mackDan

Go find a good orthopedic surgeon and have a new ACL (and LCL) installed. They can either do it from your hamstring tendon or with a Cadaver tendon (what I have). Its worth the down time, I never wear a brace and the fixed knee is as tight as new. My problem is a messed up Meniscus, which I'm going to have a new one of those installed one of these days. but the recovery time for that surgery is a bit longer.

Have you done a lot of edge tuning?? If you haven't I'd say stick with a 0 degree base (you really need a big base machine to do that right), adn just play with the edge angles (which you can adjust with a hand edge tool).

It can be done, most people flush mount the inserts to the Ptex base. But there is also a way to mount the T-nut further into the board and fill the hole in the base. You have to have the right base material and under base material. I actually tried this on a really old Nitro 163 board (circa 1985), converting from a 5 hole fixed location binding mount, to a 4x4 or 3D hole pattern. After trying several epoxies I found some material specifically designed to fix ski bases, you put PTEX over it to return the base to normal. But its a fragile repair.

Check the German or other european Ebay sites. Its not hard to find the snowboards on the german site, even if you don't understand german (cause the words are very similar to english), that's not as true for say Italian.

Everyonce in a while a Hot will show up on E-bay (USA) or here on BO. I have the Hot shine 162 adn link riding that so much I bought another one off e-bay (~$50+shipping). But If you really want one, start watching the German E-bay site. They show up there a lot more.

Its a GS board, its going to have a bigger Carve radius. If you want small carve radius, get an SL board.

Yes, The 162 is too small for you. You'll fold that nose like wet cardboard. Stick to the 178 and learn how to ride it. Good luck.

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See the lead guy, has his front leg in back, e.g. Telemarker. Much tighter turn radius. As noted in a couple posts to get low the Alpine skier has to bring the inside leg way up. The Telemarker, by spliting the stance can achive much lower angles and be more stable with out having boot interference problems. You just have to have a ski/snow that will hold. The Alpine boarder has an advantage as the binding is designed not to hang over the edge of the board, allowing the board to be driven deeper into the snow giving more hold, which results in more possible force (G's) adn a lower body position. The skiers are at a disadvantage as the binding is draging in the snow at a much lower tip over angle. Try Telemark carving in softer spring like conditions (hero snow) or when there are deeper piles of stiff snow, then you can lean over more.

Well, I have the 164 length version, in orange black. I use it as a powder board and like it pretty good for that. Its a stiff board though, and on the groom, it needs to be ridden hard (it turns tight).

Reno will get you 45/1.5 hour access to the resorts in the Tahoe area. Which include, Squaw, Alpine, Sugar Bowl, Northstar, Mt Rose, Heavenly, Kirkwood, Sierra. All good places to ski, and snowboard. Alpine, Squaw, Northstar, Heavenly, Mt Rose are probably the best places to truely ride Alpine boards. You can stay cheaper in Reno, but then have to drive up to the resorts each day. Salt Lake City will get you 45min/1.5 hour access to about 6 or 8 great resorts, two of which do not allow snowboarders (I can't remember). You can stay in down town SLC pretty cheap, and there are some good restaurants in downtown. Denver gets you access to the various great resorts in the Rockies, Arapahoe Basin, Breckenridge, Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone, Copper, etc.... All are a drive away from denver, but access to some is very easy via I-80 West. Seattle gets you access to Vancouver and Whistler, and there are also a few resorts in the seattle area. More driving. There is also Bozeman, Montana, which gets you to Bridger Bowl, Big Sky, and little farther away Grand Targhee, Jackson Hole. Which are all good/great resorts. There are also a pair of valleys in Canada, between the Banff area and Spokane Washington which have 3-5 resorts in each valley, all within about 100-200 miles of each other. Never been there but I keep planning on going.

I lost 2 boards somewhere between Oakland, Denver, SLC, and Jackson Hole (in that order) back in 1997. I'm assuming it was a baggage handler heist, although they could have wrecked the boards and not told me about them.

