Jack M

a 1 degree base and 2 degree side bevel are very common. +1 for SkiMD (Mike de Santis) - one of the world's best, right near you! www.skimd.com

Sugarloaf will be just about the longest possible drive for you without going to Canada. Have you mapquested it? After you exit 95, it's another 75-90 minutes. I'd suggest Killington. However Sugarloaf would be well worth a real vacation later in the season when it is fully open. Spectacular terrain.

ok, fine, I think those boards look like a joke, sorry. JMHO. Ace is right, you get what you pay for.

Jason, if you take a little time to understand how the dampening system on TD2s and TD3s work, you'll realize the metal center disk is quite insulated from line-loading the board. The board would have to basically destroy the e-ring and cant disk for this to happen. I'm not speaking for Bomber here. I've been riding metal boards since Prior's first production model in 2006, never with anything between the bindings and the board, and never had a problem. YMMV.

r = d/2 + e²/8d d = sidecut depth (((nose width + tail width)/4) - (waist width/2)) e = effective edge length (widest point to widest point)

Well, first things first... while VSR does stand for variable sidecut radius, and modern PGS boards certainly do have those, the first person I noticed use that acronym was Bruce Varsava, of Coiler snowboards. He uses it to describe his 3-radius boards, which are freecarve oriented and have that good old snappy, hooky tail response you're talking about. The radii are generally shorter in the nose and tail and longer in the middle. Modern PGS (parallel giant slalom) boards have strictly increasing radii - shorter in the nose, longer in the tail. Coiler calls these shapes NSR for new school race. Prior calls them FLC for fall-line carve. It sounds like this is not what you are looking for. So for Priors I'd say you'd probably like the WCRM better, but ideally you would demo both somehow, like at an expression session.

Good thing the TD2 and TD3 have these built in.

gotta pay to play. go big or go home! ;)

EB, I get it now. Haha. JD, I think you think I do a lot more moderating than I actually do! Sometimes I wish you would push the button!

"I couldn't care less about the team struggelling! I wanna kiss you!

did Beckman just say that scrutton is a lost cause?? http://www.bomberonline.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=322015#post322015 :lol:

Pretty sure the Monster is significantly softer than a race board. Indeed, stepping off the Kessler, Donek, and Coiler PGS boards and onto the single radius Prior 187 (15m) was eye-opening. The Prior felt a lot turnier by comparison. The new shapes are interesting in that you can crank the top half of the turn around pretty tightly, and then draw out the bottom half and hold on. Which makes sense, because that is when g-forces build up causing you to do more traversing than turning.

Hehe. It seems like he may have too much toe/heel lift for that stance width, but that's assuming his inseam is similar to mine. He probably needs to reduce it. Maybe he also needs some cant, either inward or outward, I don't know. I don't want to speculate more without seeing him in person. But a bad setup can definitely contribute to bad form.

I've remolded my old gray Thermoflex liners at least 6 or 7 times and they mold just fine each time. I wouldn't hesitate to buy used ones that have only been molded a couple times. The old gray ones are like the new red ones. The black ones in between were different and thinner, I assume they would not take as many moldings, but maybe. Just go book a lesson with him. You can thank us later. By the way, he posted in this thread. #7.

What does BDS stand for?

lowered starting bid to $20.

Dunno if you've seen these already, but here is a general guide to buying alpine boards: http://www.bomberonline.com//articles/how_to_buy_snowboard.cfm and here is some theory on sidecut radius: http://www.bomberonline.com//articles/physics.cfm

are we done here? question answered, yes?

Do I hear $5000? :D http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200549667560

Umm, no. Whoever said that may have been confused or not gotten the memo yet. ECES 2012 will be at Stratton. The central location and the great organizing job headed up by Steph and Alex cannot be denied. That's not to say that the ECES will never return to Sugarloaf. Actually I was sort of thinking of doing an off-year "ECES lite" at Sugarloaf in 2013, but we'll see.

Agreed, what I have are orthotics. Very structural. You get what you pay for. As for liners I have gotten many years out of my Thermoflexes. I've definitely gotten my money's worth out of them. But I don't doubt injected liners are better.

I've been deleting his responses. The opinions of anyone who does not ride hardboots are not relevant to hardboot binding setup.

Maybe you've seen this already, but this was the last PSA from Catek: http://www.bomberonline.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30934

That is a really well done article.