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Ahh-- now I get it - you want a head start. So you want to start at the top of a ski run already going 40mph -- we'll then, I totally agree all is possible, I wonder how my Corvette would do in a vacuum, on a 1/8 mile run with a running start of 60 mph at the start line..

How would the Vette do if the 1/8 mile was in a vacuum? .. -- assuming of course the Vette had an air tank to power the motor. -- do you think it could/ can beat gravity ..??? Also -- are we not talking ski resort speeds? - not closed courses? and I thought the snowboard record was 125 mph -- if not someone should tell Volkl.

+2 on the above comment

A couple of thoughts I have on these high speed numbers.. again not questioning you data -- you read the device and that is what it says. But look at it this way -- I know it is not a very fair comparision and maybe apples and oranges thing. But think about. A stock Corvette like mine - and yes it does go fast - scary fast -- but the stats are this. In an 1/8 of mile standing start, it takes a little over 8 sec and hits a top speed of 89 mile an hour. Acceleration is awesome - well above mother earth's of 32.2 ft/sec/sec. Given a ski slope -- lets use Snowbird Big Emma -- is about 1300 ft vertical.. maybe about 2100 - 2200 feet long. The Corvette would hit about 75 mph at about 600 feet of distance or 28% of the Big Emma run distance. So what I am hearing above is that speed could be hit somewhere around the mid point of Big Emma on a snowboard -- without the help of >350 horsepower. I say the mid point because you would need to start stopping somewhere and a snowboard does not have ABS.

not questioning your data...again just curious to the dynamics here. How long in seconds do you think you are running at 70 MPH on a run?

Bordy -- just curious what run on what ski slope did you hit these speeds? or where? Just curious to the length of the run, time it takes to come up to 70 mph (acceleration cant be all that great ) and then of course slow down and stop to get back on the chairlift. I am asuming you are in units of MPH -- not KPH.

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using my road bike as a reference -- which I hit 45 going downhill -- I would say maybe 40 on mysnowboard.

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Great - glad you are enjoying it.. RE: the author ,, if you like her get her other book -- Seabisuit. Yes I am a very addicted golfer..unlike any other sport. this one you get to play against yourself and like snowboarding you continually improve with each turn or each green. I thought it was a dumb game until I tried it at 50 yr old... and now play 4 or so times a week. enjoy the rest of the book. Let me know what you think when you finish.

no apology needed -- no offence taken -- just thought I would add why I like some of the stuff. I also like some of the Koontz but could not get into Dark Rivers. One of my Favorites of his is "The Watchers" A good one on USA western Indians... "The Last Stand" If you read a bunch of Western USA books about the 1700-1900's you understand why we have such a facination with firearms in this country. Seems nothing was done until a trigger was pulled. But then if you want more enjoyable reads -- 50 years of the Corvette by Lifffingwell is recommended. No gossip here.. just trying to win a few more golf tournaments - won 2 so far -- 5 more coming up in Sept.

Floboot The remorse question.. I think the guy Bird was a nut but also programmed by his country’s beliefs all thru his life, especially when young. If I made more comments about him and many others like him, this thread would go political, which would not be good. I agree on the religion comment you make. Would include this.. if he had not found what he found in meeting Billy Graham, he might have found the Bird, killed him which was his quest at the time, and then found himself back in a Japanese prison – I was so afraid that was going to happen as the book described his life. That would have been very very sad. Yes on the savagery of the Empire of the Summer Moon, but that is not why I like it. I am fond of the 1800-1900 era of the western USA. That period of time shaped our nation as we know it today. Since I travel thru that Western part so often – I feel one should know its history to appreciate the lay of the land. Like standing on the hill at Custer’s Last Stand looking out at the Greasy Grass, , seeing all the trooper grave stones where they fell and visualizing what both sides went thru during that fateful period of time. Sad we treated the Indians so terrible at the time – and vice versa – but we did not know any better. It was all about the $$$ -- which is the same today… the names have changed but the ruthlessness has not. comment on V Bugliosi – I don’t read his stuff because the murders or tragedy – I like his stuff because of the law proceedings and his cunning use of the court system. Not many lawyers can convict a guy with circumstantial evidence – he did. I better go and see who has cellulite around here.. Enjoy the day

video -- must see is -- http://www.keynotespeakers.com/zamperini/video.php reading right now -- Empire of the Summer Moon -- true story of Quanah Parker and the Comanches during the 1800s in Texas. Fav autors of mine are for novel -- Lee Childs -- who writes about a wondering guy Jack Reacher - who alway encounters trouble without looking for it, and the bad guys always get their due in the end. A movie is in the making now of one of his -with Tom Cruise -- bad choice for the character in the book IMHO - staring as the good guy. Good series if you like that stuff.. getting more than even with the bad guys outside of the law. :-) Also like Clive Cussler. Koontz is great, S King used to be great... true law type books -- goods one by Vincent Bugliosi-- he is the best.,

Great --- did you watch the interview videos on Louis and the Prison guard..? they are on the web when you do the search of his name, Hopefully this is not a thread jack.. since we are talking books here.. If you like that -- also read Seabiscuit.-- by the same author. She does a wonderful job on both.

yes -- Louis Zamparini.. do a search on his name --

if you want a good book -- read "Unbroken" eye opener..

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Well, the other day, Mary my wife and I went into town and visited a shop. When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. We went up to him and I said, 'Come on, man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?' He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. I called him an “*******” . He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn-out tires. So Mary called him a “**** head”. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first.Then he started writing more tickets. This went on for about 20 minutes.The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote. Just then our bus arrived, and we got on it and went home. We try to have a little fun each day now that we're retired. It's important at our age.

I remember those days.. - like a worms eye view of the ocean.. you get to see the blue sky but nuttin below the horizon.

get Wilier Cento 1 and dont worry about -- I love mine.. and it is almost wall art

It kinda dates me but my first car was a 1930 Chevy...2 door sedan. paid $75 or so for it.. but it ran and got me to school. Upgraded to a 56 Chevy a year later.

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