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With the Alpine SLIDE at Park City, people fall out daily and get road rash all summer, but the Alpine COASTER is on rails and you are strapped in, so it's flat out the whole way!

Jack is right, we do have one at Park City, I was the Lead on the ride for the last 3 summers. They are great fun as you can go full speed the entire way until the last few yards. Top speed is about 35mph with one person, but with a 2nd adult in (total max combined 500lbs) you can go 10 secs faster! You can also pull 3.5Gs in the corners. It's like Space Mountain in the daylight! There are about 6 round the country, 2 in Canada and one in Jamaica. Snowbird almost got one, but it got voted out.

That is the most I have EVER spent on a board...by a long way. If anyone sees me heading towards it with a drill and T-nut kit...shoot me, as I have clearly become deranged:AR15firin

The Safari 111 was a tank, but I loved the I & 11. Loved the graphics, really intimidated the opposition too! I'm pretty shocked to be in the age majority on any kind of active/sport based site...wow! But very cool!

Hi Darren, you'd love the 57, reminds me of your PJ5S...that was a fun little board! It feels like my slalom skateboard, that's why I dig it. Let me know how the 7 rides, sometimes those old boards aren't always as cool as we remember. I finally got an Agression Stealth...unless you are going fast AND on nothing steep, it was pretty awful :-( Hope the 7 is more fun, I still miss my Hot Logicals...

Yup, I knew that, but I'm a rear locked kind of guy, so that's cool.

Cool, thank for the input. Always good to hear from 'foreigners' ;-) about British products.

+1 on the Safari! Ended up with the Vist because of an 'offer I couldn't refuse', bumped into a Vist Rep and hit it off and did some contra deals. Would love up try the Bomber one day, love supporting Finn too!

Thank you, and from you, high praise indeed! Big fan of your videos, keep them coming.

What do you think of the Ruroc?

They were in the full quiver picture I didn't post! For general teaching, beginners, basic freestyle/boxes/rails etc, I use a 155 Never Summer SL-R. For more advanced/high speed/freeride students I use my 159 Raptor. It is still really agile at slow speeds, carves switch easily and is stable at speed (got it up to 65mph last winter). My bindings for both are Rome Targas, last years and this years. For boots Nike Kaiju (softer) and Rome Marshalls (stiffer). I do still get to teach a few Alpine lessons a season (I think there are only 2 of us in Utah that offer them through an official Ski School), and would usually bring both SG's to the lesson and chat to my student then decide which to use.

Thanks Man, hopefully see you at Copper again. Thank Bola again for keeping me in SG's when you see him for me!

Yes Sir, they are!

My Race Quiver for 2012...love 'em all! <a href=" " title="IMG_2989 by martin drayton, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6096/6374302953_81dd3278bb.jpg" width="374" height="500" alt="IMG_2989"></a> Oxess 158 SBX, SG 157 and unridden as yet, SG PRO 180-just waiting for second Vist plate! As soon as my legs are ready and the rest of the Hill opens....I'll ride that big bad boy!

Just wondered why the Magnatraction was such a deal-breaker for you? Again IMHO, it seems: A) Designed for the East Coast freestylers or those Alaska- bound who never want to lose an edge on a vert face and B) aimed at the same customer I mentioned before who is also not ever going to sharpen his edges, is already sliding around on a rockered board that doesn't track well, and needs help. To me, that doesn't sound like you! If you know how to use edges properly AND keep your board well serviced, the Mag will give you great grip but also produce massive drag! One of our ex-hard booter Full Certs found it overkill for someone with skills. Never Summer, Arbor and Burton all have additional edge grip systems that are less obtrusive. Anyway, signing off...it's snowing hard here and the resort opens tomorrow, got to get ready!

Anytime. I find that smooth, fluid application of pressure is the way forward.

Just my personal opinion as a Trainer/Examiner, but I feel that the standard "Banana" is meant for those who need a skill 'equaliser' and want something super forgiving while the C2BTX profile is for those who can or want to ride the whole mountain with a more technical attitude.

Thanks, that's kind of you. Did you make the decision?

I can attest to the carving ability of the camber profile, I have a Never Summer Raptor which is rockered between the feet with a cambered tip and tail, the same as the Lib. They carve well, but just feel a little looser and more manoeverable. The opposite profile feels as though you are riding a 120cm board at speed!

If you have the highback adjusted to give you decent forward lean (no FLAD), then booting out is not an issue. I use Palmer plates as well. I'm not a Flow fan, as IMHO you need 3 joints when riding softs effectively, hip, knee and ankle... The Flow effectively removes one of those from the equation and the ankle is needed for fine-tuning movements. Not much in the area of highback rotation with them either. Just my 2 cents.

I too wanted a no-nonsense 'stiff-as-you-like' carbon highback binding for SBX and couldn't find anymore of the old yellow Salomon SP PROs, so the Burton rep found me a pair of 2012 Burton Diodes last March. Minimalist, stiff and responsive, they were great!

I guess it works for as long as I'm on the team! Feel free to pass it on.

Love it!

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I would recommend the 2011-12 Rome Targa. I rode them the last half of last winter. Bombproof binding (I usually get 150 days on them, then sell them on still looking/working great), one of the most adjustable on the market. Tha frame actually moves back along the baseplate for XL sizings and the excellent toestrap can be used conventially or as a capstrap. Definitely worth a look. http://www.romesnowboards.com/bindings/targa/