Neil Gendzwill

Hi, Alex. If you want to maintain a surfy feel and those angles, then you'd be best off with the Burton Step-ons as we were discussing on youtube. I don't feel hard boots are the right fit for what you are looking for. As an example, I run hard boots on my alpine boards which all have a waist around 22 cm. My angles there are 55 front, 50 rear which are typical or maybe a little shallow for a hard boot setup. On my freeride board which has a waist of a little over 26 cm I am running the Burton Step-on Xs and Burton Ion boots, which is the stiffest step-on rig they sell. My angles there are 27 front, 12 rear which would be on the steep side for most people in soft boots. It's generally acknowledged that the transition zone between hard and soft is in the 35-45 degree angle range. Soft boots don't work very well at all at angles over 45 and start getting iffy around 35, unless you make so many mods you may as well run hard boots.

Wonder what battery life is like when it’s cold? I’m often riding in -15C or colder.

That’s over 3 lbs/week which is pretty tough to do through normal diet and exercise. Congratulations on your success! Not on the stuff myself though I do have blood pressure issues. Ramipril works fine for me and has the least side effects of any bp med so I will stick with it.

I really don't understand what was supposed to be going on in that first video. Riders were to make one turn around a bunch of markers where the conditions were bad?

“Hey, Siri. Please film me ripping massive turns down a 50 degree spine in the Chugach, then edit that film into a 2 minute video of awesome. Before you do that, please transport me to Alaska, hire a helicopter and grant me the skill set to not die during filming. Kthksbye.”

They are just linked from youtube, not stored here. If you drop a youtube link here it will be automatically converted to a playable thing. Like so:

Wonder what's going on there. Her form looks pretty.

Didn’t look like a particularly challenging surface there. Great riding though. Am I missing something?

Bumps? Death cookies? Blower pow?

Do some googling for “long distance pump” or LDP, that’s probably what you want. You can spend a lot if you like on fancy trucks but mine works pretty good with a Bennett front truck, a Tracker rear and some wedges.

It’s a discussion forum, we discuss stuff.

Never seen them look graceful in person. I've seen people do 1 or 2. I've seen consecutive linked flops into the snow linked by slow traverses.

That just makes no sense to me.

Really. Before, say, learning to glide on edge with minimal inputs, or do a j turn? EC turns are a fun trick that you can only do under certain conditions. They don’t form any basis for riding competence on a variety of terrain and snow conditions.

Nice turns, Jack!

Order of operations, do the exponents first then any multiply/divide then add or subtract. Parentheses override. Make sure you use the same units. So with R of 10 m and S of .5 m 2*(R - sqrt(R^2 - S^2/4)) 2*(10 - sqrt(10^2 - 0.5^2/4)) 2*(10 - sqrt(100 - 0.25/4)) 2*(10 - sqrt(100 - .0625)) 2*(10 - 9.997) .006 m = 6 mm

As the board gets more inclined, flex matters more than sidecut. As you note, at 90 degrees your grip is largely based on how far you can drive the edges in. If you have a 10 m radius and 140 cm of effective edge you need to drive the nose/tail in 2.5 cm before the centre gets involved. That’s a tall ask in icy conditions but doable in fresh cord.

I don’t think the sidecut radius makes a huge difference to bootout, at least not from a pure waist width basis. For a 50 cm stance, the difference in width at the inserts between a 10 m radius and a 20 m radius is about 3 mm, assuming a circular sidecut centred between the inserts. For the math minded if R is the sidecut and S is the stance width, the additional width at the inserts is given by 2*(R - sqrt(R^2 - S^2/4)). So if you have a 10m radius and a 50 cm stance it’s about 6 mm wider at the inserts, with 20 m radius about 3.

C'mon, you know Miata is always the answer.

Weird. In the specs for the base V4 they claim 215.5.

Current website says the R is 218, 237 with the racing exhaust, that’s in the specs. The link below says 240.5 not sure how you get that configured, maybe race gas? https://www.ducati.com/ca/en/bikes/panigale/panigale-v4-r

The V4R is 237 I think, the regular V4 is 205 or something.

What, you didn't buy the R? Compromise is for cowards! Anyway, beautiful bike, I'm jealous.

@Xargo, Ride no longer makes the Timeless. The replacement in the line is the Commissioner although I understand it is not as burly.

That pretty much backs what I said: Canada is last in the list of countries except for the USA. We really need to pull our socks up. The USA needs to get some socks.