eastcoasticerider

somebody needs to buy these just for the Old Snowboards Museum (hint hint)..its the pamphlets that make this set memorable and valuable....

here in the scenic northeast we had quite a few 6" to 8" powder days this season. I switched from a hardboot setup to a softie setup : rossignol one mag and Ride Boa boot and a really cool Ride iLL Eagle binding. one strap to buckle into and you go.next season looking to get a Rossignol xv probably 159 or 163 whatever I can find on sale.......this colder weather has been giving us east coast powder.....much fun.........

Up for Sale: One set of Burton Race Plates with Toe and Heel Lifts Installed. let me know which inserts to send 3-D (Burton) or 4-Hole. $135. (includes shipping USPS Express Box $12.50)

good point....will have to check on that ..thanks....

I forgot to mention that there is a younger generation coming along behind us that is trying to learn carving with hard boots that we need to remain open to....they usually come to our park with ski boots and old Burton raceplates........they spend the morning in the jib-park on softies and park boards then switch to old longboards and skiboots in the afternoon.........reach out..become inclusive ....its better they do this than sit around smoking weed...

after taking a job this winter at a local snow park just to pass the time waiting for my wife to retire also, I am amazed at the amount of older guys that are taking up snowboarding. They are not going into the jib park but do slide through the boardercross park occasionally.My chiropractor is a snowboarder (ex hawaiian surfer), my urologist is a snowboarder (older than me)and cured me of bladder cancer! (quit smoking and chewing). These are all guys who are carvers in a soft setup. I feel we really need to be including these people right alongside the "serious" long boarders who are super-hi-tech to the nines(and love to remind you of it). As a ski tech I talk to thousands of people who want to snowboard and are having trouble getting past that painfull learning curve. I can't invite them to come here as they will be accused of being "skidders" or something by some narcissistic , self absorbed goof ball who cant see past his own nose. They just want to have fun, like we did when we started out. Most small snow-parks are ripping out the half pipes and going to boardercross setups(because there are just too many injuries). I was talking to my boss the other day and he sais according to statistics and the ski magazines, more and more snowboarders just want to go side to side (carve) and prolong the ride down the hill to the lift. Once you grow out of that adrenaline "junky" stage, you start to see things a little differently.......we need to reach out to the softbooters also.....they are trying to figure out things , and dealing with a painful learning curve. would we rather them go back to skis?

I work at a snowpark in western New York. Peek N Peak. Teching skis and riding when I can get out there. I just met a couple young guys who are sampling hard booting and dont have much equipment as they are engineering students at a nearby branch of PennState.They ride on skiboots and old Burton Race Plates. And a newish 165 Burton Coiler?. I can loan them some race plates with heel and toe lifts but dont have anything close to size 13 boots. I will buy them if reasonable. I just feel like I have to get them off ski boots as they flex the wrong way. if anyone has a line on some older or used size 13 let me know.Any longish boards would help too. Old Factory primes or Alps? I have a 163 Alp and a 157 FP one is goofy.

Rossignol xv 159 or 163?

GOING SOFT:REPORT FROM ICE COAST: temperatures are just starting to rise a little and letting the snow breathe and turn back to real packed powder.we are going to have an awesome spring season although according to accuweather its going to be a fast warmup.....i finally settled on an interesting combination soft setup: consider this......after being schooled by the kids at the snowpark where I work now, i settlede on a Rossignol One Magtek 156 and the Ride Ill Eagle Contraband (one strap bindings) after trying the Flow which seemed too loose to carve in. Flow works great in powder but not hardback. I am looking and lurking and waiting for a Rossi XV to come down in price in a 159 size so if anyone sees one or has a used one and wants to trade or sell reasonable let me know please. I really like the one strap system as i dont like to sit down in the snow anymore then get back up to ride. I am beginning to think I should have held out and got the XV in the first place instead of the Mag One, but that may be my obsessive side kicking in again.......narcissistic?..who knows how many years I will still be able to do this crazy stuff anyway.....

we are locked in the deep freezer here on the ice coast and waiting for things to warm up a little, at least to the point where we get some ridable snow and not boilerplate over ice. i just got a Rossignol One Magtek last week and only had it out once. it was a ice/boilerplate day so i didnt do many runs..didnt want to have to go back to the chiropractor just yet.......i immediately saw the need for stiffer bindings than the Flow rear entry I bought cheap off some kid at our snow park. i will ride some more when things soften up in a week or so......I'm sure on a powder day it floats well....i saw EVO.com had a few Rossignol Krypto's left on sale for $225. they are the cheaper version of the Rossi XV....if they had a 163 left I would buy one for an east coast powder board

the goat is 64 , handing out skis at the local snow resort for the season lift ticket........

i think i have a spare pair of Burton Reactors in that size.....will check......a little wear but they are still my favorite for cruising and general alpine free carving ......will email you when i check and see if they are in storage.....

thats hilarious....i'm 64 and trying to get a group of geezerboarders together to do a weekend tv article for our local media.i went to my urologist tuesday and found out he boards as well (must be 65 at least) , owns a screaming beutiful chalet at our local hill.....my chiropractor is a native hawaiian who grew up on a surfboard, i just waxed his longboard this week. i work with a retired Pa. state trooper turned hippie who boards....small world.....

looking at boa boots from RIDE INTUITION and maybe some UNION bindings..riding a GNU magnetraction Danny Kass until i can sell some stuff and get the Rossignoll XV...

still riding Burton Race Plates with Beckman toe and heel lifts........rock on wild entrepreneurial spirit of snow surfing.........