Jack M

Spillway has vestigial cable catchers; they are too small to be effective.

I agree he's wrong, but this example does not prove the allegations of new equipment snobbery in that other thread. It's anti-softboot snobbery, of which some amount is to be on expected on a site with a hardboot agenda. Not saying it's right, just the nature of the game.

http://www.alpinecarving.com/tmtd2/ there's also a spreadsheet of cant/lift combinations here: http://www.bomberonline.com/JackM/td2matrix.xls

I would extend that description to say keep your front shoulder over your front foot heel, and your back shoulder over your back foot toe, IMO.

better gear liberates the better rider within.

oh, haha, cool. guess I misread your earlier post.

uh, yeah, I did. Remember?

I haven't seen that (not that I read every post - far from it) and it would be against forum rules. umm, I think I can decipher that. links please.

Hate? That's a serious accusation sir. Example please.

The way you described it? Absolutely not. I can't speak for France, but on this forum, the perception of any actual metal snobbery exists only in the minds of overly-sensitive people, as far as I can tell. There is nothing elitist about stating facts like a new car performs better than an old car. There is some incredulity at people who, for example, walk up to the demo tent, ask for a pair of TD3s, and then proceed to try to mount them to a 1992 PJ6 (that happened at ECES). That makes no sense. Otherwise, I see it as people who have been bitten by the metal bug wanting others to experience the same joy.

agreed. good thing that attitude doesn't actually exist here.

congrats!

Umm, maybe if you want to stand on a World Cup or Olympic podium, but for normal people the game starts at $800 for a Coiler or $1000 for a Donek or Prior. Or even $700 for a Volkl or Nidecker. Nonsense.

wow, that is great! I'll copy this to the CO ride board.

wow, that is great! I'll copy this to the CO ride board.

I do that too. However so did my parents' friend who's chair also hit the ground. He's in one of the photos lying on the ground with his knees up. He was interviewed and he said exactly that - that he's always thought about what to do if the chair falls from the sky. He said there was no time to do anything other than think "oh ****". My mom said basically the same, it was just a freefall.

And the very next day a chair at Whiteface derailed. However the cable-catchers did their job, so no chairs hit the ground.

oh man. We drove through there on an Edelweiss motorcycle tour in 2001. So beautiful, it's like being on another planet. I vowed to return in the winter someday. Let us know how it is!!

But are you consistently winning? If not then I'm not sure about the, um, informativeness.

Any of these: Donek 175 Metal FC - go for a custom 21cm waist if possible. Prior FLC Metal 177W Coiler VSR FC 177 mid, 21cm waist. Bindings = Bomber TD3, of course. ;)

+1. Never been hit.

I saw no HB's in the 2010 Olympic BX. Those bizarre whoop-de-doo obstacles (for lack of a better term) at the start would be murder on HB's. HB's are also worse for recovery after a collision or bobble.

Thanks (again everyone), but let's not let my account of what I saw drift. Per my original post, I did not see the cable fall.

I've heard from a longtime employee there that the problem with the Superquad is that it is the first generation of its design, and that they blow 2 electric motors a year. Not sure what "blow" really means, like, do they have to buy 2 whole new motors each year, or do they have to have them rewound or what, but that's the story. The Whiffletree quad is the same product, but a few years newer. Way fewer problems with that lift. If any.

you are cyclically loading the toe pad screws with all that rubber in there. screws aren't meant to handle that. this setup will fail eventually. this also seems like taking the long way around the barn.