Neil Gendzwill

On that note, I don't think you could go wrong if you found a mid-80s Kawasaki GPz550. That's the moderate sportbike from which all others are modelled IMHO.

Watch the classifieds here, lots of stuff comes up. ETA: they're instock for 349 euros here

I speculate it's a safety thing. Women don't feel comfortable doing some things guys don't think twice about - walking at night in certain places, leaving the door to the house unlocked while inside, etc. Not to say that we shouldn't worry about that stuff, just they worry more. Everyone has to stay out of the car here - we can't prop open the trigger anymore, I think they regulated that or something. All the gas stations have removed the little lever thingy.

Never had studs. Blizzaks work like a hot damn when new, revert to being all-seasons once you get about halfway through the tread.

10.5 - see here.

I used to have a Mustang SVO. Cool car, but the 50 series performance tires, light tail and rwd were a bad combination in the snow. So I sprung for some aggressive snow tires. I was living in Calgary at the time and headed out for Fortress one day, probably the worst access road of any of the local hills. It was the day after a big dump and that road was a parking lot, little front wheel drive cars and what not stuck all over the place. That Mustang just walked up the hill, sweet as you please, steering easily around all the stuck cars. We don't need no esteenking 4wd. Snow tires rock.

Most people could just buy a set of winter boots and skip spending the money on awd or 4wd.

Don't time it to end on a Friday or Saturday night, either. Sunday through Thursday, an hour or so after the evening meal, whenever that is wherever you are - North Americans tend to eat early. Have you ebayed much before? If you don't have a feedback rating yet, you might bide your time by buying and selling some small stuff (books, CDs etc) to get your number up. Lots of people won't buy from anyone with no feedback, even better get your rating over 10. Also, why not put it up in the For Sale section here? There's a few Europeans who look here, and you might save yourself some Ebay charges. Costs nothing to try.

Are you turning there, or just getting up?

It's a frame from a movie that my daughter took of me at Panorama last year on my AM172 on one of the main green runs. She was 11 at the time and not so much with the camera skill...

Me, too. Powder day - AM172. Groomer day - AM172. Bump session - AM172. I could go on...

$759 ($US584) for the ATV, so I think same prices as last year unless you're in the US. Our dollar is pretty strong these days. That ATV looks like just the ticket for those soft boot riders that want a little narrower board.

Wouldn't it be cheaper and funner to spend all your free time riding at CMH or something? I think your joiner fee would buy you about 30 weeks worth and your annual dues would be good for an extra 2 weeks. That's at peak prices, too. So averaged over the next 20 years I could be riding the heli 5 or 6 weeks a year for the same coin, and that includes lodging and meals. I was reading an article somewhere about the suits CMH gives to people for every 1,000,000 vertical feet they log - there's some guy who's got 13 of them. There was another fellow whose wife learned to ski at CMH - she's never actually skiied at a regular resort.

Properly belongs in one of the motorcycle threads (he was describing how a four-stroke motor works - apologies if you knew that already).

Depends on steepness. If it's not too steep, I'm usually cruising straight so I just roll it over and maybe skid it until it hooks up and good to go. If it's steep, I'm usually stationary or traversing a little on my heel edge and then it's a big unweight to bring it around and start the first turn on the toe edge. ETA Mirror70, you've got some bad code in your sig. That should be ++postcount;

Spoken like someone who doesn't have a kid or who has never tried to teach one. It would be one freakish 3 year old that could manage a snowboard. Even skiing is not for all of them. I tried my kids starting at 3 but for both of them it wasn't until they were 5 or 6 before they really started to enjoy skiing and want to get out there. I second the recommendation for pro instruction for kids. Especially the daycare/ski school combo where if the kid is not doing so well they can just go back to the daycare and have fun. All of the people we've dealt with at ski hill daycares/ski schools have been great with kids and much more patient than any sane person should be.

Don't be shocked. Back in the days before DSL I put my data line under the name of "Joe Dwarf" and got a pre-approved credit card application in the mail.

What would be "it", then? That's what I always thought it was, the wheels make the bike want to stand up straight, you hang off to force it down even more. Have I been wrong all this time?

How's everyone's heads?

Not near enough gyroscopic effect from bike wheels to counter that weight.

"Opposite twitch" isn't an option on a motorcycle, it's the way you initiate a turn, they teach it in the beginner's courses. Want to go left? Push the left bar. It's counter-intuitive but that's the way it is. Maybe some of the more motorcycle-y geeks here can explain it. I've got my motorcycle endorsement but have never owned a bike so I don't have a ton of experience.

Will the Grinder Girl be there? Because that makes a big difference with respect to ... something, I'm sure. She should just be there.

Just my name. If I use a handle, it's usually Joe Dwarf, after an old D&D character of mine. Before DSL came along, my data line was registered in that name and I actually got a pre-approved credit card application for Joe in the mail, which was good for a giggle.

Two piece plates, Koflach Damian model boots (pink Valugga Lights with the built-in gaitors, which I cut off).