Jack M

Just for a second?

daveo, even if the board didn't have any resale value even before it went through the grinder, it had value to him. Now if he wants to ride alpine he's going to have to buy a board when he could have used this board for a season or so. The shop owes him for that. The fact that they tried to hand it back to him in hopes he didn't notice, and didn't take ownership of the issue, and didn't try to make things right by their customer is just wrong on many levels. As such, they deserve to be named, IMO. Obviously he has evidence, he has the board and an email from the tech saying what happened.

The Proteus is stiff, so probably good for you if you want something turny. I'd say you're too big for a MK.

Tech was probably baked. A quick look with a true-bar would have told him if it was too edge-high to grind. He's incompetent and/or lazy and just trying to cover his ass. He owes you a board. But honestly, that board was frigging old and obsolete. Wall or bench material really. Still, it would have saved you from spending ~$200 this season just to try the sport.

Proteus is metal, but is more lively than a typical metal board. It strikes a great balance of lively and damp. It has a single-radius sidecut. You can get it in different lengths, and you can pay a little extra for a custom width, or go full custom. For now the MK is a single design - only one length, width, shape is available. It contains no metal, is very lively, but still has great edge hold on ice.

Oh whoops, didn't see the other post. Yeah, it's time for public shaming. I would also threaten the shop with calling the police or taking them to small claims court. This is wrong.

The cost to repair this is greater than the value of the board, so it's totaled. That board is 23 years old. It doesn't owe you anything. We've come a long way since then. However this is definitely the fault of the shop, and they should replace the board with something comparable. You should look for a good used board here in the $200-400 range and tell them that's what the board is worth. I see a Volkl 163 in the classifieds here now.

So paint it?

Well, for some people art has meaning.

IMHO... although the artwork is well done, I have some issues with the content of the "meat grinder" topsheet. For one thing, the vast majority of people in this sport are well into adulthood now and the graphic looks more like something a younger person would have. Maybe two graphics should be offered to suit both the up-and-comers and the old-far... er, veterans? My kids would think it would be weird of me to own this board, like I was trying too hard to be hip and young looking. Then I have some techincal issues with this piece that might be considered nitpicky, but they bug me. The meat grinder is in the middle of digesting the boy yet almost nothing is coming out the drain. There is a blob of green slime coming down the outside of the grinder for some reason, but it's not spilling on to the wood butcher block on the tail. The "Donek" on the tail is too neat and thin if it's supposed to look like it came out of the grinder. The green slime spilling over the intake rim of the grinder strangely ends at the lower edge of the rim and doesn't drip down. And why is there a big blob of green slime rising up behind the flower? The black border is going to require extra care during assembly to align it perfectly. The Madd logo on the gag is a nice touch though, I didn't even see it the first several times.

Well, unless Sean exercises a presidential veto, it will be the one with the most likes, this one: Of the choices presented, I like this one best, but personally I'd like the color removed from the tail.

I'm in.

Changing board width is a keystroke for Donek. If I were Sean, I would gladly take your money for a 20cm wide board with MK construction, but I wouldn't put the MK graphics on it.

yeah, not sure how that's supposed to fit on a board. I actually liked the Madd boy. It was an iconic enigma.

muahahaha! Funny that these are both "158s". I haven't measured them but I estimate they're more like 155 and 160! Truth be told, the original is simply too small for me. I love the reissue though!!

Wouldn't a picture of one work? And the later reissues had clearer graphics...

Not that I saw *this* coming, but I feared Bruce's retirement and got a new 174 Nirvana Energy that I used this past season. I bought it a little ahead of schedule, and of course with 3 other boards it's still practically new, but don't you know I want to order another one. I like sleeping in the big bed though...

I believe in 2010 they went to variable sidecut radius, longer in the tail. The original FC had a parabolic sidecut that approximated a single "radius". The Proteus is like this, and maybe the Legacy is too. Wicked fun for more aggressive carving. The VSRs with longer tail radius will "surf out" a turn more, drawing out the bottom half of each carve longer.

0:41 to 0:45 would be cool if he could do it while holding his poles properly, and without losing all his speed. The other 92 seconds is just silly.

That was terrible. Here, this is the real stuff:

No clue what west carven was on about, nor what lordmetroland saw in it.

Hmm, well, hopefully they have addressed the issue since the SB323.

As an intermediate boot, I never really looked at them.

Yeah I just said that. BlueB seemed to be saying he couldn't see a difference between the 425 and 700. Thank god I now have an upgrade path that doesn't involve the 700's ridiculous self-destructing ankle rivets/bolts.