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  1. Hardbooting instructor in trouble

    in Carving Central

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    That really blows man! I'm no instructor, but I understand your position: convictions vs job. It seems there's nothing to do woth your boss, when people are that stuborn (or stupid, don't remember how to spell ;)), you can't argue, even intelligently, because they wouldn't understand or they know they're not right.

    I don't know about the Tanker, but go with the 3 straps and high angles for now. If your boss complains, ask if you have to dress like them, act like them, and so on. Just a suggestion...

  4. Best tune up place

    in Canada - Québec

    Posted

    Ernie00 fait faire ses "base grind" de Coiler chez Oberson sur la nouvelle machine, alors ça doit être pas si pire. J'ai été déçu de mon dernier tune-up de Sharks aussi.:(

    Pour Québec, j'avais eu un bon tune-up d'un petit magasin de vélo sur Ste-Foy (coin Marguerite-Bourgeoys), mais j'ai oublié le nom... Je l'ai retrouvé: Bouticyle.

  6. doh!

    in The Lodge

    Posted

    My Mac is just a spare computer, almost a novelty item for me. I used to be on a P3-650 until my friend gave me a Sempron 64 bits a week or 2 ago, on which I dual boot WinXP/Ubuntu.

  9. GRRRRRR...people are so dumb.

    in The Lodge

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    It's about people working low paying jobs and the others thinking less of them for doing this. I used to be a bike messenger and got this when going in offices where big business goes on. Back then, it amounted to lower than minimal wage. I did this job because I liked cycling and some people think that we do this because we can't get/do better, which is often not the case. I spoke to some university grads who did this because they like cycling or being outside.

  11. All mountain (donek Ax.167) Setup

    in Carving Central

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    It works great for me! I teach on a freeride board with a 25.2 waist with 21 1/2" stance and 50f 50r angles.The dial-in comes by shifting the rear binding more toward the toe edge and the front binding more toward the heel edge by about a centimeter.I found that the root of some lower leg problems I was having was all the leverage it took to overcome the high amount of underhang I had combined with lower angles.I jump alot and do some funky ground tricks onto and off of the tail and the years of doing that have caught up with me a bit.The higher angles and the shift of front toward heel and rear toward toe,combined with angles that are now more forward has seemingly aleviated the extreme lateral pressure I was putting on my knees.I discovered this fix (for me anyway)while demoing(word?)narrow carving boards at OES last year.

    Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it.

  15. All mountain (donek Ax.167) Setup

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    I normally ride 65-60 on my freecarve board and when I tried an AM board last year, my angle were something like 50-45 (I don't remember) and I found out I really had to change my carving technique to get it to carve. I didn't like that and sold it, but you may like it (lots of people do). I don't know how it would work with higher angles and underhang though.

  20. Coiler vs Swoard

    in Carving Central

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    Here, let me try.

    Hello everyone, here is the beast that I just recieved. It is a beautiful Coiler Titanal ..... with the new topsheet. I can't wait to try it out. have a good winter everyone.

    Maudit tabarnac.

    It seems the swear filter only works in english!:eek:

  23. Questions about setback

    in Carving Central

    Posted

    My Nitro 166 has a 9,5m radius and a 25mm setback. I always rode it this way and never had the nose fold, but it did dig in (too much weight in the front initiating a carve) and it just kicked me out of the carve, nothing bad. Nitro stopped making carving boards in 2002 if I'm not mistaken.

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