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  2. Heated socks or heated footbeds?

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    On 1/14/2019 at 7:18 PM, Surf Quebec said:

    Doesn't heated socks much more fragile? Does it break after too many wash if youre not extra careful?

    No, I have the Lenz version and they are great. Battery life is also great. I like them because I can use between many boots and not have to modify anything. I have foam injected liners so space is tight and they work fine. The Lenz socks come with a mesh bag to wash them in. 

     

     

  6. Instructor gigs... where to start.

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    8 hours ago, Beckmann AG said:

    Speaking to a former co-worker this evening, there aren't enough instructors this season in several departments, so if he could find a place to live, he'd be a walk-on at Biggerloaf.

    If he brought his own lodging maybe. The seasonal housing market is tight right now.

  16. Bomber Liquidation Stock Apparently Now For Sale

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    18 hours ago, Wolf said:

    I just want to chime in with a positive feedback concerning ebay seller travisspeed939, the guy who has machined Bomber parts and is selling some on ebay.  I received my cant disks with center disks, un-anodized raw, machined aluminum as described.  They were just as he described and shipped nice and fast.  :biggthump

    Isn't this basically theft? He's creating a knock-off of something patented?

  19. Anyone had experience with injection molded liners?

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    Posted · Edited by trailertrash

    I have a Nordica foam injected liner in my T700's. The liners have lasted two shells at this point.

    For me, compared to the stock (T700) liners, a smaller shell size is more comfortable in the foam liners. I would make sure you are in the smallest shell you can stand before getting foamed.

    The fit is of course perfect.

    In the Nordica liner there's not much material around the toes. They can me cold.

  20. How you guys feeling about new soft boot carving phenomenon?

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    1 minute ago, Corey said:

    Doesn't Ryan ride with 3-strap bindings?  

    Why must we draw lines so finely to divide a niche sport within a niche sport?  I just don't get why people have to hate 'them'.  You know, 'them'; those people that do things differently than we do?  

    It's not an us vs them thing even though you keep trying to make it one. It's pushing poor technique as solid technique that is the issue.

  21. How you guys feeling about new soft boot carving phenomenon?

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    24 minutes ago, Rob Stevens said:

    That’s another level of vetting altogether, when we’re talking about a site where anyone can sign up. 

    I guess that’s the benefit of someone like Ryan posting videos. You can watch it and if you think it’s what you’re after, then you can follow it. If you think it sucks, you can troll for Halibut. 

    Yes, and that's why Ryan was never hassled here. The proof was in the pudding. He rips and his videos prove it. The problem is, he is rare. I mean there are still people pushing three strap bindings here! And others agreeing with them!

  24. How you guys feeling about new soft boot carving phenomenon?

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    23 minutes ago, SolRosenburg said:

    To me, the conversation is less about equipment and more about skill. Hardboot equipment should be more capable, but many here at YentaOnline, and many hardbooters out there on the hill don't have the skill to even remotely keep up with their equipment potential.  From personal experience, 9 out 10 times hardbooters are too worried about 'getting low', or crafting the perfecting line, that they truly haven't developed actual all-mountain riding skills to tackle more advance terrain, steeper lines, chopped conditions.  Ripping turns on blue square corduroy is for quakers. Fun? Sure, but a lot of the yenta's here seem to measure their social status by it. Why? Start ripping turns (in control), with style, in ice, getting low, at SPEED down steeper trails -- then you can start claiming, then you have skill, then you're a snowboarder!  By no means is this a bash on beginner riders, or riders on the up-and-up.... it's more of a bash of the riders here that have been riding since the 80-90's but can't make a turn for shit on steeps, ice, in race courses, in chopped.

    The racer style HB'ers can hang on steeps, while the pure-carve Brian Boitano's out there tend to literally sideslip down the steeps. Are you not embarrassed by this? Are you the very same guys walking your MTB's down DH trails? :) Clearly if you can rip turns on intermediate runs, but can't on steeps, are you not selling yourself short? The pursuit of the perfect carve should not end on blue runs, underneath tourist-laden chairlifts, or in goofy self-promoting 'on the chairlift' conversations.  By no means am I suggesting that HB'ers should be blasting the Palisades at Squaw on their equipment, but by all means you should be able to rip impressive turns down runs steeper than these neutered trails that HB'ers tend to gravitate towards. If you can't -- It's not the equipment, it's you. 

    Who is this guy? Skeezrule? Whoever he is, he spot effing on.

  25. How you guys feeling about new soft boot carving phenomenon?

    in Carving Central

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    7 minutes ago, Mig said:

    Where the hell did I claim they were better? And I stick to my statement. There are more positive posts and discussions about sofboots on here in the last few months than there used to be, and they are not moved to a generic sub-forum anymore.

    Downshift speed racer, I never said you did. I am simply explaining why some things may have happened in the past.

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