Start looking at some maps and see where there are a few resorts near to each other. This will lead you to either Tahoe, Salt Lake City area or Canada (between Banff and Spokane Washington). Then look at the cost of resorts, and that will rank those areas as probably, Canada, SLC, Tahoe. Then its a question of lodging costs and fuel costs getting there. I'm a Tahoe skier, but have figured out that you can get to SLC and ski the resorts around it for about the same cost as driving up to Tahoe from San Francisco. Its because hotels in SLC are about the same or slightly cheaper (actually stay downtown SLC). The lift tickets are cheaper than Tahoe. THere are a couple good breweries in downtown SLC adn some good restuarants with a good crowd. But In Canada, the lift and lodging costs are going to be cheapers still, because of the $US vs the CDN$

All the bindings and parts have been sold. THanks to all.

The Step ins are still for sale. $150 plus shipping. See the rest of the thread for details. Thanks Dan (OPHB)

Yeah, Rollerblade workouts are great. Lower stress on the knees, great sideways workout, works the core a bit, all around a good thing. I have been trying to go at least once a week in the snowboard off season to keep in better snowboard shape (well that's in addtion to the swimming and biking). Keep going man, and the good news is, as your kid gets fatter, the workouts get harder and you get in better shape. Now get the wifey out there with you!!!

Yes those slow rotating falls hurt a whole bunch. Tear all the ligaments up real good. Ask me how I know!!

Why do you need to carry duct tape on the slopes? If you have an equipment failure, your probably going down to your car anyway. If its gloves, just carry a small backpack (with your lunch in it) and carry the extra stuff in their. you know, cell phone, ipod, digital camera, GPS unit, Walkie Talkie, sunscreen, snowboard tool or allen wrenches, Duct tape, wax kit, etc....... If your going back country, then its in the pack automatically.

What's interesting is the rear binding all seem to be at about the same place on the board (+/- a cm). But the front binding placement varies a bit a inch or two. One would think that the both bindings should move outward or inward depending on height or leg length. This is probably more related to riding style, some of which is more correct and some of which is less correct.

As far as a test, I've always had them stand still and then I push them forward from behind without telling them. Which ever foot they step out with (instinctively) is the lead foot. Now as far as the survey, I ride goofy, but I think i could ride pretty good regular, if I had a soft boot duck stance set up. I keep working on riding switch on the hard board but its tough. I can bat either righty or lefty, Golf only tried right handed clubs, most other things right handed. My dad was a lefty.

Well if anybody else reads this I'm sure you'll get a few recomendations for the longer FP. But my money would be on the shorter ATV. I'm 170#, normally ride 162-164, somethimes 170 boards, and in spring I like my shorter boards. Its sort of like powder riding on the slush, but its a slower turn/ride. Get a good wax job with a spring (warmer) wax. The big factor, which a longer board will exacerbate, is water and dirt on the snowsurface and the resulting suction brakes. Sometimes this gets so bad it will actually toss you over the front. Have fun

Mt Hunter first, its small and it sucked. I got off one of the lifts, looked down and I could see the grass through the ice. Jim Morrison said it: "The West is the Best"

Sorry, But I'm thinking about this not riding on ice. OK if you have really good technique and can really ride the edge, Id say A and D. They get you started and they create the groove for the rest of the board to slide in, which means B and C (and D) need less sharpness to hold the edge. They will force the board to curve which will make it turn good. But most people don't have really good technique when riding plate or Ice, I would say B and C, since people are going to tend to drop the tail or nose to get the turn started and then depend on the center edge to hold. But since the A and D sections are less sharp, they will tend to skid and the board wont curve as much and will be harder to ride. That's what I'm thinking.

Well its April 5th, and its been raining every day of this month, and tahoe is getting more snow with each storm. Last night Heavenly got 12" of new. Now March, which is why I started this post. Alpine meadows received 16.2 FEET of snow in March. Yes 16.2 feet. They probably got another 3-6 feet more in the 5 days of April, and we got another few days of rain in the forcast. So for all you guys whose mountains have closed or will be closing soon (northstar on April 23rd), it should be a nother great spring and summer in Tahoe. Get your cars packed, and make the trip. Squaw, Alpine and Mammoth will likely stay open until at least Memorial Day, and we might get another 4th of July for skiing riding. The best part of that is you can board in the morning, and then mtn bike or water ski, or ?? in the afternoon. Man you gotta love Tahoe. Its not the best, but its pretty damm good.

for carving Breck, For snow A-basin