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hohoho Undertaker 198, soooooo sweet how does it ride? where do you bring it?

yeah he had a Rossi tatoo on the back of his neck haha! I need to find that video!

I just saw an episode of Warren Miller TV from around 1996 I'd guess that had a huge amount of very good carver content! A group of 4 skiers who had recently switched to radial skis followed 2 really good carvers, one on a completely blank white 200cm, about 18cm wide alpine board (he got almost all the camera time, he was really good, fast and had nice smooth quiet but aggressive style) This group of 6 did two pieces, one on Killington, the other on Heavenly. It was really awesome to see! Anyone else see it?

Plans are underway for another massive expansion of Tremblant mountain, the biggest mountain in the East, 90 minutes North of Montreal. Intrawest, the company responsible for putting up condo villages at many golf and ski resorts, bought up Tremblant in the late 90's and constructed a huge "family oriented" European looking village with restauraunts, bigass hotels, condos hidden all over the mountain, golf stuff, concert halls, swimming pools, movie theater etc. etc. in order to attract young American families from the East Coast to ski. Back in 1990 (I was only 4 years old!) Tremblant was a pretty small skiing village where pretty much only core skiers skied and it was an awesome mountain. Now it's giganormous and it's still an awesome mountain, but jam packed to the brim with snow plowers and side scrapers during most of the winter, revealing deadly boiler plate everywhere, or just clogging up the works. Somehow it doesn't feel right to come down the mountain and line up in this HUGE line going through a town where there's movie theaters around you... there used to be just trees :( I always used to stay on the North side where you could pretend you're in the middle of nowhere in North Quebec and all you could see were spruce trees and good grooming... but now the plans are to make hugeass villages there too. The total investment is 1$ BILLION!!!! It's going to be huge. Even the Provincial government is putting in 50 million for roads etc. They only plan to dig a few more trails despite the huge capicity increase in Condos, and likely big advertising campaigns, so Tremblant is going to really really suck during holidays and weekends, but it's going to be AWESOME when it's abandoned on Thursdays :)

Don't break your legs on your motorcycle! No matter how good you are, a wobble can come out of nowhere at the limits! Have fun!

If you're into expensive street carving, check out the Campagna T-Rex. 900lbs, 200 horses, 14000 RPM and 1.9 G's of grip!!!!!! also, looks really really badass at night if it's black with the carbon fibre/ chrome package

ahhhhhhh, drinking/suckin in the reefer while snowboarding... about the most irresponsible and stupidest... not to mention extremely un-fun and scary thing you can do to yourself

I really don't know what's going on... Jack is deserving of a lot of respect and probably has very good reasons, but this is not what alpine needs.

hehe sounds pretty cheap, but it'll get the job done! do you keep the rounded motorcycle wheel!?!?

that'd be pretty sweet, if it could be applied to a 3-wheeler like this i like the way that beefy suspension looks though... probably decently cheap too. they take the rear wheel straight from the rear of the dodge viper

haha you nailed it on Tremblant, skategoat. I forgot about mentioning how all the good runs converge onto some flat green where you have to skate for a kilometer! haha

pretty light and simple machinery, but that's the way it should be the rear springs have adjustable stiffness too the thing SCREAMS! there is no sound damping at all, and the engine runs through to 14000 RPM (10000 where you should shift!)

Designed by Gilles Villeneuve's mechanic, with Paul Deutschmund(designed the boxser to have it ripped off) http://www.go-t-rex.com http://www.usa-trex.com Sweet picture (notice all the stubborn harley dudes hiding little glances at it) http://www.sportbikerider.us/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayit&Picture_ID=29164

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Check this ride out. I've seen about 4 of these in my life. They're built up here in a small Quebec town famous for the huge amount of harleys and custom bikes up there. It uses a suzuki 1100 motor, tuned to 180hp. Since it weighs 900 lbs, it accelerates to 100km'h (if you do it perfecty) in 3.5 seconds. The website claims the T-rex has achieved 1.9G's of lateral grip!

then you'll love Le Massif twice as much ! :) hehe my local frenchies aren't trying to be mean... besides the girls are really really hot!!! 500 meters from Mont Sainte-Anne, there is a wicked ice kartingt track. the karts are very fast, have desert sand stormer style tires up front and big wide ice block tires on the rear. the track is laid out so that there is little time not in oversteer :) fun fun!

