[Where Is Coiler????]

Wow, I must be pretty boring - I don't have a cool nickname for my new Coiler. It's just a plain old PR 184 :D

Although, my red Axis was dubbed "Red Rocket" by my wife. (Yes, Red Rocket from South Park)

[ow.]

Originally posted by Aisling

Actually 2 people told me to avoid a chiropractor.

The key is to find a *good* chiropractor. I'm sure there are a lot of bad ones who can do more harm than good but there are also some very good ones out there. Mine has worked wonders on the rotator cuff I tore boarding last January and also some hip problems I didn't know I had. (I no longer need 9 or 10 degrees of heel lift on the back foot!) In both cases joint trauma and pinched nerves were taking away part of my range of motion. (Pinched nerves don't always hurt or make you numb - sometimes they just take away strength or range of motion)

If you're in PDX and want her info, let me know...

[Madd 158 SL]

I've always wanted to ask - how much did those things cost brand new?

[Where Is Coiler????]

Just don't grease your way ahead of me in line :D

[which mountain do you carve at?]

Meadows or TLine depending on time of year...

... last time I was on snow back east, I had never snowboarded and it was skiing at Mount Snow on a company retreat!

[Where do you get your Gear]

All of the above!!!!

[Olympics vs. the TD2's]

Quantifiable settings are important. I use Cateks and use all of Dave's and everyone else's suggestions on how to "save" your settings and I still find myself tweaking a binding after my first run all too often.

[Do you vote in polls?]

"Our poles are rising

Hehheheheh"

-Beavis

[How old are you?]

33

[Stick length.....]

Donek FC 163 is my most frequently used stick... we'll see if that changes when my Coiler PR 184 arrives!

[Questions on the new TD2 here]

I'm thinking of buying a pair for my wife. She's about 130 pounds and this will be her first full year carving. She's really not interested in demoing, she simply wants the same setup every time out while she's learning... she found this to be m,ost helpful while learning soft-booting many years ago.

In any case she actually likes very stiff, very responsive soft-boot equipment. Her riding style on softies is very much about precision and finesse and never about muscling it. She packs a lot of power in her turns and makes it look easy. I sueopect her alpine style will wind up being very similar.

Which elastomers would you recommend I get? I'm thinking the medium ones... looking for a little bit of shock obsorbtion but still a solid interface. Or are the soft ones really not that soft and would I be better off getting those? Like I said she'll ride whatever I get for her until she's got enough experience to form her own opinions. Oh, btw she has SB 225 boots w/ a tongue from a 224 (to soften them a bit) and has a Coiler women's fc 165 on the way.