuring first timers, veteran riders, some very fast racers (like Wavechaser and Louis Ricard), and one very FAT bastard (that would be me...). http://www.vimeo.com/12595468

I'm stoked you found one Skully! Next production run of the D.o.G. should be ready sometime in August.

Splitfire R3 does not have a spherical in the hanger, the Splitfire Pro does. The R3 is by far my favorite hybrid and GS truck, up front with a wedged 50° baseplate (and some mods to the hanger) and in the back with a slightly dewedged 28° baseplate. That being said, I'm one of the rare ones who likes it as a front truck but it sure works for me.

Skully, I'm out of the D.o.G. but a new run is scheduled for production soon. I'll post on the various forums as soon as they are ready.

And Skully, nice #2 Stinger! The #1 belongs to legendary Z-boy Wentzle Ruml... :D

Are you talking about the longboards? I can't keep them in stock right now. As soon as a production run is done, it disappears. A fresh batch of Elise, and the first run of TM-37 and Fôboo have been shipped last week to a bunch of US and canadian shops.

Yes, that would be me. :) Kicktail is nowhere near as steep as an Axe. It's more of a smooth bend with concave all the way to the tip, like a spoontail. With your rear foot over the truck at around a 40° angle, it feels like it's resting in a big spoon. The comment I get the most is that the position feels completely natural.

2010 KRISPY HILL OUTLAW RESULTS Slalom Louis Ricard could not make it to the awards so we had a little fun at his expense... :lol: 1 Louis Ricard 12,069 2 Pascal Jean 12,586 3 Rick Floyd 12,701 4 Miguel Marco 12,876 5 Pierre Gravel 12,964 6 Danilo Percich 13,288 7 Dominique Perusse 13,631 8 Stéphane Fournier 13,646 9 Julie Boulanger 14,037 10 Kel Duplain 14,078 11 Michel Gamache 14,506 12 Grégory Girard 14,757 13 Thomas Duplessis 14,872 14 Steve Blouin 15,105 15 Maxime Robitaille 15,315 16 Joe Iacovelli 15,545 17 Patrick Brassard 15,925 18 Ron Barbagallo 16,010 19 Frédéric Fortin-Moquin 16,568 20 Scott Snow 16,644 21 Jean-Philippe Keable 16,857 22 Mathieu B.Langlois 17,158 23 Francois Morency 17,547 24 Guillaume Dionne 17,665 25 Maxime Lafleur 18,006 26 Jonathan Gosselin Couture 18,262 27 Raffaël Kitching 18,321 28 Mikael Bottreau 18,379 29 Fred Côté 20,075 30 David Baron 21,887 31 Séraphin Adlwart 22,361 32 Gabrielle Leclerc DQ 32 Hubert Roy DQ 32 Alexandre Labbée DQ Tight Slalom 1 Louis Ricard 12,080 2 Miguel Marco 12,397 3 Pierre Gravel 12,673 4 Pascal Jean 12,715 5 Stéphane Fournier 12,872 6 Rick Floyd 12,953 7 Michel Gamache 13,236 8 Danilo Percich 13,249 9 Julie Boulanger 13,800 10 Kel Duplain 14,865 11 Steve Blouin 15,006 12 Thomas Duplessis 15,168 13 Patrick Brassard 15,563 14 Jean-Philippe Keable 16,356 15 Joe Iacovelli 16,370 16 Scott Snow 17,709 17 Francois Morency 17,779 18 Frédéric Fortin-Moquin 17,788 19 Maxime Lafleur 18,670 20 Raffaël Kitching 18,892 21 David Baron 21,263 22 Gabrielle Leclerc 25,883 23 Grégory Girard DQ 23 Maxime Robitaille DQ 23 Jonathan Gosselin Couture DQ 23 Guillaume Dionne DQ 23 Fred Côté DQ 23 Séraphin Adlwart DQ 23 Réjean Houle DQ 23 Ron Barbagallo DQ 23 Mathieu B.Langlois DQ 23 Hubert Roy DQ 23 Alexandre Labbée DQ 23 Mikael Bottreau DQ The Overall Champion and is new pair of Surf-Rodz! And a million thanks to all the sponsors: - Free For All Boardshop - Fullbag Skates - La Vie Sportive - Longboards by Fatboy - Surf-Rodz - Pierre Gravel Footstops (PGF ?!? ;) :D) - Stefou and Joe I. for the Bennett KH.

I'm interested in those. Would they fit any of the newer bindings?

:lol:Yeah! And to make it worst, they were dayglow orange. I also had a pair of leopard print. Punk rock baby! Seriously, what made me wear those back then was that we spent all day hiking to ride. Wearing a hat made me sweat way to much. So earmuffs were the solution. The fact that I still had hair back then also helped...:lol:

I used to have Hanson boots. Late 70s early 80s, I think.http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l//vault/Equipment_Dustbin/hanson_73b.jpg

Yes, that's pretty much what I meant to say, but better :lol: (I suck at trying to translate my french thoughts to english writings at 1AM).But it seems I was wrong in assuming that most BX boards have larger 12 - 14m sidecuts. Sidecuts in the 9 to 9.5m range with a fairly long effective edge is what I prefer on groomers. I've been riding a shape I designed myself as my main board for the past 10 years. It has a 9.05m sidecut with 144cm effectice edge and 6mm taper. I have it in a couple different flex patterns. I absolutely love it.

Why would that be Jack? I don't see BX boards as specifically designed to carve with softies on groomers. There's usually only 4 or 5 carved turns on a BX course, and they are drawn out AND banked.They basically seem, to me, to be designed with a long effective edge and large sidecut radius (by softboot standards) in as compact a size as possible to combine good edge hold in those long banks, stability at speed, and manoeuverability in the bumps, jumps, hips, and rollers. For me, 12 - 14m sidecuts are not fun to carve on groomers in softboots. But I'm sure they are great with the levarage of hardboots and can't wait to give it a try next season.