Neil Gendzwill
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Wonder what battery life is like when it’s cold? I’m often riding in -15C or colder.
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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.
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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?
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“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.”
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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:
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3 hours ago, Jack M said:
Great to see young people carving, especially girls, but man that is some massive chatter on every heelside.
Wonder what's going on there. Her form looks pretty.
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1 hour ago, pokkis said:
Riding any style can be done on any surface, if rider has capability of riding.
Here is rider testing new totally different board he is used, this is his first rides with new board.
Didn’t look like a particularly challenging surface there. Great riding though. Am I missing something?
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26 minutes ago, yamifumi said:
EC works on all conditions, @b.freewill ride anything and EC in the conditions that 95% of people on this form wouldn't even carve.
Bumps? Death cookies? Blower pow?
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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.
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3 hours ago, Colozeus said:
I like turtles.
Jesus, why does everyone on here get so bent out of shape over technique and EC vs Whatever vs This is how you should ride, blah blah. Shut your beautiful mouths, get off the keyboard and go ride, be happy.
It’s a discussion forum, we discuss stuff.
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49 minutes ago, Jack M said:
Ironically I see so many people unable to link them while maintaining speed.
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.
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1 hour ago, skhil said:
EC is the most strength conserving technique I know, that makes it a good tool for me.
That just makes no sense to me.
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1 hour ago, skhil said:
I beg to differ. If one uses a good tutorial (like ben's above) nothing is wrong with learning EC as a first carving technique.
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.
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Nice turns, Jack!
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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
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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.
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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.
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4 minutes ago, ShortcutToMoncton said:
A bunch of car stuff
C'mon, you know Miata is always the answer.
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1 hour ago, Jack M said:
Their website is ambiguous. Scrolling down on your link I see 207hp which I assume is the "stock" config:
I also see 218/237 in the tech specs.
Weird. In the specs for the base V4 they claim 215.5.
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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?
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The V4R is 237 I think, the regular V4 is 205 or something.
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What, you didn't buy the R? Compromise is for cowards!
Anyway, beautiful bike, I'm jealous.
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@Xargo, Ride no longer makes the Timeless. The replacement in the line is the Commissioner although I understand it is not as burly.
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On 4/11/2023 at 2:19 PM, SunSurfer said:
For anyone wanting to get accurate information about first world healthcare system comparisons try here....
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international
The Commonwealth Fund is a USA based organization that has published sequential reports on healthcare system performance.
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.
Hello- new to hardboots and need help with new boots and binding , binding, parts, etc. THANKS!!
in All Mountain Hardbooting
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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.