Jack M

There are several incarnations of the V4. Oddly the R is listed at 207hp and the S is listed at 210. Thanks. I’m a fan of the gear. Tail tidy for sure, soon. Gonna live with the stock exhaust for a while. I didn’t think I’d like it but I actually do, a lot. I live in a neighborhood, and also I want to let my bank account recover. YouTube doesn’t do it justice. It’s not quiet.

Haha, this is "just" the Panigale V2 with "only" 155hp. I don't need the 207hp from the V4R. And I like twins and I think this is the best looking Panigale. Took it for my first ride today, it's a dream come true.

OK so this happened yesterday... YOLO... "well, I figured, what the hell." - Doc Brown

I’ll PM you so we don’t hijack this thread

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could mean your stance is too wide.

I loved that NSR 185. One of my all-time favorites.

Deeluxe boots with the 5 position forward lean selector in ride mode cannot hinge at the ankle joint. The forward lean selector locks it out, and then any forward flex comes from deforming the boot. This is stiffer than using BTS with the red (stiff) springs. If you prefer this, that's fine, but just understand what is really going on.

Thanks! Bomber TD3, angles 57/53, stance width 53cm. Size 28 Mountain Slope .951 World Cup boots. 6 degree toe lift and some inward cant on the front binding, 3 degree heel lift on the back binding. Board has a 20.5cm waist, 14-16m sidecut.

q-iso is a fancy way of saying triaxial. The fibers run at 0, 60, -60 degree angles, like a snowflake. The military uses it when they want to replace metal in an application. The trick is putting both titanal and q-iso cf in these boards, and it's really working well.

Area?

Well yeah, some people are beyond all hope.

Wouldn't they have to acquire skis without bindings? I don't think this thing is going to be an improvement over existing alpine snowboards. The flex pattern of skis is not designed for the inputs and weight shifts of alpine snowboarding.

The "is it fun?" question seems really dumb at first. However I think perhaps the people that ask it have never seen an alpine setup, or only a couple of times. Therefore they assume it must be new, therefore they assume I am new at it or even trying it for the first time ever. Kind of like how I assume everyone on a Sno-Go snowbike is just renting it for the first time. Because who would own such a preposterous thing? Is it fun becomes a reasonable question then.

Old gear can work well on softer snow. If you fly west from DC to do all your riding your board could be ok assuming you are on the smaller/lighter side. If you ride in the east, just toss it all and get newer gear. Money and time spent on a compromise is usually wasted when you eventually buy thing you should have bought in the first place. In any case, get rid of those ancient bindings, they are dangerous. Bare minimum without breaking the bank is F2 Race Titanium. Get an extra lift kit so you have the option of using toe lift on the front foot and heel lift on the back foot. Bomber TD3 are the spare-no-expense option.

LOL, I wasn't at SES 09, sadly.

Their "kitchen sink" construction using both titanal and q-iso carbon fiber is really working well. I don't know if anyone else is doing this at the moment. It is noticeably superior to my boards that don't have it. Basically it creates a lot of torsional stiffness which improves edge hold. Additional torsional reinforcement between the feet reduces your ability to twist the board with your feet, which robs edge hold during a carve. This iteration also has 4 sheets of rubber up from 2. For the shape of this 185, I based it off my custom Kessler 180 and made a couple tweaks that I thought would improve that board. That board is a freecarver with a sidecut that averages 15m. It has some hook in the tail whereas this board is strictly increasing from 14m to 16m tip to tail. I'm finding it to be supremely versatile, smooth, stable, and easy to ride. I also narrowed the waist from 21cm to 20.5cm for a bit more agility and less weight.

I love this board so much. Will be selling my custom Kessler 180 which I also love, but is now redundant and I actually like the W a bit better. More later, here's a quick vid: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqdn7jksT2W/

I had to go to Deer Valley last year for US Freestyle Nationals for my daughter. I looked up their rules. They explicitly define a monoski as having both feet side by side. They're on to us.

IIRC, the $3M suit was tossed out by a judge, so this is try two.

They both claim to have been the downhill skier. Paltrow describes two skis coming between hers from behind. Unless she's just lying that doesn't sound good for the other guy.

True, I was just thinking of friction and drag. I wonder though, if two racers had different weight but the same strength-to-weight ratio such that the heavier rider could deal with direction changes with as much agility as the other...

Fat is fast. Yes, all else equal, the heavier person will be faster. One reason is they have more momentum which overcomes friction, air drag, and momentary forces (bumps, ruts, etc).

.951 tongues are not very stiff, the forward flex is primarily determined and controlled by the spring system.

Just got back from Steamboat for my daughter's mogul competition. It's big and beautiful, has a good trail/lift/lodges layout, amazing glades all over the place, some cool terrain that you traverse/short-hike to, and a good apres scene. I saw lots of ski instructors that seemed like they were doing a good job. The town is very nice with lots of shopping/dining and there are hot spring spas. A free bus system runs between the mountain and town, which is then walkable. Definitely fly to HDN, not Denver. I'd leave the carving gear at home though, unless you have a local guide. Not sure if I had bad timing but the grooming was very hit or miss. Several trails that were "groomed" were uncarveable due to bumps, huge ridges, cookies, etc. Some other trails were great but finding them was a bit of a challenge.