If any of you East Coast Americans are planning on a sweet snowboarding vacation up to the crisp and free land of Canada, stay away from Tremblant! Everyone seems to talk about it as a nice place, but it's not! It's a very beautiful mountain, it's huge and has amazing carving terrain with good lifts, however, it's always crowded with newbs who scrape down the trails en masse and destroy the grooming, everything is expensive. The condos huge complexes and you have to walk far in crowds. Good recommendations from someone who lives here: Mont-Sainte Anne / Stoneham You can get a little cheap condo in the middle of these mountains. A regular price ticket for a week gives you access to 3 mountains, which are all very close and there's shuttles every 20 minutes in the morning and afternoon, there and back. The mountains are SOOO sweet. Beautiful grooming, either with slight freeze by the morning for super G holding, or it's warmer and it's a powder day! Ultimate carving terrain, (not very good glades though) If ever there are big lift lines on some parts of the mountain they have extra T-Bars nearby that go through the woods to the top! On your way up you can watch glade action. Night skiing rare though... usually only on Thrusdays Le Massif is the most beautiful mountain I've ever been to. Another mountain filled with wide, flat blues. Everything cheap and homely, far away from city. (1.5hrs east Quebec City) If your vacation is during national vacation like Christmas, go to Le Massif it won't be crowded, Ste Anne will be more crowded.

strictly from a carving perspective, the body position of a snowboarder (on hardboots at >40 degrees) allows for muh more dynamic carving true, skis have MUCH more effective edge length (almost double in most cases! you have 2 skis!) but even if you have perfect technique and put exactly 50% of pressure on each ski to get max edge hold, a snowboard has the advantage. You have 2 points of pressure on the board, and you can slide the pressure forward and backwards along the effective edge. every good carver makes use of this and initiates the turn by driving their weight forward much more than a skier can, and slipping it back throughout the carve also, a snowboarder has more angulation/inclination options, giving him/her the ability to make the same carving radius at high speeds and low speeds. skis have a much smaller margin for identical carving radiii so.. SNOWBoard carving's more FUN!! ironically (since most semi-educated skier/snwboarders think that skis are for carving fast, snowboards for laid back tricks) I really think the freeskying tricks look SO much smoother and better than their snowboard freestyle tricks...

Surlyone, i suggest you watch a few videos... Opus 3 at www.extremecarving.com and C&C 2003 at www.carvingmachine.com then maybe you will understand .. circles, and the term.. carve, by what we mean it to be

hehe from my impression of the photos on the site, that guy in the blue jacket is an extremely good carver and decided to try skiing. his first run was pretty crappy, then he visualizes carving while standing still, and his next run on skis he's carving like a GS racer (although with very ugly style, and he hangs on to his carves for a good 5 seconds before switching edges) this happened to me too, i'd never skied before, and one day i gave over my Donek FCII 171 to a female friend, and she passed her volkl skis over to me (her MO24 ski boots were same size as my MO28.5 Suzukas!). After half a run I was carving it up quite aggressively~!

I found this one... although it's only a quickly edited sample of their videos posted on their forum. http://www.carvingfactory.net/edge/cc2004_adv.mpg

The Japanese website www.carvingmachine.com has tons of videos but I can't find them! Does anyone know the true links to the videos? It seems like they keep most of them in "carvingfactory". From the pictures extracted from some of the videos, they have VERY high skill and are pretty insane.

haha i live in montreal... i can watch the race from my house with a telescope! bob jenney, BRING ME SES VIDEOS TO MY DOOR! :)

yah i think he's extremely busy... he's only one guy, it's hard to take a small handbuilt company and increase production while maintaining extreme high